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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In D.C. -- 2022 Edition
This coming Saturday night, the New York Red Bulls go down to Washington to play their arch-rivals, D.C. United.Before You Go. D.C. can get really hot in summer, and this will be late August, so heat...
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Yankees Win On Odd Old-Timers Day
Yesterday was Old-Timers Day at Yankee Stadium, and it was more notable for who wasn't there than for who was.Attendance was a near-sellout, 44,081. But, given a rebound in COVID, the Old-Timers Game...
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Bill Russell, 1934-2022
Bill Russell was not the greatest player in basketball history. He was the sport's greatest winner. Maybe any sport's greatest winner.William Felton Russell was born on February 12, 1934 in West...
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Yanks Follow Loss With Big Trade for Montas
Why is this man smiling? Because he's about to wear Pinstripes.When I found out that the finale of the yankees 4 game home series with the Kansas City Royals was going to be started by the...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Seattle -- 2022 Edition
This week the Yankees are playing the Seattle Mariners at home. Next Monday, they begin a series in Seattle, against the Mariners at T-Mobile Park.Yes, the city in that photo really is Seattle. Yes,...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Seattle -- 2022 Edition
The New York Red Bulls do not visit the Pacific Northwest to take on the Seattle Sounders this season. Nor do New York City FC. And, due to various reasons, including COVID, I haven't done a Trip Guide...
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Yankees Make Balls Go, Domingo A-Go-Go, and Goodbye Joey Gallo
The Seattle Mariners had been the best team in baseball over the last few weeks, and have always given the Yankees trouble since they entered the American League in 1977. And with Domingo Germán as...
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Vin Scully, 1927-2022
As far back as a 1974 book titled Wait 'Til Next Year, about New York City's 3 Major League Baseball teams of 1947 to 1957, author Christopher Jennison wrote, "The best broadcaster in the business...
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Another Disgraceful Loss That Can Be Blamed On Cashman
Last night, just after the trade deadline, 2 of Brian Cashman's newest Yankee acquisitions made their Pinstriped debuts. Neither did anything noteworthy. A 3rd came up small.But it was the signature...
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Cole's One Bad Inning Violates Two-Way Street
Yesterday afternoon's series finale with the Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium was billed as a "battle of aces" between the Yankees' Gerrit Cole and the Mariners' newly-acquired Luis Castillo.It...
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Yanks Again Betrayed by Bad Bullpen Management
Last night, the Yankees began a roadtrip, playing the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. It turned out to be yet another loss that can be pinned on Aaron Boone's following of Brian Cashman's stupid...
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Yankees Fall Victim to Monty-zuma's Revenge
Last night, the Yankees played the middle game of a 3-game series away to the St Louis Cardinals. It is important to note that the Cardinals are in 1st place in the National League Central Division, so...
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For Yankees, Concern Is Mounting
The Yankees waited until the finale of their road series with the St. Louis Cardinals to score some runs. This time, it was the pitching that failed.The newly-acquired Frankie Montas made his Yankee...
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Yankees Beat Mariners to Interrupt Slide
Since Brian Cashman became the unquestioned guiding force of the Yankees following the death of George Steinbrenner in 2010, opposing the Yankees has been based on 2 principles:1. Stop them from...
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Yankee Hitters Return Favor, Let Cole Down
Twice in the last week, the Yankees have had an alleged "battle of the aces" with the Seattle Mariners, between Gerrit Cole and Luis Castillo. The one in The Bronx was a bust, as Cole had nothing. This...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Atlanta -- 2022 Edition
This coming Wednesday night, August 17, the New York Red Bulls travel to the unofficial capital of the South, to play Atlanta United.Before You Go. Being well south of New York, Atlanta is usually...
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Will the real New York Yankees please stand up? Can they?
Since the Seattle Mariners came into Major League Baseball in 1977, they've had good teams and bad ones, but they always seem to give the Yankees trouble, especially in Seattle. Such was the case again...
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Yankees Blow It vs. Sox, Leave Their Fans Ticked Off
At the risk of sounding like Vic DiBitetto, the "Gotta get the bread and milk" comedian -- who is a Yankee Fan, and does live in Central Jersey, 3 towns away from me, although he's originally from...
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The IKF Game: Kiner-Falefa Leads Yanks Past Sox
One of the great things about baseball is that, when you lose to your arch-rivals, especially in the manner in which the Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox on Friday night, you usually have another...
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Yankees Just Didn't Hit at Fenway, Rays Up Next
Three tight games at Fenway Park. The Yankees could have lost them all. They could have won them all. In the end, they won only one, because, in the best hitter's park in the game -- yes, you idiot Met...
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