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Get The First-Person Experience Of Winning A World Series
Shane Victorino had a GoPro camera tag along with him from the final strike of Game 6 of the World Series up to the duck boat parade through Boston. Now you can experience what it's like having Ace of Spades champagne poured on you, without any of the stickiness. The locker room celebration feature...
Tony La Russa: Hall Of Famer
(Rescuing pets is a nice thing to do.)...
Here's A Picture Of Jackie Robinson And Vin Scully On Ice Skates
We brought you the story of Jackie Robinson's first time on ice skates, as told by Vin Scully, a while back but a Dodgers history account recently tweeted out a picture of the two on skates, posing as though they're about to race. ...
Kenny Rogers, The Gambler Who Embodied Suffering And Abject Failure
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...
Report: The Mariners Are Done Spending
This is it! After years of losing, the Mariners are finally going for it! They signed one of baseball's best players to the third-largest contract in MLB history. And...that's about it, apparently....
Edgar Martinez Murdered Baseballs Forever
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...
How Much Will Mike Trout Get Paid?
Any theoretical negotiation starts from this premise: He is 22 years old, and already the best player in baseball. (And if not for Miguel Cabrera's existence, he'd be the best by far.) We have already accepted that the economics of Mike Trout can't rely on past data, because there's nothing comparab...
The Atlanta Braves Are About To Get Teabagged
Originally published at Bloomberg View....
Was Sammy Sosa Really All That Great?
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...
Hall Of Fame Expert Predicts Only One Player Will Make It This Year
Bill Deane is a former senior research associate at the Baseball Hall of Fame. For more than three decades, he's been predicting who'll make it into the HOF, who won't, and what their vote percentages will be. On borderline cases—those within 10 percent of the 75-percent cutoff—he's batting .806. So...
No Cameras Allowed In "St. Jetersburg"
"St. Jetersburg" is the name of Derek Jeter's Florida home. In addition to having a name, Derek Jeter's home has a strict no camera/phone policy. ...
Report: Ryan Freel Had CTE When He Killed Himself
Nearly a year ago, former MLB player Ryan Freel committed suicide. The history of his concussions surfaced in the aftermath, and a report released earlier this week concluded that Freel was suffering from Stage II chronic traumatic encephalopathy...
MLB Investigates Yankees For Potential Tampering With Mike Trout
This seems like a whole lot of nothing, but we can stand behind anything to make baseball's silly season the sillier. Yesterday, Yankees president Randy Levine had this to say by way of explaining why the team was hesitant to give Robinson Cano too many years:...
No One Anywhere Is Haunted By Richie Sexson
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...
An Eyewitness Account Of The Baseball Agent Slapfight
We've been trying to piece together the fight in the parking lot at baseball's winter meetings in Orlando. Threats of arson? Yes. Gary Sheffield and Dave Stewart? No. Grown men twirling and clapping and slapping? My goodness yes!...
No, That Wasn't Gary Sheffield And Dave Stewart Fighting Over A Client
The best story to come out of baseball's winter meetings in Orlando was a fight in the parking lot on Wednesday, reportedly between two agents. It was reported by Yahoo's Jeff Passan, but without the detail we all wanted: Who were the agents?...
Two Agents Had A Fistfight At Baseball's Winter Meetings
A lot of news came out of the Winter Meetings in Orlando, but no transaction was more important than a confrontation in the hotel parking lot, where two agents reportedly threw down after one accused the other of trying to steal his client....
Hideo Nomo Changed Baseball Forever, And Then He Disappeared
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...
Texas Rangers Draft Russell Wilson (Yes, That One)
In today's Rule 5 draft, which allows teams to snatch up other teams' minor leaguers not on a 40-man roster but with a certain amount of service time, the Rangers took Russell Wilson, second baseman. He's probably not going to make much of an impact for Texas: he's got a pretty good football career ...
MLB's Biogenesis Documents Are So, So Dirty
As more and more comes out about MLB's Biogenesis investigation, we're forced to conclude this whole thing is just an Elmore Leonard novel. After the arrest of a man accused of breaking into whistleblower Porter Fischer's car, here's where it now stands: MLB bought Biogenesis documents from a guy wh...