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Yankees feel the pain in 11th-inning win

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Posted by CutiePatootie 3 months 10 days ago; via msn.foxsports.com/mlb/sto...

NEW YORK (AP) - Alex Rodriguez lost feeling in his left hand when he was hit by a pitch in the 11th inning. Jorge Posada was so banged up that he compared the game to a boxing match. Derek Jeter's bruised right foot felt so bad he actually acknowledged the injury.

This was one frightening victory for the New York Yankees.

Rodriguez and Jeter both had X-rays that were negative, and Posada's right hand was swollen after a particularly brutal foul ball in the eighth inning. A-Rod was already scheduled for a day off, but Jeter and Posada...

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W.O.W -- aka Whiner of the Week

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Posted by CutiePatootie 3 years 1 month ago

"Maybe God has said it is not time for me yet," said Alex Rodriguez of his playoff failures.

We don’t know who the first athlete was to blame his failures on the Creator of the universe. We do know that we’ve always viewed such behavior as lower than a snake’s belly in Death Valley.

It goes back to a question someone once asked of Knute Rockne, the legendary football coach of the Fighting Irish back in the Roaring Twenties. As representatives of a Catholic college, the Notre Dame players always said a prayer before heading out to...

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