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...pennant pandemic hits a handful of cities every autumn, but no place goes nuts in the spring like Boston does whenever the Red Sox get off to a good start. It's all about maybe. Maybe this year they can win the World Series for the first time since 1918. Throw in an early win over the profoundly reviled Yankees--or three early wins--and the city is all asweat...
...first choice. We talked to him through his agent, and he said he was "interested". His agent said he usually turns everything down, and when Bill Murray says "maybe", it usually means "yes". So, we just had to wait for the Cubs to lose the pennant, because if they had won, he would have been too busy, and he has his priorities. But, they didn't win, and we were very fortunate...
...baseball is back, why did it sue ESPN for bumping late-September Sunday-night games--pennant-race baseball, the most exciting there is--in favor of early season NFL games? It says something about a sport that it has to use the courts to force TV to show...
Unfortunately for Boston, none of the really horrendous calls were made in their favor. And with the Yankees victorious in capturing the American League pennant and now the World Series, further inquiry into the quality of those umpires who made the worst judgments seems a moot point...
...this down the road," says Baumohl. "The teams are individual companies, who share in the league revenues -- why not the umps?" The umpires? current collective bargaining agreement (which doesn?t allow them to strike, prompting this maneuver) runs out in December. With the baseball business booming and the pennant chases approaching, the umpires must figure the timing is right. Because there?s only thing that gets more abuse at the ballpark than a professional ump -? an amateur...