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...fans like to complain about too much shill in sports, where even the scoreboard has a sponsor. As it stands, a relief pitcher in baseball can't enter the ninth inning without announcers mentioning Rolaids or the NYNEX "call to the bullpen." If this keeps up much longer, expectorating on the field will have a sponsor. But there's a good side to corporate ownership. It gives the fan a new way to enjoy the game: buying shares in the company that owns the team...
...posed that question to all 28 major league managers by asking them which player in their league, with runners at first and second, two out and the score tied in the ninth, would have the best chance of driving the run home? (The managers were not allowed to vote for one of their own players.) The winners were both clear-cut: Blue Jay Paul Molitor and Giant Barry Bonds...
Needing to finish in the top four to qualify for the nationals, the co-ed team ended up in ninth place...
...While ninth place may sound low (the regatta had sixteen schools) the Crimson was not far off pace. Only 30 points separated Harvard from the fourth-place finish it needed, while in contrast, the tenth-place team was 50 points behind the Crimson...
Putting the game aside, it is very strange to see Fenway Park so empty. Even if the Red Sox were down by 15 runs in the bottom of the ninth, there would be probably 100 times more people in the stands than there were yesterday in the middle of a close game...