Circling The Bases - Popular Articles Did the Yankees buy their title? Craig Calcaterra Jimmy Rollins: the Phillies are still the better team Craig Calcaterra Take it away Jimmy: "They were the better team this series. Do I think we're the better team? I really do. They just executed." Um, yeah. Look, I wasn't critical of Rollins' prediction before the Series, because if I was... Leave A-Rod alone for cryin' out loud Craig Calcaterra You can tell just how hard it was for the media to go with that "A-Rod: clutch God" line of thinking they've been forced to adopt this year, because after just two bad games, they're back into their old groove.... No time to panic, Yankees fans Craig Calcaterra New Yankee Stadium already showing cracks D.J. Short It seems the Yankees' new $1.5 billion city-subsidized stadium is beginning to show cracks, just six months after its debut. The team has recently fallen under scrutiny for cracks in the concrete pedestrian ramps -- some as much as an... Phillies have a 12.5% chance of taking this thing Craig Calcaterra Based on precedent anyway: [The Phillies] are the 44th team to lose three of the first four games. Of the previous 43 teams, 41 played in a best-of-seven series. (The others were Boston in 1903, who won the next four... Mark McGwire gets a shot at redemption Craig Calcaterra Big Mac is back. Since hitting coaches don't do that much, there won't be much to say about his impact on the 2010 Cardinals. This story, ironically enough given the figure involved, is all about the past. Let's delve into... The Yankees call the Jays about Roy Halladay Craig Calcaterra Yankee Stadium has been a Mausoleum Craig Calcaterra It's hard to truly gauge crowd noise from the TV broadcast. TBS, for example, is notorious for over-amplifying the crowd via some unique mic placement (they did it with the Braves for years and still do it now that they... Football gets better ratings than baseball. So what? Craig Calcaterra Jim Donaldson of the Providence Journal thinks he's throwing bombs when he compares baseball television ratings to football ratings: Baseball likes to think of itself - indeed, likes to bill itself -- as the "National Pastime." But that time is...