Posted in Baseball, billy crystal on Mar 26th, 2008
I discovered this while perusing the Yanks’ latest roster moves.
3/24/08 Reassigned RHP Scott Strickland to Minor League camp.
3/14/08 Reassigned RHP Scott Strickland to Major League camp; Released INF Billy Crystal.
3/12/08 Added LHP Billy Traber to the 40-man roster; transferred RHP Andrew Brackman to the 60-day disabled list.
Signed IF Billy Crystal to a […]
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Posted in Baseball, billy crystal, yankees on Mar 15th, 2008
Well, so much for that.
J-Bla and I were talking about this and I was genuinely in favor of keeping him around to rattle pitchers. If he can go to a full count and go down swinging after fouling one off, he can obviously still get the bat around enough to stand up to MLB pitching, […]
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Holy shit billy crystal is batting right now.
“[Pitcher Paul Maholm] is probably more afraid of him than Jeter because he knows what to expect with Jeter.” Thanks, Paul O’Neill.
0-0: Outside
1-0: fouled off!
1-1: Inside
2-1: Outside
3-1: Big cut on a 3-1 cutter. Who throws a cutter to your grandpa?
3-2: Goes down swinging on the cutter. Seriously, you […]
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Making the rounds this evening is news that Billy Crystal, director of the vastly underrated 61* and lifetime Yankee fan (despite the troubling presence of a Mets cap in the City Slickers movies), has signed a one-day minor league deal with the Yankees to play in a spring training game. Ostensibly, this means he’ll retire […]
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