It’s just correct and apt that we’d go seven games. | | | | | Shortstops Francisco Lindor and Addison Russell hug it out before game 6. (Arturo Pardavila III) | | | | | | “It’s just correct and apt that we’d go seven games.”
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| | rantnrave:// The season is too long. The games are too long. One manager almost certainly left his 100mph-plus fastballer in for too long Tuesday night. But they'll be playing one last baseball game tonight, and the ghosts of the 1908 CUBS will be there, and the ghosts of the 1948 INDIANS, too, and all past errors are now forgiven. JOSÉ MESA's 1997 blown save in MIAMI? Forgiven. STEVE BARTMAN's 2003 overreach at WRIGLEY? Forgiven. The CLEVELAND outfield's entire game 6? Forgiven. JOE MADDON's game 6 bullpen management? Forgiven (provisionally). MLB's sometimes-excruciating pace of play? That, too. Because all of that has led us, somehow, to one of the most anticipated game 7s in a long time, between two teams who have been waiting much too long for this, one of whom will open with a fatigued starting pitcher and one of whom will finish with a fatigued closer, and in between, well, that's why they play the game on the field and that's why we watch... Ticket prices for game 7 went up 56 percent over the course of game 6... Two of the greatest modern role players in their respective sports have announced their retirements in the past 48 hours. There is little question how we'll remember RAY ALLEN, who dropped dazzling three pointers for two of the most celebrated NBA champions of the past decade. But how will we remember ANDRE JOHNSON, who spent most of his NFL career catching passes from workmanlike quarterbacks on a decidedly nonglamorous team?... Until 24 hours ago, I didn't know what a human-anchored highline was, nevermind that there might be a human-anchored highline world record. Wow. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| And so it comes down to one night. So close you can touch it and so far that it seems light years away. OK, 108 years away. | | |
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| Aroldis Chapman threw 20 pitches. As for Andrew Miller? None. | | |
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| You'll be amazed by what the candidates are telling you without even telling you! | | |
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| Up and up and up and up they've gone, numbers spiralling beyond comprehension. Seemingly detached from the realities of other industries for so long, Premier League football has become the boom component of the entertainment sector. Its cash has piled up relentlessly year after year. For those involved, it's as though there's been no ceiling. | | |
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| Last week, on the brisk October evening that marked Game 1 of the World Series, I sat at a Brooklyn sports bar inside a galleria and noticed that a man on the field was wearing a suit. | | |
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| Sasha Banks and Charlotte made history by wrestling in Hell in a Cell on Sunday, but for all the progress women wrestlers have made at WWE, there are still some questions. | | |
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| Great ratings and marquee teams are masking troubling trends. | | |
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| After he took a hit to his knee that wasn’t flagged on Sunday (Oct 30), Cam Newton went off on the NFL. “At times I don’t even feel safe,” Newton, the reigning league MVP, said at the start of an extended rant about calls he frequently doesn’t get. “And enough is enough.” | | |
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| Harley Flannagan of the hardcore band Cro-Mags, Dropkick Murphys and Fugazi make up the new soundtrack you might hear at a football or hockey game. | | |
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| Yes, the U.S. pay TV industry has a problem -- and it’s the fault of high-priced sports programming -- Discovery CEO David Zaslav told analysts today in a call to discuss his company’s Q3 earnings. | | |
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| Over 703 miles, a hardy band of pain enthusiasts tested the limits of both mind and body at the Quintuple Anvil Triathlon - five Ironman-length races in five days. | | |
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| With the release of ESPN's 30 for 30 film "Hit it Hard," our panel focuses on John Daly's controversial career and whether he can win on the PGA Tour Champions circuit. | | |
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| Fifteen years after Allen Iverson’s rap song was condemned, the NBA embraced Damian Lillard’s new album. That says a lot about how the league -- and rap -- have evolved. | | |
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| Facebook has signaled a growing interest in paying for broadcast rights to competitive video game tournaments. That’s stirred hopes from people trying to turn the burgeoning e-sports business into a major media player. | | |
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| Collins, a dynamic linebacker who could’ve helped the Pats come January, was traded to the winless Browns. Why? | | |
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| Meet the new star of baseball media: Alex Rodriguez, who has given his once-tarnsished reputation a surprising makeover as part of Fox Sports' postsea | | |
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| Problems in the equipment business could take a hit on the wallets of the players. | | |
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| Statues of Satchel Paige and Larry Doby, who played for Cleveland in ’48 World Series victory, are gone from Legacy Square. | | |
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| Alex McCabe isn’t the kind of person who usually gets profiled on a video game website. He doesn’t make games, doesn’t play them competitively, and doesn’t make many videos about them. He hasn’t even found a wild new way to play "Fallout" or "Super Mario 64." He’s just an ordinary guy who plays video games. | | |
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| In the eighth inning of Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS, Cubs fan Steve Bartman tipped the ball away from LF Moises Alou. Look at how the Friendly Confines turned into a dark place as fans tried to hold Bartman accountable for their collective nightmare. | | |
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