Writing the Pine

Grow a Pair and Grab Your Wang

I’m sorry Omar Minaya, but you’re willing to spend $66M on a 31 year old outfielder who plays sub-par defense in the black hole known as the Citi Field outfield but you’re seriously not interested my man Chien-Ming Wang?

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Bitter Mets Fans

Our Jason Bay e-mail thread from yesterday got a little testy when Dave (a Mets fan) brought up Joe Mauer going to the Yankees.  What happened?  Well we just find out that Met fans are just plain bitter.  See for yourselves (and as usual, there is some strong language). Dave: yes i think mauer is going [...]

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E-Mail Thread of the Day: Jason Bay to the Mets

We're all friends here at Writing the Pine. We e-mail each other constantly about everything whether it be about sports, work, going to Vegas, girls, whatever. There's always a thread going on. From time to time we'll post some of the threads because if we were as active on our blog as we were on our e-mail threads, then there wouldn't be days (weeks) that go by without a post. (Sorry, that'll be improved on in 2010. A WtP resolution if you will.) The big news of the day was Jason Bay signing with the New York Mets so here's an unedited reproduction of what was said on that...

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Section 203: Fist Pump Edition

If you’ve been hiding under a rock the past week you might have missed the premiere of MTV’s “Jersey Shore.“  The word “awesome” cannot fully comprehend, encompass, and describe the show.  It is simply amazing.  The last time I’ve seen this many self-proclaimed guidos and guidettes?  The Yankees Championship parade. That said, after staying up to [...]

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Empire State of Bitterness

The stage is set to crown a world champion of baseball.  Arguably the two teams who deserved to be there most are facing each other to earn the right to be immortalized in the history books.  After a grueling six month season, it’s all come down to a final few games.  Yes, the Philadelphia Phillies [...]

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VotD: Baseball Tonight Web Gems 7/8/09

Including the Web Gem of the Year so far by the Mets’ Daniel Murphy.

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Section 203 – A Yankees Blog – The Likes Edition

Sorry for being away the past two days.  Been swamped at the Office. (Speaking of which.  Saw Steve Carell and Tina Fey filming a movie recently.  Don’t know what it’s about, but Carell + Fey?  Put me in for $12.50 or whatever they charge for a movie ticket nowadays.) Was able to catch the Yankees game tonight [...]

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Section 203 – A Yankees Blog – 7/6/2009 Edition

Welcome to Section 203 – the new home of the Bleacher Creatures and my new Yankees Blog as well. Blue Jays v. Yankees – 7/5/2009 At first it looked like a bigger blowout than the typical haircut of the Bridge and Tunnel crowd in South Jersey in the summer.  Brett Cecil worked methodically to ensure his team [...]

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Asian Guy Power Rankings: 06/29/2009

Much has happened since the last edition of the Asian Guy Power Rankings – we witnessed the deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Blake Griffin’s career.  Mariano Rivera recorded his 500th career save.  However, it’s been a pathetically slow and uneventful two weeks for the AGPR.  Daisuke Matsuzaka was disqualified from the AGPR in [...]

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I Hate You Castillo, I Love You Aubrey Huff

Ever since Luis Castillo’s unforgivable error that resulted in two runs for the New York Yankees in the New York Mets‘ 9-8 loss in the Bronx, Francisco Rodriguez has not been the same.  Since that unfortunate event, which gave K-Rod his first blown save in 17 opportunities, the following events have transpired: 1) K-Rod got into [...]

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