Rutger and Iowa State to play in Pinstripe Bowl
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Dec 04, 2011 
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We’re going to have a lot of baseball to talk about in the next few days, but tonight we’ll wrap up with a football story. Here’s the Yankees announcement that Iowa State and Rutgers will play in the Pinstripe Bowl.
The Rutgers University Scarlet Knights of the Big East Conference and the Iowa State University Cyclones of the Big 12 Conference will play each other in the 2011 New Era Pinstripe Bowl, scheduled for Friday, December 30, 2011 at Yankee Stadium. Each school accepted bids this afternoon. A press conference with New Era Pinstripe Bowl participants and officials will be held on Wednesday, December 7 at 11:00 a.m. at Yankee Stadium. Further details will be provided in the near future.
The 2011 New Era Pinstripe Bowl will mark the first time Rutgers and Iowa State will play each other in college football.
“We are excited to feature a neighboring school in Rutgers against an outstanding Big 12 representative in Iowa State for this year’s New Era Pinstripe Bowl,” said Mark Holtzman, Yankees Executive Director of the New Era Pinstripe Bowl. “This first-ever football matchup between these schools offers each institution’s dedicated fans the opportunity to celebrate the holiday season with a unique bowl experience in New York City and Yankee Stadium.”
In 2010, the Syracuse Orange defeated the Kansas State Wildcats, 36-34, in the inaugural New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium. It marked the first college football bowl game played in the Bronx since Nebraska edged Miami (Fla.), also by a score of 36-34, in the Gotham Bowl on December 15, 1962 at the original Yankee Stadium.
This will be Rutgers’ second appearance at Yankee Stadium this season, after the Scarlet Knights defeated the Army Black Knights, 27-12, on November 12 in their first game in the Bronx since 1948. Rutgers, whose main campus in Piscataway, N.J., is located less than 50 miles away from Yankee Stadium, also played nine times at the original Yankee Stadium – all against New York University – going 1-7-1. This will mark the seventh time that the school has played in a bowl game, having tallied a 4-2 record in their previous six appearances with wins in each of their last four bowl games.
“It is a terrific situation when you can play your bowl game in the greatest city in the world,” said Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano. “Getting an opportunity to play in a bowl game hosted by the New York Yankees is a great reward for our players.”
Benny Blanco December 4th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
LGY,
How does the performance training center (API) that hughes attended help him as a pitcher? What does that facility specialize in? Do they help pitchers with their mechanics? Just curious.
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Ken_Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal
Sources: Reyes deal with #Marlins does NOT include no-trade clause. Heath Bell passed physical, deal is official. #MLB
2 minutes ago
Maybe the Marlins trade Ramirez to the Mets for David Wright.
I don’t know why I read that as Reyes moving to 3B. Of course it makes all the sense in the world that they’re getting Reyes to play SS.
If you’re Hanley, you can’t be happy. Of course, a trade is inevitable. But that might be a good thing.
Ozzie can only deal with one loafing SS at a time.
From what I understand, API is a specialized boot camp and athletes from every sport go there to improve their games.
Hell, if I had the coin to do it, I’d love to go there myself.
http://www.athletesperformance.com
Yankee style elfin magic
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl…..um=twitter
Benny
I’m not positive but I believe API doesn’t do any sport specific training. It’s just a really elite/exclusive training and physical therapy site.
well, at least the marlins paid less than boston did for crawford for a better player.
my guess is that this has been discussed with hanley and he is aware. otherwise you have one unhappy player.
still, it’s hard to imagine that hanley will be a marlin next year
They’ll trade Hanley away, and two weeks later Reyes will pop a hammy.
Yeah amazing. Sox would be a far better team with Reyes at short and for far less money than the Crawford deal.
Hanley after two bad years and the attitude issues doesn’t exactly have much trade value right now. They are far better served letting him play it out and start playing well before moving him.
If they keep Ramirez and Retes, Guillen will pop a blood vessel.
***Reyes***
Phranchise,
They’ve been trying to stabilize SS since…they traded away OC. Oh wells!
Two of the Marlins weakest positions are 3B and CF where Hanley conveniently profiles much better at than SS.
Another sign the Sox won’t spend money on a bat at all this year. Hope they get sucked into a big closer who will fail. Madsen, NL, last year was the first year he pitched well when needing to close. They still won’t have a bullpen. And starters will be interesting, looks like they may go cheaper there as well.
SI_JonHeyman Jon Heyman
no no-trade clause in reyes deal. marlins simply dont do no-trade clauses. good to see a team that stands for something.
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Really, you dumb ass? what do the Marlins stand for? Loria sold out one winning team already.
If the Yanks had spent that money this year on two players, would they have stood for anything…besides greedy?
Stafford is starting to look more and more like a good quartback. he’s got a chance to be the Lions best QB since Greg Landry, possibly further back than that.
There’s about a zero percent chance they trade Hanley. Why would they sign Reyes only to trade Hanley? They’re just looking to waste money?
Maybe they should have just signed MIGUEL CABRERA when they had him. Oh well, don’t matter to me.
@jaysonst Jayson Stark
Even after signing Reyes, #Marlins now plan to make aggressive push to sign Pujols, sources say.
The Yankees stand for something too, and we’ll find out what when they give someone the first-ever mid-season opt-out clause.
Marlins still have an offer out to Wilson, tweets Jon Paul Morosi of FOXSports.com.
What an off-season that would be for FLA
Bell
Reyes
Pujols
Wilson
Buerhlee
nick,
cal vs texas in san diego. should be a great game. 12/28
@OldHossRadbourn Old Hoss Radbourn
Nice to see J. Loria finally spend some of the money he received for murdering the Montreal Expos.
GreenBeret7 December 4th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
SI_JonHeyman Jon Heyman
no no-trade clause in reyes deal. marlins simply dont do no-trade clauses. good to see a team that stands for something.
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Really, you dumb ass? what do the Marlins stand for? Loria sold out one winning team already.
If the Yanks had spent that money this year on two players, would they have stood for anything…besides greedy?
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Spot on.
LGY December 4th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
@OldHossRadbourn Old Hoss Radbourn
Nice to see J. Loria finally spend some of the money he received for murdering the Montreal Expos.
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For years Loria and the Pirates hoarded luxury tax revenues for themselves, and now we supposed to think that they’re heroes because they finally spent some money on their teams. Say what you will about Steinbrenner, but he always put his money into putting the best possible team on the field. Yet, somehow Steinbrenner (and his son) is a bad guy, and these skinflints are good guys. Go figure.
Ghostwriter December 4th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
LGY December 4th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
@OldHossRadbourn Old Hoss Radbourn
Nice to see J. Loria finally spend some of the money he received for murdering the Montreal Expos.
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For years Loria and the Pirates hoarded luxury tax revenues for themselves, and now we supposed to think that they’re heroes because they finally spent some money on their teams. Say what you will about Steinbrenner, but he always put his money into putting the best possible team on the field. Yet, somehow Steinbrenner (and his son) is a bad guy, and these skinflints are good guys. Go figure.
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Aren’t their richer owners in baseball? The Steinbrenners just made a bigger investment than anyone else, and their investment has paid off. They spent a lot of money, but created a ton of value.
Mack Brown Revenge Bowl at the site of our great Texas Tech humiliation.
That 2005 Rose Bowl that we got screwed out of was a pretty great game, however.
Nick,
We look at the game differently in these here parts.
Most people probably look at the game differently than those in Berkeley… nonetheless, we are not fond of how Mack Brown dialed up his buddies and worked the system to job us out of the Rose Bowl (which would have been a worthy stage for Cal QB Aaron Rodgers), regardless of what happened weeks later.
Beating Texas at the Holiday Bowl would be a nice answer.
Look for the Mets home attendance to go way down. The fans loved Reyes and he was the only player they came to see, and the only exciting player on their team.
Beating Texas the last two years hasn’t been difficult. 12-12. Mack Brown is not too popular at the moment. It’s a good thing their kicker didn’t miss in the A & M game.
RMS says:
December 4, 2011 at 11:29 pm
Look for the Mets home attendance to go way down.
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Going out on the limb, aren’t we?
I mean, they only lost, what, $70 mil last year?
Their 2011 attendance was ironically very Marlins-like.
Texas has a chance to lost to the Baylor Bears and the Cal Bears in consecutive games. Maybe that would make good ol’ Mack even less popular.
Nick, resentments are harmful. Time to let that one go.:)
December 28 should be a good time to let it go.
I wasn’t alive in 1960, should I not want revenge against the Pirates?
LoMo is excited
@LoMoMarlins Logan Morrison
Jose! Jose, Jose, Jose!…
Anyone know if Reyes year 6 is guaranteed, or are there performance levels that must be reached in year 5 to guarantee a yr 6? If it was me, I woulda signed Aramis Ramirez to play 3B, and kept Hanley at SS. Then with the money saved, make a run at Buehrle. The game is still about pitching.
Yankees bidding position regarding Darvish improves with every dollar spent by other teams.
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(1) YANKEES
(2) BOSTON
(3) TEXAS
Just sign the Pachinko Kid! That is ALL that matters! /
The reason that the ‘Florida’ Marlins don’t do no-trade clauses is that every so often they do this spending binge thing. And then they trade off all their key/expensive players. Its a short term action, not sustainable by the mere fact that they have neither the demographics nor the advertising base to support a $100+ million payroll.
Marlins should go full circle and trade Ramirez back to boston.
http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=373
“The Mariners have sent a contingent of thirty plus to Dallas. Jack Zduriencik has stated his needs as being a bat, a starter, a left handed reliever and a back up shortstop. That is a lot to get done, needless to say.”
Just wondering…
is a “contingent of thirty plus” standard MO for most teams at the Winter Meetings?
Just wondering…
is a “contingent of thirty plus” standard MO for most teams at the Winter Meetings?
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Probably not standard procedure, but I imagine it takes a lot of cooks in the kitchen to mess up trading cliff lee.
If the Mets weren’t going to go the extra mile to sign Reyes then why on earth didn’t they trade him back in the summer for the biggest return they could possibly get.
This is pretty much the worst case scenario for them……you let him walk as a FA and get draft picks for your franchise player when you didn’t even compete last year.
The Mets are shaping up to finish last in that division for multiple years
SI_JonHeyman 4 Dec mets get only a third round pick plus a sandwich pick. (miami’s 2nd rounder went to SD for bell). timing is everything.
Epic fail by the Muts…..not because they didn’t sign him….but because they got nothing for him to leave essentially…..when you’re trying to rebuild that can’t happen….
blake,
The Mets should be able to get something pretty good for Wright, and maybe soon.
Tom,
Knowing them though they wont trade him…..they’ll hold on thinking that Wright will draw 1,000 more fans to the park
Robbie Cano — .trying to get Ortiz to sign with the Yanks … ( its not going to happen.. .but still pretty funny )
http://tracking.si.com/2011/12.....h-yankees/
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As a baseball fan, I would love to see him stay in Boston,” Damon said. “But being a part of it, I know there may be some opportunities and less drama elsewhere.”
Yankees’ second baseman Robinso Cano told the New York Daily News that it would be a good idea on Ortiz’s part to join him in New York.
“It would be a good idea, having another lefty on the team,” Cano said. “We all know he’s a great hitter. Last year, a lot of people were saying, ‘He’s done.’ He proved a lot of people wrong. I like people, when they’re down, they prove people wrong. He came back, did a great job.”
Ortiz, 36, finished 2011 with 29 home runs and 96 RBI, while hitting .309/.398/.544.
I have a friend who’s a die-hard Mets fan. He didn’t want to trade Reyes last season, and he doesn’t want to trade Wright.
I think they’ve just got to cash in all of their pieces for whatever they can get. The 2000s are over. The 10s will have to start real slow for them.
Kev and blake,
Who needs a good thirdbaseman?
Angels, tigers, braves,……heck tons of teams.
They should trade Wright….because they aren’t winning in the next two years…..but his salary, lack of years of control, and the fact that he’s just not been all that great the last couple of years may limit the return. Lots of teams need a 3B but he’s making 15.5 million next year…..and the club option for 13 is for 16 million ….so he’s not exactly cheap.
The Tigers or Angels would probably be the best matches I would guess.
Let the winter meetings begin!
Wright is 10th among MLB 3B’s with a 9.5 fWAR over the past three seasons. He’s lumped in with a crowd between 9 and 10 that includes the likes of Prado, C. Blake, and Headley. WAR isn’t everything, and he’s a better player than those . A .360 OBA over that period puts him 8th and in a group that includes M. Young and A Ramirez, which makes a little more sense. Still, he has not played at the elite level that Longoria, Zimmerman, and Rodriguez have played at. He hasn’t even played to the level of Beltre and Youkilis. Wonder about how valuable he actually is in trade.
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Good morning –
one thought, before to work –
Mets really messed this one up. They knew Reyes was a goner, and instead of trading him for ML capable players, they’ve now got those ever so valuable draft picks. What is it, about 5% of all picks ever see a ML roster. something like that? And with the Mets crackerjack scouting and player development system?
This may have already been posted; if so, my apologies:
The Swishers’ late honeymoon
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Dogface,
Yea…..I don’t know what Wrights actual value is either….and if the return would warrant actually trading him at this point. With them moving the fences in you might be better off seeing if he coukd have a good first half and then shop him at the deadline……sometimes teams needs are more obvious in July and they’ll pay a little extra for a guy that they think could put them over the top.
SI_JonHeyman Jon Heyman
#yankees want andruw jones back. Righthanded pop and cohesive force in clubhouse
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Heyman’s inside info must be deep. It takes a lot to get the scoop on anything Yankees.
I can’t see NYY doing anything until after Thursday’s Rule 5 draft. They on;y have one spot open on the 40 man roster.
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