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Rocket Landing

By Billy Fellin

“Houston, we have a problem”
“Go on”
“The Rocket has landed in New York.”

The move that rocked the baseball world on Sunday, the Yankees signed Roger Clemens to a pro-rated 1-yr/28 million dollar deal. This comes out to about $4.5 million every month. So will the Rocket’s coming to the Bronx energize the team and get them back from the darkness of the AL East? Or is there nothing to help save the Yankees’ sinking ship?

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Dizzy

By Billy Fellin

    Dizzy is what happens when you spin around on a tire swing or a rotating chair too long. Dizzy can happen when a beautiful girl walks by and you turn your head so fast to catch another glimpse. That could also be filed under whiplash. Any one else think there should be a HANS-type device that could prevent this? Can we get a ruling on this? Ok. Moving on, dizzy also happens to be a very good song by the Goo Goo Dolls. Dizzy is also how Yankee fans are currently feeling after the three game sweep in Fenway this past weekend.

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Shut Up

By Billy Fellin

    Just a few days ago, spring training began in baseball when first the pitchers and catchers then the rest of the players showed up in camp and started to work out for the 2007 season. Great, I’m already excited about the weather getting warmer (gotta love nice spring days on a college campus-girl’s shorts get shorter ever year) as well as baseball getting going. But then we get drama worthy of a high school cafeteria out of New York where A-Rod has said his friendship with Derek Jeter has “cooled”. Honestly, guys, just can it.

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Trading the Unit- filling first base- and defending Javy Vazquez [for no reason]

As the new-year approaches, and the Jets, a punch line for ESPN lug heads [err, analysts] before the season began, continue to shock the football world, the Yankees made my Christmas, when their designs of trading the shriveling Unit leaked out to media outlets.

Why do I hate Randy Johnson?
Who should play first base for the Yankees in 2007?
Who the hell is Brad Halsey again?
The answers to these questions and more, right now!  

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The Sheffield Error

He’s a walking contradiction, half hero half villain, glaring like a samurai behind ice-cold eyes. He’s a warrior and a whiner, heart and talent, attitude and arrogance. He defends his teammates with righteous zeal. He belittles them with distant apathy.  

He hits and he hits.

He is Gary Sheffield.

Who is Gary Sheffield?  

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For What it’s Worth

The Yankees shocking expulsion from Baseball’s October proceedings left their devoted legion of fans falling perilously into negativity, trapped in feelings ranging from disillusionment to anger.

People react to disappointment in different ways, their methods of coping best reflecting their personalities. Some people disavow their devotion, while others find their loyalty reinforced in defeat. Some people react calmly, while others write a nonsensical stream of conscience sports column named after a Carlos Santana jam. Whatever the survival method, we all eventually get led back to a mutual point of origin:

Hope for the future, appreciation for the past, and a constant yearning to continually move forward.

How exactly should the Yankees correct the error of their ways?

At the dawning of yet another cold winter catharsis, here are one fan’s humble suggestions.

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The Marcus Thames Affair- or why the Yankees are Dead

By C. Eric Lincoln

Dim the lights on the greatest sporting franchise in American history. Say Goodnight, Babe. Thanks for the memories, Mr. October. And even though its crowded. Yogi,  no one wants to play there anymore. The Detroit Tigers —bless you boys— are in the World Series, proof that a new day has come to baseball, and the Yankees and George Steinbrenner`s  money don’t count for much any more. The king is dead. Long live parity. Long live Marcus Thames.

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When Athletes and Fans Are On The Same Plane

They say you have a better chance of being struck by lightning or winning the lottery than dying in a plane crash. According to the BBC, the chances of having a single fatality on a flight are 1 in 16 million. You are actually at a greater risk driving to the airport than you are in flight! Statistically, a person would have to fly once a day every day for over 15,000 years to be involved in an aircraft accident.

On Wednesday, October 11, 2006 former Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle died after his plane crashed into a building on New York’s Upper East Side. He is survived by his wife of 9 years, Melanie, and 6-year-old son Christopher. Lidle was 34.

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The Baseball Hangover

The only good thing to come out of the movie “Meet Joe Black” was a scene portraying a quick one-two punch of cars slamming into Brad Pitt. Right in succession. The only good thing to come out of this weekend was that I now have a reason to gratuitously reference this scene. That’s just the kind of few days it’s been.

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Samba Pa Ti

This hurts right now. Here is what’s on my mind.