Bryce Harper Bats Down Frosty DC Homecoming With Home Run
Before Harper sent a 458-foot bomb into the frigid air at Nationals Park Tuesday night, the homecoming wasn’t so rosy for the 26-year-old and newly minted 330-million-dollar man.
The Latest Changes To Major League Baseball Rules Are Misguided
These changes replace baseball’s timeless, adaptable ways with the hidebound legalism that is already strangling the life out of football.
How To Make Baseball Appealing On Television Without Changing Its Character
A plan to increase baseball’s entertainment value and adapt the game to our ever-shortening attention spans. The future of the sport depends on it!
Forcing Athletes To Stand For The National Anthem Is Stupid, Not Patriotic
Professional sports are overrun with schmaltzy patriotic displays that are not at all necessary and definitely should not be required for athletes.
Why Baseball Needs To Switch To Robot Umps As Soon As They’re Effective
If technology can provide an accurate and impartial strike zone, robot umps will enhance the real human elements of the game.
WATCH: Tim Tebow Stuns Reporters With Perfect Explanation Of Fulfilling One’s Vocation
‘I want my life to be so much more than that’
What Roberto Clemente’s Death Still Says To Us 45 Years Later
The dramatic and tragic end of Roberto Clemente’s career capped a story that is uniquely American and uniquely baseball.
This Year In Sports: The Players, Teams, And Media Of 2017
Neil Greenberg, sports writer at the Washington Post, recaps this year in the world of sports. From news players and teams to the leagues and sports media.
Why MLB Should Put A Third Team In New York
The city best-suited for another MLB team is rarely mentioned despite all the demographic, economic, and historical arguments in its favor. Baseball should put a third team in New York.
3 Reasons Baseball Will Lose Big If National Anthem Protests Catch On
If Oakland As catcher Bruce Maxwell’s grandstanding spreads to the rest of the MLB, baseball is at a much greater risk for its survival than the NFL is. Here’s why.
MLB’s Wild Card Games Celebrate Randomness And Mediocrity
The baseball season tests and exposes teams over the long haul rather than isolated, random stints. That’s what makes this week’s single-elimination wild card play-in games so improper.
Don’t Add A Pitch Clock Unless You Want To End Baseball As We Know It
Baseball is not and has never been a timed game. Adding a clock would profoundly alter its very character by changing how the game’s outcome is determined.
Can Baseball Survive In The Digital Age?
Advancements in digital technology are helping front offices place a superior product on the field while distracting its audience from the product they’re fielding.
Watch Tim Tebow Hit A Home Run In His First At-Bat
Do you believe in angels? Because they were in the infield Thursday night.
3 Players Who Might Fulfill Baseball’s Quest For A Cultural Icon
Regardless of which team you root for, if you are a fan of our nation’s oldest pastime you should be rooting for the success of the game’s next generation of superstars.
Baseball Won’t Change Politics, But Politics Will Definitely Ruin Baseball
Baseball players already provide a wonderful example of American civility. They do this by not incessantly talking about politics.
Want To Improve Baseball? Make The National League Adopt The Designated Hitter
There is no other major sport where an athlete is asked to perform a task so completely out of his comfort zone. The designated hitter fixes this problem.
3 Crazy Coincidences That Could Win The Cubs The World Series
The improbable link between Javier Baez and Francisco Lindor isn’t this year’s only World Series parallel. Parallel universes are colliding all over the place.
For A Lifelong Cubs Fan, The Slow Wind-Up Into This World Series Was Breathtaking
Watching this Cubs team win the National League Championship Series against the Dodgers Saturday night was absolutely perfect.
Refusing To Call The Cleveland Indians By Their Name Is An Absurd Idea
It wouldn’t be out of bounds to ask sensitive Toronto folk to cast their eyes west and tell us why ‘Eskimo’ gets a pass while ‘Indian’ doesn’t.
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