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Sports Central June 21, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Boys Will Be Boys Roger Clemens gets off the hook on a perjury rap because either the House Committee for the Sending of Swell Messages to Kids, the actual prosecution, or the original Mitchell Report bungled its way across the sticky wickets of actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances. |
Sports Central July 22, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Erik Bedard, Knowing His Limits Erik Bedard just might be a pitcher who's smart enough and experienced enough to know his limits, even if he did learn them by attrition. It doesn't -- shouldn't -- make him seem any less a competitor. |
Sports Central April 5, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Mike Cuellar, RIP: "I Can Still See the Look on His Face" The heat of the moment never bothered Cuellar, who died of stomach cancer at 72 Friday. Come to think of it, the heat of the anything never bothered him. |
Sports Central July 6, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
D-Train's Derailment, and Others' How strange and sad it is, now and over a lifetime of watching and loving the game, that as often as not the players who are the most fun to watch become the players whose careers derail soon enough after they get their first tastes of success. |
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 September 19, 2006 Zach Jones |
Orioles Thinking Big, Spending Small If the Orioles aren't going to spend like the big boys, they need to start thinking like the little kids and resist the temptation to grab the next aging former star that hits the market. |
Sports Central July 24, 2005 Josh Frank |
The MLB's Arms Race With pitching being so critical, it seems that managers overpay every summer as the trading deadline approaches. This year, rumors are flying about Florida Marlins pitcher A.J. Burnett, whose record is good but not great. |
Sports Illustrated April 25, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
O's what a relief! Baltimore's bullpen has become its strongest unit... |
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. |
Sports Central May 25, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Who's Stealing Baseball's Limelight? With Major League Baseball's perennial sluggers just digging in, with their big bats finally coming around as the season's second quarter begins, we have been treated to the feats of several players who have unexpectedly captured the pastime's attention. |
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. |
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Mark Hyman |
The Next Great Baseball Rivalry The Nationals and Orioles will be fierce competitors -- at the ticket window |
Sports Central January 5, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
2003: Never a Dull Moment "We try every way we can do to kill this game," Sparky Anderson once said of baseball, "but for some reason, nothing nobody does never hurts it." That was then, this is now. Nothing nobody does never hurts it still, but lots of people do continue to embarrass it. |
Sports Central January 3, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2013: Unrealities Baseball's 2013 included a few hallucinations and several surrealities. Some might have wished some of the hallucinations were real even as others might have wished some of what was real was merely a hallucination. |
Sports Central October 16, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Crowned Royals Ride Roach Coach to Series You can point to lots of moments in which you might have known in your gut of hearts that the Royals were going to go to the World Series. |
Sports Central July 23, 2004 Vincent Musco |
Three Cities, Three Candidates Like Ralph Nadar vs. John Kerry and George Bush, the Orioles play spoiler to the Red Sox and the Yankees. Thank God just the American League Pennant is at stake. |
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 August 24, 2005 Andre Watson |
Dreams Fade Quickly For D.C. Teams (Pt. 1) The 2005 baseball season was only a month old and something strange was happening: The Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals were each in first place in their prospective divisions. But what a difference a couple of months make. |
Sports Central October 7, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
They Did! They Did! They Did Taw Some Puddy Tats! Considering that they won 96 games in winning an American League East and just shoved the Tigers away in three straight, some think the Orioles already have done anything. And almost everything. |
Sports Central January 2, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost A tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Sports Central November 7, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Credible Evidence and a Fresh Beer A post season analysis of major league baseball. |
Sports Central October 12, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Nobody Asked Me Yet, But... Some random thoughts as we wrap up this baseball season. |
Sports Central October 2, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
Capital Concerns I never got the baseball thing. That insatiable quest to bring America's pastime back to the District after losing franchises to Minnesota and Texas over the last century. |
Sports Central September 8, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
Now Ear This Apparently, in Baltimore, when you commit a balk that invites an opposing run on the house, at a time when you're already down 2-0 against a bristling opposing pitcher, you shake it off by sticking the next pitch in the hitter's ear. |
Sports Illustrated April 12, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Picking up where we left off Hall of Fame queries make the 'bag's season debut... |
Sports Central September 20, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
Charm City Season A group of baseball teams with various levels of expectation and familiarity by the casual fan have some to the fore, such as the A's, Nationals, Reds, and Orioles. |
Sports Central April 17, 2006 Bob Ekstrom |
Who Wants to Be an Oriole Now? Consider the turn of fortune that has graced Kevin Millar. |
Sports Central October 13, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
These Royals Can Hit Like, Well, Orioles, If Need Be The Royals hitting home runs? The Orioles stealing bases? The Royals becoming baseball's first team to win four extra-inning games in one postseason? Oops. They just did that. |
Sports Central April 8, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year The most wonderful time of the year begins at a point in early April and endures for slightly more than half a calendar year. |
Sports Central November 13, 2009 Matt Thomas |
The MLB Anti-Team of the Decade The team in question must be bad -- not just run-of-the-mill wins/losses bad, but terrible on a more philosophical level. |
Sports Central October 10, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
The Orioles Like Mondays, So Far What a difference Monday makes. To Jim Johnson and to the Baltimore Orioles. |
Sports Central September 5, 2006 Mike Round |
Hot Topics as MLB Season Winds Down The A-Rod "slump" saga... Jim Leyland for AL Manager of the Year?... It's odds-against for the Boston Red Sox making the postseason... A few words on the AL MVP debate... etc. |
Sports Central May 2, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Upstarts and Stalwarts What makes the baseball season so special is that no individual player's achievement or any team's success is greater than the entirety of the game. |
Sports Central May 17, 2005 Adam Russell |
Baseball's Five Biggest Surprises As it is nearly every year, the early part of the Major League Baseball season includes a number of surprises. |
Sports Illustrated October 24, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Closers and Cooperstown Have you been wondering about managerial vacancies around baseball, what's going to happen to the Braves or how the heck a relief pitcher is supposed to get into the Hall? So have your fellow readers... |
Sports Central May 1, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
The Sounds of Silence in Camden Yards Because of Baltimore's riots this week, and after having postponed twice, the Orioles elected to play the White Sox without an audience. |
Sports Illustrated October 4, 2001 Frank Deford |
Around the horn A look at noteworthy items from the sports world... |
Sports Central June 28, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
Orioles Are Birds of Pray Baltimore's Orioles jumped out in front on strong pitching. As the season unfolds different factors come into play. |
Sports Central March 5, 2007 Mike Round |
Under the '07 MLB Fantasy Radar Here are 10 speculative picks for this year's draft. |