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The baseball is good at the World Series, but Baseball is horrendous
Once you get past the Astros merely being there again after suffering no meaningful consequences for their cheating, and the racist Chop, and the scheduled attendance of Donald Trump at Game 4, and the idea that losing awaiting-trial-on-felony-charges Marcell Ozuna was some kind of âadversityâ that ...

âBullpenâ is the hill you wanna die on?
Yesterday, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called upon Major League Baseball to stop using the term âbullpen.â...

NFL Week 8: Hear me out⊠The winless Lions are not terrible
The Detroit Lions are the last remaining winless team in the NFL. Coincidentally, the Detroit Pistons are the last winless team remaining in the NBA, but thatâs irrelevant right now. The fact is that, despite the Lions record starting with a zero, theyâre one of the best terrible teams weâve seen in...

What a shame that even Inside the NBA bowed down to football
If, by instinct, you turned on TNT last night at 8 p.m. EST expecting to see Ernie, Charles, Kenny, Shaq setting up a prime time basketball game, you received an unpleasant surprise: Hotel Transylvania 2....

SEE IT: The most MLS moment ever
As Iâve repeatedly stated, this was the season I really tried to follow MLS closely. Itâs been mostly hit, some miss, but itâs hard to not see the charm. It is perhaps the last bastion of the true No. 10, where the space in midfield allows them to work their magic and drive teams to success. Itâs wh...

'Analytics understander' A-Rod logs on and fails in October once again
Does Alex Rodriguez know what âanalyticsâ means? You would think he should, being a television commentator for baseball in 2021, but life is full of surprises â such as A-Rod praising the Houston Astros in Game 2 of the World Series for an âanti-analytics inning.â...

The Cleveland Guardians name situation keeps getting uglier
The team formerly known as the Cleveland Indians is being sued over their non-rights to the name âCleveland Guardians.â The Cleveland Guardians moniker is already trademarked by a roller derby team located in Parma, one of the suburbs of Cleveland. However, that hasnât stopped Clevelandâs MLB franch...

The Braves are in the World Series, and the Knicks are winning in prime time: Someone bring me my damn Tamagotchi
It was throwback night in professional sports on Tuesday. The evening began with a nationally televised prime time Knicks game at Madison Square Garden on TNT⊠and a half hour after that started, the Atlanta Braves played in their first World Series game in 22 years. Both teams won, but that wasnât ...

Even on MLBâs biggest night, Rob Manfred canât keep his thumb out of his ass
I understand at the dawn of every leagueâs championship that the commissioner has to do something of a state of the union. Roger Goodell, Gary Bettman, Adam Silver⊠they all have a press conference before Game 1 or the Super Bowl. Given the daily nature of baseball, Rob Manfred has to do it on the d...

MLB Rebuilding in 2021: Totally luck out, and just find a great international player
Where would the Braves be without Ozzie Albies and Ronald Acuña Jr.? Where would the Padres be without Fernando TatĂs Jr.? What about the Astros with Carlos Correa, JosĂ© Altuve, Yuli Gurriel, and Yordan Ălvarez?...

Youâll never believe this, but everyoneâs losing their mud about the Maple Leafs
If you looked up and to the north this morning and thought you could make out a noxious cloud in the distance, donât worry, itâs just the usual October phenomenon. The NHL season is two weeks old and the Toronto Maple Leafs have not awarded the Stanley Cup due to the majesty of their excellence and ...

This is fine: Cardinals make internal hire after firing previous internal hire
Oliver Marmol was introduced as the new manager of the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday. At 35, heâs the youngest manager the Cardinals have had since Marty Marion, who was 34, in 1951. Heâs also younger than eight players from last seasonâs roster, including Yadier Molina and Adam Wainwright. Perhaps...

Before baseballâs grandest show, letâs get one last laugh at the Mets
MLB will showcase, at least in theory, its best for the next week to 10 days. The World Series doesnât usually pair the two best teams, depending on definition, but it does pair the two that are playing best at the moment. And itâs got all the stakes that matter. Whatever the participants, itâs supp...

QTNA: Would you have given Tom Brady his 600th touchdown ball back?
As human beings trying to do good on Earth, life should not always be about money. We should be more concerned with how we treat others, and once we leave this place, when others are asked about us, they should be able to genuinely say that we were good instead of simply offering platitudes. However...

Why am I happy for Dusty Baker? Am I? Should I be?
I have some sympathy for anyone who has to sell this World Series. While it would be honest, if it is oneâs job to write about MLBâs climax, you canât really attract eyes and hearts by constantly beating the drum of âBoy, everyone sure hates these assholes!â You do have to find some angle that can g...

The Dodgers blew it
Donât let the Los Angeles Dodgers off the hook....

Itâs time to send Bob Nightengale to a farm upstate
Itâs not much of a story that Bob Nightengale was once again spewing out lava of baseball drivel. Thatâs been his gig for years now, essentially just acting as a conduit for whatever bullshit the powers that be want out there in exchange for his beloved âaccess.â Access which heâll use to lord over ...

Weâre not even getting the best teams in this yearâs World Series
The fourth and 12th-best teams in baseball will meet in the World Series, as Atlanta wrapped up its first pennant in 22 years with a 4-2 triumph over the Dodgers in Game 6 of the NLCS on Saturday night. ...

Dusty Baker is heading back to the World Series, as Astros beat Red Sox
The one good thing about the Astros returning to the World Series, which theyâll do after wrapping up the American League pennant with a 5-0 win over the Red Sox in Game 6 on Friday night, is that Dusty Baker will get his chance to finally manage his way to a World Series ring....
