The Hardball Times has set up a memorial fund for John Brattain's family. He left behind a wife and two teenage daughters.
Four years ago, I found from personal experience how generous the online community can be to its own in their hour of need. I am now literally begging you to be even more generous than you were to me.
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Look what people have to say about Larry Mahnken's commentary!
"Larry, can you be any more of a Yankee apologist?.... Just look past your Yankee myopia and try some objectivity." - Bernal Diaz
"Mr. Mahnken is enlightened." - cordially, as always,
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"Wow, Larry. You've produced 25% of the comments on this thread and said nothing meaningful. That's impressive, even for you." - Anonymous
"After reading all your postings and daily weblog...I believe you have truly become the Phil Pepe of this generation. Now this is not necessarily a good thing." - Repoz
"you blog sucks, it reeds as it was written by the queer son of mike lupica and roids clemens. i could write a better column by letting a monkey fuk a typewriter. i dont need no 181 million dollar team to write a blog fukkk the spankeees" - yan
"i think his followers have a different sexual preference than most men" - bob
"Boring and predictable." - No Guru No Method
"Are you the biggest idiot ever?" - Randal
"I'm not qualified to write for online media, let alone mainstream media." - Larry Mahnken
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The Yankees’ GM said yesterday that he expects Jason Giambi to play his share of games at first base, allowing Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui to share time in left field and as the designated hitter.
“Is he the ideal first baseman? No. Can he play there seven days a week? We haven’t had him do that for a while,” Cashman said of Giambi. “He’s too good a player to do anything but play. He’s not a bat off the bench, I can promise you that.”
A bounceback by Giambi this year would help replace some of the offense lost at 3B. I wouldn’t bet on it, but stranger things have happened.
In other news, according to the Baltimore Sun the Yankees are reportedly interested in Miguel Tejada. Ostensibly Tejada would be brought in to play third base. The Yankees’ diabolical plan to ensure that Jeter gets remembered as the best SS of this era continues…