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It’s a bit like leaving a job under amicable circumstances: you hope the person after you will take care and do well in those tasks that used to be yours, even after they are no longer your responsibility. Legacy issues. I want the my discards to go the appropriate someone or someplace...
Pitchers and catchers report to spring training a few days before the rest of their teams, allowing hurlers a bit more time to get their arms stretched out. This year, theChicago CubsandLos Angeles Dodgersare playing two regular season games in Tokyo the week before opening day proper, and ...
So for the crap that is still the same, I’ll never buy you nor will I care somebody is getting a paycheck and pretending to be all about the baseball. The real baseball seeps through into the ballpark conversations on a summers eve or the lone blogger who gets excited everytime fingers...
The players, too, had a different relationship with the fans. They weren’t quite so distant and removed as they are now. My uncle and his friends used to huddle around the players’ entrance at Ebbets Field, looking for autographs or even just a glimpse of their ball-playing heroes. Kid...
But if I could say one thing to her today, it’s this: Lara, you are still here. The time we spent together may grow distant, but you will always be a part of me. Always. And I can’t thank you enough, for every minute. ...
when I signed with the Cubs [in 2004], that's when all the racial issues were brought to light. I would get letters in the mail, overnight express, just to call me a n---. Overnight-express hate mail. Somebody paid back then, I think it was $11.45, $11.15, to send me hate ...
“He’s leading off today, he’s playing second,” Cora said before the series finale. “I hate to look ahead. There’s some people who are coming back from the IL, let's take it day by day. The other day, everybody was excited about him hitting a home run and hitting two doubl...
"We were moving the football," Bears coach Marc Trestman said. "We had long fields today, for the entire day." Robbie Gould's game-tying field goal sent the game to overtime, where the Bears had the first shot at winning the game. Had their drive resembled that of their first possess...
I believe that my generation will see better things, too — that we will witness the time when AIDS is cured and cancer is defeated; when the Middle East will find peace and Africa grain, and the Cubs win the World Series — probably, only once. I will see things as inconceivable to ...