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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 22, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
West's Suspension vs. Real Accountability If baseball umpires are supposed to be above the field's passions should they not be held to standards just a little bit higher? |
Sports Central May 4, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Letter of the Law, Written and Otherwise Baseball, for all its controversies and crises, remains as invigorating a game in discourse as it is in play. |
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 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 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 September 29, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Remembering a Legend: Casey Stengel The youth of today's America could learn a few things from the legendary baseball manager -- the man Richie Ashburn called "the happiest man I've ever seen." |
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 July 8, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Deep Blue: MLB at Midseason More than halfway into the baseball season, we've finally gotten to that phase where flashes in the pan have had time to fade, the true horses in baseball have had time to right themselves after stumbling out of the gate. |
Salon.com July 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |
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 November 7, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Credible Evidence and a Fresh Beer A post season analysis of major league baseball. |
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 June 30, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Ah, the Trade Winds Blow... The author predicts what kind of trade winds are blowing across the rosters of major league baseball. |
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. |
Sports Central January 6, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Jerry Coleman, RIP It was how Coleman spoke of live baseball from the Padres' broadcast booth that endeared him to Padres and other fans and, finally, enshrined him in the Hall of Fame in 2005 as a Frick Award winner. |
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. |
Sports Central January 2, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost A tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Salon.com July 10, 2002 King Kaufman |
All-Star outrage The game ended in a tie. That's not a problem, but baseball still screwed up. |
Sports Central October 12, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Tigers Advance on Shades of Gray Sonny Gray is learning the lessons rookies usually learn if they intend to build careers as good as Gray's performance in American League division series Game 2 was. |
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"! |
Salon.com October 28, 2002 King Kaufman |
One last surprise After six nights of roller coaster weirdness, the Angels and Giants played a relatively uneventful Game 7. And when it was over, Anaheim almost looked like fun. |
Salon.com October 8, 2002 King Kaufman |
America loves underdogs Just not enough to watch them play. Too bad, because the baseball teams that are still alive are a stone gas. |
Popular Mechanics April 2003 Jim Kaat |
The Mechanics Of Baseball Baseball has evolved in favor of the hitter. Here are nine factors that have changed the game. |
Sports Central January 2, 2008 Rich Lyons |
Grading the MLB Offseason Moves Here is a list of the most notable MLB trades, along with a grade for the team(s) involved. |
Sports Illustrated April 20, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Home runs getting you down? Baseball Q&A: Dave Stieb... bored with home run after home run?... why isn't anyone hitting .400?... etc. |
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 8, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Goodbye, Atlanta Braves, Yet Again The Braves, who managed to shake off a few hiccups and a few dubious deals to post the National League's best regular season record, deserved better than regular season managing in a win-or-be-gone game. |
Salon.com October 19, 2002 King Kaufman |
Cinderella, Goliath and other Series myths With the Giants and Angels set to meet in the Fall Classic, it's time for Fox TV and other pundits to manufacture drama. |
Sports Central October 14, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
ALCS Game 2: Tight, High, Wild, Grand Those guys are playing what used to be Red Sox baseball when crunch time arrived! You could hear Fenway's ghosts whispering among themselves. |
Sports Central May 1, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Baseball's Defiant April? The Cardinals have the National League Central rather secure for now, three games ahead of the .500-clinging Cincinnati Reds. And the Angels have the American League West's basement rather secure for now, themselves, nine and a half games out of first place. |
Salon.com September 17, 2002 King Kaufman |
The Angels-A's race is a dud Thanks to baseball's boneheaded wild-card system, we once again have two great teams playing meaningless games in September. |
Sports Central October 4, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Random Thoughts on MLB Playoffs We can still hope to see the first truly memorable game of the '06 playoffs, since none of Tuesday's games reached that level. |
Sports Illustrated April 12, 2000 Tom Verducci |
There's no one like Vlad Baseball Q&A: Vladimir Guerrero... Mariners... more bad calls by umpires?... Rafael Furcal... etc. |
Sports Central July 4, 2012 Greg Suttich |
Hot and Not Heading to the All-Star Break The Yankees, Rangers, and Angels are playing the best baseball in the American League. The National League has seen the surprising Washington Nationals post the best record, with the Giants now flexing their muscle in the NL West. |
Sports Central August 6, 2012 Louie Centanni |
MLB Predictions: August Until the End Obviously, predictions are meant to be proven wrong -- and I tried to make some bold ones for the sake of speculation, fun, and a legitimate belief in the strangeness of September baseball. |
Sports Central September 20, 2010 Jess Coleman |
Baseball Needs to Say Yes to Instant Replay It becomes clearer everyday that baseball needs replay. |
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 July 13, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
George Steinbrenner, RIP: The Best Mistranslated, The Worst Exaggerated Remembering Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. |
Sports Illustrated August 22, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Call to arms Young starters fizzle, so Jays look to veterans... "The Igniter" is ready... Going South... Griffey's effect... Making their mark... |
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 October 29, 2004 Danny Sternfield |
Curse Snatcher: A Study in Cub Baseball The Cubs and the Red Sox both play in large markets with substantial payrolls, and both had not won a World Series in forever and a day. The difference between the two teams: Boston did something about it. |
Sports Central March 30, 2005 Adam Russell |
Top 10 Questions For Opening Day Despite the flurry of activity surrounding Major League Baseball's drug policy, the offseason had a number of events that raised an even larger number of questions heading into the first games. |
Sports Central August 27, 2009 Matt Thomas |
Also-Rans Key During MLB Stretch Run Because baseball must go on, even in those cities where the race has been over since mid-May, what follows is a breakdown of the five most relevant irrelevant teams in Major League Baseball for the balance of the 2009 season. |
Sports Central February 21, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
Let's All Drink to the Depth of a Clown Warren Spahn enunciated best the dilemma that plagues our memory of Casey Stengel even three decades after his death left baseball bereft for its most singular mind and personality. |
Sports Central November 27, 2005 Matt Thomas |
40 MLB Offseason Moves That Make Sense Some speculation on which Major League Baseball players will change uniforms and which won't -- and which should just hang it up. |
Sports Central May 1, 2013 Andrew Jones |
April's Early Warning Signs All in all, the 2013 season looks to be an interesting one. Every division seems to have three or four potential contenders. But most likely May will weed out the weaklings and early overachievers. |
Sports Central August 3, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Ill-placed Ill Will Around an Ill Pitcher? Unless you're Mike Trout, even on a day during which you got iced by Clayton Kershaw sustaining a scoreless inning streak, it must suck to be a Los Angeles Angel these days. |
Sports Central October 27, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
The Angels' Tragicomedy About all the Los Angeles Angels managed to prove is that you can't get to the World Series by playing like the 1962 Mets. |
Sports Central March 16, 2010 Kyle Jahner |
Musical Chairs Here are some of the biggest offseason developments in MLB. |