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

Back in September I forged a relationship with AOL's FanHouse blog, recording those delightful (humor me dudes/dudettes) FanHouse Minute videos once a week (plus a bonus one every once in a while when you're lucky!). After a few short months of that I have apparently tricked them into thinking I have some valuable opinions that a few people may enjoy perusing, and I will now be offering up some of those aforementioned "valuable opinions" on the FanHouse MLB blog - I'll be focusing on the AL East - on a regular basis. I'll be linking to those posts here on YC, or you can check all of my FanHouse action out here: http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/bloggers/yankees-chick/.

Lest this news send you into a panicked frenzy, please rest assured that my new duties with FanHouse will not take away from any of my hard work here at YC. I'll still be comin' atcha with half-literate blabber on a regular basis! WHEW!

FanHouse Minute is your 60-second rundown of the top five headlines of the day. Check back here every weekday morning for the latest.

After all the hoopla surrounding Torre's stand against the man (or men, now that there are two more Steinettes in the mix) this week I nearly forgot the significance of today's date: it has officially been two years since the inception of this blog, a project that was born out of a healthy mix of Yankees fanaticism and sheer boredom (sorry, old boss) and has evolved into... well, whatever the hell this is.

It's been quite a wild ride, these last 2 years. I've been the brunt of many a derogatory sexual slur (how "I like the Yankees" gets translated into "I'm a raging bitch and slut, likely a member of some godless terrorist sect and probably the ugliest person this side of Don Mossi" I still do not understand, but what the hell do I know? I am but a lowly peasant in your fancy internet world), but I've also been on the receiving end of some of the greatest and most fun email correspondences I've ever had, met and talked to fans (and not just of the Yanks!) all over the world, and been flattered by a few folks' strange and unfounded desires to feature the Yankees Chick over the airwaves and via the magic of online video. The blog has gone from a Blogspot-templated, poorly-written, half-assed outlet for my fandom that no one but myself and perhaps the YCS (Yankees Chick Sisters... there are 5) read in 2005 to... a poorly-designed, poorly-written site that a few more people seem to like. Not bad for 2 years!

To celebrate, I'd like to give one of my lovely friends - or foes (you're already here, you might as well play along too) - a bloggiversary present. As you may have noticed in my barely-coherent ramblings, I am a big fan of nicknames, both ones others made up (Melk-Man) and the dorkus malorkus things my brain churns out (Jobamania, etc etc). For the Yankees Chick Bloggiversary Contest Extravaganza, I think we need some more nicknames: make up a great nickname for a baseball player (past, present, future, as long as it's someone we've heard of), post it in the comments section, and the best one gets a Bronx is Burning DVD.

Just for fun, or if perhaps you are at work and in dire need of a time-waster, here's a quick-and-dirty sampling of what's been going on here at the Yankees Chick for the past 2 years.

The inaugural post. Ye Olde Yankees Chicke
My 2005 disappointment list
Yankees Chick schools y'all on vocab
2005 Holiday Gift Guide
2006 Holiday Gift Guide
Remember when they lost in the first round again in 2006?
2007 season predictions
I kept the faith this year!
Yankees Chick vs Red Sox Chick (sorry)
The always-evolving baseball glossary

Yeah, I know it's not Thursday. Consider this either a bonus dose of Yankees Chick or a horrible, horrible punishment for you readers/viewers.



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5. The Falcons are Officially An Endangered Team
4. Jerry Rice Gets His Dance On
3. There's a Dust Storm A-Brewin'
2. Trouble In Corn Huskingland
1. 2 Little Steins Are Scarier Than 1 Big Stein

The lovely ladies of FanHouse Minute:
Mondays: Mystery Lady
Tuesdays: Kristine
Wednesdays: Miss Gossip
Thursdays: Yankees Chick
Fridays: Kate Scott

It's Thursday... and henceforth FanHouse Minute time!

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!

Yeah, I'm sure you're sick of me and my incessant barrage of video harassment, but if you just can't get enough Yankees Chick, you can catch me every Thursday (and the occasional Monday!) delivering the top 5 sports headlines of the day over at AOL's FanHouse blog. As with all my forays into the video world, I'll post them on the bloggy, too. Here's my first stab!

The kind folks over at Bleacher Bloggers invited the Yankees Chick back onto their show for a third time this week to discuss the Yanks' post-season chances and my World Series picks. Check out all the Bleacher Bloggers "webisodes" at www.bleacherbloggers.com - - good stuff!

The Yankees Chick is becoming quite the video-savvy blogger, my most delightful friends (and foes). For those of you that don’t like to read (in general or just the sub-par nattering with which I inundate this site), I have been making a concerted effort to provide your retinas and cochleae with visual and audio adaptations of my plentiful rants and occasional raves, and I am happy to report that I have yet another video for you to enjoy and/or send me hate mail about.

This one comes courtesy of the boys at Bleacher Bloggers, whose blog and video site launches today at www.bleacherbloggers.com. They will be featuring new episodes on Tuesdays and Fridays each week, and they were kind enough to include me as their very first special guest on their inaugural show! Their blog and show are dedicated to discussing the good, bad, and ugly of the sports blogging universive…. and I can only hope the Yankees Chick was incorporated into the show under the “good” headline.

Check out the show on the Bleacher Bloggers website or on YouTube! or... right here!

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.

The Yankees Chick is a very happy camper today, my lovelies, and not just because Mirabelli is such an incompetent moron. The Yanks' win and subsequent SURGE to just 12 1/2 games out in the division made for a swell start to my weekend, but today brings the commencement of a truly exciting journey as I embark on a 2-month adventure to NYC. I'm heading out east to work in CSTV's main office in Manhattan through August (it is said "real" job that prevents me from inundating this bloggity blog with posts chronicalling my every single hourly thought about the Yankees... Lucky for you!!), but I do plan on attending many games and hopefully tracking down (AKA stalking) Mr. Rodriguez so that I can be the next "mystery blonde" to be photographed with him. For all you folks out in NY, do not hesitate to invite me to a game, shower me with Yankees-related garb, or hook me up with A-Rod for a night of high-stakes hold-em... I'm game!

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.

EDIT 4/18/07: Congratulations to David Sugarman from Vermont, whose story about seeing David Cone's first start as a Yank and his spot-on reason to hate the Red Sox (the movie Fever Pitch) won him the illustrious title of Yankees Chick Weekly Contest Numero Dos Winner!!! Enjoy that hat, my friend.

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EDIT 4/17/07: Since I wasn't able to post the archive until today, I will wait until 6pm PDT today (Tuesday) to pick the winner, so join in the contest fun!!! Download the archive here: http://yankees-chick.com/nybo_april_15.wma

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My lovelies, it is Sunday night again, and you know what that means: Yankees Chick on the radio and another chance for one of YOU to win a delightful prize!!

NY Baseball Online's weekly show airs from 10pm-11pm EST each Sunday night on New York's 1240am, and you can of course listen online. The Yankees Chick will be checking in at about 10:30 or so for the weekly Yankees update, and if you listen (either live or by downloading the archive tomorrow) you can win yourself a brand new Yanks hat to wear to the games or to your Red Sox fan friend's house.

Here's the rules: Listen to the show (live or archived), and send me an email with the following components: 1 topic that I discussed on the show, 1 story about a Yankees game (home or away) you have attended, and 1 good reason to hate the Red Sox. Send me those emails by 6pm EST tomorrow (Monday, 4/16) and I'll pick a winner!!

Listen live here: http://www.am1240wgbb.com/
Email: info@yankeeschick.com

EDIT 4/09/07: You can listen to the archive (and still win the contest!) here


As I've previously mentioned, I will be appearing weekly on 1240 AM during Yankees Baseball Online's Sunday night shows (10pm-11pm every Sunday) giving my rants and raves on the Yanks' season. Thank you to all of you have been listening the past couple weeks - - - whether you love me or hate me, I appreciate the feedback!

As a hearty THANK YOU to those who listen (and perhaps a little motivation for those of you too lazy to click a link and listen to me ramble), I'm going to give away a prize to one of you delightful fans/detractors/people-that-accidentally-click-the-link-and-can't-figure-out-how-to-mute-me each week, simply for listening and sending me an email!

Tonight's prize is a Yankeeography Volume I dvd, which you can win by sending me an email after my segment on the show tonight stating at least 1 thing that I talked about (so I know you listened) and telling me a joke. In order to win, you MUST include both the talking point AND the joke! I will post the archive of the segment after the show so that you folks that have to go to bed at a decent hour tonight can still listen in the morning. I'll pick a winner at 3pm PST Monday based on the accuracy of the talking point and the hilarity of the joke.

Listen to the broadcast LIVE on New York's 1240 AM and online at http://www.am1240wgbb.com/. The Yankees Chick will be chatting at about 10:40pm EST.

Send your emails to info@yankeeschick.com



And finally, To my Jesus-lovin' Christian readers, happy Easter! To my Moses-Lovin' Jewish readers, happy (belated) Passover! And to my godless sinning readers (like myself), happy Yankees Sunday!

I'm assuming you all took the day off from work/school/indentured servitude/volunteer work with bed-ridden senior citizens to watch the game this afternoon, but if you missed it or just want to relive the glory, lets run down what went down in Yankeesville today:

Pitching: As I mentioned yesterday, I have turned a new leaf and am dedicated to supporting Carl Pavano as much as humanly possible during his return to the working world (kind of like offering extra moral support to a woman coming back from a long maternity leave). My boy performed adequately today, going 4 2/3 innings, striking out 2 and allowing 4 earned runs. The fact that he went almost 5 innings is very promising: he had to jog out to the mound several times and did not trip once! Brian Bruney, who did an absolutely brilliant job bailing the Yanks out of many games in 2006, came in after Carl was kicked off the mound, and faced just 2 batters (he let 1 pick up a hit and struck out the other); his short outing was followed by an equally brief and fortunately uneventful outing by Sean Henn. We got our first peak at Luis Vizcaino, one of the spoils the Yanks enjoyed from the Randy Johnson trade, and he pitched a very efficient 3-up 3-down 7th inning. Kyle Farnsworthless surprised me by not looking like a moron or blowing the lead in the 8th - - he consistently hit 100 mph and only gave up 1 hit! Even though it was not a save situation by the 9th inning thanks to the efforts of A-Rod, Mariano pitched anyway and did a glorious job, striking out 3 in a row with just 13 pitches to finish the game.

Defense: Apparently the Yankees' Spring Training workouts did not include defensive drills... In all honesty, I really don't think A-Rod's "error" was an error at all - - he wasn't able to get to a high fly in foul territory, but there was really no clear reason to believe that the ball was his to miss in the first place - - and I must admit that my poor little heart sank a bit upon seeing that E-5 up on the screen, since as we are well aware the dear boy takes such failures to heart. Jeter's and Phelps's respective throwing errors, though, were just plain sloppy. Jeter, Cano, and Phelps did bust out 2 double plays during the game, so I'll chalk those bad throws up to nervous energy.

Offense: I doubt there were many people surprised by the performance of the Yanks' offense today. As a team, they were 12 for 33 with 4 walks and 5 strike outs, very solid numbers for game 1. 7 of the 9 starters had at least 1 hit (Matsui and Phelps were not in the mood for hitting today), and even Mientkiewizc managed to squeak out a hit once he took over for Phelps! Jeter, Giambi, Abreu, Posada and A-Rod all had RBIs, with Posada's and A-Rod's coming via homers. Especially after his aforementioned nerve-wracking "error", I was thrilled to see A-Rod come up with 2 hits (a line drive single in the 7th and that 2-run homer in the 8th) and a stolen base later in the game, and I wasn't the only one - - the homer elicited a rarely-seen (for him...) standing ovation from the fans!


Thank you to all of you that participated in the inaugural Yankees Chick live gameday chat, even if you just popped in for a moment to say hi. I had a lot of fun "watching" the game with my fellow fans and I plan on doing additional gameday chats throughout the season :)


Finally, a bit of shameless self-promotion: The Yankees Chick will be on 1240 am radio during the NY Baseball Online show again tonight offering a few minutes of Yankees talk at about 11:20 EST. I'll be giving my 2 cents on the show weekly, and I would love for you all to listen!!

Not that we need any further reason to get pumped for the start of the 2007 season, but the Yankees Chick is ready to roll out a new chat room feature in which we can gather during the games and yell at the tv - and each other!

Tomorrow's inaugural game will serve as a test for this Yankees Chick chat room - - if it proves to be boring and a waste of valuable browser space (entirely possible), I shall put the kibosh on future usages; I'm hoping, though, that it will end up being a fun way to watch/listen to the games "with" people whether we're at work (do not notify my boss, por favor), sitting on the sofa, or off on some fabulous vacation watching the game via the resort's extended WIFI.

I'll be logging in to the chat room about 1 hr before game time tomorrow, about noon EST. You can access the chat room by clicking the link below - you will be prompted to enter a username and then we'll be chatting!


I hope to see you all here tomorrow!!

In the meantime....dream sweet Yankees dreams...