Chicago White Sox

Mets Name David Wright Captain; Go About Your Business

You know the Mets are hard up for big news stories when the best they can offer a week before Opening Day is that David Wright has been named captain. Exactly how important to the team is it that Wright has become only the fourth captain in Mets history? Think of it his way: the last Mets captain, b ... More >>

Kevin Youkilis Will "Always Be a Red Sock." Why on Earth is That Surprising?

"I look at what I was saying as more like a baseball card," said a smiling Kevin Youkilis to reporters in Tampa today, backtracking on his remark yesterday that he -- now a Yankee -- "would always be a Red Sock." "When you look at it, there are going to be nine seasons (with Boston). That's why I ... More >>

Bye, Bye, Russell Martin: The Yanks' Old-Age Movement

It's official: the policy of the Yankees' front office is to start Opening Day with the oldest roster in the history of Major League Baseball. And this must be the policy because nothing else the Yankees have done - or not done - makes any sense. First off, for our Christmas present, the Steinbre ... More >>

How "Perfect" Was Philip Humber's Perfect Game?

You got a guy who is 29 years old and making a comeback from Tommy John surgery - and, to top it off, hasn't won a game this year. He throws a perfect game and nobody - and I mean nobody, including me - wants to put a damper on it. (Did I mention that his wife is nine months pregnant?) All I want ... More >>

Live: Shellac Mixes Jokes, Questions, And Baseball Talk With Songs Like "I Came In You" At The Bell House

Shellac w/Helen Money The Bell House Monday, October 3 Better than: Bawling indie-rock wuss tears as Jeff Mangum sings a Neutral Milk Hotel weeper. For the second year in a row, Chicago post-punk veteran goliaths Shellac graced The Bell House stage for two post-All Tomorrow's Parties hangover show ... More >>

Pace Student Max Moreno Murdered; Police Release Surveillance Video of Suspects

​Max Moreno, a 21-year-old Pace University student, was killed on September 29 with one gunshot to the head and found in his apartment at 2 Gold Street, in the financial district, just after midnight. The incident took place after he sold marijuana to a couple, leading police to believe he may ... More >>

Alex Rodriguez: Tempting Target for Daily News Dumbasses

Hallowed ground, apparently​Seldom in the course of sporting events has so much been written about something so trivial. Daily News blowhard Bob Raissman made a solid contribution to Dumb Things Written About Alex Rodriguez in Sunday's paper. Raissman selected pitcher Dallas Braden as his Dud ... More >>

J.J. Putz Says Mets Didn't "Really" Give Him a Physical, Suggests Team Told Him to Hide Injury

Everyone was very excited when the Mets acquired Mariners reliever J.J. Putz at the end of 2008. "If J.J. Putz is healthy," said ESPN's Keith Law, "the Mets got one of the best closers on the market." But apparently Putz wasn't so healthy; he didn't have a great 2009 ("Putz looks hurt," wrote Dave ... More >>

Have you seen: a Manhattan rapist in a White Sox cap

​Police are looking for information about the man in the picture, who's accused of a sexual assault and robbery at four in the morning last Sunday on 14th Street and Ave B. He's described as six feet tall and around 25 years old, and he was last seen wearing a black jacket, white shirt and a C ... More >>

Clip Job: Peace March, 1966

Ginsberg at the Peace March, photo by Fred W. McDarrah​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 31, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 24 Peace March, 1966 By Paul Warren I live on 103rd Street near Central Park West, one of the very few whites in a block of Negroes and Puerto Ricans. ... More >>

Jockbeat: As Another World Series Looms, A Look Back at a Tarnished One

​It's October, and the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson once again haunts the autumn breezes. In Chicago, two attorneys with ties to the Chicago Baseball Museum organization are claiming that Eliot Asinof, author of the best seller about the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal, Eight Men Out, was wrong abou ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: Umpires Tainting Yankees' Success

​At least third base umpire Tim McClellan had a perfectly valid excuse for his supreme idiocy last night: As far as the two calls that I had at third base. The first one with Swisher leaving too soon. In my heart I thought he left too soon. On the play with Cano and Posada, I thought Cano was ... More >>

Tigers Will Stop At Nothing to Avoid Postseason

​Sometimes when I go out on Sunday to drink in the blissful marathon of NFL games, I feel a little guilty. Technically it is a "school night," so no matter how much I'm enjoying myself, there's always the self-imposed reins of responsibility (that are applied to varying degrees, but semantics. ... More >>

CC Sabathia Bookends Outstanding Season with Brutal Outings

​When CC Sabathia introduced Yankee Stadium to the world in the regular season home opener, his $161 million paycheck was a real knee-slapper to haters everywhere. Yankees don't lose home openers. They just don't. And in their new stadium's maiden voyage? No chance lance. But I guess the In ... More >>

The Baseball Strike, 15 Years Later: What Was That About?

We all know what Lord Acton said about being doomed to repeat history, so while the fifteenth anniversary of the 1994 MLB Strike (August 12) is still fresh in everyone's mind, let's do some reviewing: Looking back, the casualty list seems staggering: nearly 950 major league games and more than $ ... More >>

The Strange History of Final Games in Stadiums Slated for Demolition

Loot, loot, loot for the home team

Talking Strategy with Mets' Manager Jerry Manuel

And Tolstoy. . .

Philadelphia Edición

Our Mexican files from the City of Brotherly Love

As New Yankee and Met Stadiums Go Up, So Do Costs and Disruption

John Sayles Talks Baseball, the Deep South, and Honeydripper

Staining Names

The A-Rod rumor mill: When steroids come innuendo, logic flies out the door

Hoop Screams

A Crooked Ref? Commissioner Stern's got much bigger problems

The Yankees' Clean-Up Man

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

Can Cooperstown Save Baseball?

The Hall of Fame's mountains of memorabilia might not be enough to salvage the sport's tarnished legacy

Atlas Slugged

Alex Rodriguez is one of the greatest Yankees ever. And the whole world is on his back?

The Old Brawl Game

Baseball trades fights for hugs in the age of steroid testing

Feel Like Derek Jeter This Spring!

Christians and Heathens

Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

Culture Clash

'86–'95: From Evangelicals to Trannies, the First Gulf War to Tupac Shakur

High and Inside

Classic Fall

Careful, Yanks. The Boss Is Watching

Men in Uniform

Fifth Annual Major League Baseball Roundup

Sports

Sports

Say Hey! The Results of Our Quiz

The Winners? Brian Calandra and Willie Mays.

Those Atlanta Sew-and-Sews

Alt.uniforms

Hosiery History

Kickin' It Old School

Sports

Naming Names

Capping a Career

A Century Of UNI Watch

Chucking It Away

Chuck Knoblauch's Bronx Backslide

Colon Watch