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How to Go to a Staten Island Yankees Game -- 2017 Edition
Staten Island's Borough Hall,with the Richmond County Courthouse to the rightThe 2017 season of the New York-Penn League -- formerly the Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York League, or "PONY League" -- gets...
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Tanaka Straightened Out, Judge Goes Opposite, Yanks Beat Angels
Last night, the Yankees began a weeklong, 7-game West Coast roadtrip, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, home to the team currently known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.Masahiro Tanaka...
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How Long It's Been: The Portland Trail Blazers Won an NBA Championship
Two years ago, the Golden State Warriors ended a 40-year drought, and won their 1st NBA Championship since 1975. This past Monday night, they made it 2 out of 3. (It should have been 3 straight.)All 3...
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Sabathia's Injury More Worrying That Girardi's Latest Idiocy
The Yankees went into last night's game with the Los Angeles... aw, screw it. In Anaheim with a 6-game winning streak.But you win games with good pitching and good hitting. The former, we got. The...
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How to Go to a Brooklyn Cyclones Game -- 2017 Edition
Brooklyn's Borough HallThe 2017 season of the New York-Penn League -- formerly the Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York League, or "PONY League" -- gets underway next Monday night. As they have since 2001,...
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June 15, 1977: The Wildest Week in New York Baseball History, Part I
It was 40 years ago that we had the wildest week in New York baseball history.And neither the Yankees nor the Mets came out of it looking good.On Sunday, the anniversary of the Yankee event in...
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Top 10 Athletes From Arkansas
June 15, 1836: Arkansas is admitted to the Union as the 25th State.The 3 most famous people from Arkansas are probably more identified with other places. Paul W. "Bear" Bryant of Fordyce is remembered...
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Hello, Joe, What Do You Know? Nothing
Going into tonight's game, the Yankees are 38-25, and lead the American League Eastern Division by 2 games over the Boston Red Sox.By my estimation, of those 25 games they've lost, 4 have been because...
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Fire Joe Girardi. Do It Today, Before He Blows It Again.
2:43 AM, Eastern Time. 11:43 AM, Pacific Time, which was the time where the game was actually played. That's what time last night's game ended.As far as I'm concerned, if you're going to lose, at least...
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How to Go to a Montréal Alouettes Game
I've decided to do Trip Guides for the Canadian Football League, whose season both starts and ends earlier than the NFL's, due to weather conditions. First up, the Montreal Alouettes, who open next...
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How to Be a Met Fan In San Francisco -- 2017 Edition
Next Friday, the Mets begin a 3-game series in San Francisco against the Giants, one of the teams they replaced as the National League team in New York.Before You Go. The San Francisco Bay Area has...
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Top 10 Teams Likeliest to Move
Two National Hockey League teams are attempting to secure their futures, but I'm not sure how secure that will be.The Phoenix Coyotes extended their lease at Jobing.com Arena, in the Phoenix suburb of...
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How Many More Times... Treat Me the Way That Joe Do?
To paraphrase an old blues song (Howlin' Wolf, adapted by Led Zeppelin), How many more times... treat me the way that Joe do?Joe Girardi couldn't help but mess up the bullpen last night, because of how...
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June 18, 1977: The Wildest Week In New York Baseball History, Part II
It was 40 years ago that we had the wildest week in New York baseball history.And neither the Yankees nor the Mets came out of it looking good.On Thursday, the anniversary of the Met event in question,...
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Not Girardi's Fault, But a Loss Nonetheless
All major league teams are wearing special uniformswith light blue caps and script (but not helmets)in honor of Father's Day, to benefit cancer charities.First, the good news: Yesterday, against the...
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How to Go to an Ottawa Redblacks Game
The good news for the people of Ottawa: They won the Grey Cup!The bad news for them: It was their 1st league championship of any kind in 40 years, unless you want to count the 1995 Ottawa Lynx. Or the...
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Yankees In Freefall; Larry Grantham, 1938-2017
The Yankees come home from a Pacific Coast roadtrip, having won the 1st game, against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, and having dropped the next 6 straight, 2 to the Angels, and 4 to the Oakland...
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How to Go to a BC Lions Game
Next Saturday night, the BC Lions -- always "BC," no periods, never "British Columbia" -- open the Canadian Football League season, playing the Edmonton Eskimos at home.Before You Go. At 49 degrees, 16...
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How to Be a Yankee Fan In Chicago -- 2017 Comiskey Edition
This Monday, the Yankees begin a series in Chicago against the White Sox.Hog Butcher for the World,Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler,Stormy, husky,...
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Top 10 Athletes From West Virginia
June 20, 1863: 55 Counties from the Confederate State of Virginia, having voted to secede from the State and rejoin the Union, are admitted to the Union as the 35th State, West Virginia. This was the...
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