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Stadiums Shouldn’t Come Before Firehouses
Though the Yankees’ and Mets’ new stadiums are ‘privately funded,’ the tax breaks they receive keep New York from funding more important services. In 2006, before the financial crisis, New York City...
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Baseball Needs to Be a Wormhole, Not a Time Capsule
As baseball’s attendance dwindles, Aaron Gordon writes, its significance as a portal to the past is also in jeopardy.Baseball is in the midst of a curious logical inconsistency. Half-empty stadiums,...
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Open Thread: What Was the Most Exciting Game You’ve Ever Watched?
Open Discussion:We had a pretty exciting night at Wrigley Field here in Chicago last night… Cubs vs Mets on a warm perfect night. It made me think about all the exciting games and sporting events I’ve...
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Who Will Win the World Series? Let’s Ask Dad
Today is Game 1 of the World Series. We wanted to know if dads had any predictions, so Carter Gaddis asked them.—Dads know things in the 21st century.They know how to soothe a crying infant in the...
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My Baseball Team Stinks and I Don’t Care
As another playoff-less baseball season winds down, Marc Stern reflects on being a New York Mets fan.—New York has one and a half professional baseball teams. But this article is not all about New...
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From the Front Lines . . . of Sports: Mattingly Schmattingly
Adiba Nelson’s tale of when a sassy seven-year-old Mets fan met Yankee legends, Don Mattingly and Ron Guidry.___This post is part of our series, From the Front Lines . . . of Sports, where readers...
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Life Lessons Learned From Bill Buckner
With baseball season shortly upon us, Nate Graziano reflects on five tough life lessons he has learned at the hands of the sport.___At the beginning of each baseball season, I find myself becoming...
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The Fall Classic, In Cartoon!
during a workout the day before Game 1 of the 2015 World Series between the Royals and Mets at Kauffman Stadium on October 26, 2015 in Kansas City, Missouri.View image | gettyimages.com Are you ready...
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World Series Game 1 Recap, In Cartoon!
View image | gettyimages.comGame 1 of the World Series had it all: Drama, intrigue, excitement… even a power outage! __Home Runs, both inside-the-park and over the wall, followed by errors, 22 total...
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World Series Game 2, Re-Told in Cartoon!
View image | gettyimages.comAfter a back-and-forth opener of The Series, Game 2 was more of a one-sided affair.____With KC playing host again for Game 2, the Royals’ bats kept the home team fans on...
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World Series Game 3 Re-Told as a Cartoon!
View image | gettyimages.com A Major League Debut? Some “chin music” to start the game? The Captain and Grandyman Going Deep? These Questions – and many others – were answered in Game 3 of the World...
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World Series Game 4, Re-told in Rhyme!
View image | gettyimages.comOn Halloween night, in the wind and the cold, baseball fans in New York kept warm and cheered bold. Their heroes of the game swinging with might, trying to even the score...
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World Series Wrap Up in Animation
View image | gettyimages.comThe Royals and Mets provided some incredible drama throughout the World Series. Game 5 in New York was no different. __ When the 2015 MLB season started, few predicted a...
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A Letter to My Son: Four Life Lessons From The Mets World Series Run
Worlds collided on a couch dusted with chip flavoring, optimism, and the sound of fingernails being chomped. A letter from a father to his son, after coming together for the Mets World Series run....
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3 Important Life Lessons the Mets Can Teach My Kids
Embed from Getty Images—I’ve been a Mets fan since birth, or so the story goes.When I was five, and the Mets won the World Series, my dad ran around the house in boisterous celebration, which woke up...
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Life Lessons Learned Through Autograph Hunting
Embed from Getty Images—I had to go real bad. Like pains in my side bad. Like, turtle peeking the head out bad.I dashed out of my cubicle and did my best power walk down the hallway, where I could...
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Jomboy on Baseball, a Breakdown: The Mets, in Quite Possibly the Most Mets...
Here is Jomboy’s breakdown of last week’s Mets vs. Cardinals game from last week. This is, quite possibly, the most Mets thing ever. With the Mets up 2 runs with 2 outs to and their ace closer on the...
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So…This Happened: Three Things in Sports (9/4/2019 Edition)
‘So…This Happened’ is our quick-hitting weekly round-up of some of the biggest stories in sports. Take a read and own the water cooler sports conversations, if any of you actually have a water cooler...
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