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1. Play emotionally-draining game; 2. Drink lots of beer and champagne; 3. Immediately board a flight to New York; 4. Arrive at, like, 3 A.M.; 5. Sleep the sleep of the drunk and the red eye air traveller; 6. Play game against the best team in baseball at 6 P.M. Sounds like a recipe for […]

A pair of Minnesota hitters were key factors keeping their team alive.

Thanks for all of the kind words in the ATH thread, folks. It makes the three or four years I’ll be losing at the end of my life due to chronic sleep-deprivation all worthwhile. A preview of the Cardinals-Dodgers NLDS. This smells like conventional baseball writing. I don’t do conventional baseball writing very well, so […]

Tigers 5, White Sox 3; Twins 13, Royals 4: 162 games and nothing is decided. Before Saturday night the Twins hadn’t smelled first place since May. They were seven games out in early September. Now it all comes down to Tuesday. I love me these 163-game seasons we’ve been having the past couple of years, […]

I don’t know what to think about Chicago not getting the Olympics. Is it that Chicagoans don’t bribe people anymore or that they’re simply not good at it anymore? And to be honest, I’m not sure which of those two things would make me more sad: Hatin’: you’re doing it wrong. Somebody wake up Cito […]

Jason, hitting the bigtime: It’s About The Money, Stupid has been selected by Rob Neyer and ESPN to be a charter member of what will be a new blog network on ESPN.com known as ESPN.com’s SweetSpot Blog Network! IIATMS has the distinct honor of being the sole blog representing the New York Yankees in this […]

Twins 8, Tigers 3: You say the Tigers all but put it away yesterday? Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that the Twins, here, were only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. Nationals 2, Braves 1: Of course with all […]

Varitek’s pitch calling ability is the stuff of myth, legend, and outright fiction. And as of right now, he can’t do ANYTHING. Can’t hit, can’t throw, can’t block pitches, can’t run. If I forgot something, just assume that he can’t do it. There’s an argument to be made that he is the worst player in […]

I experienced my first symptoms of playoff fever this morning. I’m going to try to rest and take fluids, but I don’t think I can fight it off much longer . . . Joe Mauer is a thief! The Blue Jays pay for about 1/12 of Vernon Wells’ 2010 raise. The Mets’ doctors: their diagnosis […]

Tigers 7, Twins 2: I’ve seen a lot of “well, whaddaya expect, Pavano sucks” comments floating around the internet since last night’s loss, but it’s all from New York people who can’t get his time in Gotham out of their heads. Sure, he got knocked around last night, but before that he had owned the […]