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RAYS INSIDER: Dome sweet dome

Friday was the 24th American League Championship Series game played inside. The ALCS has gone indoors on nine occasions. The team that played in the dome had the homefield advantage five times, including 1991 when the Minnesota...

'Sports Soup' ingredients: clips and commentary with bite

Presenting still more sports media notes after spending part of yesterday asking your forgiveness for the past year's transgressions in print and on the Web: •On Tuesday, Versus - motto: "We're so much more than hockey; we run...

Child's play: MLB youngsters will play part in playoffs

Juan C. Rodriguez covers the Florida Marlins for the Sun Sentinel. Superstars punctuate the rosters of the four clubs bidding for a trip to the World Series. Manny Ramirez . Ryan Howard . David Ortiz . Those guys may well...

A baseball fan's inner complexities

Being a fan isn't as simple as rooting for the home team. I began exploring this issue the other day when I realized that, despite my Canadian residency, I didn't really care how the Toronto Blue Jays fared. Rationally, I...

Annoying Media Trend: Ignoring Andrew Friedman

Visual representation of my argument: Simple oversight or would TBS (and the rest of the media) rather not describe the lovable and fun Rays as a "sabermetric" team? Quantitative analysis seems like a four letter word to most...

Best-of-seven series a better test

Five-gamer not always an accurate test of team's true strength A five-game series in baseball is like getting all dressed up for the big dance and the music stops before you walk through the ballroom door. So much so, the...

The Leap

Today as your guest poster you've got frequent commenter Doc writing in about baseball. He used to send me this stuff in college, so if you get sick of the OMG football and OMG baseball and OMG SIEVE that occasionally...

Ink-Stained Kvetches

As newspapers cut back on staff, editorial cartoonists are losing their positions at newspapers across the nation. In Texas, only the San Antonio Express-News, the Houston Chronicle, and the Austin American-Statesman still...

Think on These Things

The apostle Paul instructed Christians to control the diet of their minds (Romans 12:2), and to think on things that are good and wholesome (Philippians 4:8). One of the best ways to accomplish this is to spend time reading and...

Land buy for parkway is approved

Dan Tracy | Sentinel Staff Writer Metro Orlando's toll-road agency agreed Wednesday to buy land crucial to construction of the Wekiva Parkway, even though one board member said he was "embarrassed" by the deal. "I find some of...

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