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In ESPN The Magazine's Music issue, Tim Keown writes about how San Francsco Giants third base coach Tim Flannery is using his Irish-inspired music to save the life of one fan.

A team's fan base will put up with botched snaps and dumb interceptions. It'll put up with missing clutch free throws. It'll even put up with misjudging a fly ball and blowing a save in Game 6 of the World Series. It won't put up with poor effo...

Josh Hamilton's lackadaisical effort on routine fly ball is inexcusable.

NEW YORK -- Look up in the sky all you want, Red Sox fans. That adopted Brit, John W. Henry, isn't going to come skydiving out of the night with a player sufficiently regal to save this season. These Red Sox are on their own, and while Bobby Valen...

CINCINNATI -- Chicago Cubs fans loaded with optimism saw a 1-2-3 ninth-inning save from Carlos Marmol on Wednesday night. The cynical, less optimistic of the following saw him unnecessarily go to a full count to the leadoff batter and then allow a...

Replacing Jose Reyes is a huge challenge for Ruben Tejada, but the Mets' new shortstop is showing that he definitely belongs.

Momentarily, anyway. The Yankees got a break when -- with a runner on first and lefthander Clay Rapada inexplicably pitching to right-handed slugger Evan Longoria -- a fan in a Yankee jersey performed a Jeffrey Maier on a fly ball to deep right fiel...

WHAT IT MEANS: Yankees fans won't have to watch A.J. Burnett give up three-run homers after looking great for much of the day. More importantly, for the front office, they will save a little -- $13M -- on what was a bad contract (five years and $82.5...

Mariano Rivera #42 RP New York Yankees 2011 STATS GM61 W1 L2 BB7 K57 ERA1.98 On the same day he became baseball's all-time saves leader, Mariano Rivera talked about a career achievement that no Yankee fan wants to think about: his retire...

What's the deal with blown saves? Erstwhile St. Louis Cardinals closer Ryan Franklin recently blew up on the mound for the fourth time this season, then blew up at fans for booing him. In response, people flamed him on the radio and internet. All thi...

Cardinals reliever Ryan Franklin has apologized for criticizing St. Louis fans after they booed him.

MLB should revise ownership rules to allow the public to buy and operate the Mets in exactly the same way as the Green Bay Packers or FC Barcelona.

Getty Images "Come here, man! I'm Robaire Smith - your new big homie 4 real!" In case you haven't noticed, twitter, the socially acceptable form of stalking friends, celebrities or even the White House, has undergone a pretty massive overhaul. Fo...

In his final season, former Mets reliever Billy Wagner is showing he still has gas in the tank.

Daily notes for fantasy baseball lineups for Saturday and Sunday, July 10 and 11

Is it throwback time in baseball? Are we back in 1968, when Bob Gibson roamed those elevated pitching mounds? Just look at the scores, or, say, the Pirates' batting averages.