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This Is Where Our Game Began Baseball is the American pastoral sport, you say? Tell it to the New Yorkers who created it.
By Kevin Baker
Shohei Ohtani Is My Favorite Athlete, But Paying Him $700 Million Is Bonkers What makes him so special as a baseball player is exactly why it’s unlikely he’ll be able to keep doing it for much longer.
By Will Leitch
Stop Whining About Baseball’s Playoff Format The best regular-season teams all flamed out early this year. That’s no one’s fault but their own.
By Ross Barkan
Pete Rose Remembers the Biggest Postseason Brawl in Baseball History “You know how many second basemen or shortstops I knocked on their ass in my career?”
By Keith O’Brien
Baseball’s Magnificent, Transformative Season As the playoffs loom, 2023 has already been an unqualified success for a sport that finally embraced change.
By Will Leitch
The Yankees Might Be Staring Down a Lost Decade Unless risk-averse ownership makes some big moves, this miserable team isn’t going anywhere soon.
By Ross Barkan
Keith Hernandez Answers Every Question We Have About Seinfeld On feeling embarrassed by the performance, Jason Alexander’s “standoffish” behavior, and how the show gave him a “second life.”
By Devon Ivie
There’s No Such Thing As a Good Sports-Team Owner Fans should aspire to ignore them and all their buzz-killing drama.
By Will Leitch
Baseball Will Never Be As Fun As Banana Ball The sport’s wildest experiment comes to New York.
By Joe DeLessio
Baseball Finally Feels Vital Again The venerable sport is making a comeback this year, thanks in part to MLB’s unpopular commissioner.
By Ross Barkan
The Yankees Aren’t Just Mediocre — They’re Boring George Steinbrenner would have blown up this team a long time ago.
By Ross Barkan
Please Let Shohei Ohtani Play for a Team That Doesn’t Suck The Angels are once again squandering historic talent, but hopefully not for much longer.
By Will Leitch
the sports section
Apr. 28, 2023
One of the Last Negro League Ballparks Has Been Saved The restored Hinchcliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey, reopens next month.
By Joe DeLessio
The Hot-Dog Cannon Is Better Than Any Baseball Game 27 years after its debut, it’s still the apotheosis of between-inning entertainment.
By Eve Peyser
The Mets Are Self-Destructing and the Season Hasn’t Started Their star closer badly injured himself while celebrating — for a different team.
By Benjamin Hart
Something’s Still Not Quite Right at the Baseball Hall of Fame Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are finally off the ballot, but the steroid era’s influence lingers.
By Ben Jacobs
the sports section
Dec. 21, 2022
Steve Cohen’s Midnight Miracle The billionaire owner’s transformation of the Mets continues with a blockbuster deal for Carlos Correa.
By Joe DeLessio
the sports section
Dec. 7, 2022
The Yankees Averted Disaster by Signing Aaron Judge Baseball is entertainment, and Judge is an entertainer. The Yankees simply had to keep him.
By Joe DeLessio
the sports section
Oct. 19, 2022
By Joe DeLessio
This Yankees Postseason Feels Existential By the team’s high standards, this century has been rough. If they don’t win a championship now, it might get a lot rougher.
By Will Leitch
the sports section
Oct. 6, 2022
By Joe DeLessio
the sports section
Oct. 5, 2022
Aaron Judge Is Even Better Than His Home Run Total The Yankees slugger hit his 62nd homer, breaking a still-sacred baseball mark. He’s also having a pretty good season in other categories.
By Joe DeLessio
Aaron Judge Could be the Crossover Star Baseball Desperately Needs There’s nothing like a home-run chase to get normal people interested in the sport again.
By Ross Barkan
the sports section
Sept. 15, 2022
Roger Maris’s Son Is Rooting for Aaron Judge Kevin Maris believes 61 is still the real home-run record, and he has some thoughts about Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds.
By Joe DeLessio
After 14 Years, the Jackie Robinson Museum Is Finally Open The 2008 Recession, Hurricane Sandy, and COVID all slowed down the project, but the athlete’s 100-year-old widow finally got her wish.
By Joe DeLessio
The ‘Real’ Home-Run Record Is 73, Not 61 Aaron Judge’s tremendous season has rekindled a tiresome argument about the purity of the game.
By Will Leitch
the sports section
Aug. 16, 2022
The Mets Are Great. They’re Also Great TV. SNY’s creative broadcasts are matching the excellent vibes of this year’s team.
By Joe DeLessio
trailer mix
July 26, 2022
A League of Their Own Trailer: Major League Material GirlsNo Madonna this time around, but there is Janet from The Good Place .
By Jason P. Frank
It’s Not Too Early to Get Excited About a Subway Series The Mets and Yankees are simultaneously great for the first time in ages.
By Will Leitch
The Most Disturbing Part of the Yankees’ ‘Jackie’ Incident Was the Fans Yankee Stadium picking up Josh Donaldson’s taunt was another example of crowd dynamics gone haywire.
By Will Leitch
Baseball’s Unwritten Rules Are Just Excuses for Being a Meathead A Mets-Cardinals brawl is the latest example of boneheadedness being passed off as tradition.
By Will Leitch
the sports section
Apr. 13, 2022
Kershaw’s Perfect-Game Hook Isn’t What’s Wrong With Baseball It’s too bad the Dodgers ace couldn’t finish what he started, but let’s not go overboard.
By Joe DeLessio
Your Guide to the Miracle That Is the 2022 Baseball Season After the end of a lockout that threatened to push the sport further to the margins, there’s a lot to celebrate.
By Will Leitch
the sports section
Mar. 16, 2022
Mayor Adams Hints at ‘Solution’ for Unvaxxed New York Athletes As opening day and the NBA playoffs approach, the pressure to make a change is only going to build.
By Joe DeLessio
Baseball Finally Stopped Shooting Itself in the Foot It’s great there will be a full season after all, but why did a deal take so long?
By Will Leitch
The Baseball Hall of Fame Is As Broken As Everything Else in America The moral uncertainty of the steroid era has left the venerable institution in a dark place.
By Ben Jacobs
What to Know About Baseball’s Looming Labor Disaster MLB players and owners are at each other’s throats, and the possibility of the first work stoppage in a quarter century is very real.
By Will Leitch
The Aggrieved World Series The Astros and Braves both have fan bases defined by resentment — a perfect fit for 2021.
By Will Leitch
the sports section
Oct. 21, 2021
Baseball Teams Should Get to Pick Their Playoff Opponents It’s much more fair-minded than the current system — and much more fun.
By Joe DeLessio
vulture sports
Oct. 15, 2021
By Justin Curto
the sports section
Oct. 6, 2021
Just Buy the Damn Championship Already After another early playoff exit, it’s time for the Yankees to embrace their biggest advantage.
By Joe DeLessio
What Makes a Team Name Quintessentially ‘Staten Island’? A new minor-league baseball team is coming to the borough, and it needs a name that reflects its community. What does that mean, exactly?
By Joe DeLessio
Yankees Fans Were Worried About the Wrong Things The team is fighting for its playoff life. How did we get here?
By Joe DeLessio
the sports section
Sept. 19, 2021
The 2021 Mets Season As Told Through 15 Steve Cohen Tweets The team’s owner has learned in public that rebuilding a benighted franchise isn’t so easy.
By Joe DeLessio
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