Insider trading is illegal as hell. The Astros system of relaying signs from the video replay booths to the dugout to field is exactly the same thing. If you’re gaining an advantage that another team doesn’t have because they’re following the rules and you’re not, then that’s cheating. And getting caught should have consequences.
Read moreWhy does Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts hate Rich Hill? Why does he love Ryan Madson despite Madson allowing the first five inherited runners to score so far in this series? Why does he keep pulling Hill when he’s really effective…like, say, just-struck-out-a-guy-and-has-a-one-hitter-and-a-four-run-lead-in-the-seventh-and-a-shutout-in-Game-4-of-the-World-Series effective? Why? Why? Why? Ansser: To bring in another left-handed reliever in Scott Alexander. Oh. Wait.
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Game 3 had something for everyone. It could be the the greatest…or weirdest…postseason game ever played.
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What’s worse? Rooting for a team that never contends or for a team that contends all year, then fades in the last weeks of the season? The answer, of course, is whichever isn’t happening to your team.
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I’m in a lousy mood after Baltimore’s dropped three of the first four at home to Boston. So don’t peck at me about low attendance.
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Ever since trading became a thing, teams have tried to improve their club in an effort to make the postseason, or win the postseason.
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David Duchovny wrote a book about baseball.
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On a humid August evening, the unthinkable happened in the Bronx.
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After a few weeks of fat shaming, Pablo Sandoval announced Monday that he had turned over a new leaf and was making an important change in his diet.
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