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Nothing warms the heart more than hearing Mets fans bitch about wanting Dillon Gee off the team due to suckiness, then moments later inquiring whether or not he could fetch Starlin Castro in a trade....
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June 13th* Other stuff: This "debate" between English soccer fans about whether a player who is nearly 29 is 28 or 29 years old is simultaneously one of the dumbest and funniest things I've ever read;...
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June 13th*The good news: #NoEsmils is now a reality as the awful reliever is now off of my team after getting pounded again in relief yesterday. The bad news: he was pitching because the Yanks were...
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Oh, great, as I start this, clueless Terry Collins is helping the Mets implode again. Terrific... (edit: and there goes the win...)American League- Blue Jays (33-30) 5, Red Sox (27-36) 4 (11...
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June 14th* NHL Playoffs recap:Stanley Cup Final - Game 5- 3C Blackhawks (3-2) 2, 2A Lightning (2-3) 1. In the least surprising development ever, this series saw its fifth-straight one-goal game...
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June 14th*Oh, good - the Yankees bullpen has gone from a strength to a weakness as all of the peripheral relievers have proven themselves to be unreliable just as Andrew Miller goes down with an...
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Both New York teams won on the same day?! Is this real life?American League- Yankees (34-28) 5, Orioles (31-31) 3. Stop the presses - visiting New York's bullpen was *gasp* excellent (4.1 IP, 0 H, 0...
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June 15th* NBA Playoffs recap:NBA Finals - Game 5- * Golf: Thank goodness for the U.S. Open starting this coming Thursday, as this was the least interesting week in golf this season when it came to...
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June 15th*The Yankee game yesterday was a long, tough one to watch with ineffective pitching causing the early innings to drag on and on. Adam Warren struggled to put away guys and was ineffective in...
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Dear vote-spamming Royals fans and Ned Yost: fuck off. Telling other fanbases that they should vote more when your morons have set up bots to autovote a guy with a .219 OBP into a starting spot in...
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June 16th* NHL Playoffs recap:Stanley Cup Final - Game 6- 3C Blackhawks (4-2) 2, 2A Lightning (2-4) 0. Apparently thunderstorms in Chicago* weren't an omen of visiting Tampa Bay winning on Monday,...
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mds2929 wrote:* Other stuff: With the team sitting at 32-33 after breaking the bank for a bevy of big name offseason acquisitions, the Padres found their first scapegoat in manager Bud Black, who got...
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June 16th*I called it - the Blackhawks are Stanley Cup champions for the third time in six years after Corey Crawford blanked the Lightning last night to close out the series. The game itself was...
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If Rob Manfred actually overturns these joke All-Star results, I'll take back anything bad that I might have ever said about the guy.Interleague Play - Now Every Game...- Athletics (28-39) 6, Padres...
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I've been doing these updates for a long time and there have been a lot of silly results, but on the whole, they were mainly outliers within otherwise solid results. However, the utter ridiculousness...
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June 17th* NHL Playoffs recap:NBA Finals - Game 6- 1 Warriors (4-2) 105, 2 Cavaliers (2-4) 97. It took 40 years, but Golden State is again the NBA champs after a truly impressive road triumph in...
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June 17th*Just got back from doing apartment hunting with my brother in Philly all day and am exhausted. Fortunately, there's next to nothing to talk about Yankee-wise after the Eovaldi embarrassment...
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Another day, another elite prospect explodes.Interleague Play - Now Every Game...- Reds (30-35) 8, Tigers (34-32) 4 (13 innings). What looked like a straightforwarded pitchers duel between Johnny...
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June 18th* Other stuff: Not much to cover with the NBA/NHL done, the U.S. Open not starting until Thursday, and the NBA Draft a week away, so let's simply marvel at MLB's hideous All-Star Game caps...
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June 18th*Yesterday's Yankee game went from nearly historic to a nail biter awfully quickly and did little to dispel the narrative that Joe Girardi doesn't trust any of his non-Betances/Miller...
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