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Seamy as it sounds, my purposes in the Naked City were legitimate. I was making a pilgrimage to the baseball shrine at 161st street and River Avenue, to catch my first Yankee playoff game since the 1996 World Series...
Presumably, the Red Sox will fall short of the World Series as they have seemingly done for millennia. Will service be speedy enough when a vintage edition of Home Run Derby (e.g., Harmon Killebrew vs. Frank Robinson) is on ESPN instead of playoff baseball? Will Home Run Derby devotees (my roommate among them) be able to cope, knowing that Fly-By will not be fast enough for them to hear the habitual recounting of the rules at the very start of the broadcast. All we can do is hope that the Red Sox go all the way and delay consideration...
...LOUIS: Once again, history got itself a nice round number -- courtesy of Mark McGwire. With all due respect to the wild-card playoff game that Sammy Sosa and the Cubs will play against the San Francisco Giants on Monday, the 162-game regular season is over, and so is the historic 1998 home run race. Mark McGwire did that with four staggering blasts in two days, leaving his comrade-in-forearms Sammy blinking in the dust and trying to help his Cubs find their way into the playoffs. Any Sosa comeback now in his extra nine innings is practically...
...Playoff-bound for the second time in four years. Will this be their year? Unlikely. But a fun October awaits nonetheless. --The editorial board
CYNTHIA COOPER It's a repeat MVP, playoff MVP and championship ring for the WNBA's first great star...