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This week, we talk about the surprising turn of events in the 2011 postseason, discuss the upcoming World Series between the Cardinals and the Rangers, and evaluate the state of the Boston Red Sox as they turn toward the 2012 season.
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Champions–The St. Louis Cardinals' David Freese holds up paper headlining the Cardinals World Series win. The Cardinals came back from a 3-2 deficit to beat the Rangers 6-2 in game seven of the World Series Friday night.
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Cardinals win 2011 World Series
People counted the St. Louis Cardinals out when they were 10.5 games back on Aug. 25. The me...
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Bartman Curse–The legacy of Steve Bartman lives on, in a negative way, pictured here trying to catch a foul ball in play in game six of the 2003 National League Championship Series. (Photo by AP)
Baseball is a very superstitious sport.
Whether it’s a curse that trading the Great Bambino to the Yankees in 1918 resulted in 86 years without a title remains to be se...
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Sent Packing–The Dodgers moved veteran shortstop Rafael Furcal (left) to the contending Cardinals while the Phillies acquired All-Star outfielder Hunter Pence (center) and the Giants added slugging outfielder Carlos Beltran to their lineup in the final days before the trade deadline. (Los Angeles Times/US Presswire/Getty Images)
The rich got richer (Philadelphia, S...
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The seventh segment of Tim's Take on Sports aired on April 19 and featured a reprise role from former colleague David Lopez. We discussed the opening games of the 2011 NBA playoffs, breaking down the results and discussing the upsets that ensued over the weekend. We also talked baseball, particularly on Carl Crawford's struggles in Boston, and the implications of teams sig...
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A tarnished reputation is at best a weak euphemism to describe a career that fell from grace. Manny Ramirez announced he would be retiring from baseball, quite possibly opening up pandora’s box of deceit, betrayal and drugs of the Steroid Era.
They say when you hit rock bottom there is nowhere to go but go up, but in Ramirez’ case a second positive drug test in two se...
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The pilot segment of Tim's Take on Sports for the 2011 semester. On March 1, I discussed Cornell athletics and put my take on the trading carousel that took place around the NBA right at the trade deadline. Also discussed the current labor talks between the NFL owners and NFL player's union and the union's plan to decertify right before the CBA is set to expire March 3. Be...
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For once in a very long time, the voters got something right.
Congress may be divided as oil and water after this year’s midterm elections, but there was public discourse on the Cy Young voters decision for this year’s AL Cy Young award. And the winner? Felix Hernandez from the last-place Seattle Mariners.
Hernandez won the Cy Young with a 13-12 record, but boasted...
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The Pittsburgh Pirates have hired former Rockies manager Clint Hurdle to lead a franchise that has not boasted a winning record in 18 seasons.
The Pirates currently have the league’s lowest payroll, but have promising young talent with outfielder Andrew McClutchen, third baseman Pedro Alvarez and second baseman Neil Walker.
The Pirates are coming off a 105-loss season,...
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All it took was a fight after a game, and one torn ligament in the right thumb for Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez to be in trouble with the law, as well as financially.
According to the USA Today, the four-time All-Star was arrested and charged with third-degree assault and second-degree harassment after a fight with his girlfriend’s father near the family lounge at Ci...
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