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AP: Billy Crystal to don Yankees pinstripes

Billy Crystal to don Yankees pinstripes
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Billy Crystal will get to "look mahvelous" in pinstripes. The actor will sign a one-day, minor league contract with the New York Yankees and play in Thursday's exhibition game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Crystal, an avid Yankees fan, will work out with the team on Wednesday and will wear uniform No. 60 for the game ? to be played one day before his 60th birthday. The Yankees said Monday they have the approval of baseball commissioner Bud Selig.

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Sorry, couldn't hold it in any longer.

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Nice ass.

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Breaking news: I still hate the Yankees.

That is all.

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Former Yankee Craig Nettles fighting prostate cancer.

FOX Sports on MSN - MLB - Nettles to undergo surgery for prostate cancer

One of my favorite Yankees growing up.

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Pettitte pushed back to third or fourth
Lefty sidelined with back spasms; Mussina to follow Wang
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Yankees have reshuffled their starting rotation to accommodate left-hander Andy Pettitte, who has been pushed back to the third or fourth game of the season because of back spasms. ...

The Official Site of Major League Baseball: News: Pettitte pushed back to third or fourth

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ESPN - A-Rod again offers 'no comment' on Canseco's steroid claims - MLB

Originally Posted by ESPN.com

A-Rod again offers 'no comment' on Canseco's steroid claims

Alex Rodriguez for the second straight day refused to address allegations leveled by Jose Canseco, who claims in his forthcoming book he introduced the three-time MVP to a steroids supplier.

"It's over as far as I'm concerned," Rodriguez said Wednesday after his New York Yankees lost 4-0 to the Philadelphia Phillies. "No further comment on the matter. I'm just excited to be playing baseball."

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ESPN - A-Rod again offers 'no comment' on Canseco's steroid claims - MLB

Originally Posted by ESPN.com

A-Rod again offers 'no comment' on Canseco's steroid claims

Alex Rodriguez for the second straight day refused to address allegations leveled by Jose Canseco, who claims in his forthcoming book he introduced the three-time MVP to a steroids supplier.

"It's over as far as I'm concerned," Rodriguez said Wednesday after his New York Yankees lost 4-0 to the Philadelphia Phillies. "No further comment on the matter. I'm just excited to be playing baseball."

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ESPN - Pettitte throws off mound, on target for regular season - MLB

Originally Posted by ESPN.com

Pettitte throws off mound, on target for regular season

TAMPA, Fla. -- Yankees left-hander Andy Pettitte threw 36 pitches during a 10-minute bullpen session Wednesday and remains on target to start the third or fourth game of the regular season.

Pettitte originally was to start New York's second game against Toronto on Tuesday but was pushed back due to back spasms.

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Yanks unearth Red Sox T-shirt, replace it with Kyle Farnsworth


Posted by Cameron Martin in The Clubhouse
April 13th, 2008


Paranoid that a wily Red Sox fan had managed to curse his team, New York Yankees? owner Hank Steinbrenner paid constructions workers to unearth a surreptitiously buried Red Sox T-shirt from beneath the visitors? dugout at the new Yankee Stadium and had it replaced with the body of Yankee reliever Kyle Farnsworth, who?s been dead to Yankee fans for several years.

Bugs & Cranks ? Yanks unearth Red Sox T-shirt, replace it with Kyle Farnsworth

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AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Constructions workers dug through the concrete at the new Yankee stadium to find a jersey of Boston's David Ortiz.


Crisis, and curse, averted.
It took about five hours, but the Red Sox jersey that was embedded in the concrete of the Yankees' new stadium to place a curse on the New York franchise has been unearthed with jackhammers.
Earlier this week, a construction worker who is a Boston fan working on the concrete crew at the $1.3 billion new Yankee Stadium buried a Red Sox shirt in with the concrete foundation, in the hopes of jinxing the New York Yankees' new home, the New York Post reported.
The newspaper reported Sunday that two workers approached a construction manager with what they thought was the location of the jersey. After digging a two-foot by three-foot hole, the jersey was found.
"They absolutely pinpointed that if it was in the ground, that's where it was," Yankees spokeswoman Alice McGillion told the newspaper.
Initially the Yankees denied the jersey was ever buried in the footings of the new stadium. But clearly the Yankees brass is happier now with the possibility of a curse gone.
"I hope his co-workers kick the [expletive] out of him," Yankees co-chairperson Hal Steinbrenner said.
The newspaper said the jersey felt like a filthy rag, but the word "Red" was clearly visible.
The Yankees plan to donate the jersey to charity, and may pursue a lawsuit against the construction worker.

Entire article: ESPN - Workers dig furiously to rid new Yanks stadium of Red Sox jersey - MLB

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Originally Posted by ScriptOhio

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Constructions workers dug through the concrete at the new Yankee stadium to find a jersey of Boston's David Ortiz.


Crisis, and curse, averted.
It took about five hours, but the Red Sox jersey that was embedded in the concrete of the Yankees' new stadium to place a curse on the New York franchise has been unearthed with jackhammers.
Earlier this week, a construction worker who is a Boston fan working on the concrete crew at the $1.3 billion new Yankee Stadium buried a Red Sox shirt in with the concrete foundation, in the hopes of jinxing the New York Yankees' new home, the New York Post reported.
The newspaper reported Sunday that two workers approached a construction manager with what they thought was the location of the jersey. After digging a two-foot by three-foot hole, the jersey was found.
"They absolutely pinpointed that if it was in the ground, that's where it was," Yankees spokeswoman Alice McGillion told the newspaper.
Initially the Yankees denied the jersey was ever buried in the footings of the new stadium. But clearly the Yankees brass is happier now with the possibility of a curse gone.
"I hope his co-workers kick the [expletive] out of him," Yankees co-chairperson Hal Steinbrenner said.
The newspaper said the jersey felt like a filthy rag, but the word "Red" was clearly visible.
The Yankees plan to donate the jersey to charity, and may pursue a lawsuit against the construction worker.

Entire article: ESPN - Workers dig furiously to rid new Yanks stadium of Red Sox jersey - MLB

Hal continuing that classy Steinbrenner name

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Yankees remove hexed Sox jersey

Posted: Monday April 14, 2008 05:35AM ET


Frank Gramarossa, AP

The Yankees officially reversed the jersey curse yesterday - extracting from the new stadium's concrete a David Ortiz shirt planted by a Red Sox-obsessed hardhat hoping to hex his team's arch rivals. Then they warned the traitorous construction worker, Gino Castignoli, to watch his back, saying criminal and civil charges could be on deck. Yankee President Randy Levine yesterday proudly held up the tattered shirt, which he said would be donated to Boston's Jimmy Fund for auction to raise money for cancer treatment and research.

Entire article: FanNation | Truth&Rumors | Yankees remove hexed Sox jersey

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ESPN - Joba heads home with father in critical condition, will miss at least three games - MLB

Originally Posted by ESPN.com

Joba heads home with father in critical condition, will miss at least three games

NEW YORK -- Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain has left the team after his father collapsed at his home in Lincoln, Neb.

Harlan Chamberlain was hospitalized Monday at St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln. Hospital spokeswoman Jo Miller said the family requested that no further information be released. He was in critical condition, according to a nursing supervisor.

The New York Daily News first reported the story Monday on its Web site.

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