In January 2017, the Yankees were doing the “Winter Warm-Up” series to introduce newer players to the fanbase through sandwich workshops, surprising ticketholders, going to museums, etc. At o...
http://riveraveblues.com/2019/04/a-thank-you-to-rab-where-it-all-started-for-me-188174/
I don’t remember exactly when I first discovered River Avenue Blues. I’m pretty sure it was during my junior year of college, either in fall 2007 or early 2008. And I’m pretty sure I came t...
http://riveraveblues.com/2019/04/what-rab-means-to-me-188056/
The Yankees are three games into their nine-game West Coast trip and there are only five more days to go in the RAB era, including today. Barring a surprise development (with the Yankees, not RAB...
http://riveraveblues.com/2019/04/thoughts-while-the-yankees-are-out-on-the-west-coast-187737/
Okay, this injury business has jumped the shark. Every team deals with injuries, so when the Yankees got hit in Spring Training, it was frustrating but also understood to be part of baseball. Now...
While both were inevitable, the impending closures of RAB and CC Sabathia’s career still seem hard to fathom. Both have been fixtures for Yankee fans for over a decade now and 2020 and beyond w...
http://riveraveblues.com/2019/04/feeling-young-again-the-transformation-of-cc-sabathia-187536/
Good series? Good series. The Yankees swept two games from the Red Sox this week — do the Red Sox look awful or what? geez — and will open a four-game series against the Royals tonight. Pleas...
http://riveraveblues.com/2019/04/thoughts-after-the-yankees-sweep-the-red-sox-187245/
The first road trip of the 2019 season is in the books and the Yankees are heading home for a nine-game homestand against the Royals and various shades of Sox. But first, the Yankees have an off-...
http://riveraveblues.com/2019/04/thoughts-following-the-first-road-trip-of-2019-186800/
You can be forgiven for not watching the middle innings of Rays-White Sox on Tuesday afternoon. I mean, it’s a Tuesday afternoon. Even if you’re an obsessed scoreboard watcher of AL East cont...
Two years ago, the Astros visited the Bronx for an exciting four-game, regular-season series which led to my guess that Yankees-Astros was the next great MLB rivalry (outside of Yankees-Red Sox, ...
http://riveraveblues.com/2019/04/yankees-astros-and-the-rivalry-that-186696/
It took six games for Troy Tulowitzki to wind up on the injured list. Banking on him to be the stopgap shortstop while Didi Gregorius recovers from Tommy John surgery was a high risk decision fro...
http://riveraveblues.com/2019/04/repeating-past-mistakes-has-come-back-to-haunt-the-yankees-186436/