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Well, folks… you may not have known this, but the Prof and I were this close to having our two teams, the Mets and the Tigers, face off in the World Series. Alas, the Tigers held up their end of the bargain, but the Mets sucked it up big time tonight, stranding more men [...]

God came down decisively on the side of the New York Mets tonight, sending enough rain to St. Louis to cancel game 5 of the NLCS and finally putting to rest any questions about His loyalties in the World Series. The soon-to-be World Champion Mets’ key starter, Tommy Glavine, will get an extra day of [...]

They’ve clinched the N.L. East for the first time since ‘88. Boo-yah!
A few weeks after I arrived in Seattle from my hometown of New York, the Mets and Yankees faced off in the 2000 subway series. I watched the games from a bar stool at the Summit Pub near my friend Dave’s apartment [...]

The P-I is reporting that Bellevue uber-developer Kemper Freeman is still optimistic about getting the team, just sold to Oklahoma owners, to move across the lake to Bellevue. Why?
The new owners’ lead negotiator, G. Edward Evans, told Freeman in a phone conversation Wednesday that the Puget Sound market offered better profit potential than Oklahoma [...]

Here’s a story about some Italians being racist. I know, I know. You’re shocked, right?
I know this crap still goes on in Germany (and the U.S., and the Netherlands, and …), too, but I sort of feel like the Germans were at least forced to confront their past and their attitudes about this [...]

Well, thanks to Zizou — soccer Prometheus clipped in his moment of might-be glory — for giving us one of the most important moments in world sports history.
As an American,we’re all brought up to ignore trash talk. I was probably in 10th grade the last time I saw someone kicked out of a game [...]

I don’t care if someone called him the bastard son of Osama bin Laden and a goat — getting ejected from a tied World Cup final that was eventually decided on penalty kicks basically exemplifies “total lapse of judgement.”

(sorry for that tortured mixed metaphor… I never woulda made a good sports headline writer).
Looks like the city of Seattle is winning the battle vis-a-vis the Sonics in the debate over keeping the basketball team in Seattle. The Sonics want a taxpayer-financed $220M renovation of the Key Arena, mostly for more luxury boxes and [...]

The possibilty of sex with the entire stadium means that, you know, actual sex is pushed by the wayside:
On the night before Germany was to play Argentina in the quarterfinals of the World Cup, the prostitutes who work at the Artemis Sauna Club here were putting on their game faces.
With tens of thousands of soccer [...]

Like a social drinker or smoker, I’m a social soccer fan, which means that I’ve watched some of the World Cup with a passing interest. This, however, is a nice post about why soccer is great, and it made me rethink some of my latent, usually unstated qualms with the sport:
Re the infrequency of scoring: [...]