Too Big To Fail: Against All Odds, the Dodgers Keep Winning
A series of public missteps have followed the Dodgers for almost a decade. Despite the turmoil, it hasn’t stopped them from winning.
Read moreMonthly Archives: August 2016
.50 Gets You a Frosty & 6 Weeks of MLB.TV
For the low, low price of one ice cream headache, you can watch the rest of the season wherever you go.
Read moreThe Day Krissy Caused the Mariners to Lose
Scott’s fiance is a superstitious sort … and may have single-handedly cost the M’s a huge game against Milwaukee Sunday.
Read moreMedich, Fosse, Kingman and Free Agency
Late-season rentals are nothing new. Dave Kingman played for four teams in 1977.
Read moreThe Olympics That Wouldn’t End
Please tell me the Olympics are almost over. Every night with the swimming? I haven’t seen this many people swim since Ernest Borgnine and Shelley Winters starred in the Poseidon Adventure.
Read moreThe Stayed-One-Year-Too-Long Blues
Not every player can go out like David Ortiz. Not many last seasons are like Mariano Rivera’s. Ted Williams’ 1960 curtain-call rarely happens.
Read moreThe M*A*S*H* Marlins
Waking up on August 16, 2016, and checking the standings, you find that the Miami Marlins are tied with St. Louis for the second wild card in the NL. How can that be?
Read moreHardball Theatre: Right Field
After its own All-Star break Keith Good’s weekly baseball one-act returns. This week, we take a look at the trials and tribulations of a Right Fielder.
Read moreOde to a Prince
Prince Fielder won’t be a Hall of Famer. But his retirement is the saddest we’ve seen in years.
Read moreBaseball’s Almost Out of Crazy, And That’s Bad
Alex Rodriguez’s retirement marks the end of baseball’s funnest era: the days of the swashbuckling ballplayer who lived out his personal life on the back pages.
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