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  1. games
    Almost All the Complaints About the World Series Are WrongGrousing about late-night games and too many relief pitchers just makes you sound old.
    By Will Leitch
  2. games
    The Aggrieved World SeriesThe Astros and Braves both have fan bases defined by resentment — a perfect fit for 2021.
    By Will Leitch
  3. vulture sports
    You’ll Love How Much the Red Sox Love ‘Dancing on My Own’“Deep down, everybody thinks it’s a little catchy.”
    By Justin Curto
  4. games
    The Pandemic Lessons From MLB’s Surprisingly Successful SeasonFour takeaways and four unknowns as the World Series looms.
    By Will Leitch
  5. games
    The 10 Biggest Sports Stories of the DecadeFrom the rise of athlete autonomy to the end of a very long baseball curse.
    By Will Leitch
  6. games
    The Wisdom of the CrowdBooing the president probably won’t help. But hey, it can’t hurt, either!
    By Will Leitch
  7. games
    How the World Got Too Crowded for the World SeriesThe crowning event of America’s Pastime is now just another thing on TV. But there may be another way forward.
    By Will Leitch
  8. MLB Suspends Astros’ Gurriel Over Racist Gesture, But Not Until Next SeasonMLB commissioner Rob Manfred said he didn’t think it would be fair to Gurriel’s teammates to suspend him during the World Series.
    By Chas Danner
  9. chat room
    Mark-Paul Gosselaar on Overeating for Pitch“I’ve always been relatively thin, and to play this role, I constantly have to think about food and eat food.”
    By E. Alex Jung
  10. These Overzealous Cubs Fans Don’t Look So Dumb NowThe guy who got a “Curse Broken 2016 World Series Champions” Cubs tattoo back in September? Totally vindicated.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  11. world series
    Celebrities Are As Thrilled As Everyone Else About the Cubs’ World Series WinEverybody loves an underdog story.
    By Jackson McHenry
  12. Baseball Fan Perfectly Predicted Cubs Game Two Years Ago“And then the world will end with the score tied in game seven in extra innings.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  13. hugs on hugs on hugs
    The Chicago Cubs Win the 2016 World Series of HuggingJust look at all those epic, winning hugs!
    By Theresa Avila
  14. early and often
    World Series Game 7 Offers a (Paranoid) Preview of Election NightHopefully the president won’t delay the election owing to rain.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  15. mash-ups
    Chance the Rapper’s ‘No Problem’ Gets Some Chicago-Biased World Series Flavor“WORLD SERIES NO PROBLEM.”
    By Karen Brill
  16. world series
    Charlie Sheen Dressed As Major League CharacterWild Thing is back.
    By Julia Edelman
  17. History Will Be Made in Game 7 of the World SeriesOne long-suffering midwestern fanbase will finally have reason to cheer.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  18. the sports section
    Bill Murray Gives Random Cubs Fan a Free TicketHark! A wild Bill appears.
    By Devon Ivie
  19. roll clip!
    Watch Superfan Bill Murray React to the Chicago Cubs’ World Series Game-5 WinMurray might be the real winner.
    By Julia Edelman
  20. take me out to the ballgame
    Watch Eddie Vedder Sing at the World SeriesVedder succeeded in bringing good luck where Bill Murray and Vince Vaughn failed.
    By Tolly Wright
  21. take me out to…
    Move Over, Bill Murray: Eddie Vedder Is Singing at the World Series TonightThis will be a very rockin’ seventh-inning stretch.
    By Devon Ivie
  22. murrayisms
    Bill Murray to Sing Tonight at the World SeriesIt’s only right.
    By Dee Lockett
  23. GOP Oppo Dump: Hillary Clinton Is Not a Real Cubs FanA swing and a miss.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  24. the sports section
    World Series Now Guaranteed to End Pain for at Least One Long-Suffering Fan BaseThe two baseball teams with the longest active championship droughts will battle for deliverance starting Tuesday.
    By Chas Danner
  25. The Indians Are Going to the World Series and There’s Only One Thing Left to DoFormer Yankee Andrew Miller is the ALCS MVP.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  26. games
    The Mets and Cubs Are League Favorites. Could This Possibly Be Real?It’s opening day and the Mets and Cubs are league favorites, hard as that is to believe.
    By Will Leitch
  27. How Many Ways Can You Blow a World Series?The pain of “wait till next year.”
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells and David Wallace-Wells
  28. national anthems
    Demi Lovato Hit a Home Run With Her World Series National AnthemShe killed this.
    By Dee Lockett
  29. the sports section
    Matt Harvey Has the Spotlight All to Himself, One More TimeIt was inevitable that this is where Harvey and the Mets would end up: with everyone watching and everything on the line.
    By Chris Smith
  30. the sports section
    The Most Costly Error in World Series History?Some biased, somewhat depressed postgame thoughts.
    By David Wallace-Wells and Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  31. the sports section
    Was Game 3 a World Series Turning Point?Some proudly-biased postgame thoughts.
    By David Wallace-Wells and Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  32. Is It Over for the Mets?An unapologetically biased postgame debriefing.
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells and David Wallace-Wells
  33. Honestly, What Was Céspedes Doing on That Homer?A morning-after World Series debriefing.
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells and David Wallace-Wells
  34. The Chain Gang
    Against All Odds, People Are Very Excited to Eat Taco Bell Breakfast Next WeekA.M. Crunchwraps are free, thanks to a stolen base during Game 1 of the World Series.
    By Clint Rainey
  35. the sports section
    Fox Loses World Series Feed in Middle of Game 1You had one job, Fox broadcast truck.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  36. subway series of true fandom
    Family Feud Plays Out in New York Times Mets Coverage“We are at war.”
    By Jen Kirby
  37. the sports section
    Red Sox Fans Celebrate World Series Win at Marathon Finish LineThe first victory at home since 1918.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  38. 2012 world series
    Giants Win Second World Series in Three YearsThey made it look easy.
    By Will Leitch
  39. 2012 world series
    Giants Take 2-0 World Series LeadThe San Francisco Giants beat the Detroit Tigers 2-0 to go up 2-0.
    By Will Leitch
  40. 2012 world series
    It’s a Giants-Tigers World SeriesThe Giants pound the Cardinals to advance to their second World Series in three years.
    By Will Leitch
  41. clickables
    See Dave Eggers’s Cartoon Reportage of the World SeriesFor Game 1 at AT&T Park: Texas Rangers vs. the San Francisco Giants.
    By Nisha Gopalan
  42. politics
    Paterson Doesn’t Like Paying for Baseball TicketsIs that so criminal? (Maybe.)
    By Avi Zenilman
  43. world effing champions
    Yankees Home Opener Features Rings, MatsuiThe Yankees get their rings today.
    By Will Leitch
  44. canyon of heroes
    It’s Parade Day, Everybody!The Yankees parade up the Canyon of Heroes begins soon.
    By Will Leitch
  45. deconstructing sterling
    Deconstructing Sterling: ‘World Series Over’A look at John Sterling’s call of the last out of the World Series.
    By Joe DeLessio
  46. next year is now
    2009 Is Already Old News. What’s Next for the Yanks?Enough of 2009. What about the 2010 Yanks?
    By Will Leitch
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    Trust Us: A World Series Win Is Just As Sweet If You Buy ItTake note, haters.
    By Joe DeLessio
  48. true yankee
    Alex Rodriguez, Now Free to Be Inner Sanctum Hall of FamerIf Alex Rodriguez finishes his career with the Yankees, now that he’s won a title, how is he not a True Yankee?
    By Will Leitch
  49. 27
    Game 6 and the Best-Case ScenarioThis game was over early. Thank God for that.
    By Joe DeLessio
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    The Ten Most Memorable Moments of the Yankees’ SeasonSorry, Nick Swisher’s inning on the mound just missed the cut.
    By Joe DeLessio
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