Offstage at the Mets
Late June is a great part of the baseball season as it is — springtime has turned into summer, the pennant races are taking shape, the draftees are reporting to their first professional clubs, and...
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Games Everywhere
The Mets lost to the Pirates in a quiet, unmemorable game that at least saw Terry Collins manage a bullpen the way one would like: he was cognizant of his starting pitcher’s gas tank and brought his...
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Sandlot Stars, Medical Degrees and Other Winter Tales
I’ve spent a good chunk of the winter sulking about Jeurys Familia quick-pitching or Yoenis Cespedes playing base-soccer or Daniel Murphy bringing the glove up or Cespedes charging off first on a soft...
View ArticleCyclones Past and Present
Congratulations to Travis Taijeron, he of the almost-invariably mispronounced last name, on his first big-league hit. And congratulations to Joey Votto for continuing to be Joey Votto. The Reds’ star...
View ArticleViva Leaving Las Vegas
Monday afternoon I was keeping an eye on the Astros and the Red Sox in the fourth game of their American League Division Series, rain spitting on Fenway, Houston trying to close it out, Boston trying...
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