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Bud Selig Stuck With Playoff Homework Over Winter Break

SportsCenter

...though, we wonder if Selig shouldn't do the opposite and add more breaks, turning the World Series into the real winter league. Think about the advantages: It gives managers chance to experiment with...

Blog | November 23, 2009

AL MVP Preview: Mauer with a Side of Yanks

SportsCenter

...his year? Maybe. But most likely, Jeter will just have to learn to settle for another World Series title and Minka Kelly. It's hard not to feel bad for the guy. Mark Teixeira...

Blog | November 23, 2009

Post-Chase odds and ends

Ryan McGee

...came back to win another title in '75. • The New York Yankees won five consecutive World Series with Joe DiMaggio and company from 1949-53. • Hockey has had two four-time champs...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009

Signing Mauer a percentage play

Buster Olney

There are a couple of Dodgers fans in Aberdeen, S.D., as I learned over the last week, and a lot of Orioles fans, because of the team's past minor lea...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009

Will you be able to say you saw history?

Terry Blount

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Many years from now, lots of people will say, "I was there." The crowd of 75,000 for the Ford 400 on Sunday will grow to about 750...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 21, 2009

Good fit

...pitch for was the North Siders. Asked about the pressure of trying to win their first World Series in over a century, Grabow said he understood the mentality. "It's a big-market city...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009

Three Strikes -- Mailbag edition

Jayson Stark

Here's a confession I'm not proud of. I'm 8,800 e-mails behind in my uselessinfodept@yahoo.com inbox alone. And it sure isn't because I don't try. I'...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009

Back where I belong

Gordon Edes

Puffed up at winning another World Series, the owner of the New York Yankees scoffed at the suggestion that his team was too...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009

MLB Free Agency: Not Always Money Well Spent

SportsCenter

...Rod, Zito, Beltran and Teixeira). But for every Burnett and Sabathia signing that helps win a World Series, there's a Denny Neagle contract (5-51 million by the Rockies) that steers a franchise...

Blog | November 19, 2009

Tim Kurkjian: Free Agency Starts Friday

SportsCenter

...this year. The pair filed Thursday, the final day of the 15-day window following the World Series. Tim Kurkjian looks at this year's class

Blog | November 19, 2009

Will October sked really be tightened?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...four extra days off during the postseason at the request of its television partners, shifting the World Series opener to Wednesday from Saturday, usually the lowest-rated night of the week. Well, you can...

Blog | November 19, 2009

Marlins aren't your typical small-market team

Peter Gammons

...09) Marlins Mets Record 577-556 564-569 Winning seasons 5 4 Postseason wins 11 6 World Series titles 1 0 Payroll $237M $817M Rookies of the Year 3 0 While you can go...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 19, 2009

A Selig welcome

Bruce Levine

...I really think they'll be a great ownership. I just hope they can win the World Series one day." Selig shared some views on other hot topics in baseball. He said his main...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 18, 2009

Because They Don't Give Manager of the Year Awards for Being Sexy

SportsCenter

...he promised his daughter he would if she did too. THEN, driving home from the post-World Series victory celebration, he stopped to help a woman who crashed her car. Word on the street...

Blog | November 18, 2009