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My Five Favorite Moments From The Yankees-Tigers Brawl
Yesterday saw the weirdest and most interesting game of the season, a 10-6 Tigers win over the Yankees that saw eight ejections, four batters hit by pitches, three bench clearings, and a whole bunch of legitimate punches....
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Benches Clear After Miguel Cabrera And Austin Romine Have A Legit Fight At Home Plate [Updates]
Most baseball fights are a bunch of meaningless posturing, but Yankees catcher Austin Romine and Tigers DH Miguel Cabrera exchanged actual punches and rolled around in the dirt during today’s game in Detroit....
Bad Thing Happens To Mets Player
This is going to come as a shock, but the Mets dealt with some terrible luck today....
Will The NFL Ever Get Rid Of The Preseason?
Giants wideout Odell Beckham Jr. has an ankle sprain, which in this instance is good news, considering how severe the injury looked when it happened. Now for the bad news: The sprain reportedly could keep Beckham from playing in the Giants’ first two regular-season games. Which means it’s time again...
Giants Cut Michael Bowie Following Domestic Assault Charge
The Giants cut lineman Michael Bowie today, a week after he was charged with domestic violence in Bixby, Oklahoma. In a statement, Giants General Manager Jerry Reese said:...
Gary Sanchez Hit The Second-Longest Home Run Of The Year
Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez clobbered a 493-foot home run, one of two on the night, in New York’s 13-4 win over the Tigers. Maybe most impressively, he hit it off an 80 mph changeup....
Aaron Judge's Record-Setting Strikeout Streak Is Over
After a first half in which he looked less like an ordinary ballplayer and more like a dinger-smashing demigod, Aaron Judge has suffered through a second half in which he has looked mostly like a slumping rookie with some trouble adjusting to the big-league curve. This is not the end of Judge, and i...
What The Hell Did The Mets Do To Steven Matz?
On Monday, the Mets announced that young starter Steven Matz was being shut down. Manager Terry Collins insisted that Matz was not hurt, telling reporters, “This is not an injury, this is not an injury ... If he had to pitch he could pitch tomorrow.” A few hours later, the Mets announced that Matz w...
Odell Beckham Jr. Limps Off Field After Tough Hit, Crumples In Pain Outside Locker Room
Odell Beckham Jr. limped off the field during the second quarter of tonight’s preseason game against the Browns after a hit that knocked his legs out from under him:...
Anquan Boldin's Retirement Made Me Remember That Time He Had His Face Broken By A Hit<em></em>
Eric Smith hit Anquan Boldin so hard, he knocked himself out....
Report: Chris Christie Gives Up Dream Of Being A Terrible Sports Radio Host For Now
Anyone who had hoped to one day call Chris Christie on the radio and tell him he’s a corrupt piece of shit will be sorely disappointed to learn that they’ll have to settle for tweeting at him, as the outgoing governor of New Jersey will not pursue an on-air gig at WFAN. ...
The Mets Forgot How Many Outs Are In An Inning Of Baseball
The Mets turned five double plays last night in a win over the Marlins, snapping a five-game losing streak in the doing. But that’s not why we’re here, my friends. We are here to delight in one particular double-play: the one where the Mets stood around the infield waiting for play to resume after r...
Large Rookie Masher Aaron Judge Sets A Bad Kind Of Record
Before we get too far into this, let us remind ourselves that Aaron Judge is a rookie, and we should be just as patient with a rookie’s struggles as we are measured in our praise of their successes. Or, wait, I’m being told, yes, it seems we in fact spent the first three months of the baseball seaso...
The Mets Are Certainly Getting Less Expensive
The Dodgers, already comprehensively better than every other team in baseball, today gave up cash and a player to be named later for Curtis Granderson of the Mets....
Radio Host Don La Greca Completely Snaps On A Yankees Fan
YES Network radio hosts Don La Greca and Michael Kay had to endure the complaints of Yankees fan Steve from Brooklyn on Thursday’s show, but La Greca lost his temper after Steve suggested that Yankees rookie Aaron Judge, who’s struggled in the second half but is still an imposing hitter, should have...
Jets Linebacker Calls Out Breitbart Chud For Twisting His Words
Jets linebacker Jordan Jenkins didn’t hide his feelings about what went down over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., from the creeping normalization of the KKK and its sympathizers to the neo-Nazi murder of a counter-protestor to the president’s refusal to call what happened for what it is....
Aaron Judge Put A Ball In The Nosebleeds
Aaron Judge’s home run into the third deck in left Citi Field was officially measured at 457 feet. His teammates weren’t buying it....
The Mets Are Dealing With Infield Injuries Just Fine, Thanks
There are any number of logical team strategies for dealing with injuries. Call up help from the minor leagues. Get a little more creative than usual with your defensive alignments. Let a catcher make his first career appearance at third base, but live in such terror of him actually having to field ...
Richard Ben Cramer On The Damn Yankees
Originally published in the October 17, 1977, edition of The Baltimore Sun, this column appears here with permission from the author’s estate....
Odell Beckham Jr. Isn't Fair
There’s Giants wideout Odell Beckham Jr. this morning at training camp, doing what he does even as Janoris Jenkins plays him perfectly. Here’s the full video:...