Members of the 3,000 Hit Club, In Perspective
Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez, who's not only surpassed Willie Mays for 4th on the all-time home run list and become only the 3rd player with 2,000 runs batted in, but, last night, hit a home run,...
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My Periodic Grouse About How Interleague Play Has to Go
George Carlin, author of (among other things) the legendary Baseball and Football routine, once remarked that "fat chance" and "slim chance," which you would think would have opposite meanings,...
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AROD3K and 3 Yankee Wins
I'll get to the Old-Timers Day festivities in my next post.Thanks to a quirk of the Interleague schedule, the Yankees played a 4-game series with the Marlins -- 2 in Miami, then 2 in New York.On...
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An Emotional Old-Timers Day and a LOT of Runs
Saturday was Old-Timers Day -- the holiest day on the Yankee calendar. It usually comes in July or August, but, this year, it was on June 20.It looked like rain for most of the day, but a full...
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Yankees Lose Interleague Slugfest to Collapsed Phillies
From the opening of Citizens Bank Park in 2004 until 2011, losing to the Philadelphia Phillies was not, all by itself, a big deal.Losing, yes; but losing specifically to the Phillies, not really. After...
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The 1995 New Jersey Devils: Where Are They Now?
June 24, 1995, 20 years ago today: At 11:09 PM -- don't bet me on the time, I was at the Town Pub in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and as the seconds ticked down, I made sure I looked at my watch so I would...
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"Seinfeld" Episodes That Wouldn't Work Today
This is not about sports, although there will be a couple of references.Is Seinfeld the greatest TV show of all time? Hardly. At its best, it was phenomenally funny, and made you think. At its worst,...
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Super Nova Returns, Yanks Give Him Enough Runs
In their 3-game home Interleague series against the Philadelphia Phillies, the Yankees scored 8, 6 and 10 runs. That should have been enough for them to win every game. Instead, they only won...
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Yankees Split 4 In Houston
The Yankees began a Western roadtrip with 4 games in Houston against the resurgent Astros. The Astros haven't made the Playoffs since their 2005 Pennant. Their last winning season was in 2008 -- 7...
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Cities' World Championships
I should have done this after the recent NBA and Stanley Cup Finals.This includes the big four: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL, counting a Super Bowl won in January...
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Cities' Last World Championships
Again, this includes MLB, the NFL, the NBA, the WNBA, the NHL, and MLS (or NASL, as the case may be, although I don't think any city's last title was in that long-gone league). Again, Canadian cities...
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Yankees Salvage Finale In Anaheim
You're going to win some series if you only allow 7 runs in 3 games. But you're not going to win many series when you score just 5 runs in 3 games.After splitting a 4-game series away to the Houston...
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Holiday Weekend Fireworks... and then Yankees Blew Up on Sunday
It's an old adage (are there any new adages?), quoted by everyone from Peanuts' Charlie Brown to M*A*S*H's Colonel Potter, that the team in 1st place on the 4th of July wins the Pennant.This, of...
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My Ranking of All 50 States
Thrillist.com just did a ranking of all 50 States, but their reasons are a little skewed: "Inventions, food/drink, somewhat productive famous people, unique physical beauty, etc."50th and last:...
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Girardi Blows Shot at Sweep of A's, Head for Boston
This past Tuesday night, the Yankees began a 3-game home series against the Oakland Athletics, a franchise that, since its Philadelphia days, has seen a few runs of success, always ended by a heinous...
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Yankees vs. Red Sox, The Defining Moments: Part I, 1903-1952
In commemoration of the start of another Yankees-Red Sox series tonight, I reprint a series of posts from April 2010.May 7, 1903, Huntington Avenue Grounds, Boston. For the first time, the New York and...
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Yankees vs. Red Sox: The Defining Moments, Part II: 1953-1982
April 23, 1953, Yankee Stadium. For the first time in his career, Mickey Mantle hits a walkoff home run. It's a 2-run job off Ellis Kinder, and the Yankees beat the Red Sox, 6-3.April 14, 1955, Fenway...
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Yankees vs. Red Sox: The Defining Moments, Part III: 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 IV: 2002-2015
The image above really should include North and Central Jersey. 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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Duke Refsnyder and A-Rod Lead Yanks to 2 of 3 Over Boston Red Scum
Fenway Park. "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."On Friday night, Michael Pineda took the mound in the little green pinball machine off Kenmore Square, pitched into the 7th...
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