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June 2009
- Yankee Stadium Too Small to Contain Long Balls
  
  AccuWeather.com | Jun 10, 09 9:57 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Home runs have been flying out of the new Yankee Stadium, and the weather isn't to blame, writes Tim Buckley of AccuWeather.com. The team says the new park has the same dimensions as the old digs, but the right field wall is actually up to 9 feet closer to home plate in some places, and 2 feet shorter. Buckley's study revealed that 20 of the park's 105 homers can be attributed to that shorter porch. More »
May 2009
- Suspended Manny Nears All-Star Spot
  
  New York | May 29, 09 1:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Despite his 50-game suspension for performance-enhancing drug use, Manny Ramirez is in the running for a spot in the All-Star game, currently just 30,000 votes shy of an outfield post, New York magazine reports. While the media’s upset about it, the Dodgers’ owner likes the idea, and a "Vote for Manny" blog aims to get him on the team. More »
- Yanks' $1.5B Park a Big Strikeout So Far
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 16, 09 10:12 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With its $1.5 billion price tag, you’d think the new Yankee Stadium would be pretty much perfect, right? But even the most loyal fans are griping as the “Taj Mahal” isn’t turning out to be everything it promised. From outrageous ticket prices to questionable outfield dimensions, the park is in danger of striking out, writes Darren Everson in the Wall Street Journal . More »
- Outraged Taxpayers Not Going Out to Ball Game
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 11, 09 9:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - New Yorkers would like to go out to the ball game, but the Wipons and Steinbrenners “have let their unfettered greed keep the fans at bay,” writes Allen Barra in the Wall Street Journal . Fans are outraged that their tax dollars have gone to fund stadiums they can’t afford to visit, with the cost for a family of four to take in a Yankee game jumping 49% this year, to $410, while the Arizona Diamondbacks, for instance, dropped 29%, to $114. More »
- A-Rod Homers on First Pitch Back in Majors
  
  Associated Press | May 8, 09 7:59 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - Alex Rodriguez walked to the plate, and a dozen fans behind the screen swung into action. Holding up giant, foam syringes, they started with the taunts. Rodriguez answered them, all right. Back in the big leagues, the Yankees star launched the first pitch he saw deep into the left-field seats for a three-run homer tonight. More »
- Ramirez Flunks Drug Test, Draws 50-Game Ban
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 7, 09 8:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Manny Ramirez has tested positive for a banned substance and will be suspended for 50 games beginning immediately, the Los Angeles Times reports. Reports have identified the substance as HCG, a drug commonly used to treat female infertility but also taken to raise testosterone levels at the end of steroid treatments. The substance is intended to boost sex drive and "is not a steroid and it is not human-growth hormone," a source told Yahoo Sports. The suspension runs through July 3 and will cost Ramirez nearly $8 million. More »
April 2009
- A-Rod Juiced in School, on Yankees: Book
  
  New York Daily News | Apr 30, 09 4:05 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An explosive new book probing deep into A-Rod's career suggests the slugger has failed to fully come clean about his steroid use, the New York Daily News reports. Rodriguez insists he only used steroids as a Texas Ranger, but the book quotes sources who believe he was juicing both as a high school player and after coming to New York. More »
- Yankees Slash Luxury Ticket Prices to Fill Empty Seats
  
  Associated Press | Apr 29, 09 3:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The New York Yankees are cutting top-end ticket prices up to 50% after the best seats in the team's new stadium proved too pricey even for big spenders, AP reports. The team hopes the reductions—on seats costing up to $2500 for front-row seats near home plate—will fill the empty seats that have been an embarrassment at home games. Hundreds of premium season spots have not been sold. More »
- $1.5B Yanks MLB's Most Valuable Team
  
  Forbes | Apr 23, 09 8:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The New York Yankees' $1.5 billion valuation lands them solidly in the top spot in the Forbes ranking of baseball's most valuable teams. The crosstown Mets came second, trailing by almost $600 million. The Yanks, however, were one of only two teams to lose money last season, dropping $3.7 million. The Detroit Tigers lost a whopping $26.3 million. More »
- Yanks Open Stadium, Then Get Clobbered
  
  New York Daily News | Apr 16, 09 8:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The New York Yankees pulled out all the stops in pregame ceremonies today to christen their new $1.5 billion stadium. Then they went and ruined things by playing baseball. The Indians routed the Yankees 10-2 after putting up nine runs in the 7th inning, the Daily News reports. "It's not how you want to start out a new stadium, but one game is not going to make the history of this Yankee Stadium or this year," said manager Joe Girardi. More »
- Booted for Unpatriotic Bathroom Trip, Yanks Fan Sues
  
  Gawker | Apr 16, 09 6:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A fan manhandled out of Yankee Stadium for trying to go to the restroom while God Bless America played is suing the NYPD, the Yankees, and the city, Gawker reports. Bradford Campeau-Laurion—whose suit is backed by the New York Civil Liberties Union—charges that two cops, believed to be off-duty and working security at the August 2008 game, stopped him in the aisle during the 7th-inning stretch and roughly chucked him out after he told them he needed to take a leak and didn't care about the song. More »
- Can Baseball Save America —Again?
  
  Vanity Fair | Apr 5, 09 5:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Players like Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth inspired America to endure the Great Depression, but with the season kicking off tonight, can overpaid and steroid-ridden players still mean something in hard times? Eric Spitznagel hits the spring training circuit for Vanity Fair to find out—and puts the question to feverish fans, blank-eyed players, and gob-spitting managers. "It inevitably comes back to just one thing," Spitznagel writes: "Daddy." More »
- Yankees' New Stadium Takes a Bow
  
  New York Post | Apr 2, 09 3:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Players and fans checked out the new Yankee Stadium for the first time today, and they liked what they saw. "Wow! I'm in love," one fan who said he opposed the new ballpark told the New York Post. "They did a fantastic job." The $1.5 billion facility officially opens tomorrow with an exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs. See a slideshow of the new park at left. More »
March 2009
- Spitzer Madam: I Supplied A-Rod With Hookers
  
  New York Daily News | Mar 22, 09 9:44 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Move over, Madonna. The former madam who helped keep disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer happy also supplied hookers to Yankees slugger and sometime Madonna boyfriend Alex Rodriguez, she tells the New York Daily News . She even dated A-Rod herself, and found him "hot as hell," says Kristin Davis. "Our paths have definitely crossed personally and professionally." More »
- Self-Kissing A-Rod: 'Surreal' Before the Fall
  
  Details | Mar 17, 09 4:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Jason Gay interviewed Alex Rodriguez just a day before his past dalliances with performance-enhancing drugs were uncovered, he writes in Details. A-Rod knew what was coming, but the star was more concerned that his favorite Madonna song not be published, for fear of it being played at away games. “Looking back, his preoccupation seems surreal,” Gay writes. The interview, by the way, is drawing more attention for its photos, which show A-Rod kissing his own image in a mirror. More »
- You're Not Hollywood, A-Rod; Just Be Human
  
  Fox Sports | Mar 9, 09 3:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Alex Rodriguez’s troubles have less to do with what he’s done than who he is, Michael Rosenberg writes for Fox Sports. “We all know he is desperate to be liked,” Rosenberg writes. “And yet, everything he does to be liked makes people hate him.” A-Rod’s indiscretions may soon seem negligible—“With every year, steroid use in the pre-testing era makes more sense,” Rosenberg writes—but his attitude is another story. More »
- A-Rod to Undergo Minor Hip Surgery
  
  New York Post | Mar 8, 09 12:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Faced with the choice between playing through pain and undergoing an invasive surgery, Alex Rodriguez chose Hidden Option C: an arthroscopic surgical procedure that will put off the major operation until after the baseball season. He'll still be out for 6-8 weeks, but the scandal-plagued slugger prefers that to the 4-month alternative, reports the New York Post. More »
- Posh New Stadiums Victims of Bad Timing
  
  Wall Street Journal | Mar 6, 09 9:59 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - When the Mets, the Yankees, and the Cowboys decided to build staggeringly expensive stadiums, they didn’t realize what kind of economy the arenas would open their doors to. The Wall Street Journal reports that the amenities-heavy fields, laden with luxury-boxes and steakhouses, are struggling to fill their swanky suites. "Build the most expensive stadium, charge high prices and have the worst economy. It's called lack of sleep," says the Yankees’ COO. More »
- A-Rod's Top Foot-in-Mouth Moments
  
  New York Daily News | Mar 5, 09 11:34 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - He has 553 career home runs, and almost as many embarrassing verbal blunders. The New York Daily News counts down its favorite Alex Rodriguez foot-in-mouth moments, Among them: “I knew we weren’t taking Tic-Tacs.” Other than that, A-Rod had no idea what he was injecting into his body. “I wish Jose Reyes was leading off on our team. That’s fun to watch.” Uh, not that I don’t like our current shortstop. I mean … More »
February 2009
- Over Boos, A-Rod Homers in Spring Opener
  
  Associated Press | Feb 25, 09 4:06 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Despite the cacophony of boos, cheers, and cat calls hurled his way, Alex Rodriguez hit a two-run home run today in his first spring-training game for the New York Yankees, the AP reports. The maligned third baseman played until the fifth inning at the Toronto Blue Jays’ ballpark—his first game since admitting he took performance-enhancing drugs. More »