TFW your team actually wins it all; I was just kidding when I said I wish the season was over, MLB, I miss you; winter as personal tank mode
Presidents have been booed at the World Series before; respect for Nationals Beer Guy; anybody watching these games?
The Astros are going to sweep the Nationals, according to an overlooked factor; baseball lost something with CC Sabathia’s retirement; Correa and Altuve’s walk-off celebrations were different, but equally great
Sanchez on Sánchez; fall is the true legend of the fall; why did the polar bear use a 50 oz. bat? Enough to break the ice, hi, I’m Short Relief…
The Uber heckle is still a weird one; an Atlanta fan feels as doomed and defiant as Budd; everyone should wear fun socks
Stevie Wilkerson proved baseball must be salvaged; always play like Roberto Clemente; The Baseball Network experiment proved the nineties were not perfect
When you grow old enough to not hate the Yankees; that baseball scene in ‘Twilight’ remains to be something; we’re all connected
Fans should not throw away their shot, so to speak (and see Hamilton in Philadelphia when you can); a farewell to football played on baseball diamonds; separating the true fans from the rooters and knockers
20 years ago today, Pedro struck out 17 Yankees; MLB has the other professional sports leagues beat in video games at least; Nico Hoerner is the lighting of the beacon, possibly the precious.
Baseball as an “escape”; home runs as the new personal small ball; we see you, September
The Baltimore Oriole confirmed he was a duck all along; Don Orsillo is still missed by Red Sox fans; Kyle Ryan is due to become more famous than his cousin, an expressway.
If the pilgrims had landed in Laguna Beach…things would be different. – Bill Walton, August 17th, 2019 The crowd of passengers gathered anxiously around the home port, murmuring amongst themselves. Their first attempted voyage roughly a month ago had failed to grant them passage farther than Cornwall, and hostility toward them had only grown since…
I’ve spent way too much time on the internet since around 2003. That’s more than enough time to learn about the dangers of going down a YouTube hole using a Wikipedia shovel. Sometimes it leads you into a dark part of the internet that you regretted visiting and you want desperately to scrub what you…
I was seven years old sitting rapt and cross-legged in front of a TV so old you needed to stand up and turn the dial every time you wanted to change the channel. There was zero chance anyone in my family was going to change the station that day, though. We were watching my cousin…
It was the end of the seventies in Canada, and the seagulls just weren’t right. Lake Ontario, said to be the most polluted freshwater in the world in 1979, was warping its herring gull population. Pesticides and industrial waste in the region were dulling their parental instincts: They were abandoning their nests, laying fewer eggs,…
It is a rare occasion when a woman gets to be in charge of her own narrative. More frequently, women’s stories when they’re told are done so through the eyes and voices of men who have a vested interest in telling only those parts which do not threaten their power. Our collection of stories as…