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    • August 3, 2009

    Pain in the Neck

    Burke Badenhop hits the disabled list with a bad trapezius muscle. He’s a rare breed, a two-inning relief pitcher. At 1.96 IP per start, Badenhop makes the longest average relief appearances in the majors (minimum 20 relief appearances). Brian Bass is close at 1.92, but then it falls off to R.A. Dickey at 1.80.

    Posted by David Pinto at 10:32 am | Injuries, Pitchers | Permalink | 2 Comments

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    1. Ed
      August 3rd, 2009 @ 12:27 pm

      There has been alot of expense and effort made recently to turn an old rail line on the west side of Manhattan into a park.

      So why not the same creativity with Yankee Stadium? Couldn’t the structure be converted to recreational use? Put a museum in one locker room and turn the other into a restaurant or nightclub. Put shops in the concourses. Possibly convert part of it to a hotel. Use the field as, well, a ballfield.

      The new Yankee stadium destroyed an existing park, which shouldn’t have happened, and the community should get a new park. But what you are seeing is a bureaucratic mindset where a park has to have three athletic fields or whatever. Wouldn’t the community benefit more from a place that people from outside the Bronx what to come and visit, but where families in the neighborhood could still spend an afternoon?

      I never understood why there was such a desire to tear down old stadiums. The structures have a number of other potential uses than baseball.

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    2. Ed
      August 3rd, 2009 @ 12:44 pm

      Sorry, I intended to put the comment in the Yankee Stadium entry. I don’t know how it ended up here.

      I’ll copy and repost in the appropriate place, and maybe these two comments can be deleted.

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