Since I have been a delinquent with this blog as of late, I am going to try an update Manlio style. So here goes!
In the last few weeks we have:
- Ran 18 Miles to Coney Island and back in 88 degree weather. It was terrible. Terrible. Terrible.
- Ran 16 Miles and then hopped [...]

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TOAD: Sept. 25th, 2007: A little while ago Daya invited us all out to Shea to catch the Mets and the Nationals the last week of the season. Unfortunately for the Mets, the game didn’t go so well and proved to be a harbinger for the week to come. On a side note, we were [...]

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TOAD: July 31st, 2007: Thanks to Mo organizing an ITP Past and Present group outing to Yankee Stadium, Karen and I were able to enjoy our first game of the year in person. For those who don’t remember, this was one of the games where A-Rod was stuck on 499 home runs so every time [...]

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Surprise, surprise, I’m not super excited for this series. Gabe brings up a good point though - the matchups are good and its really time for the Yankees to do SOMETHING. Joel Sherman pens what I think is the first not completely pessimistic article about the Yanks in weeks. Anyway, they got me in a [...]

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The Yankees have dug themselves quite a hole and need to start showing that they’re not the team we’ve seen over the first 2 months of the season. They managed to win 1 against the Mets over the weekend and honestly, a sweep in this series is really the only thing that would be enough [...]

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As is a rite of Spring every year, the Yankees and Red Sox are readying for their first regular season series. They’re tight in the standings and the Yankees will be sending 2 rookies to the mound against the Red Sox vaunted 1,2,3 starters. Luckily, super-Yankee Andy Pettitte will kick things off against super-Blogger Curt [...]

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The Yankees bring back an old old favorite (34 yrs old, so not that old) for 1 year + an option. Deatils on the contract to come but that looks good so faro me.. Hope the elbow is solid and you know this means we’re in for months of “does that mean Roger Clemens will [...]

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That’s right. The Yankees and Red Sox are going to fight through 5 games between Friday and Monday, starting off with a day/night doubleheader on Friday. For the past couple of months I have maintained that we will have a much clearer idea of the way things stand after this weekend’s series. There are some [...]

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At least now I know what to get Gabe and Manlio for Christmas.
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Now that we’re entering the second half of the season, what do we think will happen. An email containing FOX’s predictions became a thread containing all of our predictions. I will paste them here for posterity (and gloating rights come October).
Manlio’s:
Those are all good questions. I think:
1. the AL east comes down to the wire, [...]

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