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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 19, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: Harvey Paints a Mets Win Matt Harvey feeling fine is dangerous news. For the Cubs, that is. They may yet have to face him again before this set is over. Oh, thrill, oh, joy. |
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
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 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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
King Kaufman |
Playoff predictions Our writer bravely looks at the baseball games ahead and calls 'em as he sees 'em (while crossing his fingers)... |
Sports Central
October 30, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
From the Brink to Valhalla These Cardinals, perhaps David Freese and Allen Craig in particular, may not have to pick up a check for a steak in St. Louis for maybe the rest of their lives. |
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
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
April 1, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Santana, Down for the Count, Maybe Career We love to watch men with the mindsets of bulldogs on the field or on the mound. We don't always stop to think that the very thing we admire about them could be the very thing that finishes them before their time. |
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
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
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
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
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 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
October 24, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
World Series So Far a Snoozer MLB's 2006 postseason has been lethargic and limp. |
Sports Central
September 27, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Johnson Deserved a Better Farewell The one thing his coming departure has in common with his previous departures as a major league manager is that most his players aren't in that big a hurry to see Davey Johnson leave the dugout. |
Sports Central
October 17, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
Hold Those Tigers The Detroit Tigers took one of the worst elimination beatings in postseason history. |
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. |
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
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
November 3, 2007
Greg Wyshynski |
The A-Rod Conundrum A debate about Alex Rodriguez. |
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
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
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 Illustrated
November 6, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Greatness on display Hall of Fame-bound hurlers were the story of Game 7... |
Sports Central
August 18, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
NL Wild Card Wild Cards A break down of the NL wild card race, including a list of the wild cards each team has as they fight for the all important fourth playoff spot. |
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
February 9, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
Fleeting Glories Here are how some other postseason MVPs have fared since they came up biggest when their teams needed them the most. |
Sports Central
March 16, 2010
Kyle Jahner |
Musical Chairs Here are some of the biggest offseason developments in MLB. |
Sports Illustrated
September 13, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Getting a bead on the playoff races The MVP competition in both leagues are tighter than the presidential race. I'm not going to pick anybody now -- not with three weeks left in the season for somebody to pull a Chipper Jones- like rally -- but the field is narrowing... plus, the chances of the White Sox, Indians and D-Backs... |
Sports Central
October 25, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
ALCS: Royals Win Pennant on the Run The Royals are headed for a Series against the New York Mets that promises at minimum to be as arduously exciting as the American League Championship Series they just finished against the Toronto Blue Jays. |
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 Central
March 5, 2009
Mike Round |
Forget Steroids and Recession: Play Ball! Here's a look around MLB's American and National Leagues and predictions for the upcoming season. |
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
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 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 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
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. |
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 Illustrated
June 8, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Sosa should have gone to Baylor first The Sammy Sosa saga; Billy Koch; Expo All-Stars; etc. |
