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A-Rod Stumbles As Phillies Scorch Yankees In Game One, 6-1
Posted: 29th October 2009 by Richard Marsh in MLB
The boo birds are lying in wake. They are getting ready to let loose a tirade the likes of which have not been seen in a very long time in the Bronx. Last night there were rumblings, signs of things to come.
Despite the fact that Alex Rodriguez was hitting over .430 in the post season and hit clutch tying home runs late in games, here he was on baseballÆs greatest ...
Asked last April who were the last two teams I would like to see in the World Series, anybody and everybody who knows me well enough would have said the Yankees vs. the Phillies.
As a lifetime New York Mets fan and college student Red Sox, fan nothing in baseball could be worse than to have these two rivals competing for a world title. For close to 15 years, I hated ...
New York Jets vs. Oakland Raiders: Jets Win Big in Bay Area, 38-0
Posted: 26th October 2009 by Richard Marsh in NFL
My long weekend trip to the Bay Area was topped by an outstanding performance on the part of the New York Jets defense, as it completely shut down an already suspect Oakland Raiders offense in front of an almost half empty Oakland-Alameda County Stadium. I knowùas I said, I was there.
Before talking game details, I need to dispel some very untrue rumors, or urban legends if you chose, regarding the ...
The Jets Head To The Left Coast Not To Be Left Out
Posted: 22nd October 2009 by Richard Marsh in NFL
In what some media people are saying is that the Jets, after only six regular season games, have reached the crossroads to the 2009 season. After starting 3-0 and on such a high note with victories over Houston, New England, and Tennessee, the Jets have come crashing towards the ground with three consecutive losses against better teams for sure in New Orleans and Miami and the far less competitive Buffalo ...
Philadelphia Phillies Are One Step Closer to the World Series
Posted: 21st October 2009 by Richard Marsh in MLB
The Phillies continue on their quest Wednesday to be the first National League team to win back-to-back World Series since the Big Red Machine of the Cincinnati Reds in the mid-70's. They are one win away from getting back to the World Series for that second straight year. Former Phillies starter Vicente Padilla, and the somewhat snake bit Los Angeles Dodgers, remain standing, just barely, in their way. ...
While I was getting ready to sit back and watch my two favorite teams The New York Jets, and the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday afternoon I was reminding myself why I loved living and following sports in Las Vegas. On any given day of the year I can get in my car and in about the same time you can get to a Walmart near you I can be ...
Trying to recover from last nightÆs thrashing, the Los Angeles Dodgers try to even the NLCS tonight with former Philadelphia starting pitcher Randy Wolf. Wolf was with the Phillies during the time that they were starting to become respectable during the mid- nineties.
Wolf started the first game ever to be played at Citizens Bank Park back in 2004. He has always pitched well in his former home park and as ...
Philadelphia Phillies-Los Angeles Dodgers NLCS Game Three Preview
Posted: 18th October 2009 by Richard Marsh in MLB
In what might have been a game that could have put the Los Angeles Dodgers back against the wall, this series stands even at one game a piece. Charlie ManuelÆs decision to remove Pedro Martinez after seven brilliant innings in Game Two, only to see his bullpen give away the game in the eighth inning.
The bright side is that Pedro will certainly be ready for a repeat performance in Game ...
It is no secret among these parts of my love affair with Pedro Martinez. I can qualify that statement by the countless number of articles I have devoted to him in the past year on these very pages. I have been enormously critical of the Mets organization for their lack of foresight when it comes to this living legend.
I have said it more than once, that if Pedro ...
Chad Henne, Dolphins Show Jets They Are Not Yet an Elite Team
Posted: 13th October 2009 by Richard Marsh in NFL
In one of the most enjoyable Monday Night Football games in recent memory, the New York Jets showed that right now they are a very good football team, but not yet elite.
The normally stout Jets defense expected a run-happy Dolphins offense.á What they didnÆt expect was to be beaten by another inexperienced quarterback, MichiganÆs own Chad Henne.
Henne was simply brilliant, goingá20-26 for 241 yards and two touchdowns,áout-playing his much noted ...