The dangers of playing hardball
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The month of November in a US presidential-election year is not supposed to be particularly eventful, but this year may be an exception, in the light of the gathering storm over
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it&#39;s the sport that won&#39;t die, no matter what. You can have gamblers, psychotic fans, spouses that blab and players who cork.
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Imagine. You play college baseball in Boston. You spent the winter hitting in poorly lit indoor cages with poor backgrounds. Finally, you get to play outside for the first time and you step in to face . . .
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At some point in a hard baseball season, it must occur to even the best manager that the fate of his club is out of his control, that the future is in the hands of the players and dumb luck.
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Bad-weather games can make for great theater at home but can be miserable for those on the field.
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Baseball's newest Hall of Famer, hard-throwing relief ace Rich "Goose" Gossage, said on Wednesday that players who had used steroids should admit it and that records set by users should not be allowed to stand.
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The problem with having a lot to play for is the prospect of losing it all.
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It would be a lot easier to enjoy your life if there weren't so many things trying to kill you every day. Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you would be wrong, and it's almost certainly something we can learn to do better.
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All the heat and pressure are on them for a change now, and if they lose the next two games and this playoff series to Boston, we may witness two unique phenomena simultaneously: the reversal of an 84-year-old Curse and George Steinbrenner&#39;s head
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The key is to be discreet. The mayhem that is the hallmark of any postseason series victory, a champagne-spraying, beer-guzzling clubhouse riot, has to be orchestrated behind the scenes, and it has to be done carefully.
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Dozens of players are linked to banned substances, as a report on Major League Baseball alleges a serious drug culture.
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&#39;You suck! You&#39;re a piece of &amp;%$#*! You can&#39;t play worth *$#!% you loser, so SIT DOWN!!!&quot; That&#39;s what a guy was yelling at a visiting player during a White Sox-Angels game earlier this summer.
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Comment is free: Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Football, athletics, even cricket - the stain of cheating and doping now seems ingrained in our most cherished games.
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Read a "Form 8-K" these days and you can almost hear the crack of a bat at a Boston Red Sox game, the whir of a vacuum cleaner at a high-roller suite in Las Vegas, the scream of a corporate jet.
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You don&#39;t have to hit Major League Baseball or its Players Association over the head with a bat for them to take baseball&#39;s drug problems seriously.
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The slugger&#39;s testimony on steroid use raises sharp questions about integrity of baseball and all pro sports. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Run rate is a fine but dangerous tool.