HOPE Week returning to Yankee Stadium
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Apr 28, 2010 
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Here’s the press release from the Yankees.
The New York Yankees today officially announced the return of HOPE Week during the upcoming 2010 season. As mentioned by President Barack Obama during the team’s White House visit on Monday, the Yankees’ community outreach event will take place from August 16-20 during the Yankees’ seven-game homestand. HOPE Week will again see Yankees players, coaches and front office staff reach out each day during the week to an individual, family or organization worthy of recognition and support.
Introduced in 2009, HOPE Week brought to light five remarkable stories to provide hope and encouragement to the recipient of the gesture and inspire individuals into action in their own communities.
For the Yankees, HOPE Week is unique in that every player on the roster, along with Manager Joe Girardi and his coaching staff, participates in the stories. Outreach will often take place away from the Stadium so the Yankees can personally connect with individuals in the settings of their greatest personal accomplishments.
“HOPE Week was such an important week for our entire team during our championship run in 2009,” said Yankees Manager Joe Girardi. “It’s great that the Yankees organization will once again allow us to reach out and reward five more inspiring stories during the 2010 season. It should be another special week.”
Fans who know individuals or groups in the Tri-state area dedicated to improving the lives of others can nominate them for recognition during 2010 HOPE Week by visiting https://secure.mlb.com/nyy/community/hope_week_form.jsp. For more information about HOPE Week, fans can visit the Community tab at www.yankees.com. The deadline to submit a nomination is May 10, 2010.
Last year’s HOPE Week introduced fans to community heroes Marco and Jen Chiappetta and their Patchwork of Young Leaders Society, as Yankees players and Joe Girardi joined them in their home and took part in their mentoring program. The Yankees also encountered Tom Ellenson, as well as Ranjit Seal and Melvin Williams, who have each overcome disabilities and serve as inspirational members of society. In addition, the organization held an anniversary celebration for ALS-stricken George Murray, his wife Kim and their four-year-old son Trason, along with their family and friends at Yankee Stadium with Yankees players. The club also hosted an overnight carnival for Camp Sundown participants, who suffer from a rare genetic disorder which does not allow them exposure to UV light.
erica…. unique but unless girardi quit last night and someone else took over, no way he bats three lefties in a row. especially when one cant hit lefties and the other cant hit anything.
That’s great they’re doing HOPE week again!
That’s just wonderful, for the Yankees (who get to give back) and for the recipients. It’s very hard not to love this team.
Why couldn’t HOPE week have been this week? We needed a lot of HOPE.
Hello! Can anyone say red card in the 27th minute!
Good luck playing barca down for the rest of the match!
Michael Kay is psychoanalyzing the bullpen and saying they don’t believe in themselves, lol. It can’t just be a slump, it has to be that they are doubting themselves and they are fragile.
tex’s friend April 28th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
erica?. unique but unless girardi quit last night and someone else took over, no way he bats three lefties in a row. especially when one cant hit lefties and the other cant hit anything.
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Crap. I haven’t quite mastered the lefty/righty/lefty thing yet
My sister Hope, loves the HOPE Week pin Pete gave me last season!
When it comes to the meaning of words, can’t people just refer to the dictionary?
Anyway, http://online.wsj.com/article/.....%3Darticle
According to Nielsen, the Yankees garners but only the fifth least approval in the internet.
Yay! The game I am going to see is during Hope Week!
hey betsy,
are you listening to kay’s show over the net? if so, what’s the url? thanks!
Hope Week was right at the top of the best things of the 2009 season and the Yankees were rewarded for doing the good deeds by winning the games during Hope Week and then the World Series…(I guess that shares the top spot with Hope Week ..
). I can’t wait to see who the inspirational recipients are this year. I had tears in my eyes for each of the recipients last year knowing how happy they were to share this experience and was so proud to be a Yankee fan that week.
Go Yankees 2010 !!!
thinking about dallas braden and mounds made me think of the time in american legion ball ( 14-15) when a kid pitcher that used to be good and who had a no hitter going refused to come off the mound when the umpires called a game before it was official when thunder clouds were blowing in.
we all were sitting in cars watching him throw a fit out there standing on top of the mound as the rain started to fall. he still didn’t come off the mound.
finally he gave in as the rain really started to come down. right about when he hit the third baseline , Whammo!!!!! lightening hit the mound blowing it to smithereens leaving the rubber and stakes all twisted and smoking.
dave tucker was his name. i’ll never forget the look on his face. all the color just drained from him. anyway, i think it’d be really cool if divine intervention would do a replay of that lightening strike to dave tucker’s mound but in yankee stadium when dallas braden pitches there.
Kate …I’ll be at the games on the 16th & 17th …another reason to be excited …the return of Johnny D.
Go Yankees 2010 !!
Kay is just wrong with his opinion about the pen.
Logan made a mistake by walking Scott with a 3-2 breaking ball. Just a horrible choice. No excuse for that.
Logan should have pounded the strike zone because a walk was only going to set up the inning nicely for the O’s.
A walk with 2 outs was going to set up the inning nicely? A 0 out walk sure, but not a 2 out walk.
All Sports talk radio/tv ends up turning to drivel. They need to talk, to fill air space, create controversy. If not, there’s a lot of dead air.
My wife and I will be traveling from Rochester for 2 games that week, 8/19 & 8/20! (Of course we will make the obligatory trip to the stores in Manhattan
.) I hope we get to see some of HOPE Week activities.
randy-that’s hilarious!
“i think it’d be really cool if divine intervention would do a replay of that lightening strike to dave tucker’s mound but in yankee stadium when dallas braden pitches there.”
You’re creative. I was just hoping for booing and hissing.
randy – that’s some story. Did he take the remains of his mound home with him? Give it a proper burial?
Yanksgal07
we will be there on the 20th to see the Mariners (who are my pick to win the west, so they better get going). Trying something different this time. We are going to take the train in from Albany.
muffinstump,
URL for Michael Kay
http://espn.go.com/new-york/ra.....listenlive
Last year’s Hope Week coincided with a tremendous winning streak. Unfortunately, this year’s Hope Week doesn’t start until August. Nice planning, Zillo.
Logan has always had shaky control in his career. But Logan wasn’t the one who hit Wiggington 0-2 and gave up 3 straight hits.
In case GTLU is still open today:
Jeter: SS
Johnson: DH
Tex: 1B
Arod: 3B
Cano: 2B
Posada: C
Swish: RF
Grandy: CF
Gardy: LF
line up is up
Muffinstump, I have the radio on; it’s http://www.1050espnradio.com and then just follow the links….
if Logan wants to stay on the team, he has to get that lefty out. giving up a walk is the worst thing he could have done. there is no excuse for that. Logan would be the first to admit that.
New Post: Opening Day lineup in Baltimore
Kate …
Kudos to you on making the trip….I’m just half hour from the Stadium. I might be going on the 20th too. Not sure yet…
I hope we get to see a winning week in spirit and games.
Go Yankees 2010 !!!
Worse than a HR?! Worse than his arm falling off?!
Worse than a triple!? A DOUBLE!? A single?!?!?!?!!?!?!
“i think it’d be really cool if divine intervention would do a replay of that lightening strike to dave tucker’s mound but in yankee stadium when dallas braden pitches there.”
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I’m sure Mariano could make a few phone calls and arrange for some “fire and brimstone” . We don’t have midges but how about a plague of subway rats.
Look what happened to the so-called “Angels”. Dude does a 40-story nose dive right as they’re having coffee. And that’s a team with friends on it.
Maybe they stay at the same hotel. The Steinway showroom is right across the street. How much damage you think a piano falling 40 stories can inflict on a team bus?
thanks for the link to kay-i need to bookmark this for the future
Kay is discussing Ortiz. Said there is talk in chowder-land of releasing Ortiz soon.
Last night Ortiz said he plan to play 2-3 more years, LOL
joe from long island-
the thing that was really funny about it after the holy crap factor was that dave was a kid who was about 6 feet tall in little league and was a big star and then he didn’t get any better so this was his first really good game in years. but he was kind of a head case to begin with. kind of too full of himself from being bigger than everyone else so young.
another weird thing happened to him in high school. he was at bat( right handed) and a runner from our team was stealing third when the catcher jumped up threw with all he had to third and hit dave right in the head in the batters box .
i think someone was telling dave that he should maybe rethink baseball.
“How much damage you think a piano falling 40 stories can inflict on a team bus?”
bronx jeers-
i’m not sure , but for some reason i’ll bet gb7 knows ?
the good thing about this blog is there’s always someone who knows something about almost anything.