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Yankees Postscript: How to Make a Dynasty

With all the cards now on the table, and the trophy safe in Derek Jeter's arms, the overwhelming majority of fans are going to remember 2009 as the year Alex Rodriguez broke out in October, and call that the Reason they won...

Written by Tom Schecter about 23 days ago 179 reads 29 comments
At the Finish Line...Thoughts Before the Last Baseball Game(s) of 2009

In the grand scheme of things, baseball is a kid's game. It makes heroes out of ordinary men. It makes celebrities out of lowlifes like Jose Canseco and John Rocker. It turns cities against each other—sometimes, even boroughs of the same city...

Written by Tom Schecter about 25 days ago 111 reads 3 comments
World Series Game Four: The "Phillies Take a Shift" Game

I was going to wait until the World Series was over before I wrote a word. I wanted to know everything and stop making predictions from game to game, as it drove me nine different kinds of crazy in the ALCS...

Written by Tom Schecter about 27 days ago 125 reads 3 comments
World Series Preview: What the New York Yankees Must Do to Win it All

Well...that was fast. My night of celebration ended about 15 minutes after I posted the last piece . Immediately, my mind started to shift to the new question at hand...

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 149 reads 1 comments
ALCS Game Six: Six Years in the Making, Yanks' Old Men Bring It Home

He was as animated on the mound as we've ever seen him—and exactly the way we always remember him. For six-and-a-third innings and two-and-a-half hours Sunday night, Andy Pettitte turned back ...

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 81 reads 2 comments
ALCS Game Five: The Angels Won't Die (or...Shut Up, Tom! Stop Talking!)

Alex Rodriguez is having a career-altering postseason. Nick Swisher? Not so much. No matter whether he's hitting left-handed or right-handed, whether he's swinging at fastballs or breaking ...

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 94 reads 1 comments
ALCS Game Four: The Yankees Make a Statement

It doesn't always take a historical, dramatic baseball game to clue a fanbase in on something special happening with their team...

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 95 reads 0 comments
The Angels Are Who We Thought They Were (But I'm Not Worried Yet)

There was a scenario I forgot to mention at the end of the last column . If the Angels were able to come back from a big deficit and beat our bullpen in Game Three, that might make this series a series again, too...

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 327 reads 1 comments
ALCS Game Two: Putting the "Game That Wouldn't Die" in Context

In a season full of dramatic ballgames, the context of the drama of Game Two of the American League Championship Series can only be described as What We Have Come to Expect...

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 89 reads 0 comments
ALCS Preview...The Quickie Version

Twenty minutes to go before Game One. I am sorry I left this so long, but I've had a lot to look at, and a long week at my real job . These two teams are absolutely the best two teams in the American League, both by record and by statistics...

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 58 reads 0 comments
Yankees-Twins Wrap-up: Putting Out Old Fires to Make Room For New Ones

It goes without saying that the better team won this series. The Yankees hit better with runners in scoring position over the three-game set; their three starters combined for 19 innings, a ...

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 96 reads 0 comments
Wacky Schedule Means New York Yankees Can (Must?) Stick with Three-Man Rotation

Three things I just learned about the American League Championship Series have combined to give me chills in the last 45 minutes. 1. The format is 2-3-2, which means we're spending four days playing three games in Anaheim...

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 125 reads 5 comments
Yankees-Twins ALDS Game Two - The Alex Rodriguez Game

He knew it was gone the moment he hit it. It was one more in a long series of moments that have Yankee fans everywhere believing that this is one of those special teams that will go down in history...

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 494 reads 12 comments
Yankees-Twins ALDS Preview: Big Mo and Big Moments

Somewhere around 10 minutes after six tomorrow afternoon, the man already anointed the American League's Most Valuable Player will step into the box against a contender for the American League Cy Young and decide what kind of playoff series we're in for..

Written by Tom Schecter about about 1 month ago 75 reads 0 comments
Singing Along with the New York Yankees' Playoff Santa

It happened on Friday night, in the middle of another in a series of epic beatdowns that seem to be taking place in the new Yankee Stadium since the second half began...

Written by Tom Schecter about 2 months ago 175 reads 1 comments
Growing Up in the Presence of the Last Baseball God (or, My Jeter Story)

One day, when I'm old and shot, and some little troublemaker who looks like me is in my lap after a Sunday dinner, I'm going to take the opportunity to pass onto him the desperate, passionate, eternal bond of the Yankee fan...

Written by Tom Schecter about 2 months ago 176 reads 9 comments
The Art of the Perfect Game (Or, How to Get Really, Really Lucky)

"It was a million-to-one shot, Doc."-Frank Costanza The Yankees won an unremarkable game this evening, the opener of a relatively meaningless series in Camden Yards against an Orioles team that got buried back in May...

Written by Tom Schecter about 2 months ago 67 reads 0 comments
The Beatdown in the Boogie-Down (or, The Weekend that Made Us Men)

It took four nights to answer a year's worth of questions. The stakes were unthinkably high for a series in early August. This series wasn't going to be the run-of-the-mill battle for bragging rights...

Written by Tom Schecter about 3 months ago 112 reads 3 comments
"What Kind Of Day Has It Been?" Deadline '09 Predictions for the AL

At first glance, the biggest story of the 2009 trade deadline is the deal that never happened. Roy Halladay is still a Blue Jay...

Written by Tom Schecter about 4 months ago 16 reads 0 comments
One Hundred (And One) Games Deep, Yankees Right Where They Belong

(The majority of this piece was written around 1 o'clock this afternoon. Wacky computer-related hijinks stopped me from posting until after today's games ended, so we know a little bit more now than we did ten hours ago...

Written by Tom Schecter about 4 months ago 264 reads 2 comments
Mariano Rivera: The World's Most Interesting Closer

(CAPTION: He doesn't always bat, but when he does...) To be quite honest, I’m not one hundred percent sure why I’m writing this right now...

Written by Tom Schecter about 5 months ago 173 reads 1 comments
Coming Home to Daddy: An Argument for Pedro in Pinstripes

We've hated him for a long time. From the time he arrived in Boston from Montreal in 1998, Pedro Martinez has been among the most prominent names on the Empire's list of public enemies. From 1998 to 2000, he went 60-17 with a 2...

Written by Tom Schecter about 5 months ago 155 reads 11 comments
The Tale of Two Brains (or, I Wonder Which Team Will Show Up Today?)

The week ended in one of those laugher, sigh-of-relief games that every Yankee fan is used to...and every opponent dreads. The play-by-play men and color men talk in platitudes like, "You can't keep a lineup this good down for too long...

Written by Tom Schecter about 5 months ago 161 reads 5 comments
Yankees Season in Review: The Biggest Stories from the First 50 Games

Hello friends, sorry it's taken so long for me to get back on the horse and write a new article. I've been hard at work on my music, and should be releasing my first solo EP, entitled Disparition, some time in mid-July...

Written by Tom Schecter about 6 months ago 119 reads 2 comments
An Alternative Answer to the Gardner/Cabrera Question: Start Them Both

First things first...I've been on vacation in Los Angeles and have not had the adequate time to review the last two weeks of Yankees action. You're not likely to see a giant, three-week review on Monday, either...

Written by Tom Schecter about 6 months ago 89 reads 2 comments

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Tom Schecter Article Archive

Yankees Postscript: How to Make a Dynasty

At the Finish Line...Thoughts Before the Last Baseball Game(s) of 2009

World Series Game Four: The "Phillies Take a Shift" Game

World Series Preview: What the New York Yankees Must Do to Win it All

ALCS Game Six: Six Years in the Making, Yanks' Old Men Bring It Home

ALCS Game Five: The Angels Won't Die (or...Shut Up, Tom! Stop Talking!)

ALCS Game Four: The Yankees Make a Statement

The Angels Are Who We Thought They Were (But I'm Not Worried Yet)

ALCS Game Two: Putting the "Game That Wouldn't Die" in Context

ALCS Preview...The Quickie Version

Yankees-Twins Wrap-up: Putting Out Old Fires to Make Room For New Ones

Wacky Schedule Means New York Yankees Can (Must?) Stick with Three-Man Rotation

Yankees-Twins ALDS Game Two - The Alex Rodriguez Game

Yankees-Twins ALDS Preview: Big Mo and Big Moments

Singing Along with the New York Yankees' Playoff Santa

Growing Up in the Presence of the Last Baseball God (or, My Jeter Story)

The Art of the Perfect Game (Or, How to Get Really, Really Lucky)

The Beatdown in the Boogie-Down (or, The Weekend that Made Us Men)

"What Kind Of Day Has It Been?" Deadline '09 Predictions for the AL

One Hundred (And One) Games Deep, Yankees Right Where They Belong

Mariano Rivera: The World's Most Interesting Closer

Coming Home to Daddy: An Argument for Pedro in Pinstripes

The Tale of Two Brains (or, I Wonder Which Team Will Show Up Today?)

Yankees Season in Review: The Biggest Stories from the First 50 Games

An Alternative Answer to the Gardner/Cabrera Question: Start Them Both

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