october
Three Days At The End Of The World (Series)
The Kansas City Royals won the 2015 World Series in New York by playing merciless, relentless, heartbreaking, beautiful baseball. The Mets lost as themselves.
The Mythical Kansas City Royals
The World Series Champion Royals love the late innings, the deep night.
Mangelwurzels Make the Creepiest Jack-o-Lanterns
In the Somerset town of Hinton St. George, locals mark Halloween with "Punkies," hollowed-out mangolds or mangelwurzels (a type of beetroot) containing a lit candle.
David Roth's Weak In Review: October, And The Upside Of Anarchy
Baseball works according to different rules in October. Here, now, everything is unreasonable and strange. In a buttoned-up game, a little anarchy goes a long way.
A Modest Proposal for Barry Bonds as the Yankees' New Hitting Coach
The New York Yankees need a hitting coach. Barry Bonds doesn't really need a job, but he would be a good fit. Also it would be hilarious. So let's do it.
Some Safe, Wholesome Alternatives To Bat Flips, For The Good Of Baseball
Everyone that cares about baseball agrees that bat-flips disrespect the game and sully its heritage. There must be a better way to enjoy home runs. Well, there is!
The Chicago Cubs Are Still the Future
The Cubs might have gotten swept out of the NLCS, but they're young, talented, rich, and poised to dominate the National League.
The Dodgers Will Not Waste Clayton Kershaw's Genius
You don't have to be a Dodgers fan to want to see baseball's best pitcher on baseball's biggest stage. The good news is that the Dodgers are working on it.
The Unexpected Rise of the Unhittable Jeurys Familia
The New York Mets have had some memorable closers, but never one who has pitched quite as fearlessly or brilliantly—or as much—as Jeurys Familia has this October.
David Roth's Weak In Review: Beginning And Ending In October
This year's October baseball has been pretty great, but also impressively and inspiringly strange. Something is clearly changing, here, and that is fun to watch.
Watching the Kansas City Royals, Who Take the Long Way Home
The Royals don't play baseball like other teams do. But there's something singularly cool about their singles-on-singles-on-singles approach. Also: it works.
How Weird Will Things Get for the Texas Rangers?
It's strange enough that the Texas Rangers overcame an awful start to make the postseason. After stealing Game One from the juggernaut Jays, it's getting stranger.