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The Giants and Rangers open the 106th World Series at AT&T Park on Wednesday night. Congratulations if you had that exacta at the start of the playoffs. If you had it at the start of the season, I want some of what you were smoking.
Shed no tears for the accountants at Fox. Dallas-Fort Worth and the San Francisco Bay Area are hardly small markets, and fresh faces in the World Series aren't ratings poison. Since 1990, the highest-rated Series was Atlanta against Minnesota in '91. The big-market Yankees were in five of the 10 lowest-rated in that period.
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On the one holiday weekend where thousands (or hundreds of thousands?) receive lottery tickets as gifts, the Rangers have acquired a sort of major league lottery ticket -- a supremely talented paragon of durability sabotaged by... more »
The American League MVP, his wife and three daughters woke this morning to a new Christmas tradition. Mom and Dad were to give their girls only one gift each. They would all hop in a car and head to a homeless shelter later... more »
Jeff Bagwell belongs in the Hall of Fame. Not on the 10th time on the ballot -- he belongs on the podium in Cooperstown this summer making his characteristically modest speech before Henry Aaron, Stan Musial, Willie Mays, Tom... more »
Among the 33 players (14 carry-overs and 19 first timers) on the ballot this week for enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame are Mark McGwire, Benito Santiago, Jeff Bagwell and Raul Mondesi. Aside from the honor of being... more »
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