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Here Come Da Judge, There Go Da Ball
The Yankees' 8-game winning streak was broken by the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, they made the Pale Hose pay for that.The Yankees jumped out early. Brett Gardner opened the home...
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How to Be a Met Fan In Washington -- 2017 Edition
The Mets host the Washington Nationals this weekend. Next weekend, starting on Friday, the same teams play in D.C.In 2012, the Interleague schedule meant that the Yankees also played a series there....
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Buccos Beat Binder-Bollixed Bronx Bombers
The Yankees began a 3-game Interleague series last night, against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park. The best thing I can say about last night's game is that I'm glad they got it out of their system...
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Pinstripes Pound Pirates
The Yankees fell behind the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 after the 1st inning at PNC Park yesterday, and Michael Pineda allowed runs again in the 4th and the 5th, to make it 3-0 Pittsburgh. It began to look...
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Pirates Party Like It's 1960
Despite the Pittsburgh Pirates wearing pillbox caps, gold jerseys and black pants like their 1979 World Series-winning edition, this weekend's series between them and the Yankees was reminiscent of the...
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How to Be a Met Fan In Atlanta -- 2017 Edition
 Next Monday, the Mets go down to the land of cotton to face the team their fans, in their usual amount of wisdom (rolleyes), used to consider their arch-rivals, the Atlanta Braves. This 4-game series,...
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Yankees vs. Red Sox, The Defining Moments: Part I, 1903-1938
In commemoration of the start of another Yankees-Red Sox series tonight, I reprint and update a series of posts that I first wrote in April 2010.May 7, 1903, Huntington Avenue Grounds, Boston. For the...
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Yankees vs. Red Sox, The Defining Moments: Part II, 1939-1966
April 20, 1939, Yankee Stadium. Opening Day, and while one legend, Lou Gehrig, is fading, another debuts. Ted Williams strikes out against Ruffing in his 1st 2 major league at-bats. But in his 3rd, he...
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Yankees vs. Red Sox, The Defining Moments: Part III, 1967-1982
April 14, 1967, Yankee Stadium. The Yankees hold their home opener, and the Sox start a rookie, Billy Rohr. He comes within 1 strike of a no-hitter, partly thanks to an amazing 9th-inning catch of a...
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Yankees vs. Red Sox: The Defining Moments, Part IV: 1983-2002
July 4, 1983, Yankee Stadium. Both teams have changed tremendously in 5 years. The rivalry has fallen a bit. Despite the opponent and the 4th of July holiday, only 41,077 fans come out to The Stadium....
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Yankees vs. Red Sox: The Defining Moments, Part V: 2002-2017
The image above really should include North and Central Jersey. Â But it gets the Bristol Line (as I call it, cutting through the Connecticut hometown of ESPN, and also Yale's base of New Haven) pretty...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Kansas City -- 2017 Edition
Next Wednesday night, the New York Red Bulls visit Sporting Kansas City, the only major league sports team ever to play home games in the State of Kansas, although they also represent Western...
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Judge and Severino Convict Red Sox
Last night, at Fenway Park, the Yankees played the Boston Red Sox without the big fat lying cheating spectre of David Ortiz looming for the 1st time since September 4, 2002 -- a 3-1 win over The Scum...
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Yanks Beat Sox to Keep Rolling, Mets Reeling
Best earned-run average in baseball: The Yankees, at 2.90. Next-best: Chicago White Sox, at 2.92. This despite being in the American League, where you face 9 batters in a lineup, not 8 batters and a...
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Top 10 Athletes from Maryland
First in a series. Of, yes, 51.April 28, 1788: Maryland ratifies the Constitution, and gains Statehood.April 28, 2017, 229 years later: The Yankees begin a 3-game series against Maryland's Major League...
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How to Be a New York Baseball Fan In Chicago -- 2017 Wrigley Edition
Next Friday, the Yankees begin a 3-game Interleague series in Chicago against the Cubs. The Mets don't head out there until September 12 to 14.Wrigley Field is the 2nd-oldest park in the majors, and by...
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Bronx Bomber Comeback Batters Birds
Last night, the Yankees began a 3-game home series with the Baltimore Orioles, the one team in the American League with a better record. It was time to send a message.Both teams sent a message. The...
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How to Be a Red Bulls Fan In Philadelphia -- 2017 Edition
Tonight, the New York Red Bulls defeated the Chicago Fire, 2-1, despite a goal for Chicago assisted by their former Captain, Dax McCarty.Next Saturday, the Red Bulls travel to Chester, Pennsylvania to...
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Fish Gotta Swim, Birds Gotta Fly, Bronx Bombers Gotta Bomb
The Yankees started the season losing 4 of their 1st 5, and lots of Yankee Fans were ready to give up on the season. Some were ready to just plain give up, and jump off the George Washington...
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How Long It's Been: Tottenham Finished Ahead of Arsenal
Today, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Arsenal 2-0, in the last "North London Derby" to be played at the old White Hart Lane, which "Spurs" have called home since 1899.Next season, they'll play all their...
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