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Yanks Barely Scrape By Blue Jays
I got my 2nd Moderna vaccine yesterday. Right now, I'm tired, I'm cranky, and my back hurts.In other words, the usual. That's not from the vaccine.In other medical news, the injury crisis is back at...
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Never, Ever Give the Game Back
Last night, the Yankees opened a 3-game weekend series with the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park. The Tigers are struggling: In the American League, only the Baltimore Orioles have a worse record. And...
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Yankees Again Gutless Wonders, Lose In Detroit
Yesterday, I wrote of the preceding night's game, "When an opponent is willing to give you the game, never, ever give it back. The problem was, the Yankees had already given the game back, and we just...
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Time to Turn It Around, Or Tell a Sad Tale
Just when you thought the Yankees would never hit and win again, they started hitting and winning like nobody's business. Just as quickly, just when you thought the hitting and winning would never...
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Lest We Forget
Memorial Day Weekend is over. May is over. And the Yankees...As a New York legend in another sport, Bill Parcells, would say, "You are what your record says you are."Jameson Taillon started this holday...
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Has Frazier Snapped the Yanks Out of It?
Cher turned 75 on May 20. She shared her exact date of birth with the late Yankee Legend Bobby Murcer. Both were born 2 days after another Yankee Legend, Reggie Jackson.Cher is famous for many things,...
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Yankees Beat Rays On MLB's 1st Annual Lou Gehrig Day
Major League Baseball has a 162-game season, and games are played nearly every day from early April to late September. The character of a team is defined in stretches like the one the New York Yankees...
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Mike Marshall, 1943-2021
The baseball establishment doesn't like guys who think differently. They'll put up with such guys if they can win because of it. But when the winning stops, goodbye.Mike Marshall thought differently....
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Umpires Beat Yankees for Rays, Here Come Red Sox
Today would have been my grandmother's birthday. She was from Queens, and a Brooklyn Dodger fan until they moved, and a Mets fan from their arrival until her death. She hated technology. Aside from...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 4, 1989, The Tiananmen Square Massacre
June 4, 1989: The government of the People's Republic of China (a.k.a. "Red China") sends troops armed with assault rifles, accompanied by tanks, who fire on demonstrators, most of them university...
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Rotten Answer for Yankees
Last night, coming off a series split with the Tampa Bay Rays that felt more like getting swept (and was a couple of key hits away from being just that), the Yankees began their 1st series of the year...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 6, 1944, D-Day
June 6, 1944: The Allies invade Nazi-held Normandy, on the French side of the English Channel. The liberation of Europe has begun.It was officially called "Operation Overlord" by the United States...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 6, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy Dies
June 6, 1968: Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York dies at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, about a full day after he was shot in the head following a speech where he claimed victory in the...
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Green Implodes, Yanks Lose to Sox Again
Maybe it's just because, this week, the Yankees were chasing the two teams that they're chasing for the lead in the American League Eastern Division. But it seems like every game they lose is more...
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Scores On This Historic Day: June 7, 1942: The Battle of Midway
The USS Enterprise, CV-6June 7, 1942: The U.S. Navy defeats the Imperial Japanese Navy in the battle of Midway, near Midway Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.The U.S. lost 307 people and the...
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Brian Cashman Is to Blame, Not the Umpires
It would be easy to blame home plate umpire Gabe Morales for last night's loss that completed a 3-game Yankee Stadium II sweep of the Yankees by the hated Boston Red Sox. It would also be easy to blame...
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Signifying Nothing
A portrait of Macbeth, King of Scotland, 1040-1057.If you only know him from Shakespeare's play,you might think he reigned only a few weeks.What a rotten week for the Yankees. Times like these, we are...
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How Old Are You Now? 2021 Music Edition
Somebody tweeted last night that both Brandy and Lola are now 75 years old.Specifically: The title character of The Looking Glass' 1972 Number 1 hit "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)," who, if the tweeter...
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Yanks' Series With Twins Hopeful But Unsatisfying
The Yankees played 3 games against the struggling Minnesota Twins at Target Field in Minneapolis. The series ended hopeful, but unsatisfying.It bean with Josh Donaldson flapping his gums. The...
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1981: A Summer Without Baseball
June 12, 1981, 40 years ago: The Major League Baseball Players Association goes on strike. They had done so before, in 1972, leading to the cancellation of, depending on the team, 6 to 9 games. This...
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