Old-Timers Day

The Yankees held their annual Old-Timers day, the other day.  This was the first time in the last like eight years that Old-Timers felt special.  Bernie Williams, Joe Torre, and Lou Pinniela made their first trip back to the Stadium.   Retired Player from those 1990's championship teams are now making their way back, I guess their old enough to be considered Old-Timers.   the younger generation can identify more with the guys from the 1990's that they've seen play rather then the Yogi's, Whitey's, and Ron Bloombergs's, who they've probably only seen pictures of.        

Baseball realignment

At first glance I though this plan had some potential, but now after reading about it, I am dead set against it.  This baseball realignment plan doesn't make sense from a rang of view points.  First of all it brings a team of the National to the American League, which on the surface is not a bad thing, but if you do that you have 15 teams in each league which doesn't work (not an even number).  With 15 teams in each league you have have inter-league play each day, you don't want to have 80 inter-league games each season and 40 games played under the rules of the other league, you could ruin the American League as we know it, because teams are going to have to play 40 games with out the DH.  It was also proposed that we eliminate the divisions and have two fifteen team leagues, that puts teams out of contention in June and eliminates the division races.  If we had two fifteen team divisions and advanced the first five, by June the 10th-15th place teams would be out of contention and we would have none of the great races we're having now.
I am all for adding a second wild card in each league, which makes winning your division mean something. This is our national pastime don't don't take the regular season away from us.

Managing the aging super star

It is no secret that the Yankees have an older team, it is also known that manger Joe Giradi (who played with the now core three Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, and Jorge Posada) might have difficulty managing the guys he played with as their careers are coming to an end.  It is well known that Jeter no longer has great range at shortstop but he still gets to most of the balls, hit to him and he can still make that mid air throw to first, he is going to be the shortstop till at least mid season of next year.  Jeter can still hit, not like he used to but he still gets his in field hits batting .264 about 40 points off his career batting average of .313 but all of that being said with in about three weeks he will become the first Yankee with 3,000 hits (16 away).  Now it has been decided the Jorge Posada will not catch any more, but he's not hitting either.  He doesn't have a hit off a left hander all season and is hitting just .169 for the year.  Jorge will not be with the team next year, and if he doesn't start hitting he could be on the trading block at the trade deadline.  It might benefit both him and the Yankees, if Jorge doesn't start hitting to retire, the Yankees will give him a day and a press conference to announce it.  This was all going through Jorge's head when he pulled himself out of the line up against Boston.  Marino Rivera a.k.a the ageless one, hasn't slowed down yet.