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Some Chin Music for Chase Utley?

Posted: Nov 4th 2009 9:10AM by Matt Snyder (author feed)
Filed under: Phillies, Yankees, AL East, NL East, World Series

Phillies second baseman Chase Utley is having quite the World Series. The perennial All-Star is hitting .333 with five home runs, eight RBI and a disgusting 1.651 OPS. Needless to say, he's as locked in as anyone in the series. Four of those round-trippers came in the two Phillies victories (two in each), which illustrates the point that it is paramount for the Yankees to stop him in order to win Game 6.

Doing so is easier said than done, but former Yankees pitcher and World Series Champion David Wells has an idea: a little old fashioned "chin music."

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David Wells Is Not a Fan of Philadelphia

Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:18PM by Tom Fornelli (author feed)
Filed under: Phillies, Yankees, MLB Media Watch, World Series

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What can't David Wells do?

The man has thrown a perfect game while hungover, is an analyst for TBS and now he's even a columnist for the New York Post. A columnist that is not shy about sharing his feelings about the fans of Philadelphia, particularly that they're "ruthless and rude."

With the World Series set to take place in the City of Brotherly Love for the next three games, Wells took his fingers to the keyboard to share his thoughts on Philadelphia for all to see. His words were not kind:

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The Dugout: The ALCS, Very Funny

Posted: Oct 17th 2009 10:00PM by B. Thompson Stroud (author feed)
Filed under: MLB Playoffs, The Dugout

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Here is a quick list of excuses to explain where The Dugout has been: our website is producing a code that angers Google and now nobody can look at or operate it properly, we got "busy with life stuff," popular video game or television show is addictive, we had softball practice, we realized baseball was boring and decided to change The Dugout into an endless blog about mixed martial arts, our favorite teams were all eliminated (in my case, "eliminated in April") and therefore we lost interest, our wives had babies, our grandmothers died, our pets reproduced via binary fission, and the most believable one, "we got distracted watching baseball."

Regardless of the excuse you believe, we're back, and tonight we play catchup by over-analyzing everything that has or could happen between now and the end of the season. Who's bullpen will be stronger? Will Guerrero bust out his wonky danger slide again? How many singles will Thome get in the 8th inning? All this and more in our intense playoff blog... thing, after the jump.

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Cal Ripken Believes A-Rod Will Have Solid Postseason This Time Around

Posted: Oct 6th 2009 5:00PM by Matt Snyder (author feed)
Filed under: MLB Media Watch, MLB Playoffs, FanHouse Exclusive

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Tuesday, FanHouse had the opportunity to discuss the MLB Playoffs with Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, who currently serves as a studio analyst for TBS. TBS will be broadcasting all four Division Series and also the NLCS again this season. Ernie Johnson is the studio host while Dennis Eckersley and David Wells join Ripken as studio analysts for these playoff games.

Of all the things Ripken discussed Tuesday, the most intriguing subject, not surprisingly, was one Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod is an oft-maligned regular season superstar, in that he's put up extremely gaudy regular season numbers throughout his career, yet has never played in a World Series and has pretty sub-par numbers in the playoffs overall -- especially of late.

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David Wells Says Jose Canseco Offered Him HGH in 2001

Posted: Jun 7th 2009 9:25PM by Pat Lackey (author feed)
Filed under: White Sox, MLB PEDs

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Here's a shocker: David Wells probably didn't take steroids during his 21-year playing career. Boomer told the New York Daily News on Sunday that while Jose Canseco offered him HGH in 2001, he declined performance enhancers both then and at other other available venues during his career. Jose Canseco offering David Wells' steroids sounds more like a bad SNL skit than something that actually happened in real life.

Maybe my favorite part of this story is the money quote that Wells, who was (if you don't recall for some reason) rather fond of food and beer during his playing days, gave to the Daily News when discussing Canseco's offer, "That stuff is not good for the game and it is not good for your body." Yep. David Wells was all about what's good for the body.

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Johnny Damon Is an A-Rod Supporter

Posted: Feb 4th 2009 4:10PM by Matt Snyder (author feed)
Filed under: Yankees, AL East

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Since Joe Torre's tell-all book, The Yankee Years, was leaked a bit early, we've seen tons of fallout. There have been back-and-forth arguments all over the blogging community about whether or not Torre was within his rights to do this, David Wells has taken Torre to task, while several other players and former players have attempted to avoid answering questions on the topic.

Alex Rodriguez Controversies

Former manager Joe Torre's new book, 'The Yankee Years', has only added to Alex Rodriguez's tumultuous stay with the Yankees. In the book, Torre claims A-Rod was known by teammates as "A-Fraud" and paints him as mentally fragile. Click through to relive other controversies during his time in New York.

Ezra Shaw, Getty Images

A change of heart by Alex Rodriguez, right, over which team to play for at the WBC has put him in the middle of another firestorm.

Kena Betancur, AP

The New York tabloids had a field day after the Yankees star was allegedly caught with a "mystery blonde" at the end of May last season.

New York Post

Many called this May 22 slide into the Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia to break up a double play dirty.

Nick Laham, Getty Images

Alex Rodriguez arrived in New York in 2004 after a trade with the Rangers and announced he was willing to play third as a symbolic olive branch to Derek Jeter, who he blasted in an interview.

Gregory Bull, AP

Rodriguez temporarily endeared himself to teammates and Yankee fans by slugging it out in 2004 with Jason Varitek of the hated Boston Red Sox.

Winslow Townson, AP

A-Rod's awkward slap that knocked the ball from Bronson Arroyo's glove in the 2004 ALCS enhanced his reputation as a player who folded in the clutch.

Amy Sancetta, AP

Things have been frosty for A-Rod and Jeter since Rodriguez dissed his buddy by saying Jeter was "never your concern" when facing the Yankees.

Tony Gutierrez, AP

Despite being named AL MVP (48 homers, 130 RBI) in 2005, Yankee fans called out A-Rod by saying many of his homers came in meaningless situations.

Morry Gash, AP

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Joe Torre's Story Deserves to Be Told

Posted: Feb 3rd 2009 11:15PM by Lisa Olson (author feed)
Filed under: MLB

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NEW YORK -- Joe Torre's name is on the book, but it's a fair estimate not even one-fourth of the words are actually his. He says he's read it six times, perusing line for line, scanning chapters for quotes or anecdotes that have caused so much fuss. It is clear the New York Yankees, Torre's former employer, aren't pleased with the book -- Torre's book -- and there is a decent chance their relationship is forever stained.

And yet, here is Torre, calmly navigating another hot-stove controversy the way he did for 12 always memorable, sometimes controversial seasons as manager of the Yankees. Taking refuge from a snowstorm building steam outside, Torre brushes a few icy flakes from his shoulder and tells me he "wouldn't change a thing."

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David Wells Goes After Joe Torre

Posted: Jan 30th 2009 10:55AM by Matt Snyder (author feed)
Filed under: Dodgers, Yankees, AL East, NL West

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First of all, I'd like to thank Tom Verducci and Joe Torre for providing us all with some baseball news in the week leading up to the Super Bowl. Normally, we'd have a quiet go of things here in MLB 'House, which is why we decided to run The Next Big Thing this week. Instead, we've got tons of juice -- and I'm not talking about Barry Bonds.

Anyway, add David Wells to the list of people who don't necessarily approve of some of the material in the book, though it seems he wasn't a fan of Torre in the first place.

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MRI Confirms Wang Will Miss 10-12 Weeks

Posted: Jun 16th 2008 5:33PM by Matt Watson (author feed)
Filed under: New York, Yankees, AL East, MLB Injuries

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The Yankees' worst fears were confirmed this afternoon following an MRI on Chien-Ming Wang's right foot. He's been diagnosed with a sprained Lisfranc tendon and a partially torn peroneal longus tendon and will be confined to a walking cast for the next six weeks.

Once the cast is removed, he'll still need at least another month throwing bullpen sessions and making minor league rehab stats to regain his conditioning, which means that the earliest he's expected to return is September. Not surprisingly, Wang's teammates aren't optimistic about being able to replace him. From George King III of the New York Post:

"Nothing against (Alex Rodriguez) and (Jorge) Posada but when you lose a front-line starter, that's a big deal," [Mike] Mussina said Sunday. "There are seven other guys in the lineup. When you lose your No. 1 starter, that's very hard. He is the ace."

How will the Yankees replace him? Apparently from within, if you believe Brian Cashman. From Peter Abraham of the LoHud Yankees blog:

"There is no trade market at the moment," he said. "I'm not optimistic that something can get done on that front. We have to try and plug this gap internally and that's not going to be easy."

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Third Time's a Charm? David Wells Eyes Return to the Bronx

Posted: May 9th 2008 9:20AM by Josh Alper (author feed)
Filed under: New York, Yankees, AL East, MLB Rumors

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Earlier this week, when the MLBPA made public a formal investigation about collusion toward Barry Bonds, they included a handful of other veteran free agents to the mix. It seemed like a surefire way to weaken their case. Outside of Kenny Lofton, who will be playing for someone come July, using guys like Jose Mesa, Sammy Sosa and David Wells only proved that major league teams had common sense not that they were colluding.

Or so I thought. Today's New York Post reports that Wells has been working out and feels he could help the Yankees survive the less-than-stellar work from Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy. Wells did not pitch well for the Padres or Dodgers last summer and, at 45, doesn't really fit into the idea of building young players to lead you to the next taste of championship glory.

Perhaps we shouldn't write it off, though, since Hank Steinbrenner seems to have inherited his father's patience.

"What sticks out in my mind, that team in the late '90s, the starting pitching. You had [David] Cone, El Duque [Orlando Hernandez], Wells . . . they were all big-game pitchers. They all came from elsewhere - not in the system.

Everybody talks about the great players from the farm system that we had in the '90s, but it was the starting rotation. That was a huge part of the success. Huge."

They don't come any huger than Wells, so this signing could actually happen.

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