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- Cocktail Chatter: Baseball Playoffs Edition
How to fake your way through the 2008 baseball playoffs.
Justin Peters
posted Oct. 1, 2008 - This Call to the Bullpen Is Eroding My Stomach Lining
The cruel torture of watching the New York Mets' relief pitchers.
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Cocktail Chatter: NFL Playoffs EditionHow to fake your way through the first round of pro football's postseason.
By Justin PetersPosted Friday, Jan. 4, 2008, at 4:58 PM ET
Conversation stopper: "Luke McCown is really just Cade McNown with a fake moustache, right? Right?"
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Charles P. Pierce celebrated the Patriots' undefeated season, calling New England QB Tom Brady "the best quarterback who ever played the game." In November, Brendan I. Koerner and Eric Gillin talked trash before the Colts played the Patriots. Robert Weintraub wrote up a recipe for how to beat New England. Weintraub also figured out which position in pro football is the most valuable and argued that the NFL needs to keep things simple. Before the season began, Football Outsiders wrote a three-part guide on how to watch pro football.Justin Peters is a writer in New York, and the editor of Polite.
Illustration by Rob Donnelly.
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