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"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats."
- Bill Veeck
Category Archives: Features
War Inside My Head: 2008 White Sox/Rays ALDS Preview
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The 35th Street Post Office [September 20, 2008]
In which your editor admits to wishing the Cubs the very second-best.
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37, 57, and 1990
Notes on the pitchers’ equivalent of being the number eight hitter on a first-place team.
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Do It for Stevie Southside
Seeking vengeance from beyond the DFA list for the man who wasn’t there.
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Geddy Lee of the American League Central
What the Sox need is not sport, but art. . . of salesmen!
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The 35th Street Post Office [August 30, 2008]
On the difference between sports reporting and sports blogging and why you can probably ignore this site forever.
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But What Can Winning Buy, Anyway?
Taking a closer look at the most vital yet unimportant sweep in recent memory.
Emerald City
You have to wonder how they do it, those Mariners. Not how they lose, per se, because when you’re counting on the likes of Richie Sexson and Carlos Silva you have to sort of see it coming despite what the experts thought would happen this year. Rather, you have to wonder how exactly the Mariners [...]
Friend or Foe?
Look no further than Boston: absolute victory corrupts absolutely.
In Search of Justin Verlander
Who you callin’ “ace”?
Back in the Summer of ’95
The most important theoretical player the Chicago White Sox didn’t get.
The 35th Street Post Office
You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers. Presenting the return of the new 35th Street mailbag.
The 35th Street Mixtape: 80s Night Edition
Presenting the first of many official unofficial Sox-35th compilation discs.
Through the Future, Darkly (2008.5 Season Preview)
Death is the first half eternal; defeat is the second, without end.
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