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Padres’ Clevinger could be lost for the postseason, and that sucks
Because it’s 2020, the most fun team in baseball just has to take a gut-punch to its title hopes....
Finally, The MLB Playoffs Will Look Like Baseball
It’s been a mangled, peeps-in-the-chili baseball season, and anyone who tries to tell you different is either selling something, thinks the sky is green (not when it’s actually been orange), or is just clinging to one of the pillars of their life so desperately in order to believe that something, an...
If It’s Normalcy You Seek, Then a Jackass in Fenway Is What You Need
If you had to wager which stadium would see a fan quite possibly risk his life, merely for the opportunity to yell at everyone around and act like a yahoo to an audience of no one, Fenway Park most definitely would have been the chalk....
Workhorse Verlander (aka Mr. Upton) to Undergo Tommy John Surgery; Astros Career May Be Over
Reigning Cy Young winner and future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander will need Tommy John surgery, ending his 2020 season and most likely his 2021 season as well....
Random Dude Smacks Three Home Runs for Bombers — it's the Yankee Way
The Yankees have hit a lot of home runs....
Expanded Playoffs Suck, But Here’s a Way to Fix It
Rob Manfred says this season’s expanded baseball playoffs are likely to remain in place for 2021 and beyond, and everybody hates it....
Players Breathe Toxic Air as West Coast Burns: What the Hell Is Wrong With Baseball? UPDATE: M's Postponed
Update: Amid western wildfires and hazardous air quality, the MLB and NFL continued to play on Monday night, but on Tuesday, sanity was restore....
Rays Rock Red Sox with Historic Lineup
Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash is pushing all the right buttons this season, as his team is atop the AL East despite having the third-lowest payroll in baseball....
Pat O’Connor, President of MiLB, Retires After Getting Screwed by MLB
If you took MLB’s heavy desire to contract minor league baseball by a fourth from last fall, and combine it with the pandemic that saw this minor league season never start, you probably figured that MiLB’s fight against contraction was utterly doomed. With the announcement today that Minor League Ba...
The Story of Hall of Famer Turkey Stearnes, the Ballpark he Made Home and the Family & Detroit Rock Star Trying to Preserve it
Vanessa Rose stands at the ready in center field. In a half-crouch with her glove-hand resting on one knee and her throwing-hand resting on the other, she stares in at home plate as the rock star Jack White digs his cleats into the batter’s box....
Hall of Famer Lou Brock Dies at 81
St. Louis Cardinals legend and Hall of Famer Lou Brock died on Sunday at age 81. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that he had been dealing with several medical issues, but did not give a cause of death. His passing comes in the same week as another iconic star of the 1960s and 1970s, Tom Seaver....
Project ShaqBox Remembers Tom Seaver
I don’t know if I ever saw Tom Seaver pitch live. His last season was when I was 5, so it’s possible that at some point my parents did take me to a game where Seaver was on the mound, but if that happened, I don’t remember it....
The Stadium Betting Experience Is Here, Now It Just Needs People
It’s taken two-and-a-half years for sports gambling to clear the Supreme Court hurdle to actually arriving in arenas and stadiums where the games people play are housed. But we’re there. ...
Contrasting Aroldis Chapman with Tom Seaver, Who Never Threw at Anyone’s Head
A hundred years ago, on Aug. 16, 1920, Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch....
Hearts Shatter Across Baseball Over Loss of Tom Terrific — Mine Included
The darkest day of my youth was the day the Mets traded Tom Seaver....
You REALLY Don’t Want Vin Scully On Twitter
It’s rare that Twitter lights up in positivity, aside from baseball writers getting wind of a new Springsteen album. It’s a hellscape for the damned, and we’ve known that forever. But there is no dark space filled with the most vile evil that light cannot penetrate. U2 has a good song and a half som...
While the Rest Of MLB Only Sees What Isn’t, A.J. Preller Sees What Could Be
As I wrote in the Mourning After, it seems strange that any MLB team would view this season with anything other than suspicion or derision. It’s hard to have any feel for what your team is after just 30 games, if your team has even gotten to 30 games. The expanded playoffs mean that just about anyon...
Add the A’s to MLB’s List of Teams Infected by COVID-19
Halfway through the season sprint, another MLB team has recorded another positive COVID test, bringing the contamination total to five teams....
J-Lo, A-Rod Whining Over Withdrawing Bid to Buy Mets is Peak #RichPeopleProblems
Everyone’s hopes and dreams have validity, and who among us has not dreamed of buying a baseball team?...
In Game 7, Jason Heyward Rose to the Occasion, Last Night His Cubs Teammates Failed to Return the Favor
When Game 7 of the 2016 World Series went to a rain delay in Cleveland, after the Chicago Cubs, trying to end their 108-year championship drought, had let the lead slip away on Rajai Davis’ tying homer, they needed to pick up the pieces and figure out how to mentally get back into things for extra i...