Baseball: Economics and the Playoffs
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Description: NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel talks with our regular sports commentator Stefan Fatsis of The Wall Street Journal about Major League baseball.
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The last two Saturdays of July changed the 2004 Boston baseball season. Before the final two weekends of the seventh month, the Red Sox were alarmingly average. The Olde Towne Team, swollen with the second-highest payroll ($130 million) in the majors, was finishing a third consecutive month of .500 baseball and a season of great expectations looked like it might ...
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The best of baseballâs divisional playoffs finally made it to prime time on Monday night and the result should serve notice to followers of the Flock in St.
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The playoffs are here! No, not the major league playoffs. I'm talking about the ones we care about: fantasy playoffs. For leagues that operate with a playoff format, the next few weeks will determine a champion.
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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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I played two seasons of Little League in Queens under a cigar-chomping manager named Morty Silver. My sole distinction was winning a trophy for Best Sport, which Morty gave me for crying the least after striking out. The only other thing I remember were the scoreboards at the better fields: They were all bulbs in the days before monster television ...
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At this time of year, because of the run for the division titles and wild cards, every play is magnified. So is every management decision, such as the decision by the Anaheim Angels to suspend
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Peanuts, hot dogs and wireless instant replays. It's the future of baseball...
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BOSTON Go figure this World Series. An old maxim in baseball is you always give away more runs with shoddy defense than you gain with torrid bats.
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Commissioner Bud Selig and other baseball owners should be thrilled. The luxury tax on payrolls has inhibited George Steinbrenner's spending.
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Risultati dei play off della major league di baseball (serie al meglio delle cinque gare).
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You can&#8217;t dismiss luck in baseball. Twice in an extra-innings, Game 2 of a postseason series, the Cleveland Indians benefited from a sudden change in fortune. Jay Schreiber in The Times newsroom. (Earl Wilson/The New York TimeS) Look what happened in Game 2 of the A.L. divisional series between the Indians and the Yankees: [...].
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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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Joe Torre's explanation for his team's recent turnaround -- looseness among the players.
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If you spend, they will come. It can be done. You can turn around a franchise and head it in the right direction in a few days. The Arizona Diamondbacks were the worst team in baseball in 2004, losing 111 games.
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From the book, &quot;The Rivals&quot; by the baseball writers of the Boston Globe and New York Times, published by St. Martin's Press.
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There's a method to finding tomorrow's home runs.