Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports writes an interesting piece about performance enhancing drugs, and the start-of-the-art treatment that Alex Rodriguez underwent in Germany recently to help aid his arthritic knee.  In the piece, he asks what is the difference between this “treatment” and taking a steroid, which also has healing properties.
He asked Gary Wadler of [...]

Congratulations to Andy Pettitte, as he calls it a career… I am sure there are many Yankee fans who will cherish their memories of you.

In other Yankee news, Jim Leyritz has been hired as a coach for the Newark Bears, here is the story from Marc Carig.

Andy Pettitte has a ton of options available, even though he is limiting himself to only pitching for the Yankees.  It seems Pettitte won’t begin the season when everyone else does, but that doesn’t mean he won’t pitch in 2011- at least not yet.  Here is a piece from the New York Daily News team [...]

Bob Klapisch writes an interesting piece about the Andy Pettitte decision, and how it might be tied to Roger Clemens.  I can see why not knowing what Clemens is about to say would be a concern, and I can see why trying to pitch through it would be horrible.  Perhaps Pettitte is hoping to work [...]

Loved the cheers that Torii Hunter got, hated the boos the rest of the AL squad got.  I mean, aren’t they there to cheer on the AL Team?  The contrast between Hunter though and Alex Rodriguez was marked, but Ridriguez seemed to take it all in stride. The crowd responded though when Vlad Guerrero was [...]