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Sports Central August 9, 2004 Hank Waddles |
Dodgers Aiming For Playoff Success Thanks to the new GM's guidance, Dodger fans can look forward to watching their team win games in October for the first time in 16 years. And this time, it won't take a miracle. |
Sports Central September 15, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
September Heat in National League West Entering Sept. 13, San Francisco and San Diego were tied for the division lead and Colorado was 1.5 games behind them. The National League West and East have baseball's best races and the tightest race is in the NL West. |
Sports Central July 7, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Let's Not Put the A's in the Series Just Yet The swap to obtain Chicago Cubs pitchers Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel is being received around much of baseball as the A's saying, "Gentlemen, we have just traded for the World Series." |
Sports Central August 10, 2004 Martin Hawrysko |
Why Cards Are More Deserving Than Cubs "Congratulations to the 2004 National League Central champions, the St. Louis Cardinals." This with almost two months remaining in the season ... and from a Cubs fan, no less? |
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 Illustrated August 20, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Difference makers Complementary players will impact the stretch run for baseball's pennants. |
Sports Illustrated August 14, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Phillies err by antagonizing Rolen Philadelphia advisor Dallas Green pulled a trick out of the bag of an old nemesis, George Steinbrenner, last week when he ripped Phillies third baseman Scott Rolen... |
Salon.com April 2, 2001 King Kaufman |
Where have you gone, Bill Grabarkewitz? An oral history of the Los Angeles Dodgers forgoes baseball for gossip, and leaves a hometown boy wondering where his memories fit into the picture... |
Sports Central February 16, 2006 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
Sports Illustrated February 20, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Chat Reel Big contract could keep Sheffield in a Dodger uniform... |
Sports Central October 13, 2009 Paul Foeller |
MLB Division Series Report Cards The 2009 playoffs have been awful so far. But the stark differences in talent make grading the performances of each team that much easier. |
Sports Central September 21, 2004 William Geoghegan |
Do Talented Cubs Have a Chance? On paper, the Chicago Cubs should be one of the top four teams in the National League. But as we all know, baseball games aren't played on paper. |
Sports Central August 9, 2010 Jonathan Lowe |
The Leaning Tower of Baseball There is such a divide between first and third in all the divisions. So what happened to all the other contenders? |
Sports Central June 21, 2010 Joshua Duffy |
Lessons From Baseball's First Half At nearly the half-way point of the Major League Baseball season, we have a pretty good idea now of who is going to be what. |
Salon.com August 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
Savoring the season that almost wasn't 2002 hasn't been a classic, but it's great that the heroics of Schilling, A-Rod and the rest won't be lost. |
Sports Central September 23, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
The Dodgers Take a Victory Swim I have a few observations concerning the Los Angeles Dodgers' pool party to celebrate clinching the National League West in Arizona. |
Sports Central August 18, 2004 Mike Round |
Rolling the Dice in Los Angeles Dealing from a position of strength is the best time to make a trade and that's exactly what the Dodgers did in late July. |
Sports Central September 7, 2007 Piet Van Leer |
MLB NL Playoff Odds A look at the playoff chances of NL teams like the Mets and Cubs. |
Sports Central September 11, 2015 Joe Messineo |
Baseball's Top Five Best Prospects Let's get acquainted with five of the very best prospects in baseball. For our purposes, we're including only players who were in the minors prior to expansion of MLB rosters in September. |
Sports Central October 20, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: The New Murphy's Law The Cubs are trying to figure out how a guy who's never hit more than fourteen home runs in any regular season has hit five in a single postseason, and off the league's top three Cy Young Award candidates while he was at it. |
Sports Central March 6, 2006 Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: National League Look for an exciting A's/Cards World Series. St. Louis will be the best team in baseball for the third straight year, and LaRussa's club will finally have a ring to show for it. |
Sports Central October 4, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
Baseball at its Best Down to the Wire The stage is set for a MLB playoffs season that lends itself to great theater, with no sure winner and possibly surprising upsets. You can't ask for any more from this game of baseball. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 3, 2003 Katherine Burger |
Baseball Best Practices As a lifelong, diehard, long-suffering fan of the Chicago Cubs, I'm still trying to salvage something positive out of the disappointing recent playoff experience. |
Sports Central October 9, 2015 Joe Messineo |
Previewing the Mets/Dodgers NLDS When the New York Mets, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, face off in the division series of the baseball playoffs beginning Friday, fans could be in store for the best pitching performances seen anywhere in the postseason. |
Sports Central October 8, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NL Wild Card: Everything's Jake Maybe the Pittsburgh Pirates finally figured that if you can't beat Jake Arrieta, throw at him. |
Sports Central September 30, 2008 Mike Round |
MLB 2008 Divisional Series Breakdown A closer look at the four MLB playoff match-ups. |
Sports Central June 10, 2005 William Geoghegan |
These Cubs Are Dusty's Kind of Team The 2005 Cubs, the stripped-down, less powerful, injury-riddled, not-that-great-on-paper Cubs, are playing better than the 2004 edition really ever did. |
Sports Central October 14, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLDS: Clubs (er, Cubs) Go to NLCS Believe it. The Chicago Cubs have clubbed their way into the National League Championship Series. |
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 Illustrated August 6, 2003 Albert Chen |
Trading Day Amid a flurry of deals, New York and Boston prepared for a pennant race. |
Sports Central May 18, 2006 Zach Jones |
A Tale of Two Cities In the baseball season's past two weeks, two National League teams have thrown it in fifth gear and headed in opposite directions. But will these teams continue trending in their present directions? |
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. |
Sports Central September 18, 2003 Marco Santana |
End of Season Baseball Musings A few random musings as the baseball season nears its end. |
Sports Central August 1, 2012 Andrew Jones |
MLB Trade Deadline: Winners and Losers In today's game of big market teams, small market buyers have little chance of signing rentals in the offseason. It's probably no surprise; however, that the buyers are more often than not big market teams. But let's take a look at a few of the recent deals. |
Sports Central March 2, 2004 Shane McKiness |
Cubs in Position to Win Pennant The Cubs were underdogs last year, and this year, they are again being ignored by the media. I have found this to be deeply disturbing. It is obvious why they are being ignored -- it is because of the offseason acquisitions that the New York Yankees have made. |
Sports Central June 4, 2012 Adam Russell |
Top Five Surprises of the MLB Season With two months of the current MLB season in the books, here are five things that, while maybe they're not that uncommon, are surprising to me. |
Sports Illustrated May 21, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Stop the managerial madness Chicago Cubs manager Don Baylor is not the problem in Chicago... |
Sports Central July 18, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
The 10 Biggest Series For the Second Half As the baseball season moves to the second half, to the trade deadline, into pennant races and the cooler weather of September, there are series that carry added significance for playoff spots. |
Sports Central October 22, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: No Cubs Curses, Too Much Mets Time alone will determine whether the Mets and the Cubs develop a history between them comparable to that between the Yankees and the Red Sox for so many decades. |
Sports Central September 18, 2007 Ricky Dimon |
Hope Springs Eternal, But Should It? What do Cubs fans have if they don't have hope? |
Sports Illustrated June 11, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Monsieur Sauveur The Dodgers have found a winning edge in French Canadian closer Eric Gagne. |
Sports Central January 22, 2004 Marco Santana |
No More Excuses For the Cubs While it's tempting to look back at the 2003 season and pine on the great season that may have been a Steve Bartman away from the World Series, the Chicago Cubs and their fans must move on. That is easier said than done. |
Sports Illustrated June 8, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Sosa should have gone to Baylor first The Sammy Sosa saga; Billy Koch; Expo All-Stars; etc. |
Sports Central December 17, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Cubs Show Lester More Than the Money In the end, there was more to Jon Lester's signing choice than the dollars in his own pocket. A man doesn't take the second-best offer on the table because he's only in it for the money. |
Sports Central October 2, 2003 Jeff Zaginailoff |
Looking Ahead, and Back, At the World Series Matchups A look at the possible World Series matchups and the history between the teams. |
Sports Central May 24, 2005 Kevin Connelly |
Take Me Out to the Brawl Game In no way shape or form is it acceptable to turn a sporting event into a sparring match ... right? Try telling that to a handful of fans at Dodger Stadium. |
Sports Central October 30, 2015 Louie Centanni |
Why the Royals Wanted the Mets, And Why It's Working Two games into the 2015 World Series, a lot of fans are scratching their heads asking the same question: "Are the Royals really this much better than the Mets?" |
Sports Illustrated June 13, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Interleague played-out Baseball's experiment may have run its course... |
Sports Central June 8, 2005 Matt Thomas |
Breaking Down the MLB Trade Deadline As the summer heats up in Major League Baseball, serious trade talks annually begin to percolate. |
Sports Central July 23, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
The Era of Having a Chance It struck me that this is a year where there just aren't that many baseball teams that look very strong. |