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Vegas mayor not sold on A's move?; Corey Kluber calls it quits; 50 reasons to be amped about 2024 seasonA Nevada teacher’s union doesn’t believe that $380 million in public funds that could be put towards education should be used to fund the new home of the Las Vegas A’s, and they’re suing to stop it. - Julie DiCaro Read More...

How every MLB team will tank their seasons and break their fans' hearts in 2023You can all give up the Rogers Hornsby quotes, already. We made it Opening Day, when hope springs eternal for millions of MLB fans across the country, a least for a few days/weeks. We’d all love to believe that our team has as much of a chance of winning the World Series as any other but, realistica...

As Much as I Miss Baseball, This Fanless, Pandemic Opener Leaves Me With an Empty FeelingIn 1943, with their roster torn asunder by players called into military service for World War II, the Philadelphia Eagles moved to Pittsburgh for the year, merged with the Steelers, and became known as the Steagles....

No Opening Day, No Sports...My Center Won't Hold

Important disclaimer: I acknowledge this is far from the most consequential aspect of the shelter-at-home policies under which half of this country and many others around the world are enduring. And I’m aware that I happen to be one of the lucky ones in that I’m nor anyone that know personally have ...

With Opening Day Postponed Indefinitely, How Could This Season Look? Let's Break it Down

It was always pie in the sky that baseball would be able to get back up and running with Opening Day delayed a mere two weeks, which was their original postponement due to the spread of COVID-19. With the CDC saying Sunday it was recommending eight weeks of a ban on events with more than 50 people, ...

Hell Is Trying To Get Into A Ballpark On Opening Day

Opening Day is here again, and you know what that means: hot dogs, dingers, the smell of the freshly mowed grass, and also the experience of standing in a line for 45 minutes because overdramatic security measures and some pointless new technology means that fans are slowly being let into the ballpa...

Which Online Edgelord Mishaps Will Derail Trevor Bauer's Season?

It’s Opening Day, folks, and you know what that means: It’s time to speculate and make predictions about the upcoming major league baseball season. Which teams will win the divisions, wild cards, pennants, and World Series? Who’s gonna sock a ton of dingers? Which bizarre Internet Libertarian ailmen...

Tim Kurkjian Endearingly Reveals How Little He Knows About Music

It only took a few innings for today’s season opener between the Cubs and Marlins game to reach the “semi-bored announcers just shooting the shit” phase. Thankfully, ESPN analyst and generally delightful guy Tim Kurkjian was there to participate....

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Which MLB Teams Will Be The Most Fun, And Which Will Watch The Least Porn?

Opening Day is today, which means a bunch of middle-aged sportswriters get to put on their propeller beanies and clap their hands like trained seals and cry out YAY BASEBALL! to a relatively indifferent public. But I promise not to meh my way through this somewhat half-assed preview to the season. A...

by Drew Magary|

|Thu Mar 29 2018

MLB Opening Day Will Be Good Again

It’s been a long, long time since opening day was actually opening day for everyone. In the past, there’s been a national game the night before the big slate, and usually some teams that don’t get going until the day after most everyone else’s opening day, for some reason, and sometimes even an inte...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Sep 13 2017

Mets Fan Mad

The Mets are 1-0 to start the 2017 season. Some Mets fans are irate....

by Hannah Keyser|

|Tue Apr 04 2017

Idiot On The Field Steals Tom Brady's Jersey

A few of the Patriots showed up with their Lombardi Trophy for Red Sox opening day, and overactive galoot Rob Gronkowski had fun with quarterback Tom Brady by nabbing his recently recovered Super Bowl jersey. ...

by Samer Kalaf|

|Mon Apr 03 2017

An Opening Day Medley Of Great Baseball Stories

To celebrate Opening Day, dig into our trove of profiles of some of the game’s most enduring characters—from Ty Cobb and Pete Reiser to Doc Ellis and Steve Carlton. ...

by Alex Belth|

|Mon Apr 03 2017

MLB Opening Day Hashtags, Ranked

Opening Day begins in less than one hour, and we have been blessed with 30 team marketing slogans and emojis to celebrate. Ranked:...

by Emma Baccellieri|

|Sun Apr 02 2017

Regular-Season Baseball Team Victories, Ranked

1. Win No. 1 (We’re not going to lose all our games)...

by Tom Scocca|

|Mon Apr 04 2016

The Anarchist Of Summer: A D.C. Rabble Rouser Returns To Baseball

Adam Eidinger has gone right at City Hall, the Republican and Democratic Parties, the war machine, the World Bank, the DEA, countless developers, and, most famously, Major League Baseball. His fights tend to end with him getting his ass kicked—and not just figuratively. ...

by Dave McKenna|

|Mon Apr 06 2015

The Pittsburgh Pirates Should Be America's Team This Season

There’s nothing America loves more than a winner who has suffered and, Lord knows, the Pittsburgh Pirates have suffered. Twenty losing seasons in a row. The Pittsburgh drug trials. The cobbled-together public ownership that ended up $22 million in debt. Talented player after talented player leaving...

by Diana Moskovitz|

|Fri Apr 03 2015

Happy Opening Day (III of IV)

Welcome to opening day, that magical day when 30 hopeful fanbases celebrate the end of winter and the return of baseball for everyone. Except for those games in Australia last week. And the teams that played last night. And the teams that don't play until tomorrow....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Mar 31 2014

Opening Day At Fenway Park

Our man George Kimball on Opening Day at Fenway Park circa 1971:...

by Alex Belth|

|Mon Jul 22 2013

If you enjoyed this photo of a puking Nats fan, you will definitely enjoy an entire gallery of debauchery from the Orioles' home opener. ...

by Tom Ley|

|Tue Apr 09 2013

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