This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. . Good morning! Baseball is fun. While You Were Sleeping: Snakes alive, indeed Playoff baseball possesses a unique tension. Postseason hockey is the closest kin, but the slower pace of baseball — even in the sport’s new speed era — lets the drama sit like a dense fog. Fans, players and objective observers all just live in it. Soak it up.
Beyond the Giants nabbing arguably the best available candidate from a division rival, it sets up an interesting query for next season: Was Melvin the problem in San Diego, or was it ? Advertisement 180s Three days after Coyotes Travis Dermott NHL’s ban on Pride tape, the league acquiesced to pressure, announcing yesterday that players can use stick tape to represent social causes.