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How to Go to a Mets Game -- 2017 Edition
I decided not to wait for the Yankees' annual trip to Flushing Meadow to show you how to go to a Mets home game in the 2017 season. Their opener is on Monday, April 3, at home at Citi Field in...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Tampa Bay -- 2017 Edition
Next Sunday, April 2, is Opening Day! That's the good news. The bad news is, the Yankees will open the season in Florida, to play a 3-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays.Last year, I saw a blog post...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Baltimore -- 2017 Edition
On Friday, April 7, 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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The Dream for 2017
The dream for 2017:* A World Series between my beloved Mets and the Boston Red Sox, while the Yankees collapse into injuries and fall to last place.* The New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup, this time...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Orlando -- 2017 Edition
Last night, the Red Bulls clowned their way through a 4-1 loss away to the Houston Dynamo. They must've been blinded by the home team's garish orange shirts. They were so orange (How orange were...
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How World War I Affected Sports
Captain Christopher Mathewson and Captain Tyrus R. Cobb,U.S. Army, Chemical Warfare DivisionApril 2, 1917, 100 years ago: After successfully campaigning for re-election on the slogan "He kept us out of...
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Yankees Lose Opener and Optimism; Rubén Amaro Sr., 1936-2017
The Yankees had the best record in baseball in Spring Training: 24-9. The hitters were hitting well, the pitchers were getting the job done, the fielders were fine.There was hope that, this time, we...
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How to Be a Met Fan In Philadelphia -- 2017 Edition
The Mets are going to Philadelphia to play the Phillies next week, Monday through Wednesday.Not that long ago, the Philadelphia Phillies played at Veterans Stadium, a concrete oval (officially, they...
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Roy Sievers, 1926-2017
The greatest living former St. Louis Brown has died. So has the greatest living former Washington Senator. That may not sound like much, as the Browns and the Senators were both bad franchises, whose...
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Each MLB Team's Most Recent Anniversary Patches
For some weird reason, the White Soxhad a patch for their 95th Anniversary,but for their 100th, wore only theAmerican League Centennial patch.The American League had patches for their 50thand 100th...
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Each NFL Team's Most Recent Anniversary Patches
In their 10th season in Arizona, the Cardinals chose to celebratethe 100th Anniversary of the Normal Athletic Club in Chicago.A rather dubious celebration by perhaps the NFL's most dubious...
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Each NBA Team's Most Recent Anniversary Patches
The Celtics appear not to have ever worn an anniversary patch.Maybe they will for their 75th, in 2021.The Oklahoma City Thunder have yet to celebrate an anniversary.Their 10th is coming up in...
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Each NHL Team's Most Recent Anniversary Patches
Apparently, neither the Chicago Blackhawks nor the Detroit Red Wingsissued 80th or 90th Anniversary patches.Apparently, the Hartford Whalers never used a 20th or 25th Anniversary patch.And the 25th...
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Yankees and Carolina Recover, Ewing Hired
Torreyes is listed as being 5-foot-8 and 151 pounds.Judge is listed as being 6-foot-7 and 282 pounds.Yet it was Torreyes who hit the home run here.After starting the season with a stinker in Tampa Bay,...
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Bad Starters Means Bad Start
Now is the time when we remind ourselves that the Yankees started the 1998 season 0-3, and 1-4, and went on to have the greatest season in the history of baseball.Then again, that team could hit. This...
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How to Be a Met Fan In Miami -- 2017 Edition
Next Thursday, the Mets will begin a 4-game series in Miami against the Marlins.Stereotypically, South Florida in general, and Miami in particular, is where old Italian and Jewish New Yorkers go to...
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How to Go to a Trenton Thunder Game -- 2017 Edition
Today, the Trenton Thunder begin the 2017 Eastern League season, away to the Erie Seawolves of Western Pennsylvania. Next Thursday night is their home opener, at 6:35 PM, against the Portland Sea Dogs...
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How to Go to a Lakewood BlueClaws Game -- 2017 Edition
Last night, the Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League, the Class AA farm team of the Yankees, were supposed to open their season, away to the Erie Seawolves of Western Pennsylvania. But they were...
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Columbus Clippard and Girardi's Dumpster Fire Bullpen Management
Well, the Yankee bullpen's perfect record couldn't last a full 162 games, could it?But did it have to end as a dumpster fire?Luis Severino made his 1st start of the season, in the opener of a 3-game...
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How to Be a U.S. Soccer Fan In Mexico
Believe it or not, the modern-looking city in this photograph is Mexico City, North America's oldest major city.On Sunday, June 11, the U.S. Men's National Team (USMNT) -- Soccer -- will play...
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