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Pain Demands to Be Felt
Sports are pain. That’s the dirty little secret you don’t learn until after they’ve sucked you into their addictive grasp. Sports are about losing the final game of the season, then having to...
View ArticleThe World Series Winner’s Curse: The Downside of Standing Pat After Glory
On Wednesday, we were awash in winner-take-all excitement, willing Alex Gordon to score and celebrating Madison Bumgarner’s dominance. On Thursday, we were reading about future free agent Felipe...
View ArticleBe Bold, Not Boring: Believe That the Miami Marlins Will Win the World Series
Predictions are no fun if you’re trying to be right. You go with the boring pick to increase your odds of success, but because there are 30 teams or 600 players vying for one goal, you usually wind up...
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2015 MLB Predictions: Our Playoff and Award Picks, Surprise and Flop Team...
It’s Opening Day! Baseball is back! You might have heard! Grantland’s MLB writers and editors are here to offer their predictions for the upcoming season, so grab a hot dog and a cold one, shake off...
View ArticleThe #OddYear Hangover: Can the Giants Really Be This Bad?
The San Francisco Giants have lost seven games in a row. A meager offense, ranking 27th in the majors in runs per game, coupled with Madison Bumgarner’s sudden mortality, has seen the defending champs...
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Looking Ahead to #EvenYear: San Francisco’s Run to the 2016 World Series Has...
Barring a miracle of zero-percent-odds-busting proportions, the Giants will not repeat as World Series champs this year. Of course, 2015 isn’t an #EvenYear, so we probably should have expected some...
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World Series Preview: Five Keys to Victory for the Royals and the Mets
One more day, and then it’s here: the series that literally none of us predicted. So, before the Royals attempt to atone for last year’s Fall Classic failure by taking on Sadaharu Oh Daniel Murphy and...
View ArticleThe 15 Biggest Plays in Baseball History
The Kansas City Royals may have lost last year’s World Series, but in the most indelible moment of the series — indeed, of the season — the Royals held the fate of the championship in their hands. With...
View ArticleCiti Field Psyops: How the Mets Can Beat Yordano Ventura
They say a playoff series starts when the home team loses a game. Of course, they say that only when the home team wins the first two games of a playoff series — the way they say, “There’s someone out...
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World Series Weekend: Five Questions for Three (or Two) Royals-Mets Games
Down 2-0 in the World Series to the Royals’ contact-hitting, run-suppressing juggernaut, the Mets head home for Games 3, 4, and 5 this weekend, trying to become the 14th team to come back out of 79...
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