No, I'm Not Bitter...Really: A Phillies Fan Laments

Jerry Waxman, 11.09.2009

When you are eight years old and your team is in the World Series you are in heaven.

Learning Leadership From the New York Yankees

Leslie Grossman, 11.09.2009

Cofounder, Women's Leadership Exchange, Author

I am obsessed with always looking at why and how people lead. Small businesses and corporations alike might consider looking at the success of the Yankees.

The World Series and Barry Sanders

Chris Campbell, 11.06.2009

Music and technology professional

The Yankees clearly have many, many great years ahead of them, and likely will for generations to come. But the game just doesn't feel the same anymore.

Yanks Spending Money -- The American Way

Bruce Tenenbaum, 11.05.2009

Writer, actor and radio host

Read the sports pages today and you'll find a whole lot of jealous Yankee haters moaning and whining about the Yankees' payroll. But business is the business of America.

Yankees Buy Another World Series Title

Av Sinensky, 11.05.2009

Attorney

Sources inside the Yankees revealed late last night that they will be holding a press conference to announce that they have acquired the rights to the Florida Marlins' 2003 World Series Championship.

Let the Public Own the Teams

Roy Ulrich, 11.04.2009

Roy Ulrich is a writer/researcher at Demos, a New York-based policy and advocacy organization.

If public ownership were allowed, owners would be barred from moving teams from small markets where they were profitable - like Green Bay - into larger markets.

Elections: The New National Pastime That Could Save Journalism

Glynnis MacNicol, 11.05.2009

Senior Editor, Mediaite.com

Apparently the future of journalism is politics. Can anyone remember this level of attention being paid for a handful of local elections? I can remember presidential elections that barely got this level of coverage.

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman, 11.02.2009

Emmy Award-winning Sportscaster

Here's the stunning part about the New York City Marathon: not that an American won, but that American runners dominated the field. Six of the top 10 finishers were American. What's going on here?

Mark McGwire Needs to Tell the Truth

Graham Bensinger, 11.04.2009

Looks like Doogie Howser, acts like Morley Safer

He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.

A Mets Fan's Lament

Eric Trager, 10.30.2009

Writer, Ph.D. Student

Mets fans are diametrically opposed to baseball's Goliath. We cannot root for the Yankees any more than Christians can cheer on Satan.

How Lame Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Nelson Montana, 10.30.2009

Author, Musician, Actor

How is it that a bunch of label executives have become the arbiters of who's worthy of honor and who isn't? It's the very antithesis of Rock and Roll!

Imagine Coors Field Today -- Time to Change Baseball Season

Michael D. Brown, 10.30.2009

Former Under Secretary, Homeland Security

Suppose the Rockies were now playing in the World Series. What exactly would the world think, looking out on Denver from the television cameras in Coors Field?

Blame it All on the Umpires

Roger I. Abrams, 10.25.2009

Authority on Sports Law

The Alice-in-Wonderland performance of the men in blue has increased demands for instant replay. Baseball purists explode in response that, after all, the game is not football. What are we to do?

Why I Hate the New York Yankees

Lee Schneider, 10.23.2009

Founder of DocuCinema, a media production company in Santa Monica

I'm going to lie down on a psychoanalyst's couch, preferably one made of soft baseball glove leather, and sort out my Yankee feelings. Hand me that baseball autographed by Sandy Koufax, will you?

Buffs, Yanks And A Night To Remember

Michael Conniff, 10.19.2009

"Con Games with Michael Conniff" on KNFO in Aspen and Vail

To be a true sports fan -- and you know who you are -- you have to sit through loads of dreck. But the good news is every now and again you are rewarded for your patience as never before.

What's Wrong With Baseball? Money, to Start With

Robert E. Murphy, 10.14.2009

Columnist, Life-Long Brooklynite

Major league baseball players simply make far, far too much money for the good of the game and its fans.

"A Hell of a Brainy Plan": Remembering the Black Sox

Michael Kaplan, 10.14.2009

The author of Chances Are and Bozo Sapiens writes about where it all went wrong

There was immediately a funny feeling about the 1919 World Series. As the post-Series rumors hardened into genuine evidence, several contrite players came forward to confess.

Baseball and Business

Jeff Danziger, 10.12.2009

Jeff Danziger is a political cartoonist syndicated by the NYTimes worldwide

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Breaking News: Barack Obama Wins AL and NL MVP, Other Awards

David Parker, 10.09.2009

Political consultant; Former writer for the "Harvard Lampoon"

In a stunning turn of events, Obama has swept baseball's postseason honors in both leagues, a feat never before accomplished and long considered impossible.

Don't Squander® That Opportunity

Roger I. Abrams, 10.08.2009

Authority on Sports Law

My colleague has designed a new team statistic called "the squander®," the offensive team's statistical equivalent of a pitcher's "blown save."

Phil Hughes: The Truth

Eugene Michael Santiago, 10.07.2009

Member of the Trickster Theater Company at Exit Art

In the end baseball comes down to pitching. The Yankees were and still are fortunate enough to find themselves amidst the swells of a perfect pitching and hitting storm.