Yale Daily News

the san andreas thing is brilliant. an excellent parallel, and a compelling article. also just hilarious.

Another great column by Pete Martin! The only thing missing was any mention of our NY Mets. I was particularly impressed by Pete's research into New Haven sports history. Yale Bowl is a great sports venue. Too bad it is only filled once every other year for Harvard!

it was a surprisingly decent article until you went off on the San Andres tangent. Were you trying to be funny, because, if you were, it was a poor attempt since it just looked extremely out of place.

Lets face it: New Haven is just a minor league no-man's land, and always has been.

Pete's "research" into New Haven sports history obviously was a quick stop to wikipedia (the content and placement of the note about the first professional championship since the Blades is a dead giveaway). He neglected a much longer history of professional baseball and ignored the West Haven Yankees/A's championships. And yet, those are perhaps the most excusable parts of the column - after all, we can't expect a News columnist to be a fact checker with wikipedia so conveniently few clicks away...

The trouble really starts with the paragraph that labels the NY/BOS rivalry "the greatest acheivement of American sports". How exactly does a rivalry become an acheivement? "Element of American life"? New York State? - I have yet to meet a Yankee fan from Buffalo...anyway, if this was all meant tongue-in-cheek (I really hope so), it missed the mark.

The San Andres commentary is equally misplaced - and so poorly researched/thought out that further comment is really unecessary.

Seriously though, was this meant as satire? So many YDN columnists are so bad at conveying satire, I really wish the ones that were really trying would have a *SATIRE*SATIRE*SATIRE banner at the top to warn us.