Good luck to you, Mr. Anderson
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My business will lose a giant on Monday when Dave Anderson of the New York Times retires.
One of the best parts about working in the sports media in New York is being on the same playing field with the greats. Dave Anderson is sort of our Tom Glavine. He has been around forever, he’s a very nice man and he does his job exceedingly well time after time after time.
He may be the only sportswriter in New York I’ve never heard anybody say something bad about.
Dave is proof that you don’t have to have an agenda, a big ego, a churlish personality or friends in high places to be a good columnist. You can be observant, professional and one heck of a writer. The best way is still his way.
The Times said Dave will write 18 columns a year in his retirement. I hope he stops by the Stadium a time or two. All of us in the press box can stand to be reminded of how respected our profession can be.
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wang disconsolate, pitch better. they needed the win not for the division but to make the playoffs. Detroit is not done yet the Yanks need some wins….
thew Yanks have actually played bad for the last 3 games, they are lucky to have 1 win…
Clemens tommorrow is far from a solid option…
Well, Pete, it’s my guess — based on the interaction I’ve had with you — that you’re one of the good guys, as well.
lol Joba 4MVP. the word Poo always makes me giggle.
For those of us in yesterday’s blog about the commentators of the games, you’ll get a kick out of this from espn.com:
Joe Morgan’s major league debut
July 19, 2007 12:54 PM
During the eighth inning of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball game between the Cardinals and Phillies on July 15, commentator Joe Morgan said he was called up by Houston in 1964, had his first hit in his first major-league at-bat against Philadelphia and that it caused the Phillies to lose one of their 10 straight down the stretch, helping ruin their chances for the pennant. In fact, Morgan was called up in 1963. His first hit was a walk-off against Philadelphia, but it was his second big league at-bat.
Editor’s note: In an earlier version of this correction, it was incorrectly reported that the game in which the on-air mistake occurred was the Braves-Phillies contest.
Pete you are one of the good guys who does not take himself too seriously yet is very professional.
Pete,
For being a New Englander (I believe) and putting in the time and effort to support a Yankees blog, I will never say anything bad about you. If for any reason you leave the beat, I will always remember 2007 as the start of the new age of covering the beat. In some circles, you may be a pioneer of sorts.
as i watched shots of cashman in the fenway stands as the yankees ran out a long line of mediocre relievers, all i could think of was the lousy team he pompously came out of spring training with-lousy first basemen, lousy back up catcher, lousy bench, lousy bullpen. lousy conditoning coach( that cost the team at least 3-5 games),and a 50 million dollar japanese pitcher who wasn’t in shape to pitch.
there was no sense of urgency to excell as the season began. the yankees literally were just going through the motions. but not to worry, there were all those young pitchers coming,cashman’s youth movement was in full gear. all would be well.
wrong. the yankees are a .568 basebal team which is by yankee standards pathetically bad at this point in the year.they are in danger of being overtaken by the tigers for the wildcard spot. this would not be a problem if cashman focused as much on winning in the spring as he did on setting up player development for future years. he didn’t kick into gear focusing on this year until his job was on the line in june.
now the team must battle right to the end to get the wild card. there will be little to no resting of players to prepare for the playoffs. cashman better be praying the yankees make the playoffs, because if they don’t there will be a lot of finger pointing and it’s going to come back to him being totally in charge. his complacency and arrogance over not improving each and every position on the roster for this year because of his focus on his pet project of developing future players has put the yankees in this position. his job is to win now and win later, not just win later.
all this said ,i hope cashman has the job next year because it’ll mean the yankees have done well in the playoffs and hopefully even won the elusive 27th world championship.
they are in the drivers seat for the wild card, but this team goes into inexplicable funks at the worst times so if anyone is relaxing now with a 2.5 game lead over the tigers, they just haven’t been watching all year.
I grew up reading Dave Anderson (and Red Smith, Dick Young, Larry Merchant and those NY columnists of the 60s- on)
Anderson also wrote some books on the Jets and Namath (the Super Bowl year)
He will be missed – except for 18 times a year
Randy, shut up. You make all us Yankee fans look bad. How many teams would love to be 2.5 games up in the Wildcard in the middle of September? Stop complaining, you make that spoiled Yankee fan stereotype seem true.
Dave Anderson? Never heard of him. I guess in sports journalism, that’s probably a good thing. It seems like EVERYONE knows who the idiot journalists are…