Yellow-Bellied
Friend of American McCarver Paul Kafasis details the astounding cowardice of the Mets’ Jose Reyes, who, competing for the regular season batting title, asked to be taken out of the last game of the season after leading off in the…
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A Night of Twists and Collapses
Tyler Kepner reporting for the New York Times
Two championships in the last decade had seemed, at last, to wring the fatalism out of Boston’s fans. Instead of expecting epic failure, they had come to demand championships. The events…
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Anti-Moneyball
Bryan Hoch, reporting for MLB.com: Jorge Posada came through with the big hit to clinch the American League East for the Yankees, and they’ll look to the veteran for more contributions as the designated hitter in the AL Division Series….
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‘Best Team Ever!’
Eric Ortiz, in January: “2011 Red Sox Will Challenge 1927 Yankees for Title of Greatest Team in Major League History”: The 2011 Red Sox possess all the pieces to have a season for the ages. If everything falls into…
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A Night You Won’t Forget
Three minutes later, just after the result from Baltimore had been posted on the scoreboard at Tropicana Field, in the bottom of the 12th inning, Evan Longoria hit a low, screaming liner into the left-field corner that cleared the…
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Sean Avery, Intolerance and the NHL
There are circumstances in sports in which you find yourself doing something you said you would never do. Maybe you’re a Red Sox fan rooting for the Yankees to beat the Rays. Or maybe you’re me, defending Sean Avery.
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Top 25 Rickey Henderson Stories of All Time
If you’re not pissing yourself at some of these, there’s no help for you. I mean come on: In the early 1980s, the Oakland A’s accounting department was freaking out. The books were off $1 million. After an investigation, it…
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Playing out the String
“Anyone want four free tickets to tonight’s Mets game?” “What’s the catch?” “You have to watch the Mets.” [Overheard on Twitter from Michele.]…
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The Saddest Sacks
Read this column by Tony Massarotti for The Boston Globe: What this all speaks to, more than anything else, is the general attitude and malaise that has enveloped Fenway Park in recent years, no matter the television ratings, ticket sales…
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Off to Fenway
I just landed in Boston (for a much anticipated vacation in New England) and decided to start with a game at Fenway. My goal this year was to see baseball games in five different parks and after tonight, I earn…
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