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Jared Diamond
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Jared Diamond
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Baseball, gambling and more: @WSJSports. Teach: @columbiajourn, @Mville_U. Author: SWING KINGS (@wmmorrowbooks). Email: [email protected].
- Major League Baseball is on record of saying it wants to expand to 32 teams at some point in the not-too-distant future. I'm not sure you can convince me that there are two other markets better than Oakland.
- NEWS: NBC has made an offer to MLB to take over Sunday Night Baseball and the rest of ESPN's baseball inventory starting next season. With @JBFlint
- ESPN has reached an agreement with the KBO to air games from Korea live. Opening day is tomorrow. More details to come.
- Since everybody apparently is mad at "Game of Thrones" now, here's a question for you: What's a TV show that you thought ended well?
- EXCLUSIVE: A January letter from Rob Manfred to Jeff Luhnow reveals the Astros "dark arts" and "Codebreaker" — the operation behind the Astros' sign-stealing scandal.
- Imagine arguing about Spider Tack when Shohei Ohtani, Jacob deGrom, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Fernando Tatís Jr. are playing baseball.
- If you're a GM and the Astros call asking to trade for one your players, and you don't know why they want said player, you should immediately hang up the phone and figure out what you're not seeing.
- Some gambling notes: Oakland pitcher Michael Kelly bet a total of $99.22 on MLB games. That cost him an entire year. He was set to make $740,000 this season. Tucupita Marcano bet more than $87,000 on MLB. Twenty-five included Pirates games. He lost every parlay involving PIT.
- “Baseball is so boring,” the football fans always tell me.
- Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez and Didi Gregorius combined for 169 home runs in 2017. The Red Sox hit 168.
- It's unfathomable that Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto and Pete Alonso combined for 112 home runs, 324 runs scored and 317 RBIs, and the Mets missed the playoffs.
- I miss baseball, you guys.
- '50s: Six titles won by two teams. '60s: Nine titles won by one team. '70s: Four titles won by two teams. '80s: Eight titles won by two teams. '90s: Eight titles won by two teams. '00s: Seven titles won by two teams. But, yeah, the Warriors killed competitive balance in the NBA.
