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New York headline writers are generally considered the best in the business. This blog will be the judge of that.

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"Rangers dethrone the Yankees"
With the help of a homer by Nelson Cruz,
Texas beat the Yankees, four games to two,
reaching its first World Series.
 
 
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Grim tidings for the 2009 baseball champs
(Or in NYPost parlance:
"Better luck next year, you bums!)
 
 
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Crushing end:
Dejection as an art form
 
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We're surprised that N.Y. headline writers
didn't pull out "Rangers to Yankees: Drop dead"
or "Hitless Team in Bottomless Funk"
for the Yanks' pathetic finale,
but who cares about
New York headlines any more?
 
THE TEXAS RANGERS
ARE GOING
TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!
 
 
 
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Posted by Oscar Martinez on Oct 23, 2010 8:52 AM

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This is what some movie critics
would call "laugh out loud funny."
Points for sense of humor
and mixed C&W/disco references
 
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 "Phillies keep series going"
And the last shall be second.
Let's hope tomorrow's headline will be
"Yankees fall to Rangers" ...
 
 
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Things could be worse 
than losing Game 6:
How would you like to be this guy?
 
 
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Posted by Oscar Martinez on Oct 22, 2010 6:02 AM

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Another classic by The Post:
Great photo, great forward-looking play on words
 
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Every headline writer knows 
that when inspiration fails you,
you play it straight, which The Daily News did here.
(Wish the same restraint had been applied
to the "Texas Hold It" on the sports front
- there's nothing worse than a failed pun.
Points off for that.)
 
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"Yanks stay alive; Phillies fall"
Yankees play their best game
and have to share a headline
with another team ...
from Philadelphia?
Oh the humanity ...
 
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Posted by Oscar Martinez on Oct 21, 2010 7:00 AM

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The Post wins points
for photo/headline pairing
(but do they remember how CC did in Game 1?)
 
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The Daily News loses points
for desperation/denial
(unbecoming for such a proud outfit like the Yankees)
 
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The Times again puts sports in its place,
at the bottom of the page, in teeny-tiny type:
"Yankees' hole grows deeper"
 
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Posted by Oscar Martinez on Oct 20, 2010 6:52 AM

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"Roping by Rangers" has a nice ring to it,
but this is quite a stretch for alliteration
 
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 "Bombers blitzed" and "Texas massacre"in one headline?
(Plus "sex" and "XXX" in another?) Magnificence!

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Classic, understated and teeny-tiny New York Times headline:
Rangers dominate Yankees (and Mr. Lee did indeed pitch a masterpiece)

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Posted by Oscar Martinez on Oct 19, 2010 6:33 AM

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The New York Post uses two great "C" words:
Directly: "Clobbered"
Indirectly: "Lee"
(The "Cliff," like the Yankee bats, is silent)
 
 
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 Daily News shoots, scores
(Extra points for subhed "Aw-Phil Hughes")
 
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 The Times' teeny-tiny headline:
"Yankees stumble"
(Reminds one of Louis XVI's understated
diary entry on Bastille Day: "Nothing.")
 
 
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Posted by Oscar Martinez on Oct 17, 2010 9:44 AM

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Now THIS, children, is a headline
that grabs you by the lapels
and forces you to read it.
(In something called "a newspaper."
Ask your parents - or grandparents -
about it.)
 
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Daily News gives credit where it's due:
It was a miracle!
(Still wondering who the "loot coot" is.
No comment on the other headline.)
 
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"Yankees rally to win Game 1"
Seriously? A standalone photo
is lede art and the Yankees
don't make the cut?
Didn't NYT hear it was
a miracle win?!?
 
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Posted by Oscar Martinez on Oct 16, 2010 9:10 AM

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