175 Results for aaron boone

Sabathia giving Yankees whatever they need

Buster Olney

Margie Sabathia flew into New York the other day, and if she and her son held to family tradition late Friday night, they probably spent 15 or 20 minu...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 17, 2009

Instant replay must be expanded … immediately

Buster Olney

There were mistakes made by professionals this week. The gritty Ryan Raburn played a pop-fly single into a triple in the Metrodome. Chris Carpenter le...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 10, 2009

Red Sox have to watch Yankees celebrate

Pedro Gomez

...watching the Yankees celebrate at the expense of the Red Sox and that was the famous Aaron Boone extra-inning home run that ended Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. "We haven't lost...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 27, 2009

Sox, Yankees look to October

Peter Gammons

This series was circled back in January, when the idea of a Red Sox-Yankees series at Yankee Stadium on the second-to-last weekend of the season seeme...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 24, 2009

Why Cecil Cooper had to go

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...then finished the job this season with two incidents. Two veterans say that on the day Aaron Boone tearfully told his teammates he was to undergo heart surgery, Cooper used the moment to get...

Blog | September 22, 2009

Trevor Hoffman's tour of Memphis

Buster Olney

Milwaukee general manager Doug Melvin wrote in an e-mail posted here Monday that Trevor Hoffman is the Cal Ripken of pitchers, in the way that he prep...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2009

For a night, Penny is prime currency

Buster Olney

Mike Krukow, half of the Giants' broadcast team, said it best about Brad Penny in the seventh or eighth inning of the pitcher's debut with San Francis...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 03, 2009

Joe Torre's Straw man acquisition

Buster Olney

Joe Torre loved having Darryl Strawberry on his bench in the days when the two were manager and player with the New York Yankees. Strawberry didn't pl...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | September 01, 2009

Plaxico who? Giants WR Hixon off the charts

Matt Mosley, NFC East

...few years, you realize that training camp wonders come and go. In 2003, a receiver named Aaron Boone out of Kentucky thrilled Cowboys fans with acrobatic catches in San Antonio. But when the regular...

Blog | August 19, 2008

Swine flu should concern baseball

Buster Olney

Vicente Padilla has swine flu, and other Rangers may be diagnosed with the same illness -- but so far, none of the cases are thought to be serious. ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | July 25, 2009

Roddick's Wimbledon aftermath: What's the damage?

Abigail Lorge, TENNIS.com

...t undo the earlier suffering of the players and fans who had experienced the agony of Aaron Boone. Andy Roddick has no doubt suffered in the wake of his valiant but ultimately futile effort...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 22, 2009

DeRosa dealt; Piniella, Bradley reduced to tears

Mark DeRosa will never be a hitter who will force opposing pitchers to think about throwing strikes to Albert Pujols. But remember, there might be onl...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 28, 2009

Camp notes: Braun injury not a joke

AJ Mass, ESPN.com

No, it's not a cruel April Fool's Day joke. Ryan Braun really did get injured Tuesday night, but don't panic ... it doesn't appear to be incredibly se...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 01, 2009