As the Yankees Turn

Forget the World Series, the real baseball stories all involve the New York Yankees

Story 1: A-Rod Opts Out

Yeah, so maybe the announcement suffered from poor timing, but there has been too much holier-than-thou hand-wringing over this.

A-Rod Not Greedy By Wall St. Standards
Non-A-Rod Options for Joe Girardi
Leagues Criticize A-Rod
A-Rod Not a Champion
A-Rod the Mercenary
A-Rod Subsidy from the Texas Rangers
A-Rod Should Not Have Opted Out
A-Rod Probably Won't Return
Torii Hunter Files for Free Agency

Story 2: Joe...Don't Go!

I am not sure that putting your Hall of Fame repuatition on the line for a low-spending owner in a town dominated by basketball is the best way to go. You're playing with house money Joe, don't do it!

Grady Little Resigns
Dodgers Could Reunite Torre and Mattingly


Story 3: Joe (Girardi that is)...Welcome Back

Let's see, you quit your last job because of meddlesome management, and now you sign with the Yankees?!

Joe Girardi Hired as Yankees Manager

Story 4: The Son Also Rises


George Jr. (a.k.a. Hank Steinbrenner) is trying very hard to become as vaunted a media villain as his father. As Tom Hanks said to Matt Damon in Saving Private Ryan: "Earn this!"

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