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Scrap the Home Run Derby
Today is Monday of the All-Star Break. And that can only mean one thing.Major League Baseball's official freak show.Not only is the Home Run Derby totally meaningless, and its history riddled with...
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A Yankees-Mets All-Star Game: The Setup
With the All-Star Break underway, I decided to see what a Yankees vs. Mets All-Star Game would be like.Since it wouldn't be fair to include all Yankee players in the eligibility, going back to 1903, or...
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A Yankees-Mets All-Star Game: Play Ball
(Note: I wanted to post a picture of Reggie Jackson and Tom Seaver together, but the only one I could find on the Internet was of a baseball card commemorating the 1973 World Series, when Reggie took...
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Yanks Start 2nd Half By Sinking Mariners
The 2nd half of the Major League Baseball season is underway. The schedule is set up so that 41 of the last 74 games are at home. Including last night, when the Yankees opened a 3-game home series...
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Robinson Cano Strikes Back
So yesterday, I mentioned how ex-Yankee Robinson Cano was struggling this season. I didn't mention it was because he, a lefthanded hitter, no longer had that short right-field porch at Yankee Stadium...
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Yanks Better Off Without Jeter? Beat Mariners Despite "King" Felix
The Yankees concluded their home series with the Seattle Mariners with a 2-1 win, their 50th win of the season against 41 losses, a pace for 89 wins. That's usually not enough to win the American...
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Rugger Ardizoia, Had Been Oldest Living Yankee, 1919-2015
Unless you live in or around San Francisco, you may never have heard of Rugger Ardizoia. That's understandable. He only appeared in 1 Major League Baseball game. But that's 1 more than most of us will...
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Ryan's Double Gives Yanks Hope & Win
William Nathaniel Showalter III -- you may know him as Buck -- took the Baltimore Orioles into Yankee Stadium II to start a series last night.The Yankees seemed to be taking care of business early....
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How Long It's Been: Lou Lamoriello Wasn't President of the New Jersey Devils
This afternoon, 3 months after stepping down as general manager, in favor of former Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero, Lou Lamoriello stepped down as president of the New Jersey Devils.He was hired as...
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Yanks' Sweep of O's Followed by Phil Hughes-Led Disaster In Minnesota
So Ivan Nova took the mound for the Yankees on Wednesday night. His first game back from a year off for Tommy John surgery was great. Every game since, considerably less so. The Yanks needed him to...
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A-Rod's 3, Murphy's Law Lead Yankees to Shock Comeback vs. Twins
Last night's game between the Yankees and the Minnesota Twins at Target Field in Minneapolis was looking as bad as the previous night's game. In that one, the Twins jumped out to a 5-0 lead after 4...
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1st Place Yanks Beat Twins 2 of 3
I'll have a 40th birthday tribute to A-Rod in my next post.The Yankees went for their 6th straight series win yesterday, against the Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis.The game was scoreless in the bottom...
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Top 10 A-Rod Moments: A 40th Birthday Tribute
July 27, 1975, 40 years ago today: Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez is born in Manhattan.He (for want of a better phrase) grew up in Miami. He was taken with the 1st pick in the 1993 Major League Baseball...
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Yanks Mess With Texas & Other Baseball News
It's been an eventful last 24 hours in baseball. Let me get to the most important part: A Yankee win.The Yankees began a 3-game series against the Texas Rangers, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, in the...
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Yankees REALLY Mess With Texas, Then Come Down to Earth
The Yankees really messed with Texas on Tuesday night. Although, at first, it seemed like it would be the other way around.It was like Super Bowl XXII, in 1988, when the Denver Broncos scored on their...
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Billy Pierce, 1927-2015
Because Chicago hasn't seen too many Pennants -- the Cubs haven't won one since 1945, and the White Sox only 2 since 1919 -- great Chicago players tend to get short shrift. It's a wonder that Ernie...
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CC Looks Done, Severino's Just Begun
The Yankees scored 35 runs in the 4-game series in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex against the Texas Rangers. And only got a split.That's not good.Last night's game was another bad start for CC...
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Yanks Pound White Sox
For the 2nd time in a week, the Yankees put up enough runs to make fans say, "Hey, come on, save some of those for when the Red Sox come in!They started a 3-game series away to the Chicago White Sox at...
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Yanks Take 2 of 3 from ChiSox; They're In 1st, Mets Are Not
Before I begin this post, let me give you a little reminder, so that you are not misled by the events at Pity Field this weekend:The Mets are not in first place.Washington 54-49 .5243NY Mets 55-50...
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August 4, 1985: Phil Rizzuto Day, Seaver's 300th, Carew's 3,000th
This is a revision and expansion of a post I did on the 25th Anniversary of the event.So, last night, while the 1st place Yankees enjoyed a deserved day off, the Mets -- then trailing the Washington...
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