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An Optimist’s Case for the 2024 Yankees and Mets Last year was a disaster for New York baseball. This year could — could — be better.
california split
Mar. 21, 2024
The Ohtani Interpreter Gambling Scandal Is Big Trouble for MLB The Dodger superstar’s interpreter was fired for illegal betting, raising questions about baseball’s gambling connections and Ohtani’s involvement.
The Decline and Fall of the All-Star Game Why has a once-hallowed staple of the pro sports world become so irrelevant?
By Eve Peyser
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
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
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 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 Mets Stink, But Their Future Actually Looks Bright Not that their fatalistic fan base wants to hear it right now.
By Will Leitch
The Baseball Clock Is Good The sport desperately needs to change, no matter how loudly purists complain.
By Will Leitch
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 Mets Are Having an Extremely Un-Mets Season They’re overachieving their way to the playoffs — and having a great time doing it.
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
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
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
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
Why Nobody Should Want to Play for New York It’s a hell of a sports town, but there are better places to join a team.
By Will Leitch
Almost All the Complaints About the World Series Are Wrong Grousing about late-night games and too many relief pitchers just makes you sound old.
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
Javy Baez Should Have Remembered Why Fans Boo The Mets player’s strange overreaction to being jeered is understandable but misguided.
By Will Leitch
vulture sports
July 23, 2021
Cleveland Indians Finally Change Their Name The MLB franchise will now be known as the Cleveland Guardians.
By Cydney Lee
Babe Ruth Was Never This Versatile Shohei Ohtani isn’t just baseball’s most exciting player, he might be the key to the sport’s future.
By Will Leitch
New York Yankees Somehow Have 8 COVID Cases in Vaccinated Staff The team’s breakthrough rate is orders of magnitude higher than the U.S. population, in which 0.008 of those fully vaccinated have contracted COVID.
By Matt Stieb
Major League Baseball Has Not Gone Woke The league’s decision to move its All-Star Game out of Georgia was a cold business calculation, not a statement of principle.
By Will Leitch
MLB Pulls All-Star Game Out of Georgia Over Voting Law MLB commissioner Robert Manfred said the league “opposes restrictions to the ballot box” and will relocate the 2021 All-Star Game and draft.
By Nia Prater
Baseball Can’t Screw Up Its Big 2021 Opportunity The sport has a chance for a banner season — but a treacherous labor war looms at the other end.
By Will Leitch
Sports Are About to Look Like 2019 Again The Texas Rangers and Wrestlemania are paving the way for crowded stadiums and arenas to become the norm within weeks.
By Will Leitch
It Already Feels Like the Post-COVID Era in Sports A shockingly ordinary baseball spring training presages a return to normalcy — or close to it.
By Will Leitch
vulture sports
Dec. 13, 2020
Cleveland Indians One Step Closer to Being the Cleveland Spiders The MLB franchise will reportedly change their name, but no word on the team’s new moniker.
By Halle Kiefer
How Sports Leagues Are Gearing Up for Another Weird Season Everyone is hoping for vaccine-enabled normalcy in 2021, but some sports are better positioned than others to wait things out.
By Will Leitch
chump of the week
Oct. 28, 2020
Congrats to the Dodgers, Except This One Dodger Justin Turner tested positive for coronavirus and proceeded to hug his teammates.
By Rebecca Alter
vulture sports
Oct. 25, 2020
By Rebecca Alter
The Fans Can Go to Games Again. Will They? The stadiums are open, but fans aren’t exactly rushing through the doors.
By Will Leitch
Sports Pulled Off a Miracle in 2020. Now What About 2021? The pandemic isn’t going anywhere, but leagues can’t afford another season with no fans.
By Will Leitch
How Major League Baseball Is Handling Its COVID-19 Outbreak Baseball is tightening up its social-distancing requirements after two team outbreaks in just two weeks.
By Matt Stieb
president trump
July 27, 2020
Trump Made Up His Yankees Opening Pitch Invite: Report Last Thursday, Trump announced he would throw out the opening pitch at an August 15 Yankees game, to the surprise of the New York Yankees.
By Matt Stieb
Can Baseball Really Pull This Off? After a very rocky road back, the sport finally starts up this week amid a coronavirus spike.
By Will Leitch
coronavirus
July 10, 2020
When (and How) Sports Are Returning Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic In the next few weeks, the MLB, NBA, and NHL will start playing again — but they’ll look wildly different.
By Adam K. Raymond
vulture sports
July 3, 2020
By Rebecca Alter
Baseball’s Disastrous Spring Feels Like an Existential Crisis At this point, does it even matter when the sport comes back?
By Will Leitch
Outraged by Crowded Pool Parties? Just Wait Until Sports Come Back. Fans will show up in droves even if they’re not allowed inside stadiums.
By Will Leitch
The Big Questions Sports Leagues Have to Answer Before They Reopen A big one: What happens if a player tests positive for coronavirus in the middle of the season?
By Will Leitch
When Your Favorite Sport Might Be Coming Back Slowly but surely, the big American leagues are planning their returns.
By Will Leitch
coronavirus
Mar. 12, 2020
Most U.S. Sports Leagues Have Suspended Their Seasons Due to Coronavirus The NHL, MLB, MLS, and NBA are all either suspending or canceling play due to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Chas Danner
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