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Palin Likens Her Supporters to the Worst Fans in Baseball
Disgrasian | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
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As if I needed one more reason to loathe Sarah Palin, here's another: she likened the Republican presidential ticket to the Tampa Bay Rays.
Baseball Playoffs Ratings Boon For TBS
MediaWeek | Anthony Crupi | Posted 10.08.2008 | Media
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October baseball propelled TBS to the top of the cable food chain last week, as the first round of Major League Baseball's division series helped the ...
This Was Our Year
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago
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You can lose Game One and still come back. You can lose Game Two and still come back. But not if you play to lose. Not if those "Not again" fears drown out the optimism.
The Audacity of Nope
Brad Spirrison | Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago
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It got late early and the Cubs just gave us more of the same. In what was thought to be a change postseason for Major League Baseball, the North Side nihilists ended up giving hope the finger. The curse will not be reversed.
White Sox Beat Rays
AP | RICK GANO | Posted 10.05.2008 | Chicago
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CHICAGO — Thanks to John Danks and the White Sox, Chicago still has one team standing. Danks pitched another big game to save the season and wel...
Dodgers Sweep The Cubs
AP | JOHN NADEL | Posted 10.05.2008 | Chicago
LOS ANGELES — It's a century and counting for the Chicago Cubs. Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers shoved Chicago into another long winte...
MLB Network: Baseball Sets Out To Create Its Own TV Home
New York Times | Richard Sandomir | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media
Major League Baseball does not believe there is enough baseball on television. Not on local and regional TV. Not on Fox, ESPN, TBS or MLB.com. It wa...
Mike Bloomberg, There's a Job Waiting For You in the Bronx
Daniel Holloway | Posted 10.02.2008 | Entertainment
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What Bloomberg needs is not another term as mayor, but another job -- a bigger job. There's only one move that makes any sense at all: Michael Bloomberg needs to buy the New York Yankees.
CHICAGO'S PENNANT FEVER IS HEATING UP!
Stefanie Michaels | Posted 10.01.2008 | Chicago
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So, I hear "it's been 102 years since both the Chicago Cubs and White Sox have made it to the playoffs"- and Chicago is going nuts with the best case ...
Balls in Our Fields: Chicago Says Let's Play Two
Jon Greenberg | Posted 10.01.2008 | Chicago
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The Cell isn't even the center of Chicago's baseball world this year. I was at that place, Wrigley Field, Tuesday for the Cubs-Dodgers workout, where pre-game interviews consisted of finding a dozen different ways to ask someone how it feels to do something they haven't done yet.
LA Has a Manny Ramirez Dilemma
Paula Duffy | Posted 09.30.2008 | Entertainment
All had complied with Torre's clubhouse rules til Manny came along with specific pre-game music that got him ready to take the field and hair he'd grown for a few years into wild, scrambled-looking dreadlocks.
Cubs Deliver Blow to Brewers' Playoffs Hopes
AP | CHRIS JENKINS | Posted 09.27.2008 | Chicago
MILWAUKEE — Ben Sheets was roughed up in his return from an injury, and the Milwaukee Brewers fell back into a tie for the NL wild card with one...
Philly Bomb Scare Caused By Hotdogs At Ballpark, Mascot Implicated
AP | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home
PHILADELPHIA — After a bomb scare at the Philadelphia Phillies' ballpark, authorities pointed the finger at a fuzzy green suspect _ The Phillie ...
Forget Hockey: Where Does Sarah Palin Stand on Baseball?
Karen Stabiner | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics
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If Westbrook Pegler were alive today, would he join in when we sing "God Bless America" in a ballpark, or would he mutter nasty asides about the religious beliefs of its esteemed composer?
The Unknown Story Behind the Merkle Blunder
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 09.23.2008 | Chicago
Today is the 100th anniversary of perhaps the most famous gaffe the history of baseball. Given that it's about screwing up, it should come as no surprise that the story concerns the Chicago Cubs.
Rooting for a Lost Cause -- Being a Braves Fan in a Long-Lost Season
Alex Remington | Posted 09.16.2008 | Entertainment
I'm an Atlanta Braves fan: we used to be good, now we're not good, and I'm currently swimming through the shards of the broken memories left in the wake of their three-year tumble into the cellar of the league.
Hurricane Break Could Hurt Cubs
Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 09.13.2008 | Chicago
For manager Lou Piniella and the eight Cubs who were in New York for the All-Star Game in July, this weekend's Hurricane Ike hiatus could serve as the...
Why We Need a People's History of Sports
Dave Zirin | Posted 09.08.2008 | Media
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So much discussion of sports, both its past and present, is about sanding off, beautifying, or simply obliterating anything that might be seen as political.
White Sox Pitching Pounded In 8-2 Loss
AP | HOWARD ULMAN | Posted 08.30.2008 | Chicago
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BOSTON — Dustin Pedroia went 4-for-4 for the second straight game and got plenty of help from a makeshift lineup as the Boston Red Sox pounded C...
Leave Sports Alone
Lloyd Garver | Posted 08.29.2008 | Home
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I want to discuss two developments in the world of sports. One probably makes sense, but I don't like it. The other is ridiculous, and maybe a little ...
Youth League Bars 9-Year Old Pitcher Because He's Too Good? Ridiculous.
Dave Hollander | Posted 08.27.2008 | Living
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When little Jericho refused to quit and took the mound last week, the opposing team forfeited. They just packed up and left the field. This is an entirely wrong lesson to teach kids.
Baseball Instant Replay To Begin Thursday
AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home
NEW YORK — Replay ball! Umpires will be allowed to check video on home run calls starting Thursday after Major League Baseball, guardian of Amer...
Olympic Baseball Dies, Aloof, Unloved
Lee Hudson Teslik | Posted 08.26.2008 | Entertainment
Alongside its cousin, softball, Olympic baseball became the first Olympic sport to be discontinued since polo in the 1930s -- an inglorious distinction for America's traditional pastime.
Rest in Peace, Skip Caray
Alex Remington | Posted 08.04.2008 | Entertainment
For Braves fans, he was the best and funniest of us all; for fans of opposing teams, he was serious about the sport and irreverent about everything in it.
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