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Dear Sylvie, Tonight the Seattle Mariners lost a baseball game. It’s the 206th time it’s happened in your 2.25 years, as omnipresent as goldfish crackers and Daniel Tiger. You didn’t notice. Aaron Goldsmith whispered from the cell phone in my pocket while you and I moved from room to room living our typical toddler existence: sipping air out of plastic teacups, organizing blocks by color, pretending to be…

This is prompting an inneresting discussion! Several Major League Baseball teams have a tradition of hazing their rookie players every year by forcing them to dress up as women for team flights, and now, a powerful LGBT group aligned with pro athletes is calling on that tradition to stop! Related: Not All MLB Rookie Hazing Is Bad! Players on the teams — which include the Oakland Athletics, Miami Marlins, Chicago…

Sports Poll: Jim Danley ousted What do you think of iconic Eaton baseball coach Jim Danley being ousted after 45 years? Voting Requires Javascript After 45 years creating a legacy for Eaton’s high school, baseball coach Jim Danley’s iconic run is officially over, the small town’s school district announced Friday afternoon. About a month ago, the district gave Danley a 13-point improvement plan for the upcoming season, saying he needed…

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Embattled Nationals manager Matt Williams’ firing was a certainty even before he missed, then mishandled a dugout choking incident that became national news. He’s a nice man and he tried hard, but he probably was miscast as a first-time manager with a team toting huge expectations. Meanwhile, the team’s general manager Mike Rizzo, who assembled an impressive array of talent, though apparently not a great team, “isn’t going anywhere,” according…

When it looked like the Cubs might have a shot at making the playoffs in early August, there was much speculation as to who would start in the wild-card game—Jon Lester or Jake Arrieta. Well, Arrieta quickly put that to rest with his Bob Gibson impersonation over the past two months. But, as the Chicago Sun-Times’ Gordon Wittenmyer first reported, the Cubs were set on Arrieta long before his stuff…

A video from an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game this week is going viral. A cameraman spotted a group of sorority girls who were apparently more interested in snapping the perfect selfie than watching the game. The announcers for the TV broadcast took notice and offered commentary on selfies, turning it into a case study of sorts on technology. “Do you have to make faces when you take selfies?” one asked….

Adrian Beltre, Carlos Correa or Andrew McCutchen certainly might deliver a big hit this weekend to improve their team’s playoff position. But the most powerful wallop to impact the postseason could come from Hurricane Joaquin. Major League Baseball is already reviewing the possibilities with the storm threatening to bring a soaking rain to the East Coast. Whether or not it makes landfall, here’s the havoc Joaquin could create with the…

When it looked like the Cubs might have a shot at making the playoffs in early August, there was much speculation as to who would start in the wild-card game—Jon Lester or Jake Arrieta. Well, Arrieta quickly put that to rest with his Bob Gibson impersonation over the past two months. But, as the Chicago Sun-Times’ Gordon Wittenmyer first reported, the Cubs were set on Arrieta long before his stuff…

As D’Arcy Maine at ESPNW notes, “Houston has turned in a lackluster 7-11 record since her [September] concert—including losing seven of the eight games immediately after.” The young team, once poised to storm into the playoffs, is clinging onto life, having lost control of the division and the wild-card spot. If you’re willing to believe in the dark power of Swift, you’ll see that Houston isn’t the only team afflicted….

Royals RHP Yordano Ventura and Angels OF Mike Trout exchange words at home plate.(Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea, USA TODAY Sports) A scene from the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse at Oakland’s Coliseum last week neatly captured the blending of cultures that’s so prevalent in baseball. As Shin-Soo Choo highlights flashed on a TV screen, a group of seven Latin players sitting around a table – some born in the U.S., others abroad –…

Royals RHP Yordano Ventura and Angels OF Mike Trout exchange words at home plate.(Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea, USA TODAY Sports) A scene from the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse at Oakland’s Coliseum last week neatly captured the blending of cultures that’s so prevalent in baseball. As Shin-Soo Choo highlights flashed on a TV screen, a group of seven Latin players sitting around a table – some born in the U.S., others abroad –…

0 Shares Print When Jonathan Papelbon of the Washington Nationals choked the youngster having an MVP-caliber season, it represented a swelling culture clash over how to play baseball “the right way.” After Bryce Harper jogged to first base on an eighth-inning flyout Sunday, the closer met him at the top step of the dugout and admonished the likely MVP to “run the [bleeping] ball out.” Harper bleeped right back, and…

You know what should put Bryce Harper over the top for MVP this season? It’s not his National League-best batting average through Tuesday night. It’s not his NL-co-leading 41 home runs. It’s not even that his 2015 campaign is rivaling the greatest seasons ever produced from Barry Bonds, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. What should put Harper over the top aren’t statistics of staggering proportions but, instead, what…

BOSTON (CBS) — On Thursday’s show Fred Toucher welcomed back one of his favorite guests, former pitcher Dirk Hayhurst. Hayhurst always manages to lay out the larger picture when discussing the dynamics of professional baseball, and on Thursday he was asked about Bud Norris’ comments to USA Today. Norris told USA Today: “This is America’s game. This is America’s pastime, and over the last 10-15 years we’ve seen a very…

0 Shares Print CINCINNATI — Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon has a decision to make at second base come next Wednesday when his team plays the Pittsburgh Pirates in a winner-take-all wild-card game. With right-handed Gerrit Cole most likely on the mound for the Pirates, should Maddon start lefty Tommy La Stella or defensive whiz Javier Baez? Or maybe he shouldn’t overthink it and instead play the hottest hitter in…

You know what should put Bryce Harper over the top for MVP this season? It’s not his National League-best batting average through Tuesday night. It’s not his NL-co-leading 41 home runs. It’s not even that his 2015 campaign is rivaling the greatest seasons ever produced from Barry Bonds, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. What should put Harper over the top aren’t statistics of staggering proportions but, instead, what…

0 Shares Print CINCINNATI — Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon has a decision to make at second base come next Wednesday when his team plays the Pittsburgh Pirates in a winner-take-all wild-card game. With right-handed Gerrit Cole most likely on the mound for the Pirates, should Maddon start lefty Tommy La Stella or defensive whiz Javier Baez? Or maybe he shouldn’t overthink it and instead play the hottest hitter in…

Royals RHP Yordano Ventura and Angels OF Mike Trout exchange words at home plate.(Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea, USA TODAY Sports) A scene from the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse at Oakland’s Coliseum last week neatly captured the blending of cultures that’s so prevalent in baseball. As Shin-Soo Choo highlights flashed on a TV screen, a group of seven Latin players sitting around a table – some born in the U.S., others abroad –…