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Roger Angell, and Succeeding Utterly
Teams in Arizona and Florida play with identical rules and before the same sort of audiences, but the two spring flavors are quite different. I don’t…
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The Greatest Baseball Spans Ever
OK, so the essential Baseball-Reference has yet another incredibly cool new feature called “Spans,” which allows you to take a look at a player or team…
May 20
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Jack Suwinski Gave Us One of Those Moments
There is a rhythm that comes with rooting for bad teams. It is a rhythm that, by now, comes second nature to Pittsburgh Pirates fans. You start the…
May 19
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The Uniqueness of Baseball
OK, so you might have deduced from the fun “What’s the best thing about baseball?” thread we did on Monday (seriously, check it out; the answers are…
May 18
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Why We Love Baseball (a list)
OK, I did something on Twitter that seems to have taken off … so I’d like to do it here as well. It’s a question for you: What is the best thing…
May 17
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The Rare No-Win No-No
Five baseball things! Thing 1: Weird stuff happens when the Reds play the Pirates. As I wrote last week, the Reds pitching staff had a first month for…
May 16
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Football 101: No. 41, Marshall Faulk
We continue with our weekly roundups of the next players in the Football 101—my personal countdown of the greatest players in pro football history…
May 12
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The Resistible Force Meets the Movable Object
Today we ask the eternal question: What would happen if the Cincinnati Reds played the Detroit Tigers? (A) No runs would be scored forever and the game…
May 12
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A No-Hitter!
Well, what do you know? It turns out that one pitcher CAN throw an actual no-hitter. On Wednesday, that pitcher was the Angels’ 22-year-old rookie Reid…
May 11
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Are the Mets (gasp) "Solid"?
If there’s one thing every New York Mets fan knows, it’s that you never celebrate too soon. That has to be the first lesson you learn at Mets School…
May 10
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No Escape From Alcaraz
For the first few months of Carlos Alcaraz’s life, the men’s tennis world was formless and empty. No fewer than four different players were No. 1 in the…
May 9
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PosCast Thread
Mike Schur and I are PosCasting today (Sunday) at roughly 3 p.m. Eastern. If you have any questions, comments, odd thoughts, whatever, this is t…
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