A New York sports fan’s thoughts on how to cheer on the home team while respecting Boston.
The Best $10 Ticket inTown
April 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Mark Spellun talks relationships, love and parenting in a Yankees-Red Sox world.
9/11, Eleven Years On: Let Our Reflections Be Only a Brief Pause
September 11, 2012 By 1 Comment
Slade Sohmer remembers 9/11: Running down 30 flights of stairs from his office on Wall Street, watching the sky turn yellow with smoke, and thinking of all the families who didn’t know they’d just lost their father, sister or child.
Mariano Rivera, The Epitome of Class
May 6, 2012 By 4 Comments
Kaleb pays tribute to the greatest closer of all time in the wake of a torn ACL.
My First Kentucky Derby: The Infield
May 4, 2012 By 2 Comments
Jamie Reidy reminisces on his blurry, yet memorable first trip to the Kentucky Derby.
Opening Day Tragedy at Fenway
April 13, 2012 By 11 Comments
Why perhaps the greatest franchise in sports has been ruined.
Yankee Stadium, Behind Tinted Glass
April 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Three average fans got an unexpected taste of luxury at Yankee Stadium. Was it all it’s cracked up to be?
THE GMP SUPER BOWL PREDICTION
February 5, 2012 By 1 Comment
Tom vs. Eli; NYC vs. Boston; Redeem vs Redemption; Gronk vs Cruz.
How to Save Baseball
September 30, 2011 By 10 Comments
Tom Matlack thinks he can fix the game we all used to love.
Pinstriped Preschool Atrocity
August 19, 2011 By 3 Comments
Aaron Gouveia thought his son was at the perfect preschool…until he saw the hat they’d given him.
Firm Believers in World Peace
August 7, 2011 By 3 Comments
A long-standing Red Sox / Yankees rivalry will do that to you.
Baseball Needs to Be a Wormhole, Not a Time Capsule
July 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As baseball’s attendance dwindles, Aaron Gordon writes, its significance as a portal to the past is also in jeopardy.
Stadiums Shouldn’t Come Before Firehouses
July 1, 2011 By 14 Comments
Though the Yankees’ and Mets’ new stadiums are “privately funded,” the tax breaks they receive keep New York from funding more important services.
A Masshole in Manhattan
February 1, 2011 By 14 Comments
Will a Rondo debate ensue following every Celtics victory? Would knuckle sandwiches have been thrown if that foot-loving loudmouth had led the Jets to the Super Bowl?
How’d that taste New England?
January 17, 2011 By 7 Comments
“Uh…they scored more points than we did.” Bill Belichick, Patriots I was 1-3 this weekend in picking playoff games. That’s sad. For those of you who don’t know, I did sports talk radio for a few years.* That makes my performance this weekend totally pathetic and makes me kind of a jackwad. That’s OK, though. [...]
The Other Kind of Fantasy Sports: Jeter, Ali, and the 19-0 Patriots
December 1, 2010 By 5 Comments
An hour or so on Photoshop and some Post intern redefined “fantasy sports” for millions. And this isn’t the first time technology and sports have met in dreamland.
“It’s a woman’s job to make her man feel safe — a safe place that doesn’t expect him to do brave things just because he’s a man.”
This is a comment by Kat on the post “A Husband’s Job Is To Create Emotional Safety”.