[TS] Sports of The Times: All Aboard a Subway Series? Not Quite
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The playoffs this year are short on compelling stories for baseball buffs outside New York, especially those who love confrontations with jinxes, hexes and curses.
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ATLANTA - Perry Mason lost a case once. Mariano Rivera blows the occasional save during the postseason. Janet Jackson has a clothing malfunction every now and again.
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or, in this case, Wally the Green Monster to represent the Red Sox, and subway cars, in honor of New York City&#39;s mass transit system -- for performances
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Some baseball teams are built for the long grind of the season, some for a short playoff series.
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After spending a day with the old keyword page, and getting bored with it, I came up with a new way to look at news, something I've not tried before, that might be fun and/or useful http://nytimesriver.com/keywords.html  Since it's likely to change again soon, here's a screen shot. How it works. Every hour, as usual, it does the nytimesriver scan. Every story is linked to in the database undern all the keywords it references. Then the report, in HTML, is prepared, with the keywords in the left column, and links to all the stories in the right colum. The list is sorted by number of references, the keywords with the most references appear at the top of the list.  So today, baseball is the top item, with 15 references. The teams, the Cleveland Indians and Colorado Rockies, rank high. For some reason (heh) the Boston Red Sox don't appear, even though they're still in it, and the Yankees, even though they've been eliminated (yay!) are near the top at position 10.  It's another leaderboard! (Oh shit.) The stories age, and are removed after 24 hours. After all this is news, not olds.  If you have comments, post them under the screen shot, linked above. PS: Note that since the list just started up today, the initial stories, even though some are already 24 hours old, will remain in the queue until tomorrow morning at this time. So the list will be artificially fat today, it'll thin down tomorrow.
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Another game, another postseason classic. It will be news if the Red Sox and Yankees ever play a yawner. Last night certainly does not qualify.
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This is how the AL West was un-won: Basically, the same way it was so often won. How ironic that the Oakland Athletics â-inners of the last three division championships with
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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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What you don't know after 162 games of a baseball season is how a team will perform once it gets to the playoffs. It can be a head-scratcher when teams like the Mets and Yankees of 2006, for instance, get booted. Or the 2001 Mariners, who won 116 regular-season games and were eliminated in the ALCS by the Yankees in ...
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Exactly which playoff race are the Yankees in? Maybe the question should be how many they are in.
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One in an occasional series about the Boston Red Sox and their 86-year quest to win it all. BOSTON - It comes up just shy of bloodcurdling, but this one man, this one sports-radio czar, has
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The Met will be on the air almost as much as the Mets.
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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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ne bad breaking ball did in the Yankees yesterday. Usually, one mistake does not cost them so dearly, but the Yankees are not usually scrounging for hits either.
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No. 700 was a modest home run. It traveled about two rows deep into the left-field bleachers. It brought some spangly streamers out of the upper deck and none of the Giants from the dugout, except for AJ Pierzynski
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David Wright won the first Subway Series game of the year between two New York teams that limped into their annual, highly charged matchup.
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It is not as though they need any more reminders. It is not as though they are not aware of the consequences. Boston College has Rutgers and Mississippi State and, to an extent, Pittsburgh as prime examples of what can happen to a Division 1-A team on any given day against a Division 1-AA opponent.