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With the playoffs & series coming up. I think MLB will have a marketing blitz on the nfl's stupidity. They would be fools if they didn't.

Will the left now attack Major League Baseball players for not kneeling during the American national anthem? They already say that baseball is a "white sport". It's a "white man's game". What will happen now?

51 minutes ago MILWAUKEE - Barry Bonds hit his 734th career home run Saturday night, breaking Hank Aaron's NL record in the same city where the Hall of Fame slugger started and ended his major league career. The San Francisco Giants star hit a 1-0 pitch from Milwaukee's Chris Capuano over the right-center fence in the third inning, just out of the reach of outfielders Brady Clark and Corey Hart. Bonds, who hit No. 733 and drove in a season-high six runs Friday night, is 21 homers shy of Aaron's career mark of 755. It was Bonds' 26th home run...

New York Mets: Catcher Mike Piazza was forced to leave Saturday's game in the first inning after being hit by a pitch in the left thigh, and was listed as day-to-day. The Montreal Expos beat the Mets 3-2 on Michael Barrett's single in the ninth inning. Piazza, hit by Britt Reames' pitch, was driven off the field on a golf cart at the end of the inning. Piazza was iced down and, after being examined by team physician Dr. Andrew Rokito, walked out of the clubhouse, got into a car and headed back to Port St. Lucie. "It looked like...

Projected Standings for the 2002 Season By Tom Tippett March 21, 2001Copyright © 2002. Diamond Mind, Inc. All rights reserved.If the real thing bears any resemblance to our computer simulations, we're in for one of the most interesting and exciting baseball seasons in decades. There is a very short list of things that we can be fairly sure about -- the Yankees are about as close to a lock as you can get in baseball, while four teams (Baltimore, Tampa Bay, Detroit and Kansas City) have no meaningful chance to contend in the AL. And everything else, and I mean...