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Baseball Is More Popular Than Football
It's Opening Day. Sort of. Major League Baseball and ESPN are trying a "Community Shield" type of thing, where they have last season's World Series opponents start the season off.In this case, it's the...
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How to "Bring Baseball Back"
So if baseball, as I proved in my last post, is more popular than football, why do so many people say baseball is in trouble?Because these people are stupid. They prefer football, which appeals to the...
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Top 10 Best Days In Yankee History
Opening Day is always a good day, at least until the game begins. But what are the best days in Yankee history?I've done this before, and it doesn't really need an update. I just felt like doing it...
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New Lineup For Yesterday
My grandmother's favorite poet was Ogden Nash (1902-1971). He was known for quirky rhymes. In 1931, he wrote his most famous lines: "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." In 1968, addressing the rise...
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Basketball Hall-of-Famers By Team -- 2016 Edition
Congratulations to the newest members of the Basketball Hall of Fame: Shaquille O'Neal, Allen Iverson, Yao Ming, WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry...
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Hockey Hall-of-Famers By Team -- 2016 Edition
After doing this for basketball earlier, upon hearing of the new electees, I realized I've never done this for hockey.Players qualify for the team in question if they played for them for 4 years,...
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Girardi Ruins Opening Day
Eddie Sawyer was the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies when he led the team, nicknamed the Whiz Kids, to the 1950 National League Pennant.They didn't win another, he was fired after the 1950 season,...
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Yanks Bounce Back With 16-Run Onslaught
Nobody likes to lose on Opening Day. All the hope of "Everybody starts out 0-0," and "Everybody has a chance," drifts away when you're 0-1.And the 2nd game of the Yankees' season, also home to the...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Toronto -- 2016 Edition
For this coming Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the Yankees travel across the border to play away to the Toronto Blue Jays.A lot of people predicted that those pesky Blue Jays would make the Playoffs,...
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Living Hall-of-Famers by City, as of April 7, 2016
1. New York, 73: Baseball: Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson, Rich "Goose" Gossage, Dave Winfield, Rickey Henderson, Wade Boggs, Joe Torre, Tony Kubek, Tom Seaver, Mike Piazza, Tom Glavine, Pedro Martinez,...
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Yanks Take 2 of 1st 3 vs. Astros
When you start a season 0-1, it's not good. But, in the words of the immortal Casey Stengel, "The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of every three."Win 2 out of every 3 games, you'll...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In San Jose -- 2016 Edition
This coming Wednesday night, the New York Red Bulls will be in the San Francisco Bay Area, to play the San Jose Earthquakes. It will be Metro's 1st visit to the new Avaya Stadium, not having been...
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Yankee Bats: That's Cold, Man. That's Cold.
The Yankees started a 3-game series away to the Detroit Tigers yesterday. Here's what they got at bat:* A walk by Brett Gardner in the 1st inning -- erased by a double play.* A walk by Chase Headley in...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Colorado -- 2016 Edition
On Saturday night, April 16, the New York Red Bulls will visit the Denver area to play the Colorado Rapids.If there's anything left of them, that is. They looked hopeless in losing 2-0 at home to...
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Ed Snider, 1933-2016
I was working on my Trip Guide for the 2016 edition of "How to Be a Met Fan In Philadelphia," when a bigger Philadelphia story hit the wires.No, not the basketball team at Villanova University winning...
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Living Former Philadelphia Athletics & 1950 Phillies "Whiz Kids"
September 19, 1954: The Philadelphia Athletics play their last home game, at Connie Mack Stadium (formerly Shibe Park). They lost 4-2 to the Yankees. They close their season with 3 games in Boston and...
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Sabathia Rehabs Self, Yanks; Mets' Moment Over
Toward the end of last season, CC Sabathia left the Yankees, and checked him self into rehab for alcoholism. It didn't make a difference as far as the American League Wild Card game went: Masahiro...
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How to Be a Met Fan In Philadelphia -- 2016 Edition
The Mets are going to Philadelphia to play the Phillies next week, Monday through Wednesday. "The best team in New York" (ha ha) is going to have to do better against "the worst team in baseball" than...
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Yankees Make a Different Difference vs. Pesky Blue Jays
The Yankees opened a 3-game series away to those pesky Toronto Blue Jays last night, and if they'd played most of the games between them last season the way they played this one, it would have been the...
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Paul Carey, 1928-2016
When you think, "The Voice of the Detroit Tigers," the legendary Ernie Harwell comes to mind. But it was his partner who knew them better, because, unlike the Georgia gentleman Harwell, he was a fan of...
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