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Yoenis Cespedes Laid A Historic Whooping On The Phillies
Golf enthusiast Yoenis Cespedes has the great fortune of playing against Phillies pitching this week and he made the most of it tonight. Clay Buchholz started for Philly this evening and his troubles began immediately, as Cespedes crushed a bambinazo to bring in three runs before the Phillies had ev...
The Phillies And Mets Stewed Some Very Mild Beef
If the 2017 baseball season is a slow-cooked pot roast, not enough time has passed for the beef to be tender and juicy. What I’m trying to say is, the Mets and Phillies almost brawled last night....
Noah Syndergaard Jacks Philly Phanatic's ATV For Pregame Joyride
Feel that warm breeze my friends, summer’s almost here. Time to hop on those ATVs....
It Was Michael Pineda's Day
Michael Pineda, the former blue-chip prospect who still gives the occasional flash of brilliance, almost gave the Yankees a home opener for the ages today. What he gave them instead was still pretty damn good, though....
Karl-Anthony Towns Just Keeps Wrecking Shit, Even If You Aren't Watching
By now it feels like a past life. But not long ago, games between the Timberwolves and Knicks were among the small pleasures of the early NBA season: heated clashes between two flawed teams that still tried hard, and more importantly, sported the NBA’s two most intriguing sophomores, both seven-foot...
<i>New York Times </i>Public Editor: What's With All These Interesting Stories Where The Box Scores Should Be?
New York Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote an exceptionally stupid column this weekend criticizing the newspaper’s sports section....
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Otis Nixon Is Missing [Update: He's Been Found]
Otis Nixon, a former outfielder who spent 17 seasons on nine Major League teams, most famously on the Atlanta Braves’ worst-to-first turnaround team in 1991, is missing, according to police in Woodstock, Ga....
Lawsuit: NHL Owner Daryl Katz Offered Actress Millions For Sex
Canadian billionaire and Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz has been accused of luring Brazilian model and actress Greice Santo into hotel rooms on multiple occasions and offering her money for sex, according to documents filed in a recent lawsuit. But that’s not what the lawsuit is about. The allegat...
Matt Harvey Looked Pretty Good Last Night
Last season was the worst of Matt Harvey’s career. It started with him getting clowned on for not peeing enough, transitioned to him getting booed off the mound by the home fans, and ended with him being shutdown with thoracic outlet syndrome. During all of this, he mostly looked and carried himself...
Jay Bruce: Anal Power
The Mets lost to Atlanta last night in extras, but not before Jay Bruce leveraged anal power to launch a big dinger off Bartolo Colón. Your music is the appropriately titled “Anal Power” by Czech death metal group Törr, from their 1992 album Chcípni O Kus Dál....
James Dolan Called Me An Asshole, Knicks Fan Says; "He Is An Asshole," Dolan Says<em></em><em></em>
Mike Hamersky, a self-described New York Knicks superfan and season ticket holder from Astoria, claims that team owner James Dolan got in his face last night outside Madison Square Garden and screamed mean things....
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Yankees Prospect Clint Frazier Reportedly Asked If He Could Wear Mickey Mantle's Number [Update]
On WFAN today, Yankees radio broadcaster Suzyn Waldman told Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts that highly touted Yankees prospect Clint Frazier asked the Yankees “if they ever un-retire numbers.” As if that question wasn’t batshit enough, Waldman says Frazier wanted to wear No. 7, which once belonged to ...
Mets Fan Mad
The Mets are 1-0 to start the 2017 season. Some Mets fans are irate....
Derrick Rose Has Another Season-Ending Knee Injury
The Knicks’ sad season got even sadder today, as the team announced that Derrick Rose would be out for the rest of the year with a torn left meniscus....
Are You Aware That The Yankees' New Right Fielder Is Extremely Large?
Newly named starter Aaron Judge is listed at 6-foot-7, 275 pounds....
MLB Struck The Right Balance With Jeurys Familia's Punishment
Yesterday afternoon MLB handed down a 15-game suspension for Mets closer Jeurys Familia, following a 2016 arrest in New Jersey after his wife, Bianca Rivas, called 911 and said her husband was “drunk” and “acting crazy.” ...
Carmelo Anthony Embraces Oblivion
This year has been a trying time for Melo....
Mets Closer Jeurys Familia Suspended 15 Games After Domestic Violence Arrest
Four days before Opening Day, MLB has announced its long-awaited suspension for New York Mets pitcher Jeurys Familia after a November 2016 arrest after an alleged domestic violence incident involving his wife. ...
Tim Tebow's Prayers To Make Contact With A Max Scherzer Fastball Were Not Answered<em></em><em></em>
Mets farmhand Tim Tebow started at left field this afternoon in a spring training game against the Nationals and their ace Max Scherzer. Tebow will begin the season playing Class A ball with the Columbia Fireflies, but he’ll finish up spring training with the Mets, where he’s been having some issues...
The Mets Are Trying The Same Thing And Hoping For Better Results
This is part of an occasional series comprising MLB season previews....