Arizona Diamondbacks

Who Wants to Be the Next Mets Owners?

​This morning's New York Post made it a lot easier to set up your office "Who's going to end up owning the Mets once the Wilpons have to repay their Madoff money?" pool, by running a helpful list of rich guys who, it claims, are in the running to buy at least a share of the Amazin's. Less help ... More >>

Click Your Heels, Say, "The Yankees Can Win Three Straight"

​It's too early (by a few hours, at least) to call this a T3 -- a total team tank. After all, C.C. Sabathia could win this afternoon, and if the Texas Rangers can win three straight, so can the Yankees. But if Yankee fans need anything more to be depressed about, consider that Sabathia, wh ... More >>

Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up

Arizona Boycott!

¡A LA CHINGADA WITH ARIZONA'S SB1070!

New Yorkers Plot Invasion of Arizona, Plus Boycotts. All Talk at This Point.

No, it's not yet like the state v. state fight in 2001, when the Yankees played the Diamondbacks in the World Series. But now that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed her state's draconian Senate Bill 1070 into law, a number of New York immigration activists and politicians are angry enough to cr ... More >>

Why This Decade Sucked, Reasons #6-#3: Clothes, Yankees, Mets, Racism

​ We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. We're behind schedule, so here are four for the price of one. Previous reasons here, here, here, and here. ​6. Fashion: We stopped trying, outsourced our clothing trends to stars. 50's: Pegg ... More >>

Battlin' Wally Backman to Manage the Cyclones

We have long hoped Wally Backman, the obstreperous veteran of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets, would someday manage the Amazin's in the balls-out manner he evinced on the field and in court depositions. He's a step closer now, as the Mets organization announced yesterday that Backman will m ... More >>

Drag Queen Sings National Anthem at Ball Game!

It took balls--two of them, to be precise--for the lovely Donna Sachet to get up and belt the National Anthem yesterday at a game between the Giants and the Diamondbacks. And she did us proud. The accessories alone!

Fans Fleeing High-Priced Mets Tickets, Too?

Mets tickets for April and May went on "presale" today to the lucky few — that is, anyone on the Mets email list — allowing the great unwashed to get their first look at what it'll be like to get into the team's new, downsized home. Let's roll the dice and play Mets ticket roulette: & ... More >>

Fossils still bite: Bernie Madoff and prehistoric snakes

Good for the New York Times! Always trying to take a broad view (even when one doesn't exist, as Jack Shafer often points out), the paper weighs in on how the plight of Bernie Madoff's white-haired victims gives us valuable insights about the global meltdown with this morning's "Fossils of Larges ... More >>

Rehabilitating Barry

Baseball's new feel-good story of the summer has Allen Barra feeling burned

The Yankees' Clean-Up Man

Rudy went to bat for the Yanks, and look what he scored.

A League of Their Own

New York baseball clubs' spate of superstar signings is all about the best offer on the table

Curses!

The Red Sox finally win it. But who's to say another drought isn't just beginning?

They're Still Your Idols

Zen and the Art of New York Yankee World Championships

Men in Uniform

Fifth Annual Major League Baseball Roundup

Sports

Gorillas in Our Midst

They're All Going to Cooperstown. Which Ones Will Have to Pay Admission?

Horoscope

Sports

Mo' Better Mets?

A Heavy Whiff of Uncertainty After Phillips’s Frenetic Deals

The Year of the Replay

One Punch After Another . . . and Another . . . and Another . . .

Horoscope

Send Money or We’ll Shoot This Team

Contraction Signals That Baseball’s About to Birth Something Ugly

Sports

Here’s to the Losers

Thanks for the Memories, You Yankee Role Players. Now Get Out of Here.

Sports

Alt.uniforms

Kickin' It Old School

Sports

MLB 2000: Custom Tailoring and Alterations

Punch Like a Man

Big-Time Sports’ Domestic Violence Problem

A Century Of UNI Watch

The Stems Win

Expect the Unexpected as the Amazins Roll On

Nothing Up My Sleeve

Winterball Heats Up

Grading baseball's off-season moves

Wait Till Next Year!

Will The Yankee Juggernaut Crash In '99?