Sports 4 Dorks

Apparently there was a big trade yesterday.

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Who shone like stars and who sucked like black holes.

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Johan Santana is thisclose to being a Met|||If I’m Bill Smith right now, I’m crying so hard my eyeballs pop out. Both the Red Sox and the Yankees had much better deals on the table and the Twins waited too…

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Dear Readers- Some of you have written me to inquire about the essay I alluded to in comments posted on Lohud’s Blog over the weekend. And I indeed had written a lengthy rebuttal to Cashman’s public rebuke of Bernie Williams and Joe Torre in the joint appearance the GM made last Thursday evening […]

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I’ll admit it. I’ve been known to comment on “the legion of talentless hacks who seek profit from the perpetuation of the Santa Claus myth” or criticize ESPN’s propagation of “the Myth of the Philadelphia Sports Fan.”
I’ve written so much about Santa, every year come Christmastime this blog sees a significant upsurge […]

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Apologies for the long interregnum since last post, but, uh, this has been the most
boring off-season in recent memory. Also, I’m taking advantage of the lull before
the media-mad chaos of

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In the end, the news was brought by a Nightengale. Bob Nightengale. The Mets got their man, and kept F-mart. The plan went down just the way I drew it up in dreamland last night. Allow me to set the scene, so that we can remember this moment for ever. The backdrop: […]

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Johan Santana, you cost us the 2007 NL East. But we’ll welcome you to New York anyway. My flawed logic is based on the idea that had the Mets beaten Santana, rather than suffered a rather humiliating, 9-0 defeat last June 19, they would have won 89 games, instead of 88, and thus […]

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I know.. the site has been dreadfully slow lately. There really just isn’t anything interesting to talk about. I mean, everyone is tired of steroids/clemens/tejada/mitchell report etc… and if you’re not, then you are either A)not actively watching sportscenter/reading about sports, or B) have mental health issues. Okay, the B) part is […]

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