There’s a lot I missed writing about in my absence. Lots of Mets baseball, City news (Tevez can fly back to Argentina and never come back for all I care), and a couple of nice Giants wins, but today I wanted to talk about the news that the Rangers waived Sean Avery.

He was never quite the same kind of effective pest the second time around with the club, likely due to a combination of the NHL’s glare, John Tortorella and his own diminishing skills, but we’ll always have the hilarious fued with Marty Brodeur and the playoff goal from 2008. He was always outspoken and a wildly entertaining player at his best but it was clear he was becoming a fringe player on this young Rangers team. Still, he’ll be remembered fondly in this corner.