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• Toronto 4 Yankees 1: You would have thought that the news that AJ Burnett was scratched from his start in favor of Jesse Litsch would have been good for the Yankees, it wasn’t. Litsch did a great imitation of Burnett, dominating the Yankees for almost eight innings and when Andy Pettitte struggled in the second, Toronto had all the offense they needed.
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After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this...

The NY Times has several interesting facts about the history of the Mets and the Expos/Nationals. Besides the franchise playing their last game as the Expos against the Mets, they also played their first game against the Mets in 1969. The Nationals play their first game in the regular season against the Mets as well. Man, schedule makers really have a sense of history, don't they. Oh yeah, and in '69, the Mets went on to win the World Series.

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