Monthly Archives: September 2013

Joe Girardi’s Future Up in the Air

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Following a season of injuries and big stars departing one more might be leaving the ranks of the pinstripes for greener meadows. Reports from many media sources and Joe Girardi himself say that he is considering not returning to the Yankees as the team skipper.

Girardi managed the Bronx Bombers for 6 seasons and led them to the 2009 World Series championship. Speculations are that Girardi could go to the Cubs near his hometown to manage or even get back into broadcasting.

It is hard to believe that Joe would give up on the Yankees and not go out on top in the Big Apple, but with his children growing up and getting into sports more maybe a path back into the broadcast booth is even more appealing.

Time will tell what the former catcher will do. Either way a tough decision will be made and some feelings might get hurt.

Doug Day @YankeeBaller415

NASCAR Comes Down Hard on Michael Waltrip Racing

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A late race spin by Clint Bowyer from Saturday night’s race at Richmond, has become “the spin heard round the world.” For NASCAR it caused them to set a new precedent with the harshest ruling on an on track incident. For Michael Waltrip it cost him some money and respect. For Martin Truex Jr. it spelled the end of his run at a championship.

The spin coming with 7 laps to go, by Clint Bowyer, set up his teammate Martin Truex Jr. to clinch a spot in the Chase, eliminating pre-wreck leader Ryan Newman. Suspicion was raised that the accident may be intentional. Since a further investigation NASCAR has concluded that some tampering was done intentionally to change the outcome of the race.

This caused NASCAR to drop the hammer. Each driver for Michael Waltrip Racing was docked 50 points. The race team was fined $300,000, and the harshest move was that of ejecting Martin Truex Jr. from the Chase and reinstating Ryan Newman into the second Wild Card slot.

Never has a player been ejected from the Chase, but something had to be done when this fishy act went down on Saturday night.

Doug Day @YankeeBaller415    http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/9655907/nascar-replaces-martin-truex-jr-chase-ryan-newman