Playoff Heroes Can Be Cost Burdens
In the jetwash of a surprisingly quick and decisive World Series, the San Francisco Giants are planning a victory parade while the Texas Rangers try to figure out how the best line...
2010 MLB Postseason
What Rangers Need to Do to Return
J.F. Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Giants Celebrate in S.F. Fashion
Gwen Knapp, San Francisco Chronicle
Expanding MLB Playoffs Not the Answer
Ken Rosenthal, Fox Sports
At Last, Giants Fans Take to the Streets
Art Spander, RealClearSports
Renteria's Unlikely Journey to Hero
Andrew Baggarly, SJ Mercury News
On a scale of oh-my-kill-me-now pain to my-face-is-still-tingling-from-happy euphoria, this Rangers season traveled well beyond tingly. I know, I know, they did not win the World...(full article)
Has any other World Series parade yielded references to the Grateful Dead and the Beatles, mention of a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana, allusions to an S&M cha...(full article)
If baseball polled fans and asked, "What is the biggest problem with the postseason?" I seriously doubt the majority would respond, "Not enough teams." If anything, a three-round p...(full article)
A victory parade. For a baseball team. For THE baseball team. By a city perceived as weird and bizarre but isn't much different from any other place in America. Other than the Haig...(full article)
Edgar Renteria, the Most Valuable Player of the World Series, kept coming back to the same one-word description after the Giants' clinching victory Monday night. "Unbelievable," h...(full article)
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Scores and Schedule
Team Sites
American League
National League
RCS City Series
Media coverage in markets of each playoff team:
American League
Rays: Tampa Bay
Twins: Twin Cities
Rangers: Dallas/Fort Worth
Yankees: New York
National League
Phillies: Philadelphia
Giants: San Francisco
Reds: Cincinnati
Braves: Atlanta
American League
Rays: Tampa Bay
Twins: Twin Cities
Rangers: Dallas/Fort Worth
Yankees: New York
National League
Phillies: Philadelphia
Giants: San Francisco
Reds: Cincinnati
Braves: Atlanta