Born 1951 - grew up near Yankee Stadium - so that team and sport are my first love. I am a Met fan too - I lost some passion for them during the Bobby V era, when they became very chippy. I'm more into them now. I enjoy both teams. All this Yankee/Met hate stuff is for bozos and is sports radio hype by people who get lost traveling out of their borough. We are lucky in NY to see every major league player at some point in the year.
I don't take Yankee winning for granted and don't need a World Series win to call a season a success. I went through the postseason droughts of 1965-1975 and then from 1982-1994. When a collapse comes again, I will enjoy the rebuilding as much as the victories. For that matter, the so called Yankees/Red Sox blood feud will die down when one of the teams reaches the end of its cycle and decides to break it down.
Always love the Knicks. More so the Willis Reed era than Patrick Ewing's . The earlier team was a finesse team, the latter, a muscle team. That being said, the Nets' Jason Kidd was my favorite NY basketball player. Absolutely stunning to see the court as he saw it and executed on it. Kidd defined point guard.
I followed the Giants since the Frank Gifford days and have followed the Jets back to before Joe Namath. It hard for me to find personality in the individual NFL teams. Some have great defensive ends, wide receivers, tight ends, quarterbacks, power runners or slashing runners. But I don't find much difference between one team and the other, except competence.
Good effort, but I cannot say that I am impressed by your arguments. What you are missing is that the Yankees probably only want Damon back...
Good Article Harold. I never thought of McGriff as HOF. I took a look at comparisons in Baseball-reference.com. In there, some of Bill James' formulas are...
Harold Friend replied…
Thanks. Ideally, the Gehrig-Foxx-Sisler standards should apply, but that is unrealistic, and the playing conditions, even...
Good Article Harold. I never thought of McGriff as HOF. I took a look at comparisons in Baseball-reference.com. In there, some of Bill James' formulas are...
Greg, I really liked this piece. I don't have the answer to my question, but let's say hypothetically that the Yankees sign John Lackey, a Type...
Doug, I do not know what Cashman would do, but here's what I would do. 1. At catcher, save the money and bring up Cervelli. If...
Roy Levine replied…
Vernon Wells' is not a terrible contract if they take Swisher, who is very overpaid for...
Christopher, if Austin Jackson is striking out 123 times in 132 games and 500 at-bats at the AAA level, what does this equate to at major...
Roy Levine replied…
Christopher: Austin Jackson struck out 132 times with no power in only 132 games. Consider that...
MIke, walk me through the math again. Let's say Beltran gets $18.5M in 2010. Let's say Granderson is at $7.5M. OK Now, they switch uniforms with...
PJ: Couple of thoughts here. Chances are the team that goes after Halliday we'll probably already have some good pitching. I imagine that the team that...
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