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Articles Written by: TIM MARCHMAN
Who is This?
Tim Marchman is a baseball columnist for the New York Sun newspaper. His columns focus on the New York Yankees and New York Mets, as well as other Major League Baseball teams.
What's the lesson of the 2009 New York Yankees? With the Bronx Bombers taking an early 7-1 lead in Game 6, we had more time than usual to bat around the clichés of sports championships to see which ones might fit. Had the Yankees redeemed the long ...
From TIM MARCHMAN,
Slate,
5 Nov 2009
To play in the NFL, you have to make a show of going to college. To play in the NBA, you have to get through high school. To sign a contract with a major league baseball team, all you have to do is convince someone you're 16, provided you weren't born ...
From TIM MARCHMAN,
Slate,
27 Oct 2009
At a certain point in the development of any sport, a single league or promotional body becomes synonymous with the sport itself. Ultimate Fighting Championship, which recently partnered with ESPN and is promoting fights that are about as successful as ...
From TIM MARCHMAN,
Slate,
19 Aug 2009
Of course, the only thing less surprising at this point than a baseball player being on steroids is a columnist clutching his pearls about the sanctity of the game. Anyone who was paying the least attention would recognize that a player as reviled (and ...
From TIM MARCHMAN,
Slate,
8 Feb 2009
Rarely in recent years have so many had so many opportunities to do something extraordinary. First among them are two men who need to prove nothing and yet will be trying to do so. Later this month, Lance Armstrong will end his three-and-a-half-year ...
From TIM MARCHMAN,
livemint.com,
16 Jan 2009
A World Series--even one hosted in such grim locales as St. Petersburg's moldy Tropicana Field or Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park, the Ford F-250 of ballparks--is all about stars. No one pays $600 for a ticket to watch Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Jason ...
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What makes the Rays so good? Start with defense. The Rays ranked first in baseball in defensive efficiency this year, which measures how many balls in play they turn into outs. Jason Bartlett, a ...
From TIM MARCHMAN,
Slate,
20 Oct 2008
Throw a rock in Chicagoland these days, and you're liable to hit a mourning Cubs fan who's old enough to remember Gabby Hartnett's spry youth. "All of a sudden, I was sitting here, sobbing," 89-year-old Edith Konya told the South Bend Tribune, ...
From TIM MARCHMAN,
Slate,
8 Oct 2008
Before beating Washington last night, they were losing mostly by small margins, mostly to bad teams, and mostly because their best hitters stopped hitting just as the wretched state of their bullpen was fully exposed. It's no wonder so many scented the ...
As soon as this coming week, 26-year-old Francisco Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Angels, wunderkind of the 2002 playoffs and the American League's career leader in strikeouts per inning, will become the first pitcher ever to save 60 games. Going into ...
