Saying Baseball Is in Turmoil? Donât Be So Sure
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American fans may not care for cheating players, but those players havenât stained the game sufficiently to keep fans away.
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What on earth is wrong with the Yankees? I&#39;m not talking about their woeful pitching or their erratic offense. I&#39;m talking about their demand that MLB award them a win by forfeit because the Devil Rays were
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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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One traditional baseball belief is that the last thing wanted is governmental interference in the sport&#39;s day-to-day operation.
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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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Before last night&#39;s game with Tampa Bay at Fenway Park, every Boston player in sight was bombarded by questions about the drama that will be played out this weekend at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox&#39; hated rivals.
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The report exposing widespread use of steroids in Major League Baseball raised more questions about the depth of the problem in America's pastime and aroused concerns on Friday about the credibility of its evidence.
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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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I donât know what the future holds for the Yankees and me. I only know that the divorce is off as of the All-Star Game break and that weâre really, really trying to work things out.
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The Montreal Expos may not care too much about their race with the Mets to remain out of last place in the National League East, but the Mets feel pressure to avoid the dishonor
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The Houston Astros against St Louis  Cardinals may lack the pizzazz and cache of the feud between  the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.
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Confusion at a critical moment over a malfunction to the phone system in the Astros&#39; bullpen caused the Braves to play Game 2 of the Division Series under protest.
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HIS could be the big one. This could be the Hurricane Ivan of sports, the perfect storm that levels the landscape of a formerly major league.
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It is a strange time in baseball. The announcement of Hall of Fame voting is due today, and the issue of performance-enhancing drugs was part of the thought process for voters in determining which of the boxes they checked off. Perhaps it wasn't quite as important as statistics and performance accolades, but, unfortunately, these are the times we live in ...
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October is in our sights, and the two important teams from Massachusetts are confounding the experts. It&#39;s the Red Sox baseball club, not the Kerry presidential campaign, that&#39;s supposed to be in its pre-autumn swoon.
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The march to baseball's ultimate glory was not conventional, not mundane, and certainly not relaxing. But why should anyone be surprised?
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WASHINGTON - This has been quite an offseason for the game of baseball. Two weeks ago, the scourge of steroids finally and inevitably caught up with the sport, leaving the reputation of the game&#39;s biggest star in tatters.