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Buster Olney of ESPN discussed the Willie Randolph situation in his blog today. To avoid redundancy, I won’t get in to too much of what he said, because a lot of it is similar to what was said in this blog yesterday. But one interesting item he had in there was something [...]

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I can’t believe it, but today is the 10th anniversary of the perfect game thrown by David Wells against the Minnesota Twins. I remember May 17, 1998 distinctly and it seems like just yesterday. I had a baseball game that day and right after the game I went straight to a family [...]

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“Let me tell you this: Without Santana, we felt as a team we have a chance to win in our division. With him now, I have no doubt that we’re going to win in our division. I have no doubt in that. We’ve got what it takes. We have good chemistry as a team. He [...]

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Tomorrow afternoon Fordham University will hold its commencement for the Class of 2008. Charlie Rose will give the commencement address and I’m sure that all of the graduates and their families will be praying for nice weather. This time of year makes me think back to last spring, when I was graduating from [...]

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Yesterday on the blog, immediately following the Mets’ 1-0 loss to the Washington Nationals, I wrote that I no longer endorse Willie Randolph as manager. Furthermore, I could see him being fired  as early as in two weeks from now.
Being a more or less optimistic person, I went to the bed last night thinking I’d [...]

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This is a case of “enough is enough.”
With a 1-0 loss this afternoon, the Mets have finished their latest homestand with a 3-4 record, one that included the Cincinnati Reds and Washington Nationals. Both the Reds and Nats are last place teams, both have inferior rosters in comparison with the Mets.
While the Mets [...]

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The NFL’s all-time leading rusher turns 39 today. Emmitt Smtih, who ran for 18,355 yards in his career, will always rank as one of my favorite athletes of all-time. With quarterback Troy Aikman and wide receiver Michael Irvin, Emmitt was one of the highly acclaimed Dallas “Triplets” that led the team [...]

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I didn’t realize this until Ken Singleton mentioned it during the telecast of tonight’s Yankee game, but tonight is the 12th anniversary of Doc Gooden’s no-hitter against the Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium.  May 14, 1996 seems like just the other day, I can’t believe it’s been 12 years.  I was 10 years old at [...]

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From the mouth of the loudest quasi-owner in sports, Mr. Henry (Hank) Steinbrenner:
“The bottom line is that the team is not playing the way it is capable of playing. These players are being paid a lot of money and they had better decide for themselves to earn that money.
“This is going to get turned around. [...]

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After yet another loss in which the Yankees failed to score enough runs to win the game, some Yankee pitchers expressed their frustration over the offense’s inability to put up runs. In last night’s 2-1 loss to Tampa Bay, the Yankees let down starting pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, who pitched 7 strong innings. Hideki [...]

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