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IMHO - The ramblings of
Phil Speranza
Email: Phil
Speranza Website:
Behind The
Bombers
GREETINGS BOMBER
BUDDIES, Sorry for
my absence but I have been busy with the
health of my dad and my own web site as
well. A lot has happen in the Yankee world
this past week. It started last weekend
with the preliminary pseudo rivalry at the
Stadium with the unnecessary inter-league
Yankees-Mets match up.
As faith may have it, it
acted as a warm up for the real rivalry
with the division rival Boston Red Sox.
The Bombers were scheduled for three games
and the took them all. The Boston tabloids
make the New York papers look like Golden
Book. The wrap up game had to be the best
regular season game I have ever seen in my
47 years. It featured everything! The game
featured bizarre defensive alignments
(five infielders, Gary Sheffield at
third), incredible defensive plays Alex
Rodriguez starting a miraculous double
play (which appeared to be a triple play
because Manny was made out twice. Even
Jorge Posada blocked the plate on that
one! It had deflating at-bats (Kevin
Millar, Ruben Sierra, Bernie Williams),
brilliant clutch hitting (Manny Ramirez,
Miguel Cairo, and, John Flaherty). And the
third start of Rookie Brad Halsey. We
can't forget Derek Jeter's spectacular
catch that landed him in the LF stands on
his way to some preliminary testing at the
hospital. I won't go into the game because
I am sure you all know the results. That
did mark the Yankees 31st come from behind
victory of the year.
We can't forget Derek
Jeter's spectacular catch that landed him
in the LF stands on his way to some
preliminary testing at the
hospital.
So what do we do for an
encore? It's back to the toilet in
Flushing where we meet the Mets for a
three game set. After the draining game on
Thursday the Yankees made a couple of key
fatigued errors in the first inning that
set pace for the whole game.
Next Saturday mark Old
Timers Day, I am not sure of the theme
this year but there is even a bigger even
going on at the cathedral in the Bronx. It
marks the Eighth Annual Behind the Bombers
Reunion. Once a year all the forum members
meet for a game and a pre game party. We
have fans coming in from San Francisco,
England and Poland! We have 50 seats this
year and it is growing all the time, you
can never have too many fans.
On another note I have
been let go as blogger on NJ.com. The
reason I got was that my work was solid
but not snappy enough for a Yankee Blog.
The funny thing if it wasn't for the name
on the banner even I couldn't tell that I
didn't write it. Well it really wasn't
worth the peanuts it paid but I had fun
while it lasted. I will do all my blogging
at BTB.
That's all for now. Here's
hoping all your hits go for extra bases.
Phil Speranza is publisher
and webmaster of the longest running New
York Yankees fan site on the Internet
(Behind The Bombers) and wrote the 2000
season update of The Yankee Encyclopedia
5th Edition (still included in the 6th
Edition) published by Sports Publications
LLC. Phil also contributed to the book
"THE GREAT RIVALRY: BOSTON RED SOX/ NEW
YORK YANKEES by HARVEY FROMMER &
FREDERIC J. FROMMER" also from Sports
Publishing LLC.
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