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How Did Bryce Harper End Up Helping Fan Duel Keep A Gambling Addict On The Hook?
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (515+ words) Defector How Did Bryce Harper End Up Helping Fan Duel Keep A Gambling Addict On The Hook? 1: 49 PM EDT on July 9, 2026 Terry Thompson is part of a lawsuit against Fan Duel and Draft Kings claiming that the sports books used…...
A Front-Row Seat To The Worst Team In Pro Baseball
3+ hour, 55+ min ago (892+ words) Defector A Front-Row Seat To The Worst Team In Pro Baseball 11: 05 AM EDT on July 9, 2026 STATEN ISLAND, N. Y. " If you regret that you never got a chance to see the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, the losingest team in MLB history, can I interest…...
The Mets Have Turned It Around 360 Degrees
22+ hour, 35+ min ago (489+ words) The crud-ass New York Mets were able to manage a series split on the road against division-leading Atlanta during the long weekend, overcoming severe bullpen issues for 10-9 and 7-6 victories on Sunday and Monday. But before any fan could even begin…...
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Pitcher Scorned
1+ day, 31+ min ago (701+ words) defector. com Hell Hath No Fury Like A Pitcher Scorned 2: 44 PM EDT on July 8, 2026 Spite is a powerful emotion too often cast in an ugly light. To feel slighted or doubted is a natural urge, as is our desire to…...
MLB Is Now Promoting A Salary Cap Between Innings
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (703+ words) Defector MLB Is Now Promoting A Salary Cap Between Innings 1: 22 PM EDT on July 6, 2026 You weren't watching MLB. TV on Sunday, because NBC bought out all of the day's games and locked most of them behind their billions-losing streaming service....
Poor A's Fans Can't Even Get Properly Perfecto'd
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (78+ words) If there could have been a story to rival England's Jordan Henderson getting yellow carded and then breaking his arm without actually playing, it would have been Brian Serven homering in the ninth inning of Marlins-Athletics to complete the comeback…...
The Fish Don't Stink
1+ week, 1+ day ago (584+ words) The Miami Marlins are a winning baseball team. For now. That revelation comes after one of their finest months ever, a 20-6 run that began, hilariously enough, after being swept in a three-game series by the gangrenous Mets and falling behind…...
You're Going To Have To Care About The AL's Snooziest Teams
1+ week, 1+ day ago (532+ words) Why would you watch Germany face World Cup elimination in a penalty shootout when you could watch two teams slow-motion walking toward the top of their divisions in the American League? Of course, I'm talking about the Cleveland Guardians vs....
The Yankees Had A Wretched Weekend In Boston
1+ week, 3+ day ago (262+ words) 11: 44 AM EDT on June 29, 2026 Gray threw seven-and-a-third hitless on Sunday night, though Aroldis Chapman would blow the save, forcing the Red Sox to score three in the 10th for the walk-off. Recent iterations of the Yankees don't deal well with the…...
The Athletics Are An Abomination
1+ week, 6+ day ago (712+ words) SAN FRANCISCO " On Wednesday night I attended a Major League Baseball game for the first time since the final game the Athletics played in the Oakland Coliseum. I have all but stopped paying attention to the sport, less in active…...