Forgive me for a moment, for I am only just snapping out of a trance... I was staring at a freeze frame of the Nou Camp in Barcelona, completely empty, without any lines painted on the pitch, and it forced me to take pause. It was a completely blank canvas, hills rising from a valley for which the local team fought every other week...
He's back, in pinstripes that is. The trade sending Cubs outfielder Alfonso Soriano to the New York Yankees is complete. The only item that slowed the trade was waiting for Soriano to officially wave his no trade clause. Major League Baseball approved the deal Friday morning.
In return for Soriano the Yankees are sending Class A...
In his eighth game back after missing the first 38 games of the Major League Baseball season Curtis Granderson was hit by a pitch and fractured his pinkie in the fifth inning of tonight's game against the Rays. A return trip to the disabled list is all but assured for the Yankees outfielder.
At first glance it appears to be a...