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…to Become Their Perfect Enemy

Andrew Reilly — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:17:21 +0000

How good are the Rays? How important is it for the Sox to beat them? The answer to both is a resounding “very.” [Mouthpiece Sports]

The Rays Are Much Better Than We Thought

Andrew Reilly — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:30:32 +0000

Losing is losing and that's all there is to it, so let's just fill out the L column and call it a day. [More]

Bombs Away!

Andrew Reilly — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:13:02 +0000

What do the Rays and Twins have in common? (Hint: It rhymes with "schmembarrassed in a ridiculous dome.") [More]

Point/Counterpoint: Keys to the 2009 A.L. Pennant

Andrew Reilly — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:40:05 +0000

Introducing the 35th Street Review's newest feature. In this installment: three, maybe three-and-a-half easy steps to dominating the junior circuit next year. [More]

Those Were the Days, Apparently

Andrew Reilly — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:16:06 +0000

The sports media longs for the World Series of yore - but no one's really sure why. [More]

Bold Predictions: Someone Else’s World Series Edition

Andrew Reilly — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:00:39 +0000

To enjoy this year's World Series is really nothing more than to revel in the same loathing and contempt we always have. And that's a good thing. [More]

Curses!

Andrew Reilly — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:56:40 +0000

Cover your eyes, fans: the Boston Red Sox may be on the verge of murdering baseball itself. [More]

Cheering for the Other Guys

Andrew Reilly — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:58:18 +0000

So the Sox are out. Now what? Now we rebound.

National League Championship Series, Dodgers vs. Phillies: Phillies fans, as we all know, are insane. And hateful. And spiteful. And mean. And their players carp a lot to the press. Also, Joe Torre and Manny Ramirez don’t need any more glorification in the sports press. Sox/35th endorses: Phillies.

American League Championship Series, Red Sox vs. Rays: Simply put, the Red Sox are a sports franchise of pure evil on par with the most rotten of them. Also, the Rays crushed a certain team we were all pulling for in the first place. Sox/35th endorses: Rays.

Astute reader Brian in Vernon Hills pointed out that an ideal, most gleefully schadenfreudian outcome would be a Rays sweep of the Dodgers, since the basic mathematical logic would deduce R > D and D > CHC, therefore R > CHC. If wins(R) = D + 4, and wins(CWS) = 1 while wins(CHC) = 0, the Sox are therefore the mightiest team in Chicago while the other one is, in all honesty, a loser echoing through the ages.

But we already knew that. Go Rays. Or anyone, really.

If You Will It, Dude, It Is No Dream

Andrew Reilly — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:54:14 +0000

They went 100 miles, 200 miles, 300 miles, and the train kept-a-rollin'. [More]

If There’s a Light Up Ahead Well, Brother, I Don’t Know

Andrew Reilly — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:47:11 +0000

We could be heroes, just for staving off total humiliation another day. [More]