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Sports Illustrated
November 20, 2002
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Bronx-Bound Bomber As the Yanks closed in on a deal with Hideki Matsui, other teams whined and unloaded big contracts.   |
Sports Central
December 26, 2005
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
Allen Barra |
Everything you know is wrong The major leagues are more competitive than ever, small-market teams can compete, and home runs and giant salaries aren't ruining the game. Plus: Who's going to Cooperstown? |
AskMen.com
May 14, 2003
Arash Madani |
The Financial Expansion Of The MLB A year after "contraction" was the buzzword in Major League Baseball, the latest trend is not to diminish the game, but to expand it. |
Salon.com
March 29, 2000
Sasha Issenberg |
In the land of the Yomiuri Giants In Tokyo Wednesday, a group of Americans engaged in a Japanese tradition more than a century old. The Americans are the Mets and the Cubs. The tradition is baseball. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: 2008 Baseball Games To Watch You can't watch every game, so you should at least try to catch some of these must-see games. |
Salon.com
September 20, 2002
King Kaufman |
Baseball shouldn't overreact to attack Thursday's incident of two fans attacking Kansas City Royals first base coach Tom Gamboa during a game was shocking, but ballparks are relatively safe places, and don't need to be turned into armed camps. |
Sports Central
June 17, 2011
Andrew Jones |
How to Realign Major League Baseball Rumors have been floating around about the potential for MLB to realign into a system with two 15-team leagues and no divisions. |
Sports Central
December 25, 2008
Sean Crowe |
The Yankees Have Ruined My Christmas Someone needs to remind the Yankees that the United States is going through a pretty bad recession. |
Sports Central
September 17, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB and its Fans Need to Clean Up Their Acts Major League Baseball, as well as its fans, took a collective literal blow on Monday, September 13th at Oakland Coliseum at a game between the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers. |
Salon.com
April 3, 2002
Allen Barra |
Baseball 2002: The fix isn't in So you think the big-market teams have it all locked up? Then I guess you'll be betting on the Los Angeles Dodgers... |
Sports Central
May 9, 2005
Tyson Wirth |
Modern Problems, Modern Solutions An outline of innovative and appropriate solutions to baseball's major problems such as foolish fans and luxury tax failures. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2002
Keith Olbermann |
The Big Showalter After a sudden end to the Yankees' season, George Steinbrenner is not the type to act rationally when a situation calls for panic. |
Salon.com
October 6, 2000
Allen Barra |
Where was George? The Yankees ended the season with a swan dive for the ages, and all their once-cantankerous owner could muster was a shrug... |
AskMen.com
April 6, 2013
Brett Smiley |
Baseball Fans The dawn of baseball every April tends to shower fans of every team with a clean slate and hope, when in reality, the writing is on the wall: a large chunk of the league is hopeless. |
Sports Central
March 22, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Great Players Becoming Great Managers At this writing, Don Mattingly could become a genuinely great manager in time or the next Mel Ott, a genuinely great player who went genuinely into the tank as a manager. Robin Ventura could go either way, too. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Sports Central
February 21, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Not-So-Great Yankee Double Switch One day after the 1964 World Series ended with the St. Louis Cardinals defeating the New York Yankees, both Series managers were out, and one of them went to work for the team he'd just opposed. |
Salon.com
July 23, 2002
King Kaufman |
Taking baseball owners at their word If competitive balance is the main issue in the contract talks, why does their main proposal address payroll imbalance? |
Sports Central
July 13, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
George Steinbrenner, RIP: The Best Mistranslated, The Worst Exaggerated Remembering Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. |
Salon.com
July 3, 2001
King Kaufman |
Why I don't like Ichiro I know he's gotten 3,373,035 All Star votes, but I don't like his Punch-and-Judy style of batting, and he's not on base enough for a leadoff hitter. |
Sports Central
December 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Central
December 1, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
A Baseball Negotiation, My Foot Derek Jeter may have won a 2010 Gold Glove that he doesn't really deserve. But neither does he deserve the apparent negotiating strategy of the New York Yankees, for whom he has been the franchise. |
Sports Central
January 12, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost (Pt. 2) Part two of a tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Salon.com
October 21, 2000
Allen Barra |
The traffic jam Series Thanks to a bloated playoff format and declining TV viewership, this year's World Series doesn't have quite the resonance of those from the "Golden Age"... |
Salon.com
January 16, 2002
Allen Barra |
This just in: Giuliani, Steinbrenner are sleazebags! Plus: Barry Bonds' $90 million deal is a no-brainer... |
Sports Central
September 26, 2006
Aaron Miller |
Mr. Baseball Needs a Sequel The movie Mr. Baseball is a piece of cinematic mastery and we need more movies like it. |
Sports Central
September 13, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
The Captain at the Crossroads? Derek Jeter isn't a man who wants to be remembered for a twice-fractured ankle reducing him to a bad, sad impersonation of what he once was. |
Sports Central
January 25, 2005
Jon Gonzales |
Biting the Big Apple: MLB Preview You thought last year was whacked? This year will turn inside out when the Big Apple erupts on its newest newcomers ... and it's going to get ugly. This and the predictions of a wild and wooly year of baseball to come. |
Salon.com
October 17, 2001
Allen Barra |
The decline and fall of the Yankees -- I mean, the A's Ancient arrogance beats the youthful variety -- this time... |
Sports Central
October 16, 2006
Zach Jones |
Fire Torre? The Curse of Playoff Thinking How would the debate over Torre's job would look if cool reason were applied to the Yankees' personnel decisions for once? Simple: the debate wouldn't exist. |
Sports Central
June 10, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Brien's Song Brien Taylor's may be only the saddest of stories involving baseball's number-one draft picks. Here are some others who didn't flower fully for assorted reasons |
AskMen.com
April 9, 2002
Matthew Ross |
A Preview Of The 2002 MLB Season Now that the baseball season is upon us, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at which teams are the ones to watch for this season... |
Sports Illustrated
October 24, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Scouts honor Advanced reports are key to Yankees' success... |
Sports Central
July 10, 2009
Diane M. Grassi |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 4) It is the age-old argument that will never go away amongst baseball aficionados. And that is the comparison of individual players from different eras in which they played. |
Sports Illustrated
October 2, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Time to woo Sweet Lou Mets GM could save his job by landing the M's skipper. |
Sports Central
September 22, 2008
Jeff Kallman |
"Fort Apache, Yankee Stadium" All this season's eulogizing the big ball orchard in the Bronx has been gushy, mushy, sentimental, and mostly on the mark. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Central
January 13, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
A-Rod Agonistes, the Final Chapter? We could see a 2014 baseball season and maybe more without Alex Rodriguez, after all. |
Sports Central
October 13, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
What Happened to the Yanks? The 2005 postseason for the New York Yankees followed one of the most challenging of all regular seasons for manager Joe Torre. |
Sports Central
July 26, 2005
Billy Davis |
New and True in Yankee Blue What sort of test must a newcomer pass before earning recognition as a true New York Yankee? Thursday night's game against the Red Sox offered such a test for Alex Rodriguez. |
Sports Illustrated
July 9, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Fehring the worst Baseball's union head has many issues to solve -- starting with steroids. |
Sports Central
July 11, 2004
Greg Wyshynski |
Pity of the Yankees Eighty-percent of New York Yankees fans have either jumped on the bandwagon within the last decade or root for the team because they want to be with Derek Jeter. |
Sports Illustrated
April 24, 2001
Tom Verducci |
International sensation Ichiro Suzuki, the Mariners' slashing leadoff hitter, shouldn't book any fishing excursions or vacation getaways for the July All-Star break. The rookie has a very good chance of starting the All-Star Game in, of all places, Seattle's Safeco Field... |
AskMen.com
Troy St. Louis |
The Price Of An MLB All-Star Team For the past few seasons there has been a growing concern that small market teams cannot compete in professional baseball today. Examining the cost of rising salaries for players you may conclude that they have a point. Or do they? |
Salon.com
July 17, 2000
Max Garrone |
Trading roundup The Yankees have been wheeling and dealing. Will the Dodgers be the next rich team to get richer? |
Sports Central
December 24, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004
Ian Rowley |
Japanese Baseball: Old and Slow The owners have grown too cozy with one another to operate efficiently, and the players resemble Japan's coddled workers, accustomed to lifetime employment as comfortable as it is unchallenging. And the fans are fleeing. |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
King Kaufman |
Nine predictions and nine observations The Yankees won't do it again, the A's will go far. And stop calling them "ballparks"! |
Sports Central
March 3, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Yankees Hopeful Winter Deals Pay Off The Yankees appear substantially better off for the 2005 season, given their pitching acquisitions, but doubts still remain for the long haul in center field and at first base. |
