Baseball: The odds show, better team doesn&#39;t always win Series
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Frederick Mosteller is a lifelong Red Sox fan. This is impressive on its face, particularly considering that his life began in 1916 and that he has survived almost nine decades with no memory of his team&#39;s last World Series victory.
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We&#39;ve all heard the question: If a tree falls in the woods, but no one is around, does it make a noise? Or, if the Boston Red Sox don&#39;t win the World Series after beating the Yankees in the ALCS, will anyone remember?
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It&#39;s not as if the Dodgers feel they have the Cardinals right where they want them, but when you come from behind 53 times during the regular season, they don&#39;t know any better but to believe that anything&#39;s possible.
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They have one more game to make their case. Are the 2004 Red Sox a happy-go-lucky (then suddenly unlucky) pack of frauds who failed to show up for the biggest series of their lives? Or are they full of the stuff that makes a team special and historic?
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The Yankees won Game 1 on Tuesday night, and that was their mistake. Historically, they have done better in the division series when they have lost the first game.
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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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For all of the fuss about Pedro Martinez&#39;s genealogical assertions, the critical factor in the American League Championship Series has been Boston&#39;s inability to provide for its pitchers.
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The Washington area's 33-year effort to acquire a Major League Baseball team has produced plenty of agonizing near-misses.  There is a good chance that won't happen this time.
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So you&#39;re a casual baseball viewer who watches the game only when the playoffs roll around. Now, with the World Series about to begin Saturday, you realize you have no idea who&#39;s playing, how they got there and how they play this game.
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It is the Yankees, not the "cursed" Red Sox, who have a chance for the worst October collapse in history.
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These Boston Red Sox aren&#39;t worried about what happened in New York last year because they think they&#39;re better than the team that lost to the Yankees in the 2003 American League Championship Series.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- No matter how hard anyone tries to predict what will happen at baseball&#39;s annual winter meetings (hereafter referred to as the &quot;Big Crap Shoot,&quot; or BCS), no one can know, with any degree of certainty, what really will go down.
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Before the Braves-Astros series began, the conventional wisdom was that the Astros deserved the nod as favorites -- even though they barely squeaked into the playoffs and won fewer games than Atlanta.
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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.
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Curt Schilling&#39;s status is uncertain. His usefulness is unclear. His dream of delivering a World Series championship to the Boston Red Sox may now be unrealistic.
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Some will say it was daylight robbery and that we were cheated out of victory by the dark clouds. But that&#39;s simply not true. Both teams agreed before the series started that when floodlights
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Experienced, power-laden lineups and a favorite&#39;s role haven&#39;t been a winning combination for the Braves in recent postseaons.