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Sports Central September 16, 2005 Chris Cornell	Sox Take a Look in Rearview If the Boston Red Sox thought they could just cruise into the playoffs without getting a fight from the Evil Empire, they'd better think again.
Sports Central October 18, 2007 Rich Lyons	Down 3-1, Sox Look to Their Ace The Red Sox entered the season as one of the favorites to win the World Series, but find themselves in the precarious playoff situation of win or go home.
Sports Central August 25, 2008 Scott Shepherd	AL Wild Card Wild Cards Here's a look at the chase for the AL wild card and examine some possible wild cards each team has.
Sports Central July 23, 2012 Ross Lancaster	The Hottest Team in Baseball One of the teams that may trade for players to help for the stretch run and stands to benefit from the extra wild card is the Oakland Athletics, who are currently baseball's hottest team, posting a 14-2 record in July to go from having the AL's fourth-worst record to its fourth-best.
Sports Central February 27, 2006 Isaac Miller	2006 MLB Preview: American League It was an interesting offseason in the American League. Yet some burning questions still remain.
Sports Central October 9, 2007 Bob Ekstrom	No More Dead Men Walking The Red Sox, along with the rest of this year's League Championship Series field, can enjoy the extended celebration offered by an unprecedented layover.
Sports Central August 23, 2005 Bob Ekstrom	AL Pennant: Yanks' For the Taking? Well Beantowners, start your guest lists if you must, but don't set that date for this year's Yankee Elimination Party quite yet. It might not come. The Yanks will be hitting the playoffs in peak form.
Sports Central April 22, 2004 Mike Round	Billy Beane: Messiah or Phony? Billy Beane had taken over a team in disarray, with only slightly more fans than the Expos, and transformed them into a perennial contender in the tough AL West.
Sports Central October 4, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	Baseball at its Best Down to the Wire The stage is set for a MLB playoffs season that lends itself to great theater, with no sure winner and possibly surprising upsets. You can't ask for any more from this game of baseball.
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Sports Central October 17, 2006 Bob Ekstrom	A's Far A's They Go Who thought the Oakland Athletics would still be playing baseball through the second week of October? The first week maybe, but not the second.
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Fast Company November 2003 Keith H. Hammonds	Beane's Magic Back in May, in "How to Play Beane Ball," we wrote glowingly of general manager Billy Beane and his Oakland A's baseball team which, we predicted, "almost certainly will win a lot more games than it will lose this season." We're exhaling now: At press time, the A's were 90-60.
Sports Central September 9, 2004 Martin Hawrysko	September May Bring Baseball's Best While the playoffs are still three weeks away, the regular season is far from over. Ignore these final weeks, in anticipation of the actual postseason, and you might miss out on some of the best that baseball has to offer.
Sports Central March 10, 2005 Tyson Wirth	Baseball's Great Secret There was a time when baseball was a game of constants, a game you could rely on. The rules of the game were simple and universal: the Red Sox were cursed, Babe Ruth was without equal, and good pitching was superior to good hitting.
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Sports Central October 12, 2004 Piet Van Leer	It's Deja Vu, All Over Again Red Sox fans share a common belief, that this is their year.
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Sports Central May 7, 2004 Eric Poole	Beane's Fault Lies Not in Himself, But in His Stars The notion that Beane's teams are equipped to win during the regular season but not in the playoffs has some merit only in the fact that the A's general manager acquires the players he does out of necessity.
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