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Tag: Baseball
Some kids who played baseball could have learned a valuable lesson this season: Standing up for values requires personal sacrifice.
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None of the young players are getting any better, none of the trades from the front office worked, the baseball season could, for all practical purposes, be over by Sunday afternoon in Minnesota.
But at least the Pohlad family is happy.
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The reliance on numbers is about to take a giant step forward with the announcement from Major League Baseball today that it will allow iPads and smartphones in the dugout.
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I recognize that this post will mean nothing to Millennials and others who never knew what it was like to sit down in front of the TV on Saturday afternoon to watch the one baseball game you’re likely to see a week.
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After shaving six minutes off the time of a game last year, Major League Baseball is trying more ideas to speed up the game. Read more →
Pitchers and catchers reported for spring training yesterday, in preparation for the return of the last remaining sport in which fans don’t have to get hammered to enjoy it.
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Utility player Mike Aviles said his daughter, Adriana, underwent a bone marrow transplant in December and is now cancer free. Read more →
Pete Rose may not yet realize that he’s a compulsive liar who can play a lot of roles for his audience, but a sympathetic figure is not one of them. Read more →
Rod Carew is 70, a fact that’s a cold bucket of water in the face for baseball fans who idolized the Minnesota Twins and California Angels hitter, one of the best pure hitters in the history of baseball.
So perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us that his health is in peril, and yet it does. Read more →
The chess pieces are moving over at Target Field and some of them are beginning to point to the beginning of the post-Mauer era. Read more →
It’s somewhat comforting to know that the book-spine trash talking between libraries didn’t end after the Toronto and Kansas City playoff series.
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In the aftermath of last night’s World Series game, a real mystery continues to swirl around the starter for the Kansas City Royals’ starting pitcher. What did he know about the health of his father and when did he know it? And why did we know it first? Read more →
The young man — Oscar Wood, 9 — went to yesterday’s deciding American League Divisional Series dressed as his favorite player, Jose Batista. Read more →
If you don’t have cable TV, the baseball postseason doesn’t exist. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the arm of the sport that controls its media presence, has locked down online access. Even as it advertises its At Bat app to view the playoff games, it’s blacked out many of the games, presumably to protect the rights of the cable TV networks who have purchased them. Read more →