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How to Be a Giants Fan In Dallas -- 2015 Edition
“I’m in hell!” – Morgan Freeman“Worse: You’re in Texas!” – Chris Rock-- Nurse BettyThis Sunday night, the New York Giants football team opens its 91st season of National Football League play, traveling...
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D-Day In The Bronx, Yankees No Longer Look Ready, Girardi Doesn't Know What...
After winning the opener of their home series against the Baltimore Orioles, the Yankees dropped the next 2, by going back to the kind of weak hitting we saw in the regular season in 2008, 2013 and...
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Ranking the Yankees' Rivalries
How does the Yankees' rivalry with those pesky Blue Jays, resuming tonight at The Stadium, compare to the others?I used a not-exactly-scientific way of measuring the Yankees' relationships with the...
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Yanks Spit the Bit Before Today's Recovery
The Yankees went into this weekend 4-game series with those pesky Toronto Blue Jays knowing it was the most important series of the season -- at least, until the last remaining series in Toronto...
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September 13, 1990: Let's Play Two In Chicago
September 13, 1990, 25 years ago today: For the last time, games were played at Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park in Chicago on the same day.I was there. At both of them. I followed the advice of Cubs...
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Moses Malone, 1955-2015
Moses Malone was a big man. Big in physical size. Big in physical presence. Big in importance in basketball history.Remember the fuss made 3 months ago, when the Golden State Warriors won their 1st NBA...
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Gene Elston, 1922-2015
Sometimes, the man who makes a team a cultural icon is a player. Sometimes, a manager or head coach. Sometimes -- and this usually is not a good thing -- it's the owner.For many teams, it is the lead...
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Yanks Blowing Big Chances
As you may have noticed, I don't like the Tampa Bay Rays. And I certainly don't like losing to them.On Monday night, the Yankees began a series against them. CC Sabathia pitched his best game in ages,...
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How to Be a New York Football Fan In Indianapolis -- 2015 Edition
This Monday night, the New York Jets will play an exhibition game, away to the Indianapolis Colts. The Jets played the Colts, formerly of Baltimore, both home and away as AFC Eastern Division opponents...
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Joaquín Andújar, 1952-2015
"You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: Youneverknow."Those were the grammatically-incorrect, but very wise, words of former major league pitcher Joaquín Andújar -- who, it's worth pointing...
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Barney Schultz, 1926-2015
Some athletes are remembered for a long and distinguished career. Some are remembered for a few big moments, good and otherwise.Barney Schultz is remembered for one pitch. And that's...
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Bird, Severino Salvage Tampa Bay Finale
The Yankees needed to get out of Tampa Bay with a win over the Rays last night. The first sign was a good one: Jacoby Ellsbury broke out of an 0-for-25 slump by singling to left to lead off the game....
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Milo Hamilton, 1927-2015
In spite of their successful season, September has been a difficult month for Houston Astros fans. First Gene Elston, then Joaquin Andujar, now Milo Hamilton.But in spite of his many years behind the...
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Yankees Disgraceful vs. Mets, Girardi Costs Us Another One
Last night's opener of the Subway Derby against the Mets at Cit Field was disgraceful. Disgraceful because we lost to The Other Team. Disgraceful because we didn't hit. Disgraceful because Joe Girardi...
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Met Fans Won't Shut Up, But Their Team Gets Shut Out
Met fans, invisible for years, have come out of the closet. They're everywhere now, with their little blue & orange caps perched on their little empty heads, their little blue & orange T-shirts...
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Games Joe Girardi's Pitching Mismanagement Has Cost the 2015 Yankees
Last night, I saw someone defend Joe Girardi on Twitter, telling me he'd done a great job, and should be named American League Manager of the Year.As soon as the EMTs found the pieces of my exploded...
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Yankees Take Season Series With Mutts, Bring On Those Pesky Blue Jays!
Met fans, in their endless stupidity, were confident last night. After all, one of their "superheroes" was on the mound: Matt Harvey, whom they've christened with the nickname "The Dark Knight," one of...
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Did Girardi Throw Away the AL East by Starting Warren?
Nathan Eovaldi was injured and unavailable last night. CC Sabathia had pitched the day before. Michael Pineda, the day before that. Masahiro Tanaka, the day before that, and was injured anyway.So here...
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Yogi Berra, 1925-2015
As the man himself might have said, if he'd considered it, "I can't die, I'm havin' too much fun to live."Yogi Berra, the only man to be a veteran of both the D-Day invasion and Major League Baseball,...
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Bird the Word Again, Yanks Need to Win It For Yogi
Within the sad reality of the loss of the irreplaceable Yogi Berra, there was a game last night as he drew his last breaths, and it left many of us, metaphorically, breathless.Luis Severino started...
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