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Playoff Musings

Monday, April 20th, 2009

The NBA playoffs have started, which makes me happy. My wife is in France at the moment, so I was able to sports-nerd it up and watch at least part of every single opening game this weekend. My thoughts:
East
Cleveland (1) vs. Detroit (8) – When your best player is putting up lines like 38p, 8a, [...]

On The Yankees

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Ah, schadenfreude … “A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.”
Yep, that’s the stuff. The sweet, sweet taste of the New York Yankees sucking. See, I live in New York, but I spent my formative years in Massachusetts, and those are the years in which sports allegiances are formed (with the exception of college [...]