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My brain is hanging upside down
1977 was a tumultuous year for the city of New York: the soap opera feud between Billy Martin, George Steinbrenner, Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson and other Yankees dominated the baseball season, the...
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Buster Olney wrote an article today (which, incidentally, is available only to ESPN Insider readers. Or you can take my word for it.), in which he asserted that baseball writers should not have the...
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Anyone can understand the way I feel
As I write this post from a beautiful 90 degree day in Columbia, it’s only been three years since this: April 7, 2007: Blizzard, meet baseball. Baseball, meet blizzard. Everyone else, meet a bunch of...
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“They didn’t even need me tonight”
AP Photo/Dave Weaver What do you do when a team you didn’t care about 5 months ago is playing for a national championship? You write a running diary of course! Read on, after the break. So a little...
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Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose
Last night, Jim Thome clubbed his 600th career home run into the bullpen at Comerica Park. As he rounded first base, the man who has almost 100 more home runs with the Indians than any other Indian,...
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In defense of Chris Perez
Progressive Field on May 17, 2012, where the Indians hosted the Mariners and a controversy began This past weekend, I went to three different baseball games in three different cities featuring six...
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Two outs away
Comerica Park in the first inning of what would turn into an incredible game This past weekend, I went to three different baseball games in three different cities featuring six different teams. There’s...
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Northern exposure
A beautiful day for (indoor) baseball. This past weekend, I went to three different baseball games in three different cities featuring six different teams. There’s a story with all of them, and since...
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A new optimism
The Major League Baseball playoffs started over the weekend, which means that despite the fact that the Indians season has been officially over for a little less than a week, you could say that the...
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Some skin in the game
Opening Day 2009, after a much more subdued offseason. This offseason was a lot more interesting. The Cleveland Indians, to say the least, had an atypical offseason. During most offseasons, Indians...
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“Wait, there’s a Waffle House here?”
Going into last night’s game against the Miami Marlins, the Atlanta Braves’ chances of winning were pretty good. First, they had won 13 games in a row, the last six on the road. Second, they were...
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Home stretch
The sun sets on the 2013 season at Progressive Field. Last night I went to my second Indians game of the year, the last home game of the season for the Tribe. Indians games are always a good idea, but...
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Something to build on
This past Christmas, my parents gave me a board game called Ticket to Ride. The game begins with you choosing up to three route cards, which become your mission for the rest of the game: it becomes...
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Halfway
The Indians opened the unofficial second half of their season last night with a comeback 9-3 win over the Tigers. The Indians started the second half at 47-47, and despite the fact that 47-47 is only...
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Once more, with feeling
Going into the 2015 season, the bad news for the Cleveland Indians is that the renovations to their 21-year old ballpark might not be complete by the home opener. It was a historically cold winter in...
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Mile high baseball
Despite its popularity lately, the practice of sports teams selling the naming rights to their home stadiums isn’t new. Usually there’s a tradeoff: the team gets a not insignificant influx of cash for...
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Progressive Field: Renovated
A couple years ago, the Atlanta Braves announced a plan to build a new stadium, abandoning Turner Field before the Braves had even been there twenty years. The move has generated its fair share of...
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Wait till this year
If you were to analyze the 2015 Cleveland Indians season, you might as well divide the season into two parts: one part between Opening Day and June 13, 2015, and the second from June 14 through the...
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Let’s glow
Three months before I moved to Columbia, I was finishing up my senior year of college and had a full-time job offer at the company I had been interning at for the past couple years in downtown...
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Baseball across the Bay
Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum — colloquially known just as the Coliseum — is the home of the Oakland Athletics, and as of this writing is the only stadium that professional teams in two different...
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