Posted By (Former) Prez Erin: Well because I was recently given status as co-editor, I thought I would post yesterday :). Our sports comments should make for some interesting commentary, considering Joe and I disagree on just about everything (minus the Giants)!!

Posted by Joe: Erin, thank you for hopping aboard with a posting. In the future, it would be beneficial for all posters to put a simple "Posted by (Your Name Here)" before each post. But here are my thoughts on yesterday in sports, or more aptly, my personal affiliations with yesterday's sports action.



In short, it was a bad day to be liked by Scoops.



NHL



Although I am a Rangers fan, I hate the Philadelphia Flyers almost as much as I hate non-alcoholic beer. Watching them eliminate the Devils (sorry Livingston boy), a team that is a rival of the Rangers but that I respect, was not my idea of a nice Saturday.



MLB



Not only did the Yankees get bitch-slapped in their hineys by the Red Sox and Curt Schilling, but later on, one of the more reliable pitchers on my fantasy baseball team, Josh Beckett, was left in the game too long against Atlanta and suffered his first loss. Then, I found out that my starting shortstop, Angel Berroa, has been placed on the DL because of headaches. Headaches? They had better be really bad headaches Angel. Really bad. That means that my catcher, Joe Mauer, my ace, Mark Prior, and my shortstop, Berroa, are all on the DL. Ray Durham, my backup 2B, is also banged up. Since I like to see both New York teams do well, it was not much better when I looked up and saw that the Mets lost to the Pirates, by 2-1.



NBA



New Jersey 107, New York 83. Nuff said. This might be a short series for my beloved New York Knicks.



Maybe one of these days, I will post some non-sports content. Yeah, i will.

Posted by Erin Bruehl: The Red Sox may have won again but as much as I dislike the Yankees, it is hard to think too much of their losses. Ten games into the season and two losses to the BoSox is not going to break the Yanks' season. As my best friend put it one day, that's the beauty of the 162-game schedule - a few games early on are not going to make or break you, in comparison to lose two football games (a la my beloved NY Giants did again and again this past season) and it could mean being shut out of the playoffs. The long schedule is conducive to the best team really winning - the long season balances out. Weaknesses will be exposed by midseason and we'll see how Boston's bullpen holds up... as well as the Yanks' starting rotation...

And we'll see if the Mets can reach .500.... but not if they keep losing to the freakin' Pirates...

Okay, so the Yankees did not win the game started by Javier Vazquez, as I promised he would. He crumbled in the Fens during the first inning, and New York could never get untracked. So my modified prediction is this:



The Yankees will beat Curt Schilling today behind Mike Mussina, who has saved some of his best career games for Fenway "Pock." I attended two of those games during the 2002 season, and his stuff was filthy (baseball term for "unhittable"). But it does not even approach the game he pitched there in September 2001, when he came within one strike of hurling a perfect game before Carl Everett laced a clean single to left. While a perfect game today would seem highly unlikely, I look for a 4-2 Yankee win behind a two-hit game by Alex Rodriguez (possibly with a home run).



In the other two games, my official pick is this: Jose Contreras will defeat Derek Lowe and Kevin Brown will defeat Bronson Arroyo. Sorry for the modifications, but in the words of Yankees' radio announcer John Sterling, "If you think you've got baseball figured out..."

Tonight is the first night of a 19-game, 2004 dance between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Rarely is a game held on the third Friday in April visited by as many members of the press as tonight's game will be, but rarely are the two best teams in baseball nestled inside one five-squad division. Rarely are the tensions of even the most bitter rivalries pulled back and forth from the moment the last out of the season is recorded until the moment the first pitchers and catchers arrive for the ensuing Spring Training. This is Yanks/Sox, folks, the reason baseball fans wake up in the morning, the reason baseball fans breathe. My prediction: The series will be split, with the Yankees winning the games started by Javier Vazquez and Mike Mussina, and the Sox winning the games started by Bronson Arroyo and Derek Lowe.

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The New York Times

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