After a long meeting yesterday morning, the full squad took the field for the first time together this season.
That has got me stoked!
A-Rod needs to get a PR director. He gave a very short interview with the media yesterday, and said that he was tested “9 to 10 times” last year for amphetamine use and steroids. PeteAbe reports that it’s usual to be tested 1-2 times a season. Oops.
With A-Rod’s new contract and his pursuit for all of the records he can get, he’s got to be careful at what he says. After all, he plays in the biggest baseball media capital.
According to multiple blogs and ESPN, the Yankees are doing more conditioning and running during this camp. Can’t blame them after a rash of hamstring injuries last year, most notably to Phil Hughes. It’s better to be in near-prime conditioning condition (isn’t that a good combination of words?) at the end of spring training than at any point during the regular season.
Johnny Damon, Jason Giambi, Bobby Abreu, among others, are all reporting to camp in better condition than last year and ready to hit the ground running. Apparently Kei Igawa isn’t. What a fat $4 million waste he is so far. Ben at RAB reports that John Harper at the Daily News says that Girardi’s lit a fire under the current squad of Yankees. Good for him.
Hal Steinbrenner offered his first interview in 20+ years. Read it at GQ here.
Congrats to the folks at RAB on their one-year anniversary! Hats off to you guys!
2 comments
February 22, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Trevor
First off, I love this site, and don’t know how you find the time to do it.
Also, its gotta all be Girardi changing it all up. I feel like he would expect more out of a lot of these guys, since some of them he played with for years and in the case of Posada, he mentored the guy and is a big part of who Jorge is.
Outside of that, Igawa is a waste. Why would any team pay 26 million just for the rights to negotiate with someone, not even including what they have to pay the guy?!? Didn’t we learn from the guy Steinbrenner called a “fat frog?” I can’t even remember the guy’s name anymore. Thats what Igawa will be in like 5 years. The guy who’s name I can’t remember.
February 23, 2008 at 7:49 am
C. Kaftan
I give myself an extra 30 minutes every morning to read the news and other Yankee bloggers and then do my daily post. That’s how I do it.
It’s frustrating cause I only get about 10 hits a day, and this is only my third comment left on this blog. But I gotta start somewhere.
That fat toad was Hideki Irabu. Igawa was supposed to be good. I want the Yankees to go after Yu Darvish, who is supposed to be better than Matsuzika. Remember, Boston paid $51 million just to negotiate. They won a WS, so they earned that “back” but Matsuzika hasn’t really proved himself yet.
And, have you seen the spring training picture of Beckett? The one with his new beer belly?