Writing the Pine

Asian Guy Power Rankings: 06/29/2009

Much has happened since the last edition of the Asian Guy Power Rankings – we witnessed the deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Blake Griffin’s career.  Mariano Rivera recorded his 500th career save.  However, it’s been a pathetically slow and uneventful two weeks for the AGPR.  Daisuke Matsuzaka was disqualified from the AGPR in [...]

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I Hate You Castillo, I Love You Aubrey Huff

Ever since Luis Castillo’s unforgivable error that resulted in two runs for the New York Yankees in the New York Mets‘ 9-8 loss in the Bronx, Francisco Rodriguez has not been the same.  Since that unfortunate event, which gave K-Rod his first blown save in 17 opportunities, the following events have transpired: 1) K-Rod got into [...]

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Battle of Ballpark Food: The Real Subway Series

With the conclusion of the first part of the the 2009 Subway Series, it would only make sense to extend the hyper-competitiveness of the New York Yankees and the New York Mets to the different culinary players in each of the new stadiums. There are some ”veterans” around from each of the old stadiums that made the move [...]

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New York, I Love You. There’s Just One Thing…

New York City is the greatest city in the world. Other cities have their moments and are pretty good in their own ways, but really, no city touches the Big Apple. I’m biased, of course, since I live there but others would agree too; New York City, one of the largest in the world, is [...]

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