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The Play's the Thing: Yanks Score 6 Runs, Win
Due to a dispute between the Gregorian calendar, to which most of Europe had already switched, and the Julian calendar, still used by England, April 23, 1616, 400 years ago today, is commemorated as...
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How Long It's Been: A Yankee Stole Home Plate
Last night, in the Yankees' 6-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays, Jacoby Ellsbury took a big risk: Trailing 3-2, and with 2 outs and 2 strikes, he attempted to steal home plate.The risk paid off: He...
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Gardner Gives Yanks 1st Walkoff Win of 2016
First walkoff win of the season for the Yankees. Ranger Scum eliminated from Playoffs. Arsenal disgusted me. Shut up, Meat Loaf: I wanted three out of three.It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in New...
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How Long It's Been: The Rangers Won the Stanley Cup
(Oh yes they do, oh yes they do.)The New York Rangers were defeated by the Pittsburgh Penguins yesterday, 6-3, and ending their run in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.I realize that my New Jersey Devils...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Norm Green for Moving the Minnesota North Stars...
The Dallas Stars have advanced to the NHL Western Conference Semifinals, defeating the Minnesota Wild.This has not gone over well in Minnesota, and not just because they don't like to lose there. Nor...
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Yanks Drop Finale vs. Rays, Head for Texas
It's a good thing baseball series aren't awarded on aggregate, like some soccer ties are. Otherwise, we'd have lost 13-10.Michael Pineda started the home series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays, and...
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How Long It's Been: The Islanders Won a Playoff Series
Last night, the New York Islanders beat the Florida Panthers, 2-1 at the Barcalys Center in Brooklyn, on an overtime goal by their Captain, John Tavares, and won their NHL Eastern Conference...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Baltimore -- 2016 Edition
On Tuesday, May 3, the Yankees begin a series away to the Baltimore Orioles.I started my "How to Be a Yankee Fan In... " series with the Orioles, because they are actually the Yankees' closest...
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Nate Is Nasty -- And So Are Castle's Showrunners
I became a fan of ABC's TV show Castle in its 2nd season, in 2010, when it featured an episode, "The Suicide Squeeze," about a murdered baseball player, and Joe Torre had a cameo as himself. Or, as...
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Winston Hill, 1941-2016
When your favorite team has won only one Super Bowl, you should treasure it, and the men who helped to achieve it, especially if it was long ago, and the number of surviving players involved is...
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How to Be a Met Fan In San Diego -- 2016 Edition
On Thursday, May 5, the Mets begin a series away to the San Diego Padres.Unlike the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Padres are an expansion team with no connection to New York....
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Nothing Goes Right for Yankees In Arlington
The Yankees got great pitching and just enough runs in their game away to the Texas Rangers on Monday night. They got neither at Globe Life Park in Arlington last night.Luis Severino was only down 1-0...
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How to Be a New York Soccer Fan In Dallas -- 2016 Edition
“I’m in hell!” – Morgan Freeman“Worse: You’re in Texas!” – Chris Rock-- Nurse BettyOn Friday, April 29, the New York Red Bulls host FC Dallas. Due to this year's Major League Soccer schedule, FCD is...
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Not a Good Way to Hit Going Into a Boston Series
The Yankees closed their series in Texas by doing what they've done most of April 2016: Failing to score enough runs.Don't blame CC Sabathia: The Big Fella pitched decently, allowing 3 runs on 5 hits,...
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The Red Sox Are the REAL "Evil Empire"
As Christmas approached in 2002, the Yankees signed 2 big foreign stars: Japanese outfielder Hideki Matsui, and Cuban pitcher Jose Contreras.The Red Sox wanted Contreras badly, but owner George...
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Yanks Let Big Fat Lying Cheating B@$+@rd Beat Them Again
Nothing in sports angers me more than the media's knowledge that David Ortiz was caught cheating and still denies it, and their acting like it was all okay, and then their castigation of the Yankees...
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T.S. Eliot Can Shut Up
"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."T.S. Eliot wrote that in 1922. He titled the poem "The Waste...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Orlando -- 2016 Edition
On Sunday, April 24, the New York Red Bulls won a home game, 3-2, over Orlando City SC (Soccer Club), featuring Brazilian legend Kaká, U.S. national team star Brek Shea, and former Real Madrid and...
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Yanks Score 7 But Lose, Swept at Fenway
Going into this series with The Scum, I was concerned that we might lose on an aggregate score of 30-5, because we weren't hitting and we were going into the little green pinball machine in the Back...
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How to Be a Met Fan In Los Angeles -- 2016 Edition
Next Tuesday, the Mets go to Los Angeles to play one of the teams whose place in New York they took, the Dodgers.Perhaps Met fans should be glad that the Dodgers left Brooklyn after the 1957 season,...
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