The lovely and talented Brad from the ever-illustrious Baseball Prospectus was kind enough to have a little chat with the decidedly less lovely and/or talented Yankees Chick, during which we discussed everything from my admiration of the Red Sox pitching to The Moment of Truth. Download this bad boy onto your digital music playing device and listen whilst you work out/drive/sleep/commit felony arson.

Enjoy:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/radio/audio/bpr_080324.mp3

I'll be on Mike Silva's NY Baseball Talk Radio tonight at about 7pm EST, chatting post-season chances and consoling Mike about the demise of the Mets. You can listen right here or head on over to the BlogTalk radio site. Tune in and feel free to call 646-716-8187 to join the action!

It's a very exciting day in YankeesChick-ville, particularly for those of you who do lack the motivation or advanced brain function required for reading. First off, take a gander at my latest installment of Yankeeschickography, during which I run down the latest in Yankees trade rumors.

As if that video excitement wasn't enough, my weekly chatfest on Free The Fan Radio is being amped up a notch this week. Rather than my usual Yankees update at the end of the show, I will be in the studio tonight along with Trey from domewright.com for a rematch of our ill-fated trivia contest - and this time, biased Mets-loving host Mike Silva will not be the judge. And finally, at the end of the show, stay tuned for Mike's interview with one of everyone's faves, Scott Brosius! The show airs from 9-11pm EST, and you can listen right here or at 1240 AM's site.

If you're not a fan of reading or just too hung over from celebrating the Yanks win yesterday to coordinate your optical muscles for longer than 30 seconds, today is your day! Reading the barely coherent mess I somehow pass off as "writing" doesn't take much brain power, but watching and listening to me takes even less effort.

If video is what you prefer, take a gander at my latest installment of Yankeeschickography, in which I discuss Mariano's and Trevor's closing chops.

Should you truly be too lazy to even utilize your retinas for the 3 minutes it takes to watch my videos (perhaps you wasted all your energy reading this post), fear not: I shall be on the radio this evening as usual. Tonight's segment will be extra special though, as I will be partaking in a little good-natured trivia contest with my Mets blogging counterpart Tracy, who writes over at domewright.com. Host Mike Silva will be asking each of us questions about our fave teams to see which one of us gals knows her team better. Tune in at about 10:32 tonight to listen and root for the Yankees Chick! If you miss it, I'll have the archive up in my super-sweet radio section sometime tomorrow.

It's a day CHOCK full of multimedia in the land of the Yankees Chick!

First, I have posted a new video in my incredibly high-tech and videotastic video section. I'm looking into the camera this time, my hair is down, and my bra straps are fully covered. So professional! Check it out:

In addition, I will be on Free the Fan radio (9-11pm EST) as usual tonight, but before my segment at the end of the show Mr. Met/Dodger/Yankee Darrell Strawberry will be joining the chat-fest, right at the beginning of the show!! If that isn't enticement enough to tune in, I will of course be enduring Mets debates and taking your calls from 10:30-11:00pm EST. If the Yankees lose tonight, host Mike Silva should be set with his finger on that bleep button as I may have trouble speaking with FCC-compliant language. On the other hand, if the Yankees bust out a win, I am fully prepared to heckle any and all Mets fans as if Friday's and Saturday's never happened. You can listen to the broadcast right here on Yankees Chick by clicking "play" on the media player in the top of the sidebar on the right of the page, or by heading over to 1240 am's site.

As some of you faithful Yankees Chick supporters are aware (and I love all 3 of you), I make a weekly appearance on Free the Fan's Sunday evening radio show, chatting Yanks and subjecting myself to the harassment of a Mets-loving host and belligerent callers. During the most recent show, one particularly irate listener called in and took issue with the signing of Roger Clemens and what he will or will not be able to do for the team. This delightfully bitter gentleman argued that the the addition of the Rocket couldn't possibly save the Yanks, and could end up doing more harm than good, either by creating dissension in the clubhouse because of his "I'm better than all of you, haha!" contract or by exhausting the bullpen if he can only go 5 innings each start.

Blatant anti-Yankees acerbity aside, this man actually did raise some interesting points. I have made no secret of the fact that I too find Clemens' contract demands to be ridiculous, and while I suppose he has "earned" the right to respect with his 78 years of civil service, the special treatment certainly could be grating to his teammates. The possibility of him further exhausting the bullpen is a bit frightening as well; there is only so much our friend Dr. Proctor can do before he ends up buckling under the stress and exhaustion and hangs himself in the bullpen.

The caller's overall negativity regarding the Rocket signing was unwarranted, though. For starters, I don't think anyone - from Steinbrenner on down to us fans - believes that any one person, Rocket included, can be the savior of the team. Still, signing Clemens was a good move by the team on several levels: he will add an essentially fail-proof arm to our rotation (as long as he doesn't get in a car with Pavano), the signing prevented Clemens from going to the Red Sox and potentially causing even more losses for the Yanks, and the move confirmed to the fans and the public that the front office was not giving up on the team and was willing to make some moves to stay competitive. As for him upsetting the team with his extra days off and shortened season, I say "too bad for them". With the losses aplenty the team has been suffering of late, I highly doubt Jeter and the gang are going to be crying over Clemens being treated like a diva. Unlike certain other aging amazing pitchers (I'm looking at you, Mullet-Man), at the very least Clemens doesn't seem to have the type of grumbly attitude that puts a serious damper on the clubhouse.

In short, only time will tell if Clemens can help the Yankees improve their ever-worsening record, just like only time will tell if Pavano is a human or a simply a cyborg on a sabotage mission from Boston.

Many of you have been listening to my weekly segment on 1240am's Free the Fan Radio show Sunday nights, and I greatly appreciate your support! Beginning this Sunday, May 6th, Free the Fan will be expanding to a 2-hour format and your Yankees Chick will be featured each week for the last half hour to talk about the Yanks and take your calls!

Here are the details:

I will have an audio player up in the sidebar so that you can listen to the show right here on yankeeschick.com, but you can always access the show on Free the Fan as well.

You know what is a lot easier than typing and takes even less effort than recording a video? Being on the radio.


Live broadcasts are always available on the front page of Yankees Chick, and all the archives are available right here! For brevity's sake I have only posted my segments here; if you would like to listen to the entire show you can click the show title.