Author Archives: Dan Hanzus
The Good (and Not So Good) from Spring Training
Spring training is mercifully reaching its conclusion. Maybe it's just me, but Yankees camp felt especially long this year. I'm guessing many of the veterans feel the same way. Except Nick Swisher, that dude loved spring training. Then again, Swish could find something to love about an asteroid crashing into Wisconsin. Swishalicious loves life. The team ...
Showalter goes after Jeter? That’s just Buck being Buck
In my years on this planet, I've concluded there's only thing I'm absolutely certain about, and I know it beyond a shadow of a doubt: When a person is described as someone who "will give you the shirt of his back," this always means said person is terrible. Example: "Tommy's got a really tough exterior, but ...
The ongoing quest to know ‘the real’ Derek Jeter
Every two years or so, a glossy men's magazine will profile Derek Jeter. Like death, taxes, and Adam Sandler comedies with melodramatic courtroom climaxes, it's inevitable. I surmise the goal of these features is get to know the real Derek Jeter, misguided as that notion may be. As anyone who's followed the shortstop's career ...
Yankees Fantasy Survival Guide, 2011 Edition
Is it really fantasy baseball season again? I'm still exhausted from last year, when the struggles of Mark Teixeira had me acting like the over-stressed black police captain in every 1980s buddy cop movie you ever saw, popping Tums by the handful and saying things like, "I'm getting too ollllld for this crap." But who am ...
A few helpful thoughts to guide you through spring training
I've found in my two-plus decades of baseball fandom that the key to spring training coverage is to arm yourself with a ruthless filter. The quicker you understand that 70 percent of news that comes out of camp is utter crap, the better off you'll be. This isn't meant to be a dig on the beat writers ...