Sports of The Times: No Rewriting Baseballâs Stained History
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The Mitchell steroids report finally hangs culpability on baseballâs commissioner and the players union chief all the way down to the most drug-free players who refused to challenge their leadership.
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Imagine coming to bat in Game 7 of the World Series. Bases are loaded. Game on the line. It&#39;s all up to you. Except, there&#39;s one problem: You have no idea what the score is.
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Jeff Zimmerman's recent baseball biography reads like a broken record, or in a more modern idiom, "Groundhog Day."
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This yearâs World Series was so full of odd, unscripted sights and moments that it sometimes seemed as if the laws of baseball probability had been temporarily suspended.
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Start with this: The major league baseball All-Star Game will never be what it once was. It never can mean what it once meant. That time has come and gone.
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If the Mets were actually in the pennant race, and not a fourth-place team playing out the string with minor leaguers, it might have been considered classic.
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You often see thoroughbred horses do it. Baseball teams have jumped out ahead in the standings and stayed there all the way through to a World Series victory.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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Baseball&#39;s steroid scandal could be seen coming six years ago. The Olympics have feared the one unfolding now for two decades.
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When it comes to landmark winning streaks, the same rules apparently apply in volleyball as they do with a possible no-hitter in baseball. Until the achievement is realized, there can be no speaking of it.
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Reports of substance abuse by top competitors in the baseball and cycling worlds remind us once again that it is important to keep athletic heroics in their proper perspective.
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Baseball players and baseball fans will never understand each other. There is a fundamental disconnect.
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The Sporting News - No, not a World Series championship. They have two of those.
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After a pennant race and postseason dotted with reversed rulings, baseball will get another chance to see who else wants to give replay a look. The topic is on the agenda for Thursday at the GM meetings. And there seems to be growing support among teams to join the NFL, NBA and NHL in using instant replay on calls such as fair or foul and homer or not, but definitely not balls and strikes.
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Overcoming a poor history can be tough in sports. Keeping a strong team consistently on top might be even harder.
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Philanthropic work by players in recent years is a counterpoint to recent scandals.
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He runs Daily Kos, but liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas says he's no political leader. He wants you to argue about another great American pastime: baseball. By Ana Marie Cox from Wired magazine.