There’s No Tying in Baseball! Oh, Wait, Yes, Yes There Is…
Baseball, you’d think, would also not have tie games, thanks to extra innings and all. You’d think wrong. But there’s a reason why.
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The Wrong Side of 30: Leaving it on the field
“The Wrong Side of 30” chronicles existential questions sports fans have as they traverse the trials and tribulations of adulthood, ultimately helping us manage our fandom against life’s more pressing adult priorities.
Read morePost-Season Baseball Twitter: Better Than TV?
The wife (now I can say that) and I cut the cable cord a while ago, and we were saving for our wedding so paying for anything except Netflix and Hulu were out.
Read moreThe Wrong Side of 30: Time to make a commitment
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: We live in a world that is more connected than ever! It’s probably true, but what you never hear after that is that we’re also flakier than ever. And to an extent, I get it: after all, if I missed you out last night, I can just Snapchat or Facebook stalk you today.
Read moreGreat Game Until It Wasn’t: A Mets Postmortem
It took a few days, but Katrina Jencius can finally talk about the Mets’ loss to the Giants.
Read moreIntroducing “The Wrong Side of 30”
The Spitter’s newest feature chronicles a sports fan as he looks at 40. Today: jerseys.
Read moreCanadian Club
Nobody can dispute the Toronto Blue Jays are back in business. Their 2016 proved that 2015 was no fluke.
Read moreSaying Goodbye to The Ted
Terri Narrell brought her son to the last game at The Ted. She didn’t boo, but she didn’t exactly cheer, either.
Read moreHardball Theatre: Party Crashers
Keith Good’s weekly(ish) One Act, an SNL-meets-MLB look at the week in baseball. This week, Detroit and St. Louis are surprised to find they’re not invited to the 2016 Playoff party.
Read moreBuck Had A Plan And It Was A Good Plan
Get off Baltimore Orioles Manager Buck Showalter for his bullpen management…well sort of get off him. His team was tied 2-2 in the 11th inning of the American League Wild Card game. He trusted his team would find a way to score a run on a bullpen that had been ineffective, with the thought he could then bring in closer
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