It is high, it is far, it is... caught!

   

 Seems to me that's a ridiculous home field advantage. The Rays turned a chaotic situation into an easy out.  Oh well... 

  JAZZ OR RICE?    Some say the year will end with Jazz, Some say Ben Rice. And if we're down to our last man, I have no faith in Ryan M...

 ...the first as tragedy, the second as farce." —Karl Marx Okay, okay, the first time—the Phenomenal Flop in the Fifth, in the 2024 Wor...

 1.  Most of us, on this blog, predicted that the Yankee ceiling in2026 would be to win the play-in round, and then bow out of the playoffs....

I mean it. Thank you!  To tell all of you the truth... I appreciate the way the Yankees are playing.They are doing us  a huge favor.  Two re...

I believe that we at IT IS HIGH celebrate Yankee wins more joyously than anywhere in the known Rizzutonic universe.  And when our heroes fai...

(PLEASE DO NOT BLOW THIS)

  As one man more, methinks, would share from me For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, throug...

Writers have always cherished the existential metaphors between baseball and life.  Nine players: Nine planets.  Three outs: morning, noon a...

  On August 4th, 1963, Mickey Mantle stepped up to the plate in the seventh inning of a game against the Baltimore Orioles, pinch-hitting fo...

Well, here we go again? Over the last 15 Octobers, we've watched it every year: pumpkin-spiced beer, political attack ads,   Indigenous ...

 

  "We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place And we'll not fail." Didn't see the game live, because the relati...

       

  Bobby Thomson's home run, "the shot heard 'round the world," wins the 1951 National League playoff for the New York Base...

Seriously. What else to say? Ten thoughts, all to be denied later... 1. Apparently, the Captain is out, the China Doll in. If so, I wish Boo...

Yes, it is Bucky Dent Day, kicking off Holy Month for our New York Yankees. (October 20th: Mickmas!) We have been binging on schadenfreude t...

The biggest issue the Yankees face in this next round is... the return of Judge. Not to be negative, but the team is poorly structured to th...

They've resurrected the Mookie trade. It's been six years. They're still foaming. And when they tire of denouncing Alex Verdugo ...

  The bleachers went crazy after Cody Bellinger's three-run homer! by u/CicadaOk8885 in NYYankees

 Some dates have opened up.

What a wondrous Wild Card series. Two big matchups. Two Yankee blowouts. So long, Sonny Gray. Keep slow-walking, Wilson Contreras. Enjoy you...

That Girardi was joining the fun and rooting for the Red Sox. In a more subtle way than the other guys (h/t Rizzo, who stayed out of it...ma...