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As we profile the Yankees’ championship teams, let’s peek at the other end of the spectrum.

Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story (2018) - Does it hold up? Share this story Photo by Rob Foldy/Getty Images My TV time is generally reserved for escapism so I don’t watch a lot of documentaries. If I want to learn about a subject I’d almost always rather read about it than watch it. But I really don’t feel like talking about the current iteration of the Royals and I discovered Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story on Netflix and I thought, “Hey, I wonder if there’s anything intere...

share-square-1126528 During the 2020 shutdown, a little-known baseball league managed by well-known former Major Leaguers popped up outside of Houston in Sugar Land, Texas, home to a reputable independent team known as the Skeeters. The four-team coalition was called the Constellation Energy League. One club was called “Eastern Reyes del Tigre,” and on the pitching staff was a three-time All-Star and a 12-year Major League veteran who was considering attempting a comeback: Scott Kazmir. The...

in previous editions. Theres always a measure of satisfaction in finishing what youve started -- a good book, an ambitious project or, in the case of the pitchers on this list, a baseball game. Right-hander Steve Sparks experienced that satisfaction many times. He tossed his last Minor League frame in 2005, but remains ahead of anybody whos taken the hill in this millennium with 44 completed starts across 12 Minor League seasons with 10 different clubs. The native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, notched at...

steve: miller lite keeps you up to date on all the scores and games around major league baseball. steve: chris getz comes in defensively at second. giavotella will leave. hawk: its about time we got some runs. we trail it 3-0 if you are just joining us. pauley to lead it off. he is 1-2. then a.j. then rios. huge gap out there in right center. oops. steve: this ball way up and in. hawk: there is a curveball. steve: pauley went to go back and get a little pine tar as his bat is getting s...

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strikes out. anywhere else? >> anywhere else. >> that slider from chad qualls, that has been his go-to pitch for years. he feels like its going to be a very usable pitch for him once again. one out, heres ramirez. has the sign from the catcher, sat at the waist, and strike 1. >> nice ending to the a rod-dallas braden fued. braden gave a rod a perfect game poster with a personal message on it and also gave him a t-shirt that the as made in this series, get off my mound. arod signed 10 o...

walk. rollins starts and stops and ball one outside to victorino. >> tim: you get the feeling rollins is going to srt and stop at first base. the next time that fake break, he is going to keep going. rollins, 31 steals on the year. >> joe: caught eight times. >> tim: talking to davey lopes, the first base coach. >> joe: victorino 0 for 3 against sabathia. starts and stops on ball two to shane victorino. just embarrassment of riches is what a lot of people thought about the yankees with...

>> joe: victorino 0 for 3 against sabathia. starts and stops on ball two to shane victorino. just embarrassment of riches is what a lot of people thought about the yankees with their short relief getting to mariano rivera coming into this postseason with guys like phil hughes and joba chamberlain out of the rotation down there. and david robertson, the way he had pitched and phil coke. but it hasnt been too sharp for that group. mariano rivera has been asked to do a lot already this po...

ball one. new york will have swisher, cano and cabrera in the bottom of this seventh inning in what is now a 2-2 game. two on, two out, 1-2 the count. >> tim: molina caught that ball off the plate, but the umpire says nope. watch molina. >> joe: from 0-2 to 3-2 and four sliders during this at-bat, not one of them very good slider, and the count is full. >> tim: the only fastball hes thrown is on that 0-2 count. if you get beat in this situation, you want it to be with clahamberlains be...