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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
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
November 3, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
World Series: Crowned Royals, Drowned Mets On a dark night when the New York Mets needed a Dark Knight to keep them alive in the World Series, Matt Harvey did everything he could. And it ended up for nothing. |
Sports Central
October 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
World Series: Crazyball They know the Mets won't be pushovers, at least as much as the Mets know the Royals won't be, either. |
Sports Central
October 21, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: The Cubs, Ahead to the Past? Unless these Cubs find a way to hit better than their .158 LCS average or pitch better than their 4.68 LCS ERA in Game 4, just for openers, it will be forward to the past. |
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 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
September 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Pain, Not Champagne, For the Nats On Saturday, the Nats' bullpen finally did what they had to do to keep the game in reach. It was far too little, far too late. |
Sports Central
September 14, 2015
Joe Messineo |
Running on Empty Here are the baseball players who will be resting more often to try to preserve what they have left in the tank. |
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. |
AskMen.com
June 10, 2015
Christopher Hunt |
Matt Harvey Interview The New York Mets All-Star pitcher, by many accounts, is the biggest sports star in Big Apple. But he can just as easily be passed in the street, mistaken for any suburbanite in a t-shirt and jeans. |
Sports Central
September 9, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Slow Learners and Sore Losers The Chicago Cubs are named after baby bears. Thursday night, they behaved like babies. And one of the infants in the middle of it, who actually began as one of the field's diplomats, still insists on taking the low road. |
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. |
Salon.com
October 12, 1999
Vin Scully |
"29,000 people and a million butterflies" Vin Scully's radio call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's 1965 perfect game against the Chicago Cubs is pure baseball literature.... |
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
October 18, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
So Much for That Extra Day's Rest That the extra day's rest the Monday rain-out afforded may have wounded the Mets' lineup, dissolving their Sunday blowout momentum. |
Sports Central
August 31, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
A Testy September Looms For Nats The Washington Nationals are struggling merely to keep themselves in the rear view mirrors of the New York Mets in the National League East. |
Sports Central
May 10, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
The Braves Bend the Pendulum What happened when the New York mets threw Jose Lima against a short-rested Atlanta Braves' John Smoltz? |
Sports Central
May 23, 2005
Jeff Kallman |
Arsonic: A Tale of Two Interleague Cities Last week, both the New York and Chicago MLB teams played in an interleague series. |
Sports Central
August 13, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
Bob Murphy, RIP: The Unhappiest Happy Recap The very first regular season words any Mets fan heard on his or her radio, in April 1962, came from his distinctive harmonic of Oklahoma drawl and Missouri honey. |
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 Illustrated
March 29, 2000
Kostya Kennedy |
What better way to start the day? Mets lose to Chicago. |
Sports Illustrated
May 14, 2002
Josh Elliott |
Into Thin Air Mike Hampton has struggled with his control and lost his confidence in Colorado... |
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
July 1, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Mad Max, Chasing Face? This season, winning 12 without a loss at this writing, Max Scherzer's more than a feel-good story, he's almost the story for the otherwise Al Central-leading Tigers. |
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
August 15, 2002 |
Prior commitment Cubs vow not to overwork their phenom pitcher |
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 Illustrated
November 6, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Greatness on display Hall of Fame-bound hurlers were the story of Game 7... |
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
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 Illustrated
July 26, 2000
George Plimpton |
The Curious Case of Sidd Finch He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga -- and his future in baseball. (From April 1, 1985) |
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
September 2, 2015
Joe Messineo |
Takeaways From the Cubs/Dodgers Series The Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers squared off in a three-game series. So what did we learn from watching these contenders go at it? |
Sports Illustrated
June 21, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Mending Wood Velocity down, Cubs pitcher struggling to regain form |
Sports Illustrated
October 23, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Chat Reel: SI's Stephen Cannella Controversy dominates Fall Classic: The Mike Piazza-Roger Clemens fiasco would have probably ended differently if it happened during a regular-season game... |
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
March 16, 2010
Kyle Jahner |
Musical Chairs Here are some of the biggest offseason developments in MLB. |
Sports Illustrated
March 8, 2000 |
Heavy Lowe-d Red Sox closer to assume heavy relief role |
Sports Central
May 31, 2012
Louie Centanni |
How to Fix the Cubs With the worst record in the National League (and a tie for the MLB worst) as of this writing, it's safe to say the Chicago Cubs have some holes to fill. |
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. |
Salon.com
October 24, 2000
Allen Barra |
News flash: Mets run out batted ball! And have a bat thrown at them for their trouble. The Yankees are making the plays, and that's why they're dominating the Series... |
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 14, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
Essentially, K-Rod Was Traded For Reyes The Milwaukee Brewers get Francisco Rodriguez and the Mets re-sign Jose Reyes. |
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
January 27, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Ernie Banks, RIP: Always a Beautiful Day There is no joy in Wrigleyville. Mighty Ernie has checked out. At 83. Cub fans aren't the only ones in baseball's world who think that, for Ernie Banks, it's still too young to go. |
Sports Illustrated
June 5, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Seattle's offensive Boone Second baseman's bat has exceeded M's expectations... |
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
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 31, 2007
Greg Wyshynski |
Thank You, Wright and Reyes Because win or lose, you're always going to be worth the price of admission and worthy of admiration. |
