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Pennant Racin', Sept. 30
All right, we’re getting down to it now, last two days of the season, and it’s chaos in the American League, where there are still four teams very much…
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Friday Rewind: Plus Pennant Racin', Sept. 29
Might be a bit of a quicker version today — I spent the morning with a camera crew from Japan’s public media organization, NHK (see below!). They’re…
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Pennant Racin', Sept. 28
OK, today at 2 p.m. Eastern, I’ll be doing an Ask Me Anything on Substack. You can register here, it’s totally free, and we’ll talk about whatever…
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Pennant Racin', Sept. 27
A quick reminder that I’ll be doing an Ask Me Anything for Substack on Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern. You can register here if you want to get a reminder…
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Brooksie
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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