Category Archives: Visitors

Dome Is Where the Heart Is

Sometimes even the indefensible needs a defender. At the dawn of the biggest series of either team’s season, Ira Brooker looks for the positives in baseball’s worst stadium.

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Alright, to Hell with This

What’s the opposite of greener pastures? One fan searches for the answer. Chris T. reports from beyond the Thunderdome.

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Objects in the Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear

Is respectability a good substitute for victory? No. No it’s not. Lloyd the Barber offers a case study in Canadian baseball.

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Vote Carcetti!

A long, subtle feud is about to take a strange new twist. Matthew Taylor explains how this is long overdue.

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How to Disappear Completely and Be Found Atop the Standings

Only one team has the might and (and the manager) to fill the hearts of Rays fans with total indifference. Jessica Haven checks in from the Sunshine State.

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What THOSE Girls Say

Perhaps “all-consuming hatred” isn’t the correct term after all. Katie from Oh, It’s THOSE Girls extends an olive branch.

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Letter from Detroit III: The Worst Years of our Lives

Age ain’t nothin’ but a decade or two of bad baseball.

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Letter from Detroit II: Vanity Teams Are the Worst Kind

What makes a baseball team great? Having a little something on the side. Ed Yieklak explains.

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Letter from Detroit I: Tigers and Me

When is the home team no longer your home team? In the first of our three-part series, Dave Willen looks back on life after Michigan.

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This All Seems a Little Familiar

On the eve of another Sox-Royals series, the opposition has a surprising high opinion of the Good Guys. Jeff Parker checks in from the Paris of the Plains.

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Sunny Side of the Chequamegon Bay

Gertrude Stein once wrote of Oakland, “There’s no there there.” One writer mildly disagrees. Kelly TerBest checks in on the other Green and Gold.

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An Open Letter to the Chicago White Sox Fans

The best and worst weekend of Chicago baseball is upon us. Kurt Evans checks in from the far, far, far North Side.

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Interleague Baseball Sucks As Much As My Favorite Team

Is a Sox-Bux feud in the works? Does interleague play really enrich the season? Will the Pirates ever get anything right? No, no, and no, says one fan. Rob Dugan reports from Pittsburgh.

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California Scheming

Welcome to La-La Land, where sunshine and destruction are always on tap. Joel Shafer reports from Los Angeles.

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Like Staring Into A Mirror

How do you get excited for a long weekend of third-place baseball? Ask a Canadian. Guest writer Lloyd the Barber reports from Hogtown.

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