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Every Year, It's the Same
Every year, it's the same. The Yankees make their transactions, and the season starts with great optimism, and then they get off to a poor start, and the fans panic. And then the players right the...
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Yankees Do Their Job, Take Game 1 In Houston
Despite the likelihood of both the Yankees and the Houston Astros starting their 4th starters in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, and each team has a big drop-off after their top 3, I...
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ALCS Drama Far From Over
Before Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, if you had told me that the Yankees would split the 1st 2 games in Houston, I would have gladly taken it.Well, they did. And yet, it seems very...
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October 15, 1969: A Lot Going On In New York
October 15, 1969, 50 years ago: A lot is going on in New York City. This includes Game 4 of the World Series at Shea Stadium.The starting pitchers are the New York Mets' Tom Seaver and the Baltimore...
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October 16, 1969: A Miracle Looks at 50
October 16, 1969, 50 years ago: Yes, the Miracle on 126th Street really happened. Was it actually a "miracle"? Not really: The Mets unquestionably outplayed the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series....
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How Long It's Been: A Washington Baseball Team Won a Pennant
Note: This is an update of a post I wrote on September 25, 2012, when the Nats clinched the National League Eastern Division title, the 1st postseason berth for a D.C.-based baseball team since...
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October 17, 1969: Wyoming's Black 14
October 17, 1969, 50 years ago: Lloyd Eaton, head football coach at the University of Wyoming, kicks 14 black players off the team, for their plan to wear black armbands during tomorrow's game against...
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Frauds?
I'm still going to do Trip Guides for the NHL teams in the newly-started 2019-20 season, because I'm a New Jersey Devils fan. But I won't do them for the NBA teams, because I've been an NBA free agent...
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The Gutless Wonders Are Back, At the Worst Possible Time
There was so much hope when the Yankees ended the 9th inning of Game 2 of the American League Championship Series having won Game 1 against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park, and then gotten past...
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Guts Found In Nick of Time
Last night was Game 5 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium II. It was win or go home for the Yankees against the Houston Astros. We needed the hitters to hit, and we needed...
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The Every Day and Every Night Massacre
October 20, 1973: The Sydney Opera House, Australia's most famous structure, opens. The Rolling Stones hit Number 1 on the U.S. singles charts with "Angie." The Six Million Dollar Man premieres on ABC,...
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Enraged
I am not broken-hearted over the way the Yankees season ended. I am enraged.The Yankees did win Game 5, and didn't let another team clinch on their own field.Honestly, if this wasn't going to be the...
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If "Seinfeld" covered the 2020 Election So Far
Kramer: Jerry, Bernie Sanders is leading a revolution! Ya gotta vote for him!Jerry: No way! He's old and stale! And creepy! And he's done nothing for 30 years! It would be like voting for Uncle...
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Yankees: Keep Or Dump?
God only knows what the Arsenal fans interested in "body language"would make of Chapman's reaction to the Altuve home run.It's time to do a "Keep Or Dump" for the 2019 New York Yankees.Keep, Easy...
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Winter Is Coming
Last night, the New York Red Bulls were up 3-2 away to the Philadelphia Union in the MLS Cup Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, about 3/4 of the way through the game. Then they allowed an equalizer....
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Top 10 Historical Events Where the Losers Wrote the History
"History is written by the victors." -- attributed to Winston Churchill. He may not have been the first to say it. Like Mark Twain, Albert Einstein and Mohands Gandhi, Churchill was one of those men to...
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Happy 70th Birthday, Arsène Wenger
Yesterday, Arsenal lost 1-0, away to newly-promoted Sheffield United. Mesut Özil was not permitted to make the trip up to Yorkshire, and Alexandre Lacazette was only brought on as a very late...
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What If the 1994 World Series Had Been Played?
October 22, 2019: The World Series gets underway tonight, at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. The Houston Astros, Champions of the American League, host the Washington Nationals, Champions of the...
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Always October, But Never the World Series
Welcome to Yankee Stadium. The World Seriesis underway, and it is empty. Again.Game 1 of the World Series was played last night. It was an exciting game, and the team that I wanted to win did so,...
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My All-Half-Century Team
October 24, 1999, 20 years ago: The Yankees beat the Braves, 7-2 at Turner Field, behind the pitching of David Cone and 3 hits from Bernie Williams, and take a 2 games to 0 lead in the World...
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