bases.newsvine.com - 6/29/2009
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Freakonomics -- the book, the blog, the phenomenon -- is basically about applying economic theory to non-traditional things. Things like parenting and sumo and the Ku Klux Klan and what have you.
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nj.com - 6/29/2009
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nj.com —
William Perlman/The Star-LedgerGaffes like the one Mets first
baseman Daniel Murphy committed against the Yankees Sunday night,
contributed to a sweep at the hands of their cross-city rivals. Well, all six games of the 2009 Subway Series are ...
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Now that the Subway Series is over, where do the New ...
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com - 6/29/2009
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freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com —
I took the family to last night’s Yankees-Mets
game at the new Citi Field. We had a
great time despite the very late hour. (More on that later.) This was the final game of the season between the crosstown rivals. Interleague play means that lots of ...
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The Failure of Yankees Fans (and Mets Fans Too) - ...
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My Morning in Exile
The Hardball Times —
... belief, Matt Wieters is not omnipotent. Indeed, he's not even monopotent these days.
Milton Bradley may cause a lot of problems, but trying to draw walks doesn't seem like it should be listed as one of them.
The Cubs should release Carlos Zambrano. In Bizarro World.
Call me crazy, but I like to be aware that a baseball game is happening when I go to the ballpark.
Mets and Yankees fans have forgotten how to taunt.
Finally, Gary ...
Calcaterra—Yankees and Mets fans are unimaginative
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Calcaterra—Yankees and Mets fans are unimaginative Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner was at the Mets-Yankees game last night, and he wonders why Yankees and Mets fans are so darn economically inefficient when it comes to their cheers and taunts: A pattern quickly emerged. The many Yankees fans regularly broke into their thunderous cheer: “Let’s go Yankees!” (clap-clap-clap-clap … clap-clap). If you are a Yankees fan (we are; but we do not hate the Mets), this was a sign of what might be called prideful hubris, or maybe hubristic pride: we can come into your stadium and rock it ...
Cheering For Dummies
Fack Youk —
Via the Shyster over at his NBC Circling The Bases gig, the guys from Freakonomics have a some complaints about the chants at Citi Field last night, and it's not the one you'd expect to hear from a middle aged guy who took his family to a game: A pattern quickly emerged. The many Yankees fans regularly broke into their thunderous cheer: “Let’s go Yankees!” (clap-clap-clap-clap … clap-clap). If you are a Yankees fan (we are; but we do not hate the Mets), this was a sign of what might be called prideful hubris, or maybe hubristic pride: we can come ...
Getting Your Freak On, Subways Series Style
WasWatching.com —
Via the smart and funny Stephen Dubner with a hat to Craig Calcaterra and BBTF -
Having now taken the family to the new Yankee Stadium and the Mets’ new ballpark, I find it hard to believe that any neutral observer wouldn’t agree that Citi Field is a far, far more pleasant place to spend a few hours. It is well-designed and handsome, and fan-friendly in many ways that Yankee Stadium is not. Yankee Stadium is full of pride and tradition and all that, but it is essentially a vast concrete bowl with chairs. Fill in your own blanks: Citi is to ...
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Time to gloat and do the Snoopy dance over the Yankees sweeping the Mets
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 6/29/2009 — I guess I should be all empathetic and make murmuring noises to Squawker Jon about how I feel bad for him that his Mets got swept by the Yankees. Because he and his fellow Met fans would do the same for us, right? Wrong. C'mon, who are we kidding here? If the Mets swept the Yanks, Jon would be ...
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Not since 1933 has the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry been greeted with such a streak. The Bombers seemed defused as they dropped their 8th in a row to the Sawks last night in Fenway (in ’33 the Yankees won the first 9 against the sox and in the 1912 season the Sox won the first 14). The most talked ...
Going for the sweep
myteamrivals.typepad.com 6/29/2009 — My apologies to our readers for the lack of posting lately. I've been sick and thats the reason for the silence. I hope you will continue to read The Bronx Daily and please be assured the posting will pick up. The Bombers go for the sweep tonight against their crosstown rivals, the Mets. ...
SEASON ON THE BRINK AS AMAZIN'S HIT ROAD —
NY Post: Sports 6/29/2009
> BY THE end, the place was overrun with Yankees fans and Yankees chants, and the Mets were left to slink back to their clubhouse with all of that venom echoing in their ears, with a haunting sense of foreboding lingering to their souls. ...
ROUGH, WILD NIGHT FOR FRANCISCO —
NY Post: Sports 6/29/2009
> On a night when the Yankees closer achieved another career milestone, the Mets closer suffered a career embarrassment. Francisco Rodriguez, who has been nearly perfect for the Mets this year, walked Mariano Rivera with the bases loaded ...
YANKS' OFFENSE STAGNATES AFTER QUICK START —
NY Post: Sports 6/29/2009
> Thanks to first baseman David Murphy's ill-advised throw across the diamond and the Mets' inability to turn a double play in the first inning, the Yankees appeared to be on their way to another easy Subway Series victory. After all, Mark...
Looking at the Yankees on an Off Day —
Bleacher Report - MLB 6/29/2009
The past two weeks have been not so much a Tale of Two Teams as it has a Tale of Two Offenses. Both weeks the Yankees pitched decently—certainly well enough that they could have won nearly every game they played—but in the first week of ...
