Yankees Clinch (... the AL East)!

Congratulations to the New York Yankees on clinching the AL East last week! We at YankeesButts couldn’t be happier! The above pic was snapped at the stadium as the celebration began, and while we can’t be certain exactly which Yankees Butt it is, to the trained eye, it appears that Nick Swisher is about to grab a bottle of bubbly and go to town on his teammates! Ahhhh, grown men in goggles, dousing each other in alcohol, surrounded by cameras. Is there anything more homo-erotic sexier? Smells like the Post-Season!

As much as we’d like to do a crazy-eyed drunken Irish Jig in response to the Red Sox’s late-season implosion, you gotta admit, this week has provided some intense, stressful, and incredibly entertaining baseball! And if Red Sox fans needed another reason to hate the Yanks, they got it, watching the B-Team blow a 7-0 lead and serve the Rays an extra-innings victory, courtesy of an Evan Longoria walk-off, line-drive, home run! Bucky Dent, Aaron Boone, & Scott Proctor?! A special YankeesButts thanks goes out to the Baltimore Orioles for keeping the curse alive by way of Robert Andino! Like good ol’ Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are!”

Tomorrow’s ALDS opener will deliver a pitching duel of epic proportions: SABATHIA vs. VERLANDER! Fingers crossed for Yankees Butts through the 4th week in October!

And They Just Stood There...

As if they knew a totally cute blogger was admiring their fine Yankees Outfielding Butts from the bleachers.

Yes, they're also assessing (ha?) the damage from the recent boxing match that destroyed the precious field, but more importantly, this spontaneous photo-op from the recent Phillies series has afforded us a chance to throw some love out to the 2010 Yankees OF.

#33, Swishaa's trimmed down in the off-season with great results, #11, Brett Gardner has become the productive pest that everyone had hoped for, and #14, Curtis Granderson made an immediate positive impact in the lineup. When healthy, he adds flow. The more I see him play, the more I dig his style. Grandy is the type of guy who knows where his library card is. I can say for certain, that it is in neither of his back pockets. I tell you whut.

Salute-Worthy: Nick Swisher

Thus far, we've only praised some farm-raised Yankees Butts. Today we're gonna stir things up a bit and check out some wild stock. A Yankees Butt so wild, it could not be tamed by Ozzie Guillen himself: #33, OF/1B/P Nick Swisher. SWISHAA*!!

Nick was a wonderful addition to the Yanks last year. His sometimes obnoxious ability to take walks at integral moments in the game would finally work to the Yankees advantage. When Xavier Nady went down with an elbow injury early in the season, Nick grabbed RF by the balls and helped drive the Yankees to their 27th championship.

This pic of Swisher's Yankees Butt, was taken during a BP in 8/2009. I'm not entirely sure what is going on here, but Nick seems to have lost something in his pants. I would make some crass (ha!) remark about helping him find whatever it is that he's missing, but here at yankeesbutts.blogspot.com, we don't engage in that sort of low-brow humor.


*This was shouted at me at when I wore my Swisher shirt to a Phish show at Great Woods, MASS last summer... And yes, I did it for that very reason.