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Quote o’ the Day (2012 BoSox Edition)
From the redoubtable Jason Gay’s latest column in the Wall Street Journal: The Loopy Mess of LakerFail The Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Miami Heat on Sunday. This is not wildly important. What’s important is that the Lakers continue … Continue reading
Someone Please Put Alex Rodriguez Out Of Our Misery
From our Couldn’t He Be Al-EX Rodriguez? desk The hardretching staff – a Made Yankee Fan in Boston since 1974 – has long considered Alex Rodriguez a cancer upon the Pinstripes, and that’s never been truer than now. From New … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Rid, A-Rod, Al-EX Rodriguez, Alex Rodriguez, ESPN, Ian Crouch, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, New Yorker, The New Yorker
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The Kings Totally Pwn – No, Wait – Totally Respect The Devils
Game 3 of this year’s version of Lord Stanley’s Wild Rumpus featured a total beatdown of the New Jersey Devils by the Los Angeles Kings. From Yahoo! Sports: L.A. Kings one win away from first Stanley Cup after dominating Devils … Continue reading
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Tagged Los Angeles Kings, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, New Jersey Devils, NHL, Stanley Cup playoffs
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Look Up ‘Squander’ In The Dictionary (II) . . .
. . . and you still get a picture of this: Game 5 of the ALDS Tigers-Yankees tilt was by far the worst for a Made Yankee Fan in Boston: Bases loaded, one out in the Yankees 4th – zero … Continue reading
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Tagged ALDS, Alex Rodriguez, Brett Gardner, Derek Jeter, Gone Fishin', Made Yankee Fan in Boston, squander, Tigers, Yankees
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ESPN Needs To Think Outside The Box
As Made Yankee Fan in Boston kept an eye on the New York-Tampa Bay tilt last night on ESPN, we found ourselves increasingly annoyed with its K Zone feature, which we’ve apparently managed to avoid for the past ten years. From ESPN … Continue reading
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Tagged ESPN, ESPN Front Row, K Zone, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, New York Post, Phil Mushnick, TVNewser
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Yankee Fan Says ‘Go, Sox!’
Pennant races are funny things, starting with they’re not really pennant races anymore – they’re postseason races. Regardless, once you begin scoreboard watching, you introduce a whole new geometry into the standings. Take Saturday’s AL East games, for instance. The … Continue reading
WSJ’s Red Sox Notion
The Wall Street Journal’s read on the current state of Red Sucks Nation: Something seriously disturbing is unfolding in Boston. The Red Sox pitching is collapsing. Their expensive free agents are playing like loaves of challah. A nine-game lead over … Continue reading
Dead Blogging The Red Sox-Yankees Game
From our Made Yankee Fan in Boston desk: #1: The hardworking staff is getting too old for this shit. Except, of course, it’s too riveting to look away from. #2: Marco Scutaro? Really? To save time, let’s just fast-forward to … Continue reading
New York Times Concedes: Boston Is Titletown
Given the Boston Bruins’ Stanley Cup beatdown of the Vancouver Cannots, even the Big Paper in the Big Town is forced to state the obvious: [T]his city has ridden an unprecedented wave of success over the past decade: the Bruins’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Bruins, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, New York Times, Stanley Cup, Titletown, Vancouver Cannots
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Putting The Iron In The Boston Bruins
Don’t laugh, but I tend to watch playoff games in my kitchen while doing household chores. It started back in 2004, Game 7 of the ALCS between the Yankees and the Sox. As a Made Yankee Fan in Boston, I … Continue reading