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I'm Not Wild About the Wild Card -- Yanks Better Be
Last night, at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, the Yankees played the most important game of the regular season thus far. Never mind winning it for Yogi Berra, in whose memory they are now wearing the...
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What's Worth Celebrating In New York Baseball, What's Not
Tonight, I will have a post detailing the Yankees' now-concluded 4-game home series with the Chicago White Sox. This needs to be said first.According to Greg Prince, author of the book Faith and Fear...
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Yanks 3 of 4 vs. ChiSox Are Too Little, Too Late
The Yankees began a 4-game home series against the Chicago White Sox on Thursday night, with the American League Eastern Division title essentially lost to those pesky Toronto Blue Jays, but with a...
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M*A*S*H Should Be Rebooted
This has very little to do with sports, although there will be a couple of references.The TV show M*A*S*H should be rebooted. The original show was one of the best ever, but there were a lot of things...
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September 28, 1955: Jackie Steals Home... Or DOES He?
September 28, 1955, 60 years ago today: Game 1 of the World Series, at the original Yankee Stadium. Yes, a World Series game was played on a September 28. This was also the 1st World Series game...
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Are Yanks Ready for October? Meltdown vs. Sox Suggests Not
In the year 2000, the Yankees lost 13 of their last 15 games of the regular season, including their last 7 straight. They made it 8 straight and 14 out of 16 by losing Game 1 of the American League...
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October 1, 1975: The Thrilla In Manila
October 1, 1975, 40 years ago today: Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali fights former Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier for the 3rd time, at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, the capital of the...
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Yanks Finally Beat Sox, Finally Clinch Postseason Berth
It's about freakin' time. Last night, for the 52nd time in their remarkable 115-season history -- slightly under a rate of every other season -- the Yankees clinched a berth in Major League Baseball's...
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October 2 is not a good day in Boston Red Sox history. Especially where the New York Yankees are concerned.But it's a good day in Yankee history. Especially when they play the Red Sox.October 2, 1949:...
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How to Go to a New Jersey Devils Game -- 2015-16 Edition
Baseball season is still going in the New York Tri-State Area. Football season is well underway. And now, hockey season is coming upon us.And my beloved, if frequently irritating, New Jersey Devils,...
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October 3, 1915: The Last Game of New Jersey's Home Baseball Team
Ordinarily, I would begin an October 3 post by saying, "Happy Thomson-Winfield Day!" But this is a milestone anniversary, and, for those of us who live in New Jersey, it's a very important one.October...
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October 4, 1955: This IS Next Year!
October 4, 1955, 60 years ago today: For the 1st time, the Brooklyn Dodgers win a World Series. They had been 0-7 in the competition, 0-5 of that against the Yankees.This time, Dem Bums dooed it, and...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Washington -- 2015-16 Edition
This Saturday night, the New Jersey Devils visit the Washington Capitals. Once again, it'll be that classic matchup of the Caps' Alexander Ovechkin vs. the Devils' Martin Bro--Oh, that's right...Before...
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Deserve's Got Everything to Do With It -- 2015 MLB Edition
"I don't deserve this!" -- Gene Hackman"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it!" -- Clint Eastwood-- UnforgivenWhen I put my Yankee bias aside and make suggestions as to who's worthy of winning the World...
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October 5, 1965: A Pair of Hockey All-Timers
October 5, 1965, 50 years ago: This was a great day in the history of hockey, although we wouldn’t know it for over 20 years, when 2 legends born on this day, both in Quebec, began to make their mark...
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Yanks Crawl Into Wild Card Game, Without Sabathia
CC Sabathia has checked himself into alcohol rehab. It has been speculated that, with his injuries of the past 3 seasons, he has been "self-medicating."The Yankee organization is standing behind his...
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October 6, 1845: Happy Birthday, Baseball!
The Knickerbocker club at a reunion, 1862,17 years after they "invented baseball."October 6, 1845: The 1st recorded baseball game using Alexander Cartwright's rules, the basis for the game we have...
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Yankees Don't Show Up For Postseason. Unacceptable.
"Showing up is 80 percent of life." -- Woody Allen, New York nativeBefore the season, I was one of the few people to predict that the Yankees would make the Playoffs. I thought they would win the...
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Games Joe Girardi's Pitching Mismanagement Has Cost the 2015 Yankees -- Very...
Two weeks ago, 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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October 7 Baseball Anniversaries
October 7, 1849: Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore, of an illness that has never been definitively identified. It's been suggested that it was rabies, from an animal bite. It probably wasn't a drug...
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