ALEX RODRIGUEZ, JASON GIAMBI, ICHIRO & THE GREAT KATE UPTON

ALEX RODRIGUEZ: For anyone that thought that Alex Rodriguez was going to get traded to the Miami Marlins the day after the Yankees were swept in the ALCS, think again.  Look, to be honest with you, I have never written about this story until now.  Why? Because I think it’s crap and once again, there are “sources” involved and no one is verifying the story, they're just piling on, trying to put pressure on the New York Yankees to say something, anything so they can get a further nugget about it. The closest we were able to dig into was the story involving Hank Steinbrenner saying Alex is getting too much of the blame, HERE. The other was Alex saying he’s happy to be in pinstripes HERE.  Oh, and the great Jon Heyman who also uses “sources” to tell us that the Miami Marlins and Los Angeles Dodgers, are not interested in Alex and a Miami “source” also said it wasn’t happening.  Read the HERE. Look, if Alex gets traded, I am stating for the record that I’m NOT in favor of it, one of the few, but I’ll except it if it betters the Yankees.  Stay tuned…

ICHIRO SUZUKI: According to a Star Ledger piece by Jerff Bradley and Andy McCullough (HERE), Ichiro wants "to be wanted", but there was nothing further on his end. Look, if that means the Yankees or him going somewhere else, who knows. This is what Suzuki said: “I want to be that player that is needed and is wanted... That’s what I can tell you today.”  Look, the smartest move the Yankees made all season was signing Hiroki Kuroda and Ichiro Suzuki and I’ll believe that for a long, long time.  Ichiro did everything expected of him and I am a firm believer that the Yankees should sign Ichiro, a 10 time gold glover  to a 2 year deal to play right field for the Yankees next season.  As far as I’m concerned Nick Swisher is out of the Bronx.  It was a terrible way to go out, but he chose that route, not us.  And for all you that don’t know if Nick slammed “all” fans of just the bleacher creatures at Yankee Stadium, trust me, it was the bleacher creatures, which represents ALL New York Yankee fans! Sure, it may not be me, or you specifically, but he did it and I no longer want him manning right field in New York.  If you sign Ichiro to right field and you have him for $8 million cheaper than Nick Swisher per year, that's a good  thing. Plus, he won’t lose the ball in the lights, get me?

JASON GIAMBI: Before you get all crazy, Giambi is not coming back to the Yankees.  I just wanted to share this with you because we haven’t heard from him in a while.  It turns out Jason Giambi is being interviewed for the Colorado Rockies managerial job.  That comes from Troy Renck of the Denver Post, HERE.  I never pictured Giambi as a manager ever, but hey, maybe they see something that I don’t.  Good for Jason.  Hopefully he has a shot.

CC SABATHIA: This is a true team player right here.  I read Marc Carig of Newsday and he had a piece about CC Sabathia (HERE), and after all the woes with the Yankees hitting for the entire ALCS, CC Sabathia stepped forward and said this about his own performance in Game 4: “It’s embarrassing to come out and not give my team a chance to win…I pride myself in trying to give us a chance and I didn’t do that tonight.” Wow.  Look, CC Sabathia and the rest of the Yankees pitching was great all postseason and yeah, CC may have shit the bed in Game 4, but who cares, the rest of the offense never showed up. The blame can’t be on CC here and I just find him to be a real dynamic guy and I love that he’s in pinstripes.   Now, one note, the Yankees are concerned CC’s left elbow may have been giving him problems even though CC denies that.  Either way, they want to check it out.  Read HERE. If they find anyone, I’ll let you know here at BYB.

(In Photo: Kate Upton's first Vogue Shoot)

KATE UPTON:  OK, so anytime 1 supermodel sends out a Tweet about a second supermodel and says that they saw pictures of that model and she felt "all tingly"…well, I'm in...I'm curious.  

Chrissy Teigen sent this tweet above about Kate Upton and low and behold, she was right…about the pictures. So of course, for the eyes of BYB readers, we decided to show you 2 and here’s the link HERE. Enjoy.

If you haven’t realized that Kate Upton is an internet sensation yet… you do now.

God Bless America.

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THE BLEEDING YANKEE BLUE NEWSSTAND IX

REMEMBER WHITEY THE WAY HE WAS…AWESOME: The New York Times had a terrific piece about Whitey Ford on June 19^th, I wanted to include in the Newsstand this week.  Whitey Ford is iconic in Yankeeland and this piece, titled Two One-Hitters with a Twist of Relief by Richard Sandomir is really good.  The piece talks about how Whitey pitched 2 one hitters one week apart and RA Dickey is the most recent case of this happening. But it goes on to talk about his relief appearance in between those 2 one hitters, relieving Bob Turley in the 8^th inning. It spoke about how using starters as relief in the 50’s was not uncommon and then there’s a great quote from Marty Appel’s book Pinstripe Empire: “Casey stumbled on it with Allie Reynolds, who turned out to be equally effective in both roles at a time when there was still the common belief that there was something inferior about relief pitching...”

The full piece can be found by clicking on the title of the Times piece above.  I don’t know, I just thought it was pretty cool and something you really don’t this starters of doing these days unless they need to get in work before the playoffs… my how things have changed.

YANKEES PROMOTE, PICKUP & CUT A PITCHER:  The Yankees have claimed Danny Farquhar and then cut him and claimed Chris Schwinden who was claimed off waivers from the Cleveland Indians. He was sent to AAA. He was a former Met. Click his name to read his stats.  They also promoted David Phelps. Wow...that was fast. Read the Associated Press story HERE.  The Yanks had just claimed Farquhar a few days ago off waivers from the Oakland Athletics. Busy, busy, busy.

FUTURE YANKEE FANS FROM DOWN UNDER: This picture was taken and sent to me by my good friend Charles Moses of Austraila.  These are his grandchildren, all in Yankee gear and all future Yankee fans.  It just amazes me how widespread the love for the New York Yankees is.  Don’t forget, both Charles and his son Joey, came to the Big Apple a few months ago and I hand delivered their Bleedingyankeeblue.com shirts to them over a pint. Read BYB, AUSTRAILA & THE BIG APPLE if you want more to that story.  Thanks for sending it to in mate.

DROB IS A MAN, MAN: I like this nugget and respect David and Erin Robertson, so I thought you'd like to check it out. ESPN's Andrew Marchand has the story of DRob speaking out since his blown save 2 nights ago. Read HERE. In the nutshell he told ESPN NY quote: "My wife's got her own opinions... It is not like I tell her what to do. Her opinion is her opinion." Erin tweeted after the game that David should have started the 9th inning.  Hey, she has every right to root for her man.  I love that DRob came out to the media to address it. I dig it. Good for you David!

A TIP OF THE CAP: Yankees Fans Unite and Bronx Baseball Daily plug Bleeding Yankee Blue once in a while and I found 2 good posts on their sites that I suggest you check out.  YFU has this one titled Yankees Report Card: June and BBD has this one titled Phil Hughes throws 2 different curveballs. Both are worth a read.

KATE UPTON AGAIN: Leave it to Terry Richardson to come up with yet another Kate Upton video of her just dancing around in a bikini.  I’m not sure why these are so popular…sarcasm, but I tell you what, Terry Richardson was smart to latch onto Kate Upton, because he’s got to be enjoying the ride.  This one is of Kate Upton in a Baywatch type setting. It appears to be some type of video with Kate Upton doing what she does. Careful, some material may not be suitable for minors:
 
Note to Terry, get Chrissy Teigen in some of these, you don’t want to over expose poor Kate.

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