Column: Baseball thrives, despite itself
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Here's something you want to hear next time salary talks begin at your job &#151; your boss saying he wants to spend a lot more money on payroll.
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Eight and a half years ago, Daisuke Matsuzaka established his legendary status in Japan with a feat of endurance that is still hard to fathom in the context of Major League Baseball.
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If Game 1 is any indication, this National League Championship Series could be headed for astronomical offensive numbers. And we haven&#39;t even gotten to the cozy confines of Minute Maid Park yet.
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Football, a sport so much more popular and richer than hockey the two almost cannot be compared, never attempted a gambit so risky. Neither did baseball, a sport so indigenous to the fabric of American society that its very president once was a team owner.
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Deep into the season, the Nationals are the punch line, not the joke instead, the Nats are baseball's plucky yet endangered high-wire act.
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Montreal is a great city. In every way it shines as an eloquent locale with a rich history, a vivid today and wonderful people. It is a baseball supportive city, but it was asked to play house with MLB after being told the team would be contracted and then told it would be moved.
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Joel Bennetâs story proves that, at least in the minor leagues, thereâs still some truth left in those dappled âField of Dreamsâ images.
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In this crevice of the baseball globe, as the season heads to the bottom of the ninth, nothing has changed. It&#39;s an annual rite for both teams by the bay to be in prime playoff position with a week to go, and
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Baseball's been very, very good to Buffett.
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Texas has stayed in the American League West race with its solid play against division foes.
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If anything, there will be a little more sizzle around the ballpark. There won't be so much focus on Julio Lugo's slump, or J.D. Drew's batting average, or Curt Schilling's injury, or the fact that there's not much of a race in the American League East right now.
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The 22nd week of the 26-week baseball season is full of intriguing contests.
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Goose Gossage can understand why some players would try steroids. With major league salaries so high, finding a way to extend a career is an awfully tempting proposition.
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Managing a baseball team isnâta popularity contest any more than playing the game is. But it helps when people like you, and there arenât many people who have played baseball in New York who are liked better than Willie Randolph.
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VIERA, Fla., March 1 -- There is but one portable stereo in the Washington Nationals' clubhouse, constantly set to an innocuous pop station. Not once during the past three weeks has it risen to a level that interfered with normal conversations. Not once has someone slid in a country CD, only to have...
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The way the Florida Marlins are playing, only a force of nature could slow them down.
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The challenge remains considerable, the chance at ultimate victory highly improbable. But there will be a baseball game at Fenway Park today.