Gardner visiting New York elementary school
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Nov 13, 2011 
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You know the younger Yankees are starting to make a name for themselves when they’re doing random charity appearances like this one. Here’s the press release.
On November 15, 2011, New York Yankee Brett Gardner will join the Advil Congestion Relief Project at PS 130 Elementary School in the South Bronx to unveil a newly decongested library with improved access to computers and books.
Kicking off in New York City, the Advil Congestion Relief Project will visit communities to provide literal congestion relief to real problems ranging from undersupplied schools, congested traffic lanes and more.
The Advil Congestion Relief Project is also looking for additional communities in need of relief.
Participants can visit CongestionReliefProject.com to share the congestion relief the community needs for the chance to win a prize worth up to $30,000 for the community.
Gardy! Nice to see the players get involved with the community.
Matt Holliday would’ve visited 3 schools.
Gardner can never do enough.
Okay, I see. Thanks! This tOPS+ strikes me a rather superfluous stat. I wonder why they don’t compute OPS+ on platoon splits, which would be much more informative.
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They do, but only for individual years.
Mike Matheny gets the manager’s job for the Cardinals
good for matheny. i think the collapse really hurt tito.
Tito will probably get the cubs job….him or Maddux
Can’t imagine that Tito and Epstein would work together so soon.
The 49ers are not this good. All smoke and mirrors. I hope the Packers kill them if they play them in the playoffs
who are thwese 9ers? harbaugh got em hopped up like a college teeam in a college town.
Niners have decent talent. They just have had three consecutive buffoons as head coaches: Dennis Erickson, Mike “dress the part” Nolan and Singletary, who should have stuck to defense … Though Alex Smith will come back down to Earth. Clearly, he’s playing over his head.
Theo and franconas quotes have made it seem like they would……I don’t think either of them left because of each other.
Gary Sanchez is 3-3 with an RBI so far today in the Dominican winter League. Last night, he was 0-0 with 2 walks and a run scored.
Melky Mesa is 1-3 with a run scored and a triple.
not a giant fan but they are very tough and will still win this game…manning is ice.
Im expecting Sanchez to have a monster season next year ……ending the year at Trenton and starting to climb the rankings.
SI_JonHeyman 45 mins for those who see francona landing w/#cubs, thats not happening. he should take yr off & come back strong in ’13. #tito
See that seals it…….Tito to the cubs.
gotta love the non holding call on Nick’s Jersey. BS
Very good post by unnamedsource in the previous thread on the rule 5 as related to the Yanks.
Will they ever get rid of Killdrive??? What a joke
gb,
is sanchez improving defensively? his bat has always been awesome, no?
KD, sanchez just started playing the first of last week and has only caught part of one game. He’s been DHing after missing most of the last 4 weeks of the season with a broken finger/hand.
David Stern taking questions about the NBA lockout on twitter was not his brightest idea.
Stern almost always comes across as extremely arrogant to me
foot fetish Ryan
sees three points turn to nothing
the kick sails wide left
thanks gb
can’t wait to see what he can be
Andre Carter sacks
he was great as a Cal Bear
and now he’s a Pat
Nick in SF November 13th, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Andre Carter sacks
he was great as a Cal Bear
and now he’s a Pat
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Does that make him a Cal Pattie?
Woodhead cant block squat
In car verse truck collisions
the truck often wins
http://joeposnanski.si.com/201.....f-paterno/
if you haven’t read….a good take as usual and well written.
Joe Pos v. Joe Pa?
perhaps a good halftime read
or I’ll get pizza
more pain for Jets fans
so much work for lead but trail
absentee dad Tom
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – The judge who ruled former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky be freed on $100,000 unsecured bail after being charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse against children is a volunteer for The Second Mile, the charity Sandusky founded.
The state Attorney General’s Office requested $500,000 bail and an electronic leg monitor for Sandusky, but District Judge Leslie Dutchcot, active in several volunteer roles, ordered Sandusky, a State College resident, to have no contact with children. He will not have to pay any money unless he fails to appear for court.
Blake — Joe Pos seems well-intentioned as always, but that column is embarrassing. He’s obviously way too close to Paterno, and too attached to his book as he had been envisioning it, to see the guy’s actions (or inactions) clearly.
I hate to say it, but Jason Whitlock pretty much nailed it:
“Sports Illustrated’s Joe Posnanski, my former colleague at the Kansas City Star, has thrown a weeklong blog tantrum because his plan to write the next “Tuesdays with Morrie,” starring JoePa, has been blown up by the Sandusky controversy. Let me be fair. Posnanski claims he’s upset because the media have been irresponsibly unfair to JoePa and not enough of JoePa’s friends have been courageous enough to publicly defend the legendary coach. (Maybe they’ve privately expressed their support to their immediate supervisor?)
Posnanski, who secured a lucrative book deal to write about Paterno, has been in State College for months researching the feel-good biography he and his publisher planned to release on Father’s Day. You would think an award-winning, celebrated “journalist” positioned in State College for months and researching Paterno for years would be perfectly positioned to chronicle this tragedy.
Sara Ganim first wrote about the Sandusky grand jury investigation in March. She reported that Paterno testified in front of the grand jury in January. An astute Pittsburgh radio shock, Mark Madden, connected the dots on how the Sandusky investigation might impact Paterno in an April column published in another Pennsylvania newspaper.
What and/or whom was Posnanski researching? How can he be caught off guard that Paterno’s world is collapsing? A radio shock jock figured out what a singularly focused “journalist” couldn’t. Really?”
http://msn.foxsports.com/colle.....dal-111111
JMZ – have to agree with you.
I’m also amazed Ponanski couldn’t figure out for himself that Paterno would have had to know about the 1998 case since it was reported to the Penn State police and the police report reviewed by the same attorney who was an attorney for Second Mile. If one of your employees has been charged with a crime of indecency, you are automatically apprised of it. If you’re Joe Paterno, the police quiver as they approach you with any information.
So with that in mind, when Paterno found out about the case McQueary reported, he had prior knowledge of the scumbag who worked as his defensive coordinator.
His football program mattered more to him than the indecency of a man who worked by his side for so long.
Ponanski’s nothing more than a vanilla apologist at this point, trying to cover his bases by throwing out a few PC questions and phrases.
And there are at least ten young men out there who don’t a rat’s behind about what kind of life Paterno lived. They care about how he shut it down when it mattered the most.
is a volunteer for The Second Mile, the charity Sandusky founded
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Yikes.
JMZ,
I think he eluded several times in the article just that…..that he was too close to it.
However, I think his main point was that he’s been a good man in his life and that he wants to wait for the whole story to come out before condemning him. I can’t argue with that even though given what we know so far it’s tough to justify his actions.
He also said that he would include this chapter in the book….and if it turns out to be true that he’ll come down as hard as possible on him.
trisha,
wow
LGY – just when you think you’ve heard it all in that case, you know damn well you haven’t.
Unsecured bail for someone charged with (at last count) 9 charges of child molestation.
I’m sure Pos wasn’t hired to be an investigative reporter….he was writing a feel good book about one of the most celebrated coaches in history. The lid just recently blew off this thing…….he’s probably trying to process how the guy he’s followed for the last 2 years maybe isn’t who he thought he was.
“is a volunteer for The Second Mile, the charity Sandusky founded”
conflict of interest much…..this whole thing is unbelievable.
I’m not trying to defend Paterno…..but as I said the other day, part of me wants to believe that a 75+ year old man just never grasped the situation…..never really “got” what was going on or was naive or manipulated……that may not be true…..he may very well be everything that everyone is saying he is……but I do want to hear his side at some point.
blake, Ponanski is hanging on by his nails but as you pointed out understandable under the circumstances.
trisha,
just think if you had been covering a guy for 2 years and were writing a biography about him…..and then all of the sudden this mess blows up and everything you’ve worked on is now in question and may need to be rewritten entirely…….
# trisha – true pinstriped blue November 13th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – The judge who ruled former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky be freed on $100,000 unsecured bail after being charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse against children is a volunteer for The Second Mile, the charity Sandusky founded.
The state Attorney General’s Office requested $500,000 bail and an electronic leg monitor for Sandusky, but District Judge Leslie Dutchcot, active in several volunteer roles, ordered Sandusky, a State College resident, to have no contact with children. He will not have to pay any money unless he fails to appear for court.
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When it rains it pours smh now we know why it was only 100k
Against – if you didn’t know this stuff was actually happening, you wouldn’t believe any of this could be true. That’s how completely horrific every element of this case has been and continues to be!
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blake – I don’t think there’s any question that condemnation is wholly in order. The only question is what is the degree of condemnation.
Only the most obtuse person at this point can’t put 1998 and 2002 together and be beyond appalled and disgusted with Paterno.
If you can’t grasp that a man working for you performing anal intercourse on a ten year old boy is wrong, you don’t belong in the workforce. Period. You belong in a nursing home, making puzzles. And by the way, he probably should have hung up his notebook three years prior since the same man was caught showering with a young boy and he knew about that too. And did jack sh*t about it that time too.
Dear God in heaven, I said 9 counts.
It’s 40 counts.
Unsecured bail. How do these scumbags live with themselves? What a filthy, immoral, gutless cast of characters. That judge should be removed from the bench. But that stuff doesn’t happen in Paterno country.
a change of venue?
no neutrals in State College
Tuscaloosa, please
Trisha,
I agree with that….however because of that I just don’t get this whole thing. I’m still asking how this could have happened and I want to hear Paterno’s explanation…..how a man that’s stood for what he’s stood for could allow this? Maybe I’m hoping there is an explanation we just don’t know about yet……
“a change of venue?
no neutrals in State College
Tuscaloosa, please”
Actually an interesting question.
Tuscaloosa – I could only hope!
Sandusky, but District Judge Leslie Dutchcot, active in several volunteer roles, ordered Sandusky, a State College resident, to have no contact with children.”
Well at least he was ordered to no have any contact with children…..what a joke
blake, unfortunately I have to say that at this point I personally wouldn’t believe anything Paterno said. He’s going to be in CYA mode as much as the rest of them are, IMO.
trisha – true pinstriped blue November 13th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Against – if you didn’t know this stuff was actually happening, you wouldn’t believe any of this could be true. That’s how completely horrific every element of this case has been and continues to be!
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You couldn’t make this stuff up in a movie that’s how unbelievable it is. There are a section of ppl that don’t realize we’re just at the beginning of this story. I think they believe Joe Pa is no longer the coach and JS has been charged so this is the final chapter smh we’re still in chapter 1 at this point.
From vault of embarrassing photos by Phil Hughes’ mom.
http://twitter.com/?photo_id=1.....36/photo/1
So the blue jays really were the ones who ruined Phil’s development…..now we know the real story thanks to momma hughes
Plax attacks again
a familiar Pat nigthtmare
fade route to Burress
http://sports.popcrunch.com/wp.....pended.jpg
“Well at least he was ordered to no have any contact with children…..what a joke”
Seriously, isn’t that amazing? 40 counts of child molestation and he gets unsecured bail and no electronic monitor. Just an admonition to stay away from children – because after all he’s shown that he has such firm resolve when it comes to staying away from children.
The whole thing is such a travesty that it simply defies belief that so many unethical scumbags co-exist in such a small geogrphic area. It’s kind of like released sexual offenders and their proclivity to live around the trailerparks in northern Florida.
# GreenBeret7 November 13th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
From vault of embarrassing photos by Phil Hughes’ mom.
http://twitter.com/?photo_id=1…..36/photo/1
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lol every mother has embarrassing pics stashed away some where just waiting to reveal them
The Jays thought he was too big to catch also apparently
We are definitely in chapter 1. Lots of stuff yet to be uncovered/exposed.
I’m out…..night all
blake – I also.
Night all.
GO JETS!
# blake November 13th, 2011 at 11:13 pm
So the blue jays really were the ones who ruined Phil’s development…..now we know the real story thanks to momma hughes
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I blame the Red Sox since Hughes was a fan of the team growing up.
I blame Hughes’ appetite #fatfarm
Blake,
I’m a journalist myself and I do sympathize with Joe Pos’s position. And maybe it’s admirable that he made that post and tried to sort through his feelings on the situation honestly and in full public view. Personally, I would have waited until things settled down and emotions had cooled. I think he’s eventually going to regret some of the things he wrote in there, though I also think it’s just a matter of his not having fully processed some of what’s happened.
I also think he probably doesn’t realize the degree to which the book as he had been planning it is dead, which is understandable. Again, personally (and it’s easy for me to say), that doesn’t sound like such a big loss. The book sounded pretty cheesy and, frankly, kind of beneath a writer of Pos’s abilities. A pretty good payday but not exactly real ambitious. Maybe now he will reapply himself and produce a true work of journalism.
no smiles for Ryan
or for pretty boy Sanchez
bad dad Tom laughs last
No words
@SpikeLee Spike Lee
Shaq,Dustin Pedroia and I see PATS STOMP J-E-T-S. UGLY yfrog.com/h7zwpzycj
http://yfrog.com/z/h7zwpzycj
Spike, Shaq betrayal
hobnobbing with the hobbit
a nightmare picture
Not sure how/if it jives with the GJR but, FWIW, I ran across this “map of a scandal”…
http://tinyurl.com/d6sbq2a
Nick,
Some good stuff tonight!
Shaq’s mitt is bigger than Pedroia’s head.
Cash should get Damon for one year. Damon can be occasional 4th outfielder/full-time DH/Clubhouse leader/Clutch hitter playoffs!!!!
Monterro should split catching duties with Martin/occasional DHing/occasional first base.
Nuff said!
Anybody home?
LGY November 13th, 2011 at 11:58 pm
http://yfrog.com/z/h7zwpzycj
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That is one odd trio.
Erin
I wonder what the connection is w/ the elf.
Indeed
The GM meetings start tomorrow, but Cashman keeps talking about a conservative winter. I think his success with low cost starters last year will cause him to try that again. Garcia and maybe someone else.
I am keeping my expectations very low for acquisitions.
Good morning Blake.
I really think Cash will add a starter this winter…..
“I really think Cash will add a starter this winter”
Why ?
Has he been having trouble with his car ?
Good morning, everyone.
Hope we get something to talk about this week.
The word for today is “new”
Joba_62 New week, new day, new challenges, new adventures, embrace them all head on and make urself better!
Cracks me up. Spells out “challenges” and “adventures,” but leaves off the “y” and the “o” in “yourself.”
Hey MTU
Blake-
You called out. I’m an original member of the Morning crew ( as are you) so I wasn’t about to leave ya’ hanging.
Just a quick drive by as I’m off to the boonies again.
Say hi to everyone for me.
Hot stove should begin heating up soon.
New Post: Nova in the mix for Rookie of the Year
I say the Yankees should go with a rotation of Sabathia/Burnett/Nova/Hughes/Noesi to start 2012 and see what the homegrown starters can do (Burnett is a non-issue as he is not moving to the bullpen and most likely not being traded because he’s due $16.5M per year the next two years.) If the Yanks need a starting pitcher in midseason, they have the entire rotation after Sabathia, the entire AAA rotation, and other prospects including Montero (that’s right he better produce for all the hype surrounding him) as tradebait.
The only free-agent starting pitcher I think the Yanks should sign if they sign anyone is Mark Buehrle and they should offer him three years at $14M per year (his annual salary the past four years.) C.J. Wilson is a #3 nothing more, nothing less, Roy Oswalt is too old to give two or more years to, Yu Darvish is an unknown quantity and see Hideki Irabu and Kei Igawa, and Edwin Jackson can’t stay with a team, so why give him an opportunity to? Also Jackson could get fat and think “I got my money and security as well World Series ring.” and what are the Yanks gonna do, trade him? He’d be another untradeable overpriced #4 along with Burnett. Back to Darvish – see Hideo Nomo also. Nomo was great in his rookie season, good in his second season, and so-so in his third season then he turned into a pile of crap after that until he reeled off three decent seasons years later. Keep in mind Nomo’s first three seasons were as a Dodger where the best hitter in the N.L. was his batterymate Mike Piazza. Nomo didn’t have to face the DH, a much tougher lineup, or offenses like the Yanks have faced. Darvish would face Boston and Toronto as much as 8 to 10 times a year plus other formidable offenses. No to Darvish who’s a righthanded pitcher – the Yanks need another lefthanded starter. Enter Buerhrle.