http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:35:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Baseball’s annual end-of-the-season awards are being unveiled beginning on Monday. Here are the dates of each announcement, beginning with Rookie of the Year in each league. Monday, November 14 American League and National League Rookie of the Year Tuesday, November 15 American League Cy Young Wednesday, November 16 American League and National League Manager of [...]]]> http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info/3565/dates-to-remember-awards-season/ You know the younger Yankees are starting to make a name for themselves when they’re doing random charity appearances like this one. Here’s the press release.  On November 15, 2011, New York Yankee Brett Gardner will join the Advil Congestion Relief Project at PS 130 Elementary School in the South Bronx to unveil a newly [...]]]> http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info/3564/gardner-visiting-new-york-elementary-school/ Last week was not the week that Jorge Posada officially ended his career with the Yankees, but it was certainly the week that he admitted it’s over. “I knew that was my last game after that playoff,” he said at Thursday’s night’s charity event for Joe Torre’s foundation. “That’s why I was so emotional. That’s [...]]]> http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info/3563/the-week-posada-acknowledged-the-inevitable/ The March of Dimes has chosen Mark Teixeira and the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team as its Sportsman and Sportswomen of the Year. Abby Wambach and Hope Solo will accept on behalf of the soccer team at the March of Dimes New York Division’s 28th Annual Sports Luncheon on Wednesday, November 30 at the Waldorf-Astoria in [...]]]> http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info/3562/teixeira-chosen-as-march-of-dimes-sportsman-of-the-year/ Yesterday morning — before he began filling care packages and before he began an official interview session with the media — Joe Girardi was just a guy talking about football. He was telling a story about his son, Dante, throwing a touchdown pass, and he was trying to decide if he’d have time to get [...]]]> http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info/3561/are-you-ready-for-some-football/ Don’t look at me, I didn’t come up with the name of these awards, I’m just blogging about them. MLB.com calls its annual end-of-the-season honors the GIBBY Awards — Greatness In BaseBall Yearly — and the Yankees are nominated 17 times. Click here to vote online. You can vote up to 25 times in each category, [...]]]> http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info/3560/yankees-nominated-for-gibby-awards/ I believe it was Erik Boland who pointed it out this morning, and it’s perfectly true: Joe Girardi always seems especially excited for any sort of pregame ceremony honoring the military. Watch the dugout one night when the Yankees have some sort of military ceremony, Girardi’s always front and center. “I think, for me, it [...]]]> http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info/3559/a-few-notes-and-links-on-this-veterans-day/ First Nick Swisher had a baseball field named after him. Now it’s Derek Jeter’s turn. The field at Kalamazoo Central High School will be renamed after the Yankees captain following a unanimous vote by the board of education on Thursday night. According to the Kalamazoo Gazette, the board “praised Jeter’s accomplishments on the field and [...]]]> http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info/3558/unanimous-decision-kalamazoo-central-re-names-its-baseball-field/ Got to Yankee Stadium much earlier than I would have liked this morning, but it’s for a good cause. The Great Hall is full of volunteers, including David Cone and Joe Girardi, who are putting together care packages for military men and women overseas. It’s an impressive scene with a massive pile of boxes in [...]]]> http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info/3557/yankee-stadium-preparing-care-packages/ Joe Torre’s Safe at Home Foundation had it’s annual gala tonight at Chelsea Piers. The guest of honor was Paul O’Neill, but the topic of discussion was Jorge Posada. When Torre stopped to answer a few questions, every single one was about his former catcher. Here’s Torre… On how hard it would be for Posada [...]]]> http://nyyankeesfanclub.optimum100-wheyprotein.info/3556/torre-on-posada-%e2%80%9cthe-heart-was-the-most-important-thing%e2%80%9d/