Saturday, October 30, 2004

In time we see all

Welcome to a new chapter in baseball folk lore.The once extremely prideful New York Yankees winners of 26 World Championships now have a blemish on their name.Thanks in great part to the Boston Red Sox.The old shoe the Yanks have kicked around for a long time.Yogi Berra the great hall of fame catcher once told a young Bernie Williams "Don't worry about the Red Sox we have been playing them for 80 years they can not beat us".Well Yog you're right for 80 years you had them, however this recent edition of pinstripes let them get away.Yes Virginia, they let the cat out of the bag.Now the record for biggest collapse in baseball post season history lies at the feet of the New york Yankees.As a Yankee fan that hurts ouch!




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Friday, October 29, 2004

We've come full circle

Welcome to a blog.This is a blog I hope is not like any other.My point in creating this blog is to speak my mind primarily about sports.Confessing now that I love sports is no great surprise.I started loving sports when I was a very young boy.Playing sports was how I remember rolling the time away. The great part about sports is I never new what time it was.All I knew was that when it was day time I played and when it was night time I stopped.Whenever I hear or see the word halcyon I think of those countless days of playing sports without a care in the world.
While those days are gone the pleasant memories live on in my mind.Finding those days and times bring me back so vividly to moments I loved so much.Watching sports today brings me much joy because my main thought and pleasure is derived from my love of the pastime.With all that said I have a strong urge to give my views of todays sports.My favorites teams to follow are Yankees,NY Giants,NY Rangers,NY Knicks, Notre Dame football and UConn basketball.Believe me it is in that order of interest.Although as I have grown older I have a stronger interest in baseball than all the other sports.Baseball allows you to embrace it more than all the other sports it leaves you in mid fall and comes back in early spring.During the winter in sends you reminders of the great opportunities that lie ahead.Those warm summer days and nights, the potential of the next pennant race.In essence, its always there.Football which by far was my first love does not have the staying power that baseball does.I used to play football just about every day during the week during football season so I was always thinking about football however once I stopped playing football I did not think of it every day during the season.Only when the anticipation grew for the next game which started on Friday.
I am feeling pretty flushed right now of exciting insight so I going to take a break from my thoughts on this subject for now.My objective of this forum will be to impart to me and whomever reads this a brief synopsis of the thoughts on my mind on any given day.I hope I was able to accomplish that today.

posted by Spindoc2 at 4:32 AM 1 comments

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199521NYYAL155148512410700311.250.294.375.6697418000006
199622NYYAL157654582104183256107814748102.314.370.430.800101250139691*6RoY-1
199723NYYAL1597486541161903171070231274125.291.370.405.7751032651410820*6MVP-24
199824NYYAL149694626127203258198430657119.324.384.481.864127301135331*6AS,MVP-3
199925NYYAL1587396271342193792410219891116.349.438.552.9891533461212365*6AS,MVP-6
200026NYYAL14867959311920131415732246899.339.416.481.8961282851412334*6AS,MVP-10
200127NYYAL15068661411019135321742735699