Hideki Matsui

It took a while for Rob Thomson to get home to Tampa to begin the shortest off-season he's had in 20 years in the New York Yankees' organization. If only every holiday were this brief. The onetime Stratford Hiller has gone from signaling for fastballs, curves and pitchouts behind the dish at National Stadium to keeping the Pinstripers circling the wagons in the Bronx, all the way home to their first World Series title in a decade.

It was exhilarating, gratifying, just about any great emotion you can think of   -Rob Thomson

 

To celebrate the winning of New York Yankees in the 27th World Series Championship, BAPE will be releasing a special t-shirt design. Limited sales only in New York and online store in US is permitted and of course with limited numbers being produced making this another exclusive. The design is very straight forward with the BAPE ape logo taking inspiration from Statue of Liberty with A Bathing Ape around it.  

The Yankees have dropped Shelley Duncan from the 40-man roster, again, and it appears Duncan's Yankee career is over . Personally, I wish Duncan well. He can be a productive big-league hitter if he can find a team willing to give him 300-400 at-bats.  

I always assumed that the Yankees would be involved in the Jason bay and Matt Holliday discussions, if for no other reason than to jack up the price on the Red Sox and Angels. But Sean McAdam says he doesn't expect the Yankees to bid on Bay or Holliday . Instead, he thinks they will look to retain Johnny Damon at a much cheaper price and cut payroll as much as possible: If there's one thing the Red Sox have going for them, in fact, it's the absence of the Yankees in the bidding for Bay.  

Mayor Bloomberg and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter today settled a first-of-its kind bet on the World Series by helping paint a Bronx junior high school. Bloomberg and Nutter were on hand at JHS 131 to settle the bet and encourage more people to give back to their communities. The terms of the bet dictated the losing mayor would travel to the winning city to join the winning mayor in a volunteer service project, while wearing the winning team's jersey.

The Phillies were a tough team, but I knew Mayor Nutter was going to end up looking great in pinstripes   -Bloomberg

 

Celebrating the New York Yankees 27th Major League Baseball Championship, A Bathing Ape applaud the efforts of countryman and World Series MVP Hideki Matsui (DH for the Yankees) with a special t-shirt donning his number 55 on the backside along a crowned Bape logo on the front. The "Go Go" tee, meaning 55 in Japanese, goes on sale this Sunday, November 22nd exclusively through A Bathing Ape NYC. A US webstore launch is expected for Monday, November 23rd, 2009.  

The Yankees' latest feat has already been deemed Hall of Fame-worthy. Artifacts from baseball's most memorable moments from this past postseason -- one that saw the Yankees notch their 27th World Series championship -- have been put on display at the Autumn Glory exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. Following New York's Game 6 Fall Classic win over the Phillies on Nov. 4, the museum acquired nearly a dozen artifacts from the Yankees and Phillies to put in the e  

If Brian Cashman thinks he's got his hands full figuring out what to do with free-agent fan favorites Johnny Damon , Hideki Matsui and Andy Pettitte , imagine what he'll face next year when Derek Jeter 's contract expires. The Yankees have had a long-standing practice of not negotiating extensions with players until their current deals expire, and after holding firm to that two years ago with Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada , it's hard to imagine that they would alter their approach with Jeter. "There's

There's no reason to believe that would be different, but I haven't talked to ownership and no one has knocked on our door about it   -Brian Cashman

 

It took a World Series title, but Yankee fans are finally warming up to Alex Rodriguez . Yet, there are still doubters out there. Of the close to 500,0000 votes cast in the Daily News' Keep 'Em or Dump 'Em online poll, 93% said the Bomber third baseman should stick around.