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Dad’s favorite ballplayer was born left-handed. Think about that for a minute: Brooks Robinson, the best who ever played the hot corner, was born with…
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Pennant Racin', Sept. 26
Before getting started with our Pennant Racin’ today, let me mention that I’ll be doing an Ask Me Anything with Substack Notes on Thursday from 2-3 p.m…
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Browns Diary, Week 3: The Big Unit
Browns 27, Titans 3
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Pennant Racin', Sept. 25
OK, I changed the title of this little series from “Must-Win Update” to “Pennant Racin’,” because: (1) I heard from a couple of you who took the whole…
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Must-Win Update, Sept. 24
The Cubs are big winners. The Padres, Giants and Reds ... not so much.
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Must-Win Update, Sept. 23
I’m fascinated by “must-win” pennant race games in MLB … because it’s so strange to me how often the must-win team loses to a team that, you would…
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Friday Rewind: A Steep Climb
About a month ago, our youngest, Katie, went off to college at Wake Forest. With Elizabeth already gone to college (and now going by Liz), that made us…
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Is This Anything (Sports Edition)?
NEW YORK — OK, I’m still buzzing a little bit from my appearance on “CBS Mornings” today. In case you missed it (which, I mean, of course you missed it…
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Who Really Deserves to Win the Cy Young Award?
The oddsmakers, best I can tell, have set the lines for the American and National League Cy Young winners: It’s going to be the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole and…
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Waino
Gerrit Cole should be next. Assuming Cole keeps pitching roughly the way he has been pitching and he can stay healthy, he should win his 200th game…
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Browns Diary, Week 2: Home Again
Steelers 26, Browns 22
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Shohei's Spectacular Season, and Everything Else Going On in Baseball Right Now
OK, back at home — at least for a couple of days — and there’s a whole lot going on in baseball, so let’s go around the league and see what’s happening…
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Baseball's Goal: To Go Home!
EN ROUTE HOME — Here I am in another airport at 4:30 in the morning, but this time feels different because this time, I’m going home. It has been an…
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Friday Rewind: Up in the Air
EN ROUTE TO KANSAS — It’s 4:10 a.m. here at the San Francisco airport, and I’m somehow awake, but I have only vague memories of how I got here or…
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