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Top 10 Athletes From Kentucky
June 1, 1792: Kentucky gains admission to the Union as the 15th State.Like Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Virginia, Kentucky is officially self-designated as not a "State," but a "Commonwealth": The...
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Concerns for Tanaka, Yanks Still In 1st as May Ends
The Yankees have now lost their last 4 series to the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. Last night, in the rubber game of this series, for the 3rd time in his last 4 starts, Masahiro Tanaka got hit...
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Top 10 Athletes From Tennessee
June 1, 1796: Tennessee is admitted to the Union as the 16th State, 4 years to the day after neighboring Kentucky is admitted as the 15th.Top 10 Athletes From Tennessee10. Nikki McCray of Collierville....
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Kraken Krushes Jays
The Yankees opened a 4-game series at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, with those pesky Blue Jays. Good thing the currency exchange rate doesn't apply to the distances of batted balls.This game was over...
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Early Deficit to Much for Yanks to Overcome vs. Jays
Once again, the Yankees followed up a game where they scored a lot of runs with a game where a couple of runs from the game before could have made a big difference.Michael Pineda started for the...
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Yanks Hit 4 HRs in 8th, Get Great Pitching, Jab Jays
When you score 24 runs in 3 games, you should win all 3. It did not work out that way for the Yankees in the 1st 3 games of their series with the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre. However, 2 out...
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Jimmy Piersall, 1929-2017
In one way, Jimmy Piersall was lucky: Had ESPN and social media been around when he was playing baseball, he would have frequently been a big story, for the wrong reasons.In another way, he was...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Anaheim -- 2017 Edition
Next Monday, the Yankees begin a series in Anaheim, against the least-appropriately-named team in Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.There's no "New York Giants of East...
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Girardi Blows It Due to the Pitch Count. Again.
If the Yankees are forced into the American League Wild Card game because they lost the Division title by 1 game, I want you all to remember yesterday.The Yankees are the only team that needs a relief...
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Loss to Sox Gives Yankees Big Decisions to Make
Last night, the Yankees began a 3-game home series against the Boston Red Sox. If you're going to have a bad game, against The Scum at Yankee Stadium is not the game in which to have it.But it looks...
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Good Night for Yankees, Great Night for CC
Any night on which the Yankees win is good. Any night on which the Boston Red Sox lose has some merit to it.CC Sabathia made sure both happened last night, with his best start in years. He went 8...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Oakland -- 2017 Edition
The Yankees begin a 4-game series away to the Oakland Athletics next Thursday.The Oakland Raiders are moving out of the Oakland Coliseum to Las Vegas in 2019. The Golden State Warriors, now 1 game away...
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Yanks Smack Sox Again, Bring On the O's
Oh, if only "on aggregate" worked in baseball... We lost to the Red Sox 5-4, then beat them 8-0 and 9-1, beating them 21-6 on aggregate, or an average of 7-2. But it doesn't work that way.Michael...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame David Chase for How He Ended "The Sopranos"
June 10, 2007, 10 years ago: The final first-run episode of The Sopranos airs on HBO.Premiering on January 10, 1999, it's been called one of the greatest shows in television history. It even caused...
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Tri-State Area Bridges and Tunnels
Last night, the old Goethals Bridge, connecting Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey with New York City's Borough of Staten Island, was closed after 79 years -- probably about 30 years after it should...
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Hicks' Stick Jacks Yanks
Those of you familiar with Hollywood history will recognize my headline as a takeoff of the July 17, 1935 headline the trade paper Variety used to describe the refusal of rural people to watch rural...
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Yankee Stadium: The Star Chamber
It occurred to me as I was writing this post that naming a 3-row, 6-seats-per-row section (18 seats total) of Section 104 in the right field Bleachers at Yankee Stadium "The Judge's Chambers," with...
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How to Be a Met Fan In Los Angeles -- 2017 Edition
Next Monday, 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, and...
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Judge Rules
So far, this season, the Yankees have scored at least 14 runs in a game 3 times. All 3 were against the Baltimore Orioles, including the last 2 games.8-2. 16-3. 14-3. Those are the scores from the...
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Fix THIS!
Since this past February, the titleholders in 3 of the 4 major sports have been evil:* The New England Patriots of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.* The Pittsburgh Penguins of Sidney Crosby.* The...
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