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The Yankees could be without an ace very soon. CC Sabathia, the Bronx Bombers only decent pitcher during the 2011 regular season has opted out of his contract with New York, as many expected he would, as the story broke on Sports Illustrated earlier tonight. Sabathia who had four years and $92 million left on his former contract wants more money and years, however with severe weight problems one can wonder if the Yankees, or anyone else for that matter would be willing to give CC more than he is worth. Sabathia was the Yankees only reliable pitcher; an ace among some pretty lousy and mediocre pitchers, Sabathia won 19 games for the Yankees this past season. However the big concern for Sabathia was his weight. He came into the 2011 sesaon weighing in at 290 lbs, but ballooned well over 300 lbs by mid season. If Sabathia can't get control of his weight he will become more of a headache later in his career. The Rangers have been rumored as a team that will go hard after Sabathia this ...

GIANTS 20 DOLPHINS 17 No matter how the Giants try to spin this one, they cannot be proud of the way they played in their 20-17 victory over the winless Miami Dolphins. For three quarters the Giants couldn't get out of their own way against Miami as the Dolphins held a 17-10 heading into the fourth quarter. The Giants were sloppy. They couldn't tackle anybody, allowing Reggie Bush to rush for 103 yards on only 15 carries, permitting Miami to convert four straight third downs at one point in the game, and even letting Matt Moore look like Dan Marino for a better part of the first half. The Dolphins came out of the gates with a huge burst of energy, something that caught the Giants off guard for a better part of the afternoon. On their opening drive Miami drove it down the Giants throats with an 11 play 66 yard drive, culminating in a one yard touchdown by Steve Slaton to give Miami the early 7-0 lead. The Giants had no answer for the Dolphins. On their ensuing drive, New York co...

CARDINALS 6 RANGERS 2 STL wins 4-3 The 2011 St. Louis Cardinals are the epitome of the old saying "it 'aint over 'till the fat lady sings." Throughout the course of this season, the Cardinals have found ways to perceiver in the most perilous of times, and now find themselves as the world champions of professional baseball in the United States. They trailed the Atlanta Braves by 10 games for the wild card, erasing that deficit over the month of September to capture the playoff spot. Then they outlasted the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS, and beat up their rivals the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS to get to this World Series. Down three games to two, and facing elimination the Cardinals came back to beat the Texas Rangers in game six, coming back twice on their final strike to force ties in a game St. Louis eventually won 10-9. So it was fitting that the Cardinals did away with the Rangers in easy fashion on Friday night to capture the franchise's 11th World Serie...

On this edition of Open Mike, host Michael Cohen talks about the classic that was Game Six of the 2011 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers. Sure the Yankees and Mets are out of it, but if you are a baseball fan, you most likely watched what will be remembered as the Greatest World Series Game EVER! (Or at least since Game Six of the 1986 Mets World Series anyway...). Michael welcomes back Karen Vankat, host of the Warning Track to go over the World Series and look ahead to the series finale, Game Seven. Michael also breaks down the Giants match-up with the Miami Dolphins as Big Blue looks to avoid a frieght on Mischief Night. Listen at the LINK HERE !

CARDINALS 10 RANGERS 9 Series tied 3-3 It will be remembered as the greatest World Series game, probably ever. Chalk this one right up their with Kirby Puckett's late heroics in the 1991 World Series. Put it up there with Mookie Wilson's ground ball down the first base line underneath the outstretched glove of Bill Buckner in game six of the 1986 Fall Classic. Yes, game six of the 2011 World Series, may have eclipsed them all with the kind of effort both the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals displayed in 11 back-and-forth innings, as St. Louis averted death, twice, to comeback and beat the Rangers 10-9 last night. For the Texas Rangers they were this close to winning the World Series, in fact, they were this close TWICE! In the ninth and tenth innings, the Rangers held a two run lead on the Cardinals, and had St. Louis down to their final strike, only to blow it twice. For a franchise that has waited 50 years to win their first World Series, this has to be one of the most...

JETS 27 CHARGERS 21 Give credit where credit is due. For the first time this season, the New York Jets played their best game and beat a legitimate opponent. Unlike their previous three wins, Week 1 vs. Dallas, which should never have happened, and two subsequent victories against the dreadful Jaguars and Dolphins, the Jets came back to stun a very good Chargers team at the Meadowlands. It's not like this was a pretty game to watch for Gang Green. As usual, the Jets got off to a hideous start, falling behind 21-10 by the half, looking and playing like a team destined to be blown out of their own building. On the first play of the game things looked ominous when Mark Sanchez was hit from behind; his pass to Dustin Keller was juggled by the tight, ending up in the hands of Donald Bulter who rumbled 37 yards for a Chargers touchdown. Later in the quarter with the Jets moving the ball on a couple of nice completions by Sanchez, the Jets struggling quarterback found a wide open Santonio...

It was the match-up of the 2011 season, as Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis took on his toughest test yet as a guest on Mike Francesa's program on WFAN. Francesa, who is open about his dislike for the New York Jets coupled with the fact that he rarely gets any Jet guests on his show for various reasons, was really hard on Revis, forcing the all-pro cornerback to answer questions about whether he performed an illegal move on Brandon Marshall that resulted in Revis' 100 yard interception return. Revis was not too happy having to answer the question. He sounded disturbed and frustrated when he had to respond Francesa's first question about whether he got away with pass interference. At one point, Francesa asked Revis if he thought Marshall was a tough receiver, whereupon Revis angrily replied that Marshall was indeed a talented receiver. Francesa tried to change the subject to the Jets upcoming Chargers game, but soon Revis decided to jump right back into the discussion about th...

JETS 24 DOLPHINS 6 They will try to spin this as a huge victory for the New York Jets, but the tale of the Jets 24-6 victory over the Miami Dolphins at Metlife Stadium was more of a testament to how badly the 0-5 Dolphins play than how good the Jets are. Let's face it: for the most part, the Jets looked putrid in this "victory." The offense was, once again, non-existent as Mark Sanchez, this time against a 31st ranked defense, was inaccurate and uninspiring in his efforts against the Fish. In fact, the entire Jets offense stunk it up against Miami. On the Jets first four possessions, they were forced into a three-and-out and struggled to move the football both through the air and on the ground in the first half. Heck, the Jets had ten yards of offense after the first quarter! TEN YARDS!!! In fact, the Jets didn't get a first down until there was 5:30 minutes remaining in the half! The reason the Jets won this game had more to do with the fact that the Miami Dolphins c...

GIANTS 27 BILLS 24 It was not pretty, but the Giants somehow found a way to outlast a Buffalo Bills team that clearly outplayed them at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. The Giants couldn't tackle an ant yesterday as Fred Jackson ran for 121 yards and had a 168 all purpose yards in Buffalo's defeat. Jackson was a man possessed, breaking free from tacklers like The Flash. Jackson's 80 yard touchdown run tied the game at seven late in the first quarter and signaled this was to be a wacky game for Big Blue. Late in the first quarter, the Giants spotty tackling continued to plague the team, as Ryan Fitzpatrick found Naaman Roosevelt on a slant, and the speedy receiver turned it up field for a 60 yard touchdown to give Buffalo a 14-7 lead. When the Giants needed to make plays however, Eli Manning was able to make them. Midway through the second quarter, Manning's 22 yard pass to Jake Ballard, and his 60 yard bomb to Hakeem Nicks, set up Ahmad Bradshaw's second 1-yard touchdown ...

In this latest edition of Open Mike, Michael Cohen welcomes in Lincoln Head Football Coach Robert Hampton to talk about his team's 4-1 start to the season, as the prepare for a Hudson County show down with Hoboken. Then, Michael takes on the manifold issues that concern both the Giants and Jets after hideous losses for both teams last week. Can the Giants rebound? Is this the end of Tom Coughlin? For the Jets, was Derrick Mason a scapegoat? Is Mark Sanchez the real problem with this ineffective Jets offense? Listen to the podcast. Mike Sanfilipo, co-host of Triple Coverage pays a visit to discuss these issues and more. Click on the link here to MTRMedia.com , then click on the Open Mike 10-14-11 play button. Enjoy.

A week after Derrick Mason made headlines twice for ripping into his new team, the Jets have decided to part ways with the disgruntled wide receiver by shipping him to Houston for an undisclosed draft pick. After New York's hideous 34-17 defeat to the Baltimore Ravens, Mason said that there were "cracks" in the Jets offensive scheme and that unless those "cracks" were filled, the problems would persist. Who knows if he was talking about Mark Sanchez or Brian Schottenheimer or both, but the implication was clearly there. Then before the Jets-Patriots game, Mason, along with two other receivers whom many presume were Santonio Holmes and Plaxico Burress, complained to coach Rex Ryan about Brian Schottenheimer and the Jets offense. Ryan, who loves Schottenheimer, decided to bench Mason on Sunday, has now booted him off the team. Mason was becoming a major distraction on this ball club, a club that is showing more and more each week that it is a team that can't ...

SEAHAWKS 36 GIANTS 25 So much for all that good feeling that the Giants developed over the past two weeks. The Giants put together a bush-league performance against the hapless Seattle Seahawks; Pete Carroll's crew came into the MetLife Stadium and smacked the Giants in the mouth in a 36-25 drubbing that was really never close. The blame for the latest Giants disaster falls at the feet of Big Blue's offense and quarterback Eli Manning, who couldn't throw a football accurately if his life depended on it. It was the kind of performance we have gotten used to from the Giants during the Tom Coughlin era anytime this team seems to be on the move to bigger and better things. Instead, the Giants came out flat, unmotivated, and, as a result, were totally outplayed by Seattle. From the outset, trouble was on the horizon. The Seahawks opened the game with a long opening drive, culminating in a Travaris Jackson 11 yard touchdown pass to Ben Obomanu (not Obama ;P) to give Seattle a 7-...

PATRIOTS 30 JETS 21 The Jets are in free-fall. After two hideous losses to the Raiders and Ravens on consecutive weeks, the Jets came up snake eyes yet again, this time against the hated New England Patriots, 30-21, as the Pats covered the spread. While the Jets running game was solid this time around; Shonn Greene actually showed up and ran for 83 yards, so the full blame for this disaster falls at the feet of Mark Sanchez and Brian Schottenheimer. Against the worst passing defense in the NFL the Jets managed only 255 yards of offense, threw for only 166 yards through the air, and had eight three-and-outs against a defense that forced eight three-and-outs all season!! Sanchez really stunk it up. He was terribly inaccurate for the first three quarters of the game, failing to complete a pass for a first down in the first quarter and throwing for only 70 yards through 45 minutes of action. Even though his quarterback rating was good, it doesn't paint the picture for how horrible he ...

On Open Mike, I welcomed in Bayonne Head football Coach Rick Rodriguez to the program to talk about the turnaround of his Bayonne Bees who are 4-0 on the season, as they prepare for a match against North Bergen tonight. Rodriguez left the team six years ago, only to return this year. He's the only coach to win a state title for the school's football team, doing it in 2002. He's happy to be home. I also invite John Silva, host of Hudson Hockey and graduate of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting to the show, and we talk about the Yankees collapse against the Tigers and the Jets vs. Patriots show down. LISTEN!

TIGERS 3 YANKEES 2 Yankees Lose! Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Yankees Lose ! Yes, Yankee fans, the season is now over, after the Bronx Bombers chocked up on their baseball bats in a 3-2 defeat to the Detroit Tigers, as Detroit moves on the American League Championship Series, and the Yankees head home for the holidays. The Yankees completely choked in this, a crucial game five with a trip to the ALCS on the line, as they left the bases loaded twice, and even the Mr. Postseason Derek Jeter came up snake eyes in the eighth inning. Many people felt that this game was so much in favor of the Yankees that it was only a matter of time before they play the Texas Rangers in the ALCS. That's why they play the games. The Tigers jumped all over Ivan Nova in the first inning shocking the Yankee crowd with back-to-back homers by Don Kelly and Delmon Young. Young had an incredible series with three homers. After that it was a battle between the Tigers pitchers and the Yankees offense. Doug Fiste...

YANKEES 10 TIGERS 1 Just when you thought the Yankees were done, they pull you right back in. The Yankees staved off elimination from the 2011 postseason last night, thanks in large part to a solid performance from the unlikeliest of sources: A.J. Burnett. Coming into the game, many feared that Burnett would find a way to royally screw up the Yankees chances with a typical A.J. meltdown, but instead, the erratic right hander delivered the performance of his Yankee career. In late August, Burnett was in a similar spot, he needed to win a game against the Red Sox to help right a struggling Yankee's team. Nobody believed he could do it, and, like last night, he surprised with six solid innings when New York won that ball game and rolled to a division title. Perhaps Tuesday night was the beginning of another Yankee run; it sure felt like it. In the bottom of the first, Burnett got into some serious trouble, walking the bases loaded with two out. It appeared that the doomed inning every...

GIANTS 31 CARDINALS 27 It seems that whenever the Giants travel to University of Phoenix Stadium they get a ridiculously crazy play that helps them win a game. A few years ago it was the helmet catch in the Super Bowl against the Patriots. On Sunday the Giants had another zany play in this building when Victor Cruz caught a pass on a slant from Eli Manning, and, while advancing up field, he decided to drop to the ground in front of the Cardinals defenders. Arizona didn't tackle Cruz, and the wide out decided to let go of the football; the Cardinals insisted he had fumbled the ball, and the call should be challenged and given to Arizona; however, the NFL rulebook says that if a receiver gives himself up and falls to the ground, then he is by rule down on the play. Therefore no fumble, and the Giants had life. This came at a crucial moment in the game with the Giants down 27-24. On the next play Manning hit Hakeem Nicks from 29 yards out for the go-ahead touchdown. The Cruz play has...

As seen in Bleacher Report.com. RAVENS 34 JETS 17 Well, the good news for the New York Jets this morning is that they are not the Philadelphia Eagles . That's where all the superlatives end when it comes to Gang Green right now because Rex Ryan 's brash bullies of Super Bowl talk have been shot down and shut up so far this season after four games full of inconsistent play from the defense, as well as purely abysmal play from the entire offensive unit. A quarter of the way through the season the Jets stand at 2-2, and if it were not for Joe McKnight's blocked punt in Week One against Dallas, one could make the argument that the Jets would be 1-3 right now. They have lost the first two games of their critical three-game road trip—both in excruciating fashion—and look progressively worse with each snap. The Jets have been exposed. No way is this a Super Bowl team. Heck, this might not even be a playoff team, let alone a .500 team, right now. Their offensive line depth is atro...

TIGERS 5 YANKEES 3 Now the Yankees are faced with a scenario they didn't want to face when Friday's Game One was suspended and moved to Saturday because of rain. The Yankees will head to Detroit for two games. The first game they will have to face Detroit's ace, Justin Verlander in crucial Game Three; then the Bronx Bombers will be stuck with starting inconsistent starter, A.J. Burnett in Game Four. The Yankees had no answer for Max Scherzer , who dominated the Yankees for the third time this season. Scherzer held the Yankees to two hits in six innings, while striking out five in six sharp innings. Detroit got an early jump on this one thanks to a two run blast by Miguel Cabrera in the first inning to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead. Freddy Garcia, who got the start, had an uneven performance. Even though he didn't walk anyone, he did give up four runs in five and a third innings, proving why he was such a gamble to pitch in this game to begin with. The Tigers put this game ...

YANKEES 9 TIGERS 3 Friday night's rain out did not deter the Yankees from victory. Sure the rain screwed up the Yankee's rotation, forcing CC Sabathia to pitch once in this series in Game Three; the Bronx Bombers were in good hands for the resumption of Game One when Ivan Nova took the hill. Nova who won 16 games this season, matched up against his originally scheduled Game Two counterpart, Doug Fister, a young flame thrower with the Tigers who combined with Justin Verlander to go 14-0 with a 1.66 ERA since August 16. With Verlander out of Game One because of the rain, it was up to Fister to hold the 1-1 tie, but he just couldn't handle the bright lights of the Bronx. Nova handled it like a veteran. The two young starters held that 1-1 tie through four innings, making it clear that they could hold their own even with aces like Sabathia and Verlander out of the game. But, then in the bottom of the fifth, the Yankees finally got to Fister. With two out, Curtis Granderson sin...