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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
Let’s begin with a story that will seem, I suspect, entirely unrelated to that THING — whatever it is you want to call that Browns game on Monday night…
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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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All Hail Nolan Jones, and Is Brian Snitker Headed to the Hall of Fame?
Well, uh, yeah, that happened. WHY WE LOVE BASEBALL debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list. It was beaten out only by the longtime No. 1…
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Wainwright Gets No. 199
EN ROUTE TO SANTA ROSA, CALIF. — Apologies up front … this crazy book tour has finally caught up with me. We had a great event last night at the Ebell…
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My Daily WHY WE LOVE BASEBALL Moment
LOS ANGELES — OK, so what I’m going to do this week is try to come up, every day (best I can), with a moment from the night before that gets at the…
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No. 24 and No. 1
At some point in the last few weeks, I ended up on a rather ferocious tennis message thread with my friends Howard and Brian. Most of the people I know…
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The Cleveland Browns Diary Is Back!
I began the Cleveland Browns Diary several years ago for a simple reason: I wanted to watch sports the way I did as a kid. Sportswriters have a saying…
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