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In which drunk people watch baseball
While playoff baseball itself can be entertaining, the experience is that much more when you are able to share it with others. So it was, last night, when ten of us crowded into Blondie’s on 79th and...
View ArticleEsperar
(Idea h/t to Amanda Rykoff) With apologies to the Blue Jays, Orioles, Indians, Royals, Twins, Rangers, Mariners, Athletics, Nationals, Mets, Braves, Cubs, Pirates, Brewers, Reds, Padres and Dodgers....
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Of Matsui, Meloni and My Broken Camera
At the moment, only one thought is going through my mind: No matter what, I will never feel like this again. The Yankees will win more championships, but there’s nothing like the first time you’re...
View ArticleAn Education
In a room in my parents’ house, there is a framed poster from the Met: “Baseball cards from the Burdick Collection”, and it contains just that–images of baseball cards, as early as Cobb, and up to...
View ArticleWorld Series Trophy To Make Appearance at Fordham
Ah, Fordham University. If I could do a good Michael Kay impression, now is when I would do so. However, since I can’t (not even a little), I’ll just leave you with this instead: Yankees World...
View ArticleSpring Awakening
Greetings, readers. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? How have you spent your February? Me? Pulled off a move (still in New York City, just a different place), griping about NBC’s Olympics coverage and...
View ArticleBonding over Baseball
“The Dodgers won the pennant my senior year, must have been 1941. We all cut gym class to go see the game. We saw our teachers there, too.” *** For a very long time, I’ve read about baseball in the...
View ArticleWhen Opening Day is Not Opening Day
Opening Day is not Opening Day. Opening day is when you cut class and go watch your favorite players in action, finally, once again. Opening Day is when everything in the world is good. Opening Day is...
View ArticleNo-No on the No-Nos
Because I have seen so little baseball this season, I don’t realize that CC Sabathia is in the middle of attempting a no-hitter (or, as it were at the time, perfect game) until I casually check...
View ArticleOf Grandmas and Groundbreakers
A little over a month and a half ago, I sat in the dining room at a fancy Boca Raton country club, and over pizza and steamers, heard my grandmother talk about watching the Brooklyn Dodgers in their...
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