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Derek Jeter’ homered in front of the home town crowd hitting one of baseball’s most hallowed milestones, a mark that has never been reached by any other New York Yankees’ great. Not Mantle ,not Marris, not Jolten Joe DiMaggio ,not even the Iron Horse Lou Gerhig ,or Babe Ruth could muster 3000 .Only Derek Jeter has entered this very exclusive 3000 hit club. Making today in one of the great moments of Yankee history.

Mets sell minority stake in team

The Mets have agreed to sell less than 49 percent of the team for $200 million to a Manhattan hedge-fund manager David Einhorn, who is president of Greenlight Capital Inc . Einhorn will buy the minority stake in the franchise pending approval from Major League Baseball.

Mets to sell 49% stake

In a very significant move the Mets team ownership has chosen a preferred bidder a group led by former commodities trader Ray Bartoszek and investor Anthony Lanza have been in advanced talks since last week on the proposed deal to sell up to a 49 percent stake in the down and out Mets for $200 million.

Yankees Fans give the Team the Bronx Cheer after data breach

A Yankees employee inadvertently e-mailed sensitive, private information of about 17,000 season-ticket holders to hundreds of people, the team admitted last night. The stunning Wiki Leaks style security screw-up of released the names, home addresses, fax numbers, e-mail accounts and exact seat location of the fans, had many fan signaling the Bronx cheer

Knicks championship drought now reaches 38 years

Their Knicks roller coaster season came to an end despite Amar’e Stoudemire electing to play and play hard, the Celtics supplied the brooms today and swept the over matched Knicks 101-89 at the Garden to close them out, 4-0.

Opening Day Yankees win 6-3

Curtis Granderson hobbled by an oblique strain put on a show against his former team to lead the Yankees to a 6-3 win in front of 48,226 chilled customers. Granderson produced a diving catch in the first, reached the second deck in right with a game-winning homer in the seventh off lefty Phil Coke, and made a running catch in the ninth.Granderson had suffered his injury in batting practice March 22 and was doubtful for the game today .

Forbes estimates Mets value drops 13 percent

In Forbes annual assessment of how much each baseball team is worth the value of the Mets took a huge hit dropping 13 percent over the past year the largest drop of any MLB franchise . The Mets facing a $1 billion lawsuit from the victims of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, and a heavy debt load dropped in value to $747 million, fifth overall among MLB clubs.

St. John’s ‘Red’ hot good luck charm

St. John’s is expected to head into the NCAA tourney this week with one of its strongest squads in recent memory but they also have a secret weaving their very own personal good-luck charm Mary Ann Jarou, the exotic beauty and wife of freshman coach Steve Lavin.

Mets received secret $20 million loan from MLB in November

Sources claims that Major League Baseball loaned the Mets more than $20 million in November to shore up the cash-strapped team finances. In a n official statement the Mets said ,”We did receive a loan from Major League Baseball in November” .The November loan from the MLB also indicates the team was experiencing a cash [...]

Former Yankee fears “wife swap” movie

Former Yankee Mike Kekich is looking to block Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s movie “The Trade,” based on the huge 1970′s wife swap scandal when he and fellow pitcher Fritz Peterson swapped wives.