Yanks Go Yard » justin thomas http://yanksgoyard.com A New York Yankees Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Interview with Yankees’ reliever Justin Thomas http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/09/08/interview-with-yankees-reliever-justin-thomas/ http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/09/08/interview-with-yankees-reliever-justin-thomas/#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:00:15 +0000 Benjamin Orr http://yanksgoyard.com/?p=8257 For my News Reporting class at Youngstown State University, we had an assignment in which we had to do a short writing. One of the topics we could choose to write about was “famous YSU alumni” which I took the liberty of doing. Now a lot of people associate YSU with actor Ed O’Neill and former football player Ron Jaworski, which is fine since they are both alumni, but what a lot of people don’t realize is that the New York Yankees have one of their own, lefty reliever Justin Thomas. Thomas was among the September call-ups from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Part of this assignment was to interview said person, so I did via telephone. Talking to Justin was awesome and gave me more insight into how aside from being major league stars, guys like him are just everyday people like you and me. Here’s how my interview with Justin went:

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]]> http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/09/08/interview-with-yankees-reliever-justin-thomas/feed/ 0 A few players that could impress the Yankees in September http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/08/19/a-few-players-that-could-impress-the-yankees-in-september/ http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/08/19/a-few-players-that-could-impress-the-yankees-in-september/#comments Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:00:44 +0000 Benjamin Orr http://yanksgoyard.com/?p=7782 With September being two weeks away, the rosters for every team expand from 25 players to 40. With those extra 15 players, there may be a few that could make a case to be on the team next year instead of being in the minors. The New York Yankees have a few interesting players, especially in areas where they are hurting. The starting pitching outside of Hiroki Kuroda has been extremely sluggish, the bullpen could always use some padding and offensively, some of these guys who are playing now may not be there next year. A few players the Yankees may want to keep an eye on are Adam Warren, Brandon Laird, Justin Thomas, and David Adams as they are all on the 40-man roster.  (more…)

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