Steve Buckley
Sports Columnist at The Athletic
Columnist for The Athletic (@TheAthletic). Author, “Wicked Good Year.” Shopkeeper of The Oldtime Baseball Game.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Steve Buckley
Sooner or later, the estate of the late Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino is going to sue me for copyright infringement. It’s just that one of Lucchino’s favorite lines — “We’re in the yes business” — keeps popping into my head now that the Red Sox are in the baffling, convoluted, muddling answers to simple questions business. By way of example, how ’bout that video news conference the Sox held Monday night, 24 hours after Rafael Devers had been traded to the San Francisco Giants?
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Steve Buckley
Craig Breslow, chief baseball officer of the Boston Red Sox, made four assertions Monday night in his first comments since trading Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants: He faced no pressure to dump salary, he takes some of the blame for the miscommunication that led to a messy divorce, he saw the move as part of an effort to establish team culture and ultimately, he believes the Red Sox are better after the deal.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Steve Buckley
BOSTON - There's really no way of getting around this: The Boston Red Sox need to make the playoffs in 2025. That's the only way they can justify trading Rafael Devers, their franchise player, to the San Francisco Giants. Otherwise, it's just Mookie Betts all over again. In 2020, the Sox sent Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers because the future Hall of Famer's contract would be up in a year, and the Sox didn't want to pay.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Steve Buckley
One of Major League Baseball's charming modern-day wrinkles is the social media video of the latest kid who's been called up to The Show. It's a sort of "Candid Camera Meets the Minor Leagues," with the unsuspecting prospect being called into the manager's office for some vague reason.
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3 weeks ago |
miamiherald.com | Steve Buckley
It was never Jason Collins’ intention to be a spokesperson or leader of a cause. He just wanted to live a life that was open and honest, one untangled from the excuses and dodges that are often in the playbook when you are concealing your sexual identity. But when you emerge as the first active, out gay player in NBA history, as Collins did in 2013, you can’t not be a spokesperson.
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I’m at Walker Stadium in Portland, Ore., where @picklesbaseball of the collegiate West Coast League have “Sweet Caroline” on the menu. https://t.co/fGLcCDZwrn
Sounds like fun. Winner plays the Polo Grounds Era Mets.
The Mets will host a three-inning alumni game on Sept. 13, pitting former players from the Shea Stadium and Citi Field eras against each other. Full rosters: https://t.co/3IjFKfC338
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