Allow Myself to Introduce........Myself?

Yes, that was an Austin Powers reference.

Hello readers, my name is Trevor.  I'm 27 & I'm from New Jersey. I'd be lying if I said I was a fan of Jersey.  I do live in a nice neighborhood but there's just nothing to do & believe it or not, I am not a huge fan of going into the City.  I'm more of a landscape kind of guy as opposed to busy streets and really tall buildings. I am a huge New York Yankees fan though, ironic, huh?  I just grew up one as I'm sure most of us did.  It's not easy to just choose a team to like at random & have that passion towards them.  You got to grow up in the environment to really appreciate it & that is something that I was fortunate to experience.

My earliest Yankee memory that I remember clearly was Jim Abbott's No-Hitter.  I remember exactly where I was sitting as a little kid and all the trivial aspects that others probably have no interest in reading about.

I'm a huge prospect junkie. I can't get enough information on Yankees prospects whether they are on the cusp of helping out or are just starting out in the Dominican Summer League.  I plan on offering my two cents on prospects up and down the system as well as the obvious issues that need to be addressed on the big league level.

I have appeared on the LoHud Blog as a "Pinch Hitter" for Chad Jennings.  That was a pretty fun experience & with that, it made me reach out to try & find other writing opportunities.  I love to write.  I love to create.  I love to entertain.  You all may agree or disagree with my opinions on various matters but I don't plan on sugar coating anything.  I plan to express my opinion to show the level of joy or resentment on topics, whether they are popular or not.  I watch a lot of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations & I learned to just say what's on your mind.  That guy has a job I'd do (almost) anything for.

Well, that's all for now, I suppose.  I'm not a fan of talking about myself, I'll let other people do that for me.  Here's to another successful New York Yankees season!

-Trev

Happy New Year!

Hey everybody, I hope you all had a fun (and safe) New Years Eve. To all the readers out there, thanks for another great year at SIH. The blog is useless without you guys.

So, besides World Series #28, what are you all hoping for in 2011?

Merry Christmas Yankees Fans!

From all of us here at Sliding Into Home, we'd like to wish you and your families a very happy and healthy Christmas. And to those of you that aren't celebrating Christmas today, Happy Holidays.

Oh yea... and Go Yankees!

Happy Thanksgiving!

On this Thanksgiving Day, let's be thankful for our families, our good fortune and the greatest sports team ever. Let us be hopeful that the Yankees will stop airing the Captain's negotiations in public and will, instead, quickly sit down in a room with him and work it out. He is worth more to the Yankees than any other team and the Yankees are worth more to him than any other team. Casey Close was right, the negotiations are "baffling" - that they are being played out in public is what's baffling. The offer is not insulting and no one said it was. Shut up, sit down and get it done! Let's also get Mo's done before he gets antsy. Having Jete & Mo locked up will go a long way to convincing Pettitte that the Core 4 deserve one more Championship run in 2011. Finally, let's be thankful that Cliff Lee won't turn down a boatload of $$ to be a Yankee but please don't make that contract longer than 4-5 years - we don't want another Kevin Brown for the last 2 years of the contract.

From everyone here at Sliding Into Home, we wish
you all a very happy and healthy Thanksgiving!

Live Game 3 Chat Reminder

There will be another live game chat on the blog tonight for game 3. It will begin at 8:00 pm and run through the end of the game. I will not be attending the chat because I will be in the right field bleachers.

Enjoy the game and the chat.

Game 2 Live Chat Starts @ 4PM

The chat will be at the bottom of the game thread. I hope to see you there.

Live Game Chat For Game 1 Tonight

There will be a live chat tonight in the game thread. It will start at 8 PM and run through the end of the game. Hope to see you there.

Live Chat Reminder

There will be a live game chat tonight on the blog starting at 8:15 PM. Once again the Cover It Live chat room will be located in the game thread and will run through the end of tonight's game 3.

Live Game Chat Reminder

Just wanted to remind you guys that there will be a live game chat for tonight's ALDS opener starting at 8:00 PM in the game thread. See you there.

Live Chats Returning For The Postseason

Like last year, we will be running live chats on the blog during all (or most) postseason games. The chat room for tomorrow's division series opener will open at 8:00 pm, and like last year can be found in the game thread.

Guess Who's Back...

It's me! YB, or Yankeeboy 98. No, I did not die, and no, I did not leave the blog. But I was pretty darn invisible during the majority of the season.

The reason for that was I started a YouTube channel last winter, and it really grew this summer, so I had been focusing on that rather than blogging on Sliding Into Home. I have 146 subscribers, and while that's not a lot, for me its pretty great. My username is YankeesRunThisTown, and yes, I am advertising.

Anyway, I already told Greg I'm gonna try to post 2 times a week maybe, and in the playoffs make some previews and opinions like I did last year.

So, I'm looking forward to talking baseball with you guys again.

See ya soon,

YB

I'm taking most of the day off

Hey folks... Today will mostly be a day off for me regarding the blog. Not only do I have a ton of work to do, but it's also my birthday. So as soon as I get this work over with I'm going out and celebrating. I'm sure some of the other writers will take over.

Hopefully CC picks up his 20th. That wouldn't be a bad gift.

Blog Stuff: Internet Problems

Sorry for the lack of game summary last night, but around 2 AM my internet went down and didn't come back up until an hour ago.

What I will quickly say about last night's 11-4 win over the Indians is that Dustin Moseley pitched great and deserves to stay in the rotation, A-Rod is still producing without hitting 600, and Chan Ho Park shouldn't be on this team.

... Oh, and Marcus Thames played third and infielder Andy Marte pitched for Cleveland. So yea, it was another laugher for the Yanks.

Sorry For The Delay

I had some problems with my internet this morning and was unable to post for a while. That's why there was no game thread this morning. Sorry about that, but now everything is back to normal.

New York Yankees All Time Tournament Coming Soon!

Starting next week (or maybe sooner, if all the database files get compiled correctly), we will be running a fantasy tournament of epic proportions!

This tourney will pit every team from the history of the New York Yankees, from their days as the Highlanders in 1903, all the way to the world championship of 2009!

We will be ranking all the teams in order to diversify the pool correctly, and all stat modifiers will be set to normalize everything. All rounds of this tournament will be 7 game series, and played in neutral parks in order to even out everything as well.

This simulation will be run with Out Of The Park Baseball 11.

Keep an eye out here for further details!

SIH Social Networking

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And don't forget, if you have a few minutes please come by and sign up for the SIH Forum.

Chat Cancelled

With today being Mother's Day, and based on some of the emails I've received, tonight isn't looking like a good night for a chat. I'm not going to be able to be around much anyway. So I'll push it back to sometime later this week. Most likely one of the Tigers games.

Live Sunday Night Baseball Game Chat

I just wanted to let you guys know that there will be a live game chat on the blog for Sunday night's Yankees-Red Sox game. It will be a Cover It Live chat and will be posted at the bottom of that night's game thread. Start time for the chat is 7:45 p.m. and will run through the end of the game. Hope to see you there.

Now The TYU Folks Don't Think I Should Be Blogging .... LOL

As you all know, I've received a great deal of attention for referring to Javier Vazquez as a 'gutless bitch' over the past several days, and I felt the need to clear some things up. First, I did not do this for attention - while an increase in traffic would be nice, this was not why I wrote that or write anything for that matter. Second, while some may not have thought it was the right way to call out Vazquez, I do stand by the notion that he isn't suited to pitch in New York. I've believed that since July of 2004, and I haven't seen any reason to change my mind. And finally, this bickering has become childish. 'Gutless bitch' may've been a bold way of expressing my feelings, maybe too bold, but I'm sure every fan has thought something derogatory about a player before - I merely wrote it down. Harping on one particular point made by an otherwise objective blog is ridiculous.

But check out the latest:

First, Moshe Mandel posted this on Twitter two days ago:

If you cant refrain from calling a player a "gutless bitch" in a recap, you probably shouldnt be blogging.

Yes, you got that right, a blogger is telling another blogger whether they can blog or not. Funny stuff, huh?

Am I the only one that thinks suggestions like this are petty and reek of undeserved arrogance?

Well, sorry Moshe, but I'm not going anywhere. You guys run a great blog, no need to waste time trying to bash me.

The fact that other bloggers are making such a big deal of this and wasting their own blog space is sad and shows that some are taking themselves a little too seriously.

My main objective here isn't to sound professional, because I'm not a professional nor would I ever claim to be. I'm doing this for fun because I like to talk about the Yankees with other fans, in my way, not the way the blogger police see fit.

Today, Larry Koestler at Yankeeist have wrote a "Zen Blogging" post based on some of the arguments started based on my comment. He mentions my blog as well as the TYU post and tweet that followed. The article was fair, much more fair than Mandel's comments via Twitter, although he does claim I was doing it for attention, which as I mentioned above was not the case. Also, Ross from New Stadium Insiders made a comment in response to the Zen post that I wanted to share:

Around a year ago, I'd be completely on the side of Moshe and Larry. Now, I've realized that too many bloggers are trying to take the passion and fun out of being a fan.

I think he hits the nail on the head here, more so in regards to Mandel. Bloggers have begun to forget why they do this in the first place; to talk about the team they love as a fan.

Babe Ruth Wins SIH's Yankees Legend Madness

Not very surprising, but Babe Ruth has won the first annual Yankees Legend Madness tournament. He received 74% of the vote to beat out Derek Jeter in the finals.

In the third place matchup, Lou Gehrig defeated Mickey Mantle with 67% of the vote.

Thank you all for voting and we'll be back next year with a different version of the tournament. Any suggestions?