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Rich Ackerman weighed in on this topic via e-mail:

to quote george costanza, "Greetings, greeting and salutations, what a day for a ball game....let's play two!"

I thought I'd pass along the honorable mentions of sports references/related episodes...

in no particular order.

1. When George is presumed dead and when George Steinbrenner goes to the house to break the news, Frank Costanza yells at him "What the hell did you trade Jay Buhner for?" Also in that same episode, in a harbinger of things to come for sports talk radio, George, surviving on grubs and puddle water, finds a way in which the Yankees can get Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey and they wouldn't have to give up that much.

2. Stan the Caddy.

3. Cotton uniforms for the Yankees.

3. Kramer, George and Elaine go to the Yankee game with Kramer yelling, supposedly to Charlie Hayes, "this ain't philadelphia, Charlie. .230 won't cut it in this town."

4. In the pilot, Jerry answers the phone in the early hours of the morning saying, "Don't tell me the score of the Met game, I'm taping it!" only to be told by Kramer (who's agoraphobic in the pilot) moments later.

5. When Joel Rifkin leaves Kramer a ticket for the Giant game at the will call window.

6. George becomes enraged when he believes some gave Danny Tartabull the finger.

7. George crushing bp pitches to death valley with an amused/amazed Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams looking on.

8. Kramer going on a rant about George Steinbrenner trading all the yankees young talent for washed up veterans..."McGree, Drabek..." Jerry's response, " I know the list!"

9. George entertaining "those bastards" from the Houston Astros.

10. Jerry and George steal a limo which will drop them at the garden. Much to their chagrin they are not being dropped off for the Knicks-Bulls game...but so that George, posing as O'Brien, can deliver his speech to the aryan nation.

11. Jerry meeting Miss Rhode Island, sitting on the other side of the aisle at the Yankee game.

I can't mention the marathon episode, that was one of the few bad ones.

(Here's a followup e-mail from Rich:) sorry, the one where they think george is dead, comes in at number 3.

I will not say it was the worst season finale ever. It was a letdown but this is a show that prided itself about being "the show about nothing" so of course there is no closure. Same goes for The Sopranos finale yet somehow their fans cannot grasp that David Chase never game them closure and was not about to give it to them at any time.

Worst show finales:
Roseanne- They mailed in the entire last season really.

Will & Grace- It was a train wreck.

Everybody Loves Raymond- It just was not the feel for an ending to a show.

Friends- So predictable. So Monica and Chandler getting twins instead of just one was the BIG plot twist?

St. Elsewhere- That whole show did not come from the mind of an autistic child or any child!

Favorite:
Six Feet Under- The ending was perfect as I totally thought it will end as a holy hot mess.