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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There are unlikely success stories in baseball this year, and the Detroit Tigers would rank near the top of the list. But what about the Minnesota Twins? How many of us saw this coming? Yet again.
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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 Angels weren&#39;t playing the same game as the Yankees this weekend. Not in the wide-angle sense of being a first-place team with the luxury of a comfortable lead.
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Baseball&#39;s most star-crossed franchise is either on the verge of purging its demons or setting this town up for the ultimate tease and fall.
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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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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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The Cleveland Indians have been inconsistent during the first two months of the season. It got them to .500.
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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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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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Baseball can be so fickle. The line between the daring and defeatist is precariously thin, blurred by intangible factors, altered by blind providence.
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This hasn&#39;t been the finest season for Bernie Williams, but Thursday night&#39;s division-clinching home run may be a sign that October could be a different story.
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It is an all-for-one, one-for-all game if ever one existed. The complexity, the speed, the violence all dictate that, and even those who practice the team concept fervently sometimes find it isn&#39;t good enough.
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The Cardinals are not in danger of failing to win the division title, but their season isnÂt turning out the way they expected.
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ATLANTA -- One guy hasn&#39;t won in 12 months and the other hasn&#39;t won in nearly 12 years. It&#39;s tough to decide which stat is the more improbable.
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ST. LOUIS -- Don't look now, but there's a bit of drama building in the &quot;other&quot; League Championship Series.
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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