Blog Posts For: February 2010

The world seemed off its axis to most of New York for the first decade of the new century. Nothing seemed right as the Yankees failed to win year after year following their annihilation of the Mets in 2000. The Yanks lost two World Series and the Red Sox came back from a 4-0 deficit to go on to win their first one since 1918. It was a dreadful eight years marked by the bastardization of the homerun by steroids and the inability of George Steinbrenner to sign a big-name starting pitcher. Then came 2009 and the baseball world was jolted back to its natural axis as the Yankees finally won another championship. Now that things appear to be right again in the world and here are five reasons to believe that they will stay right as the Yankees will defend their 27th World Series.

This Valentine’s Day thousands of husbands bought their wives and girlfriends diamond necklaces. Los Angeles Angels’ first baseman Kendry Morales took his wife to a meeting with super agent Scott Boras and promised that next season (after either arbitration or a massive contract extension) he will be making enough to buy her a diamond encrusted house in Orange County.

Two thousand and ten is the dawn of a new decade and the coming teen years of the 21st century appear to be loaded with greatness (LeBron James) and conflict (multiple potential season-ending collective bargaining agreements). So, let’s take a trip to the future after these years of calamity and see what the world of sports is like in the post-apocalyptic date of 2020.

I have not seen the new movie Legion, but I have seen trailers and read reviews and the big-budget apocalyptic thriller is by all accounts a disaster. Similarly, I have not seen the backroom collective bargaining agreement (CBA) discussions between the NFL Players Association and the team owners, but I have seen trailers (the three debacles known as the 1994-95 MLB strike, the 1998-99 NBA strike, and 2004-05 NHL lockout) and have read the reviews (Tim Graham’s February 1st ESPN column) and am pretty sure it would be a disaster of actual biblical proportions.