Bob Collins
Professional baseball players tend to be conservatives who know how to keep quiet about things that might divide their fans.
Anthony Rizzo, star of the Chicago Cubs, doesn’t care about any of that. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Major League Baseball
There was a moment last night when baseball fans watching the World Series were reminded that baseball stadiums are basically studios for a TV production. What you see isn’t what’s really there. Read more →
Here’s your moment of bittersweetness, courtesy of Jerry Gale, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., who, like a lot of people, marks the passage of time via the game of baseball. Read more →
The Minnesota Twins have the Cleveland Indians, currently the best team in the American League, right where they want them. Read more →
We laughed last spring when a baseball statistics prediction program predicted 77 wins for your Minnesota Twins. The front office had done virtually nothing to change the worst team in the American League. Last night, thanks to a walk-off home run by Byron Buxton, the Twins won their 77th game of the season. Read more →
An all-time catch
Chicago Cubs fans are patting themselves on the back today for supporting a franchise with enough class to give Steve Bartman a World Series ring.
Winning a World Series can make bygones be bygones, but it doesn’t erase history in which many of the same Cubs fans made Bartman’s life a living hell. Read more →
A lot of us laughed when an off-season statistics calculation predicted the Minnesota Twins would win nearly 80 games this season, even though the franchise did almost nothing in the off-season to boost their roster, which lost more than 100 games last season.
We were wrong. Read more →
David Ortiz’ book came out today and Minnesota Twins fans who idolize former manager Tom Kelly may want to skip it.
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The Minnesota Twins last season lost 103 games, often played in a half-empty stadium, and made a ton of cash. Read more →
Rob Manfred said the sport doesn’t ‘need to be fixed,’ but focus groups have told him all the dead-ball time is turning them off.
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The way the bigshots in baseball are trying to speed up the game, you’d think that people were forced at gunpoint to watch it.
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Baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement will ban the ‘tradition’ in which young players are required on a late-season road trip to travel while wearing outrageous costumes.
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The possibility that Major League Baseball owners would lockout players, raising the possibility that baseball would not return in the spring, ended overnight with word that the owners and players have reached a new collective bargaining agreement. Read more →
Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse appears to have stepped in it again with a column today in which he lambastes the Minnesota Twins players for celebrating when they win a game. The Star Tribune sports department must be an utterly joyless place because this is the sort of thing that Reusse says is shameful. Parents: Read more →