Category Archives: Yard Work

The Kid Gloves Are On (Underneath The Kid Gloves)

By David Raposa | Published: August 31, 2009
Joba Rules Joba Rules Joba Rules.  I imagine even diehard denizens of the Yankee Universe are sick of the continuing refinement and rejiggering of the Joba Rules.  They were initially put in place to keep notorious bullpen bully Joe Torre from shredding Joba’s golden arm in the pursuit of World Series glory.  They’ve since been [...]
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Another Open Letter From Billy Wagner

By David Raposa | Published: August 27, 2009
Hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since my last open letter.  A lot’s happened since then, including exactly what I said would happen to the Mets after I went to the DL.  Just like in 2007, they got chumped by the Phillies.  Again.  Then they signed K-Rod and even traded for that J.J. [...]
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Is Signing Your Fancy-Pants Draft Pick Something You Might Be Interested In?

By David Raposa | Published: August 27, 2009
Let me set the scene for you.  You’re an up and coming sports franchise that’s coming off an awful, terrible year.  Flop after flop after flop.  Maybe not flops as bad as Popeye or Ishtar, but close enough to give you some palpitations and night sweats — something like Jade or Silver, let’s say.  Real stinkeroos. But [...]
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Fire Mother Goose!

By David Raposa | Published: August 19, 2009
I could go a long while without reading another random blog commenter or blog post or Tweet lamenting the "loss" of beloved blog Fire Joe Morgan.  This might be due to some professional jealousy — I should totally be the one co-creating and writing two successful sitcoms, man! — or just some old-fashioned hatorade regarding the [...]
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Let’s Get Ready To Not Rumble

By David Raposa | Published: August 12, 2009
It wasn’t pretty, and it wasn’t long.  It was barely even a fight.  But when Red Sox slugger Kevin Youkilis took a pitch from Detroit Tiger wunderkind Rick Porcello between the two and the zero on the back of his jersey, I swear I saw heard a bell ring.  This meeting of the minds and other body parts was nothing more [...]
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Cleveland (Is On The) Rocks!

By David Raposa | Published: August 7, 2009
LIZ LEMON! What’s up chicken butt? ;)  And if you don’t know, now you know – it’s the Floydster!  Do the dap! I know we haven’t talked much since that, um, incident in the airport with the key and the schadenfreude, so I’m trying out this AWESOME new technology that’s all the craze with the kids [...]
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Are Ks OK?

By David Raposa | Published: August 6, 2009
We are in a very interesting time in the history of baseball, thanks to steroids. With the decline of performance in many superstars that admitted to taking steroids (like Boston’s David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez), we have proof that The Steroid Era is finally over. But as with anything that has a lasting impact, we [...]
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Let Phreedom Ring

By David Raposa | Published: April 2, 2009
It is a shame when the court of public opinion turns upon and unfairly passes judgement on our fellow man, as was the case a few years ago with my prospective client and St. Louis Cardinal star outfielder Rick Ankiel. It is even a greater shame when these missed opportunities force the shuttering of such [...]
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2009 MLB Preview: Speaking Truth To You, By Kenny Powers

By David Raposa | Published: March 31, 2009
Back up the truck and get off the lawn, kids — Jockish’s 2009 MLB Previewish is back at it, this time going south to sweet Georgia with the star of HBO’s acclaimed documentary series Eastbound & Down, Mr. Kenny Powers. We were able to secure this illuminating write-up from Mr. Powers during the early days [...]
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2009 MLB Preview: Blue Isn’t Anything Except A Color

By David Raposa | Published: March 30, 2009
Better late than never, here’s the first of what hopes to be a thirty-part series called The 2009 Inaugural Jockish MLB Preview / Post-Preview of Baseball Things & Stuff (AKA our ill-timed 2009 baseball preview). We begin in a place where the season’s ended far too early these past years, and with a man whose [...]
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