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Musings on Baseball: Rain aids Yanks/Sox, Cards still get no love

Posted by Michael Seff on Monday, April 23, 2012,

Rainout May Aid Yankees and Red Sox

After two emotionally draining games – more specifically, Saturday's epic comeback by the Yankees and epic meltdown by the Red Sox – Sunday's rainout may have been the best possible result for both teams.

For the Yankees, it allows them to push back CC Sabathia to start the opener of a key three-game series in Texas, for which the Rangers will be without the services of Adrian Beltre. The rain has been nothing but bad news for Texas lately.

A year ...

TV's orgasm reaches climax with Yankees-Red Sox extra innings

Posted by Michael Seff on Monday, August 8, 2011,

First it was MLB Network. Then Fox got in on the action. And finally, ESPN polished off "The Weekend Part 2" by showcasing its two local favorites and, quite frankly, the only two teams that exist in professional baseball (they'll recognize the Phillies come October, however). The Red Sox and Yankees split the first two games of their fourth series of 2011 before ESPN (for the record, this is the official ESPN equation: NESN + YES = ESPN) got to air the rubber match.

With the Yankees lead...

Sox knocked off

Posted by Michael Seff on Wednesday, September 22, 2010,

What happened to the White Sox? They started 24-33 and it looked like Ozzie Guillen was toast. The team simply was underperforming. But then came the winning streaks. First, a 11-gamer in late June. Then a 9-gamer in early July. Finally, the real White Sox had stood up and been counted for. But then came the All-Star break.

Their first game out of the break was the 9^th game of that...