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2nd Half Opened With Loss to Scum; Nate Thurmond, 1941-2016
Last night, the Yankees opened the cultural, if not the numerical, 2nd half of the Major League Baseball regular season, home to the old enemy, the Boston Red Sox. Beating The Scum is a good way to get...
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How Long It's Been: The Yankees Were Under .500 After the All-Star Break
Last night, the Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox, 5-3 at Yankee Stadium.This is bad news for many reasons. One is that the result dropped the Yankees to 44-45. This is the 1st time the Yankees have...
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Yanks Pathetic vs. Sox
The Yankees, of course, should never lose. They should certainly not lose at home. They should especially not lose back-to-back games. And they should never, ever lose to The Scum.Unfortunately,...
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Finally! Yanks Beat Sox, Prepare for 1st Place Orioles
The Yankees needed a win. What better way to get off the deck than to finally beat The Scum.And they had the man to do it: The closest thing to a pitching ace that New York city has these days:...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Houston -- 2016 Edition
On Monday, July 25, the Yankees travel to Houston to start a series with the Astros.It still seems strange to me to see the Houston Astros in the American League, just as it's strange to see the...
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Yanks Take 1st Game of Big Series with O's
Last night, the Yankees began their biggest series of the season thus far, a 4-game home series with the 1st place Baltimore Orioles. It was time to find out: Can the Yankees get back into the American...
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Nate Is Nasty Again, Beats Birds
The Yankees won the 1st game of their big series against the 1st place Baltimore Orioles, but they had to keep it going in the 2nd game last night.Nathan Eovaldi was restored to the starting rotation...
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Top 10 Myths About the 1970s
I previously did posts like this, in which I debunked some myths about the 1950s and the 1960s. It's time to do it for the 1970s.The Baby Boomers, born from 1946 to 1964, but mostly in the late 1940s...
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Yankees Back In Race, Take 3 of 4 from Birds; Dennis Green, 1949-2016
Everyone who said the Yankees had no chance at the Playoffs: Shame on you.I have to admit: While I hoped they could take at least 3 out of these 4 games with the 1st-place Baltimore Orioles, I had a...
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Playoffs? If They Can Beat Baltimore & San Francisco, Yeah, I'm Gonna Talk to...
When your favorite baseball team is surging and trying to get back into the Playoff race, the last thing it needs is to face another team that's surging and jockeying for Playoff position because they...
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Cold Bats, Girardi Blow It For Yanks Again
I'm going to have to retitle this blog "A Song of Ice and Fire Joe Girardi."When you hold your opponents to 2 runs over the 1st 20 innings of a series, you should at least win the 1st 2 games,...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Chicago -- 2016 Edition
This coming Sunday night, the New York Red Bulls, coming off yet another embarrassment of their alleged rivals New York City FC (4-1 at Red Bull Arena yesterday), head west (well, Midwest) to play away...
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Yankees Trade Great Closer for a Failure and 3 Hunches
The Yankees beat the San Francisco Giants yesterday, taking 2 out of 3 from one of the best teams in baseball, but that pales in significance to the incredibly stupid trade they made today. I'll get to...
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Girardi Lets Starter Pitch 7 Innings, Yankees Win
Looks like I was wrong: Maybe Joe Girardi will let his starters pitch 7 innings after all.The Yankees began a series away to the Houston Astros, the team that beat them in last year's American League...
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So Far, Since the Trade, So Good
The Yankees are now 3-0 since they made what I thought was a horrible trade: Aroldis Chapman for Adam Warren and 3 prospects.In fact, they're on what Star Trek fans might call a Borg winning streak:...
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Yanks Can't Complete Sweep vs. Astros
When you take the 1st 2 games of a 3-game series, and you have Masahiro Tanaka going in the 3rd game, you figure you have a good chance of completing the sweep.That was not the case for the Yankees...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the Yankees for Firing Casey Stengel
July 30, 1890: Charles Dillon Stengel is born in Kansas City, Missouri -- hence, his nickname, "K.C.," which became "Casey."October 12, 1948: The Yankees hire Casey as manager. He had just managed the...
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How Long It's Been: England Won a Major Soccer Tournament
July 30, 1966, 50 years ago today: England wins the World Cup, beating West Germany 4-2 after extra time, on home soil, at the original Wembley Stadium in London.Geoff Hurst became the only man to...
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Top 10 Worst New York Baseball Trades
This week, the Yankees went from having the best bullpen in baseball, a bulwark against totally falling out of the Playoff race, to not even having that.They have traded Aroldis Chapman and Andrew...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Los Angeles -- 2016 Edition
This coming Sunday, the New York Red Bulls play away to the signature team of Major League Soccer, the Los Angeles Galaxy.Before You Go. Unlike the Seattle and San Francisco Bay Areas, the Los Angeles...
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