Crosstown Crosshairs

May 21, 2012 by Terry Keshner · Leave a Comment

May 20, 2012 Sox, Cubs, NATO The whole world is watching. And now it knows how bad the Cubs really are. And how good the White Sox could be. If they keep playing the Cubs. On a hot spring weekend in Chicago when world leaders and angry protesters came to town for the […]

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Long Night’s Journey Into Nothingness

May 1, 2010 by Gabriel Schechter · Leave a Comment

As I sat through last week’s 20-inning marathon between the Mets and Cardinals, I couldn’t help thinking “I’ve been here before.” The Mets have played a disproportionate number of 20-inning games, and I’ve watched all of them, starting with that ridiculous doubleheader in 1964 in which the Mets lost a 23-inning dandy to the Giants […]

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