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The Unfamiliar Favorites
After so many years of disappointment, Robert Steven Williams isn’t sure how to feel as his team heads into the 2011 season as World Series favorites. With spring training in full gear and the...
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The Conversation: Opening Day, Red Sox–Yankees, and Baseball as Life
Ryan O’Hanlon and Nick Lehr argue Red Sox–Yankees, philosophize about baseball as life, and make some predictions for the 2011 season that you shouldn’t put any money on. Ryan O’Hanlon: I’m gonna be...
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You know, I like to think of personal fandom as a sort of organic experience. A number of different factors influence the teams you become a fan of. It’s different for everyone, and we all develop our...
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Triple-Nay
Why are Patrick Smith’s clients lying to him about playing minor league baseball? On a Monday morning, I hobbled into a prospective client meeting. “You’ll have to excuse me,” I told the potential...
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Derek Jeter Makes Me Feel Old
What’s it like when the athletes we grew up with begin to retire? Charlie Zegers looks for some answers. I’m approaching one of those big round-number birthdays that people seem to dread. But most of...
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He No Big Papi
There’s a parallel universe somewhere, where Alex Rodriguez broke into a Joe Girardi press conference and fumed about how fucking pissed he was that he didn’t get an RBI and how the fucking stat guy...
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GoodCall: Swimming the Thames, an ‘Office’ Triathlon, and More
Brandon Sneed brings you up to date with all the good that’s going on in the sports world. Last week, GoodCall brought you the story of David Walliams, the British comedian and charitable endurance...
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A Sox Fan in Yankees Land: ‘Boston’s Gay,’ 18-1, and a Chance at Redemption
With the next chapter of the New York–Boston rivalry set to be written on Sunday, Daniel Roberts, a Boston diehard, reflects on his time in Manhattan. In my hometown of Boston, right now, I’ll bet...
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Oscars = Tuxedos
Jamie Reidy smacks down the Good Men Project founder’s argument that men should be allowed to wear dresses to the Academy Awards. My boss’s boss Tom Matlack has more fashion dollars than sense. (If...
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Men: Maybe Not The Retiring Type?
Jamie Reidy discusses guys who think they want to hang up their spikes, but soon return to the work force. The Daily News reports that longtime playoff hero Andy Pettitte rejoined the New York...
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Mariano Rivera, The Epitome of Class
Kaleb pays tribute to the greatest closer of all time in the wake of a torn ACL. Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer of all time, the epitome of class, sportsmanship, and the consumate teammate, tore...
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Sports Talk Flash Fiction: BoSox Rule!
“The Yankees buy everything they got… Always have. They even bought Ruth from the Sox, for crying out loud!” Del Danders pressed one of the flashing buttons. “Marty from Providence, you’re on the...
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An Open Letter to Yankee Fans
CJ Kaplan to Yankees supporters: It’s called losing gracefully. Try it. Dear Fans of the New York Yankees, I know you must be feeling some disappointment and shock after watching your team get...
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The Best GMP Sports Articles of 2012
Liam Day, the Sports Editor of The Good Men Project, picks his favorite sports stories of the past year. — My colleague’s have already offered their picks of The Good Men Project’s best articles...
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The Grief Performance: Football’s Concussions and Controversies
Ronald Metellus on concussions, Manti Te’o, and the complicity of fandom. Two Samoan linebackers have been making news lately. One is a graduating college senior and the other is dead. The latter,...
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Derek Jeter’s Secret Sauce
No, Skip Bayless wasn’t right. Neil Cohen tells us the secret is mental, not physical. Yogi Berra once said that “baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” A wise man, Berra couldn’t...
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Who Will Be the Next Face of Baseball?
As Derek Jeter nears retirement, Scott Behson muses, with his tongue in his cheek, about who will replace the Yankees captain as baseball’s poster boy. There used to be debates about who was the Face...
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The Best $10 Ticket inTown
Mark Spellun talks relationships, love and parenting in a Yankees-Red Sox world. “Tell me about yourself,” my future wife asked, already bored on our first date at a tony Manhattan restaurant. It was...
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Boston Strong
As a life-long Yankees fan, Neil Cohen has to tip his hat to the Red Sox, who, in the wake of April’s terror attacks on Boston, are forging a feel-good, worst-to-first season. I’ve never watched a...
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Bucky F#$&*ing Dent
35 years ago this week the dreaded Yankees beat Liam Day’s beloved Red Sox in a one-game playoff. What he remembers are the lessons, good and bad, his mother imparted. — Wild card games were the rage...
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