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Good news for people who like their Yankees blogs served extra rare (of course, I refer to both the content's figurative juiciness and the blog's relative uniqueness). Two meanings...rare...it's a homonym. Forget it. What I'm trying to say is that the offices of River & Sunset are back in business after a month-long hiatus. We apologize for our absence. We would've loved to provide wall-to-wall coverage of Mike Dunn's winter ball ...

The last Yankee ticker-tape parade I went to was in 1996. I was 16 years old and cannot recall a single thing about that day. Not a moment. I have clearer memories of stuff that happened when I was five than what occurred on that afternoon in October. Go figure. Instead of braving the elements for an event I'd ultimately forget about, I opted to watch this year's parade telecast on NY1. I only ...

So many times this decade, the Yankees seemed to have a championship screenplay written only to go off-script at the exact wrong time. There was Rivera's stunning failure in 2001, Josh Beckett's coming out party in 2003, the Series That Shall Not Be Named in 2004, the fishy resurgence of Kenny Rogers in 2006, and Joba & The Midges in 2007. In each of those years, the promise of a 27th championship ...

The great thing about the postseason, and the World Series in particular, is that redemption is always just around the corner. Alex Rodriguez knows all about that. He entered last month as a playoff pariahùhis October failures as big a part of his identity as his three MVP awards. It took just 14 games (and 18 RBI) to change all that. Playoff baseball is convenient like that: It's a one-stop shop for ...

The pitchforks and burning torches are out for Joe Girardi today; this in the wake of A.J. Burnett's epic failure in Philadelphia. They're saying that Girardi's decision to use Burnett on short rest has set in motion a chain of events that will now bury the Yankees. This is all about as predictable as the failure of a Michael Strahan buddy sitcom. In a perfect world, Chien-Ming Wang was on the mound ...

The Yankees are just one win from their first World Series title since 2000. This calls for a live blog, no? 7:37 p.m. Coming to you live from the Brooklyn headquarters of River & Sunset , we begin our blog just in time for a Derek Jeter fluff piece on FOX. No word if Tim McCarver tried to destroy the master tapes prior to the telecast. 7:40 p.m. The ...

Every Yankees championship season in recent memory has had a signature moment that defined that particular postseason run. Let's take a look back, shall we? 1996: The One With Jim Leyritz (World Series, Game Four) The Yanks were down two-games-to-one against the defending world champion Braves and trailing by three runs in the eighth when Leyritz stepped into the box with two on against closer Mark Wohlers. That's when Wohlers made the Wohlers-like error ...

In the minutes preceding the Yankees' miraculous, positively 2001-esque, one-run rally in the ninth inning last night against the Phillies, my friends and I attempted to glean any positive developments from a disheartening evening. The conversation went something like this: Dan: Um, CC battled through without his best stuff. Howie: Yeah, definitely.á (Awkward silence) Howie: Marte did his job. Dan: Oh yeah. (Extended pause of sorrow) Dan: That Jeter can still hit. (One beat) Bob: Handsome, too. (Half a beat) Dan, Howie, ...

Put on your old Donnie Baseball jersey, pour a cold beer, and get out your Tim McCarver voodoo doll...it's time for the World Series! River & Sunset has 11 reasons why the American League champion Yankees will topple the National League champion Phillies in the annual Fall Classic. á 11. Home-field advantage The Yankees went 57-24 at Yankee Stadium during the regular season and are undefeated in five home games during the playoffs. The ...

The New York Yankees are back in the World Series for the first time in six years. For those not familiar with the American League champions, River & Sunset has provided a brief rundown of each player. á á á á Aceves, Alfredo:áEarned "Seventh-Inning Guy" designation over the course of excellent regular season in which he went 10-1. Was unceremoniously dumped from team's plans in postseason based solely on the idea that Joba Chamberlain used ...