Why should politics get to have all the fun with chats? In preparation for the World Series, which starts Tuesday, we summoned the biggest baseball obsessives on FiveThirtyEight’s staff to Slack to talk about the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals. As usual, the transcript below has been lightly edited. neil_paine (Neil Paine, senior […]
Stocked with a cast of insanely talented young players, Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game in Cincinnati was a perfectly pleasant affair, and a nice showcase for the current (and future) state of the sport. But it wouldn’t be an All-Star Game if it weren’t also noted that the outcome of a silly exhibition contest continues to […]
Stocked with a cast of insanely talented young players, Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game in Cincinnati was a perfectly pleasant affair, and a nice showcase for the current (and future) state of the sport. But it wouldn’t be an All-Star Game if it weren’t also noted that the outcome of a silly exhibition contest continues to […]
The Kansas City Royals just concluded the most improbable, exhilarating, agonizing and — ultimately — meaningful season in the franchise’s past three decades of existence. That they lost the World Series to the inexplicably dynastic San Francisco Giants in a memorable Game 7 that literally came down to the final out doesn’t soften the blow […]
The Kansas City Royals just concluded the most improbable, exhilarating, agonizing and — ultimately — meaningful season in the franchise’s past three decades of existence. That they lost the World Series to the inexplicably dynastic San Francisco Giants in a memorable Game 7 that literally came down to the final out doesn’t soften the blow […]
