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The new worst team in baseball

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The new worst team in baseball

Perhaps the Chicago White Sox’s swift decline was not the result of a calculated scheme but rather a classic case of Murphy’s Law

Ryan Spaeder

Letters from Spectator readers, June 2024

Ballots, baseball and blue-collar jobs

The Spectator

The story of Vince Maney

That’s all he played, one single game, and it took him almost a century to get credit for it

Bill Kauffman

My biggest regrets

Mine are for things undone, unmade, untold. They’re hardly earth-shattering, but still…

Bill Kauffman

Sports

Is Shohei Ohtani the GOAT?

It has been more than a century since baseball had such a double threat

Kevin Cook

American Life
July 17, 2023
Rage against the baseball machine
I have finally encountered an umpire I would despise, disparage, spit upon, kick, and, yes, kill
Bill Kauffman
Cockburn’s Gossip
June 2, 2023
Have the LA Dodgers struck out?
Plus: Top Texas lawyers to lead Ken Paxton impeachment
Cockburn
Place
April 4, 2023
Watching baseball as Seattle crumbles
The area around the Mariners’ ballpark is characterized by an intense squalor
Christopher Sandford
Politics
July 29, 2022
Democrat flips the bird at the congressional baseball game
Pure Democratic athleticism
Cockburn
Politics
July 29, 2022
Republicans crush Democrats at the congressional baseball game
And Cockburn was there, overpriced lager in hand
Cockburn
Sports
June 18, 2022
Little league keeps me sane
Just good old American tradition
Casey Chalk
China
December 13, 2021
The Biden administration hates you more than China
The truth behind the toothless Olympic boycott
Amber Duke
Politics
September 30, 2021
In defense of brilliant idiot athletes
Conservatives furious over their dumb political opinions should sit back and appreciate what they’re good at
Alex Perez
Sports
July 23, 2021
The racist Cleveland Guardians baseball team must be renamed
Is it really appropriate for Cleveland to honor these imperialistic statues of cis white men?
Stephen L. Miller
Sports
July 14, 2021
Major League Baseball goes dark on Cuba
The league has no excuse for dodging the political issues of the day
Stephen L. Miller

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