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This Is Getting Pathetic
Maybe the Yankees are just bad. Or maybe Joe Girardi is an idiot. Or maybe Brian Cashman has failed to properly replace the old and/or oft-injured.Or maybe Yogi Berra really was the good luck charm all...
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How to Be a Met Fan In Colorado -- 2016 Edition
On Friday of next week -- Friday the 13th, as if they needed any more bad luck -- the Mets head out to Denver to play the Colorado Rockies.Before You Go. Denver is a city of unusual weather, because of...
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Winning. It's Better Than Losing.
Yeah! Yeah! I love winning, man! I fuckin' love winning. You hear what I'm saying? It's, like, better than losing?-- Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), Bull DurhamIt's been so long, I can't tell anymore.So...
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Ten Innings In a Bandbox, No Runs
Can somebody please tell me why Joe Girardi and Brian Cashman still have jobs?Or, for that matter, Aaron Hicks (.234), Dustin Ackley (.269) and Chase Headley (.401)? By the way, those aren't batting...
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Living Former New York Baseball Giants
May 6, 1931, 85 years ago today: Willie Howard Mays Jr. is born in Westfield, Alabama, outside Birmingham. He grows up in nearby Fairfield.September 29, 1957: The last New York Giants baseball game is...
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May 7, 2006: Arsenal, Tottenham, and Lasagne
Imagine that tomorrow is Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, and the Yankees and the Red Sox are playing for the Pennant.Or that it's Conference Championship Sunday, and the Washington...
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Yanks Win, Sox Lose, Ortiz Loses It
The Yankees, not hitting, and with injuries stacking up, were not in the best of positions to face their arch-rivals last night.Nevertheless, when the Boston Red Sox come in, you better be...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the Pittsburgh Steelers for Cutting Johnny Unitas
May 7, 1933: John Constantine Unitas is born in Pittsburgh. He died on September 11, 2002 in Baltimore. In the intervening 68 1/2 years, he became, quite possibly, the best quarterback who ever...
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Blackie Sherrod, 1919-2016
Those of us who write, even if it's only a blog like this, owe a lot to lots of people who've inspired us, whether we realize it or not, and to those who've inspired them.Blackie Sherrod inspried Dan...
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Yankees Double Their Win Total Over Sox
About time the Yankees got a little something going. They made it back-to-back wins over the old enemy yesterday afternoon, and, for the first time all season, look like the team we hoped they'd...
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No Sweep vs. Scum, 11-18, But Chapman Back
The Yankees should never wear pink on their uniforms again. I don't care that it was Mother's Day: You do not mess with the Yankee uniform.Wearing star-spangled interlocking N-Y's on the caps on...
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How to Be a New York Soccer Fan In Portland -- 2016 Edition
The New York Red Bulls don't play away to the Portland Timbers this season. But New York City Football Club do, this coming Sunday.Before You Go. Like its Pacific Northwest neighbors Seattle and...
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How to Be a New York Baseball Fan In Arizona -- 2016 Edition
Next Monday, the Yankees begin an Interleague series in Phoenix against the Arizona Diamondbacks.The Mets go out there in August. Arizona in August? Serves them right.Before You Go. AZcentral.com, the...
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Top 10 Things Wrong With "The Natural"
May 11, 1984: The film version of Bernard Malamud's 1952-published, 1923-and-1939-set baseball-themed novel The Natural premieres, starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Barbara Hershey,...
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May 11, 2006: A Bad Day
You may have noticed that, last night, for the first time all season, I did not post about the previous day's Yankee game. It's because I had a lot on my mind, because it was the anniversary of the...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In D.C. -- 2016 Edition
This coming Friday, the New York Red Bulls go down to Washington to play their arch-rivals, D.C. United.A true Red Bulls fan, not accepting that a New York Tri-State Area team's arch-rival is either...
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Yanks Take 3 of 4 From Defending Champs. Flushing Heathen, Take Note
Sorry for slipping behind. Now I have to cram 4 games into 1 post. I've done it before, but I don't like it. At any rate...Anybody who still says the Mets are better than the Yankees needs to stop...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Oakland -- 2016 Edition
The Yankees begin a 3-game series away to the Oakland Athletics next Thursday.If the Athletics can't get a new ballpark agreement soon, there won't be many more chances to see them play in Oakland...
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How to Attend the Hudson River Derby at Yankee Stadium -- 2016 Edition
Last season, the 1st season in Major League Soccer for New York City Football Club, the New York Red Bulls won all 3 inaugural installments of "the Hudson River Derby":* On May 10, 2015, at Red Bull...
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Some Good News as Yanks Take 2 of 3 From Pale Hose
The Yankees came into this home weekend series against the American League Central Division-leading Chicago White Sox needing wins. Beating such a team would send a solid message -- to themselves, as...
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