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The Most Important Yankee of 2025

  2025 is an immensely important year for the New York Yankees. A season after they made the World Series for the first time in 15 years, the expectation now is for the Yankees to take that next step and win it all. The most important Bomber to help realize the dream of Mission 28 is Jazz Chisholm. The 27-year-old second baseman is the key because he could be the table setter to Aaron Judge while also needing to be the protection for the Yankee captain. It is undetermined where Chisholm will bat in New York’s order in the upcoming season, but with the injury to Giancarlo Stanton, the need for protection behind Judge to provide power to the Yankee lineup is the number one priority as the ball club moves along in Spring Training. Chisholm in his limited 46-game audition to the Yankee universe was a favorable one. In 191 at-bats the then third baseman batted .276 with seven doubles, 11 home runs, 23 RBIs, and 18 stolen bases. He was the Yankee offense in a time in late Augus when the ...
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New York Basketball's Polar Opposites

  Basketball in New York will forever be linked in Brooklyn and Madison Square Garden. The Nets will never catch the Knicks in terms of fanfare, ratings, or relevance—but because New York is a basketball city they will always be on the top of mind within the center of the universe. Part of this relationship within the city between both squads right now is the Mikal Bridges trade, but even that isn’t the biggest difference with where the Knicks and Nets are at right now. Wednesday night was a snapshot of the directions each team is headed. The Knicks almost choked away a 19-point lead at home against the struggling Philadelphia 76’ers. They were saved by the heroics of Jalen Brunson yet again. In Brooklyn at the same time, the Nets crumbled against one of the best teams in the NBA despite scoring 76 points in the first half, out shooting Oklahoma City from the three-point line, having more rebounds and assists than the Thunder, and going into the locker room at halftime up 18 points...
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Even in the middle of February the Bronx is a Zoo

  The New York Yankees have started camp for the 2025 season. Not everyone is down in Tampa, that will be February 17 th , but the stories have already started to flood out. Marcus Stroman “showed up late” to camp, even though he technically didn’t, but what the veteran right-hander has done is stir the pot by declaring he won’t pitch in the bullpen and that he is strictly a starting pitcher. However, right now going into the start of Spring Training Stroman is the odd man out of the 5-Man rotation. That doesn’t mean Marcus Stroman won’t start games. The Yankees will likely not go into the start of the 2025 Regular Season fully healthy. That could open a window for Stroman to slide into the rotation. The Yankees have nine games in 11 days to start the season and then 13 games in 14 days following that. With the way the Bombers have managed their starting rotation at the start of each of the last three seasons’, Stroman will find a start or two at some point to help ease the early s...
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Philadelphia's Defense was Mahomes' Kryptonite in Super Bowl rout

  Philadelphia beat the odds. They did what many (including myself) thought was impossible. The Eagles made the two-time reigning champions looks pedestrian. Philadelphia handed the Kansas City Chiefs just their third loss since Christmas Day 2023. Think about that for a minute. The Eagles won Super Bowl LIX with Saquon Barkley not being that much of a factor on the ground (22 carries for 57 yards which averages out to 2.28 yards per carry) but was more impactful receiving with six catches for 40 yards, including a joggling 22-yard catch that set up a field goal that pretty much put the game on ice at 27-0 Philadelphia. But Barkley never got into the endzone. Barkley wasn’t the walking highlight reel he has been all season long. And yet Philadelphia still won by 18 points. Jalen Hurts was excellent. Throwing for 221 yards, two passing touchdowns, 72 yards rushing on 11 carries, and a patented “Brotherly Shove” touchdown for the opening score of the game. Hurts was the offense for t...
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Let's Hope this time around the Jets get it right

  The New York Jets have themselves a new Head Football Coach. Aaron Glenn trades the Defensive Coordinator job in Detroit for the head seat with his old team, the New York Jets. The Jets will have to give up compensatory third round picks in the next two drafts to ink Glenn to a fresh five-year deal, but if the former Jet Defensive Back is who every Jet fan hopes he will be, the draft compensation will be well worth it. One thing that is particularly odd about the Glenn hire is not that this is his first Head Coaching gig following the Jets doing the same with Robert Saleh and Todd Bowles. Nor is it that Glenn is a defensive minded coach, that seems to be the only qualification at times to be able to have the Jets Head Coaching headset. It’s the fact that Woody Johnson, Christopher Johnson, and the 33 rd Team hired Glenn before hiring a General Manager. There are rumors that Washington’s Assistant General Manager, Lance Newmark, will be hired to fill the GM vacancy, but as of now...
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The Washington Football Team has finally rebuilt itself

  The Washington Football Team is doing it the right way with Josh Harris as the owner. He has hit every check point along the way without skipping a beat. The hard part, mostly, is over. Drafting Jayden Daniels helps a lot, but usually new owners tear down the existing structure of the organization and put in their own version immediately. Harris didn’t do this. He and his ownership group waited for the first year to complete and got to work at the start of the second year. Washington went out and got the right General Manager and Head Coach for this version of the organization. They got the right veteran players to instill a new culture in a place that was in desperate need of it. Yes, drafting Jayden Daniels helps expedite the entire process given his talent and his ability to be a leader as a rookie. However, that’s only the first part of completely reworking an organization. The next step is the success part. Getting the right people in place and setting them up for success is...
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My 2025 Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot

  Happy Holiday’s and welcome back to the annual tradition of my fake Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot. Hopefully one day this column will be the real deal but for now, we will play pretend, but use the real reasons I would use to select these players as the newest members of the most prestigious group in all of sports. Let’s begin by going back yet again to the dreaded “Steroid Era.”     The Returning Members: 1. Alex Rodriguez Yes, like Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez should be in. You cannot tell the complete history of the game without recognizing A-Rod’s place within it. No matter how dark his place in the game is, we need to acknowledge that it happened instead of continuing to run away from it. Rodriguez might be the most complete player an entire generation of fans has witnessed with their own eyes and perhaps ever will. Getting away from the hate, let me remind you that A-Rod has over 3,000 hits, 690 Home Runs, 2,000 runs scored, 2,000 Runs Batted In, 300 ...
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