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This goes beyond the mere fact that the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers have been dissolved into one blue-and-orange unit, playing on the outskirts of Queens beneath the deafening roar of airplanes leaving LaGuardia Airport. The 2000 Mets and Yankees are both very talented and playoff-savvy teams, I grant you, but neither of them actually belongs to the City of New York...
Hockey season is here. Over the next few weeks, we'll begin to find out if the men can avenge last year's playoff loss at Cornell and qualify for Lake Placid. The women face an uphill battle to make up for last year's Frozen Four snub, with respective national teams claiming some of its best talent...
Returning to hockey for a moment, the NHL has been underway for about two weeks. It feels like the New Jersey Devils just won the Stanley Cup. For all of hockey's numerous virtues, it needs to reconsider the length of its regular season. The extended playoff format already renders most of the previous play irrelevant, so knocking off 10 games couldn't hurt. Of course, I would also like Commissioner Gary Bettman to knock off at least 5 teams. Sorry, Nashville...
Will, please, as a colleague and a friend, see the light before it's too late. Don't let your innocent little heart fall upon disappointment. Hampton is gonna outduel Kile tonight. Leiter is simply a money playoff pitcher. Then the series goes back to Shea. To Queens--New York...
...mercy-killing that would have made Jack Kevorkian proud, the Oakland A's finally pulled the plug on the Boston Red Sox' season last night, beating the Anaheim Angels 9-7 to maintain their lead in the AL wild card race. The win officially kills Boston's playoff hopes, which had been languishing on life support for the past week...