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Life cannot give you everything. It is too fleeting, too cruel, too rooted in reality to allow the fulfillment of fantasy. But baseball, in doses both large and small, can serve as a salve, as a distraction, as a reason to believe in infinite possibility. Baseball can give you everything.  On Wednesday evening in Game 7 of the World Series, inside a ballpark packed to its capacity with fans of…

 (Photo: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports) CLEVELAND – Baseball makes no sense, so it makes us senseless. Look: This post has a shelf life of only a few hours before the Cubs and Indians kick off Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday night, so you’ll have to excuse me if it reads as a stream of consciousness. It is that. What follows are the sleep-deprived and caffeine-fueled thoughts of…

 (Photo: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports) CLEVELAND – Baseball makes no sense, so it makes us senseless. Look: This post has a shelf life of only a few hours before the Cubs and Indians kick off Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday night, so you’ll have to excuse me if it reads as a stream of consciousness. It is that. What follows are the sleep-deprived and caffeine-fueled thoughts of…

Enlarge this image The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp unveiled their new team name and logo Wednesday, retiring their previous name, the Suns. Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp hide caption toggle caption Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp unveiled their new team name and logo Wednesday, retiring their previous name, the Suns. Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp It’s a bold move, meant to energize the local fan base. But a Jacksonville baseball team’s decision to…

Image: AP The US Justice Department (DOJ) announced on Wednesday it’s suing AT&T, alleging the company used DirecTV in an illegal campaign to block carriage of a television channel owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Advertisement The lawsuit accuses DirecTV and its parent company AT&T of sharing private negotiating information with other TV providers including Cox Communications and Charter Communications to gain an illegal advantage over mutual adversary Time Warner…

Photos by Tony Wittkowski / HP staff Beards and baseball Chris Siriano, owner of the House of David Baseball Museum, stands in front of his favorite memorabilia Tuesday inside the St. Joseph museum. Beards and baseball Chris Siriano, owner of the House of David Baseball Museum, looks on as visitors watch a video Tuesday inside the St. Joseph museum. Tony Wittkowski / HP staff Beards and baseball The House of…

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Baseball season is on the brink of being over and it sure feels like it has been a fictional postseason with the likes of the Cleveland Indians and those Cubs from Chicago making it to the World Series. Seriously, isn’t that the plot of every baseball movie ever? The Cubs or the Indians need a boost from some strange player or mystical being to win their division? They don’t even…

This is only the start of the conversation. That’s important to remember when you see how far apart Heath Cummings and I are in our initial rankings. The goal isn’t to confuse you but to provide contrasting opinions. And in early November, you might get a little bit of both. For this initial run, we worked independently, retreating to our own separate corners and only comparing notes afterward. Also, these…

This is only the start of the conversation. That’s important to remember when you see how far apart Heath Cummings and I are in our initial rankings. The goal isn’t to confuse you but to provide contrasting opinions. And in early November, you might get a little bit of both. For this initial run, we worked independently, retreating to our own separate corners and only comparing notes afterward. Also, these…

Baseball season is on the brink of being over and it sure feels like it has been a fictional postseason with the likes of the Cleveland Indians and those Cubs from Chicago making it to the World Series. Seriously, isn’t that the plot of every baseball movie ever? The Cubs or the Indians need a boost from some strange player or mystical being to win their division? They don’t even…

Neil Best Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted in 2005. Alex Rodriguez has a history of inaccurate public utterances, but in this case you have to admire the guy’s spunk, and his loyalty to a game that made him rich and famous. Last week the Fox analyst predicted baseball will be the No. 1 sport in America again “sometime soon.”…

The pitcher steps back from the mound, his mitt arm extended to grab the ball from the catcher, he turns, he spits, faces the batter to focus on another pitch. The batter steps back from home plate, adjusts his gloves, spits into the dirt and returns to face the pitcher. By the fifth inning, it got to me. By the eighth, I wanted to switch to a different channel or…

Neil Best Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted in 2005. Alex Rodriguez has a history of inaccurate public utterances, but in this case you have to admire the guy’s spunk, and his loyalty to a game that made him rich and famous. Last week the Fox analyst predicted baseball will be the No. 1 sport in America again “sometime soon.”…

Gail Mazur’s most recent collection of poetry is called “Forbidden City.” Gail Mazur says she’s been obsessed with baseball her whole life. “I grew up in Boston. My dad knew Ted Williams. Being a Red Sox fan is a lifetime mania and an important part of my lore.” In spite of that mania, Mazur says she resisted the temptation to write any poems about baseball because she worried about the…

This is only the start of the conversation. That’s important to remember when you see how far apart Heath Cummings and I are in our initial rankings. The goal isn’t to confuse you but to provide contrasting opinions. And in early November, you might get a little bit of both. For this initial run, we worked independently, retreating to our own separate corners and only comparing notes afterward. Also, these…

Neil Best Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted in 2005. Alex Rodriguez has a history of inaccurate public utterances, but in this case you have to admire the guy’s spunk, and his loyalty to a game that made him rich and famous. Last week the Fox analyst predicted baseball will be the No. 1 sport in America again “sometime soon.”…

Chicago For a manager whose team had just lost all probable hope at a championship, Joe Maddon was strikingly upbeat. It was late Saturday night, and the Chicago Cubs had just lost again, falling behind the Cleveland Indians, 3-1, in the World Series. But as he dissected the Cubs’ woes, Maddon saw a path forward: win Sunday, and a comeback…

Things got weird fast in the “Foul Play” comic strip in the May/June 1953 issue of The Haunt of Fear. Those who know me well know that I lead a double life: baseball by day, and horror by night. Or is it the other way around? Actually, it is a blending of these two passions, with each day representing a series of shifts from one subject to the other. Baseball…