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Salon.com July 10, 2002 King Kaufman |
All-Star outrage The game ended in a tie. That's not a problem, but baseball still screwed up. |
Salon.com July 10, 2002 Keith Olbermann |
Baseball ruins everything it touches Only this messed-up ex-national pastime could manage to take its premier fan event, the first genuinely exciting All-Star Game in years, and abandon it without an outcome. |
Sports Illustrated February 8, 2001 Tom Verducci |
A Midsummer Classic's dream It's time to put meaning back into the All-Star Game. Give the winning league home-field advantage in the World Series... |
Salon.com July 11, 2002 |
Enough about All-Star interruptus! ...I'm afraid that all this hot air over the ending of a game that nobody cared about the ending of in the first place is going to cause baseball to overreact and ruin what remains... |
Sports Central July 4, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
How to Improve the MLB All-Star Game MLB's All-Star Game should be saved and improved. |
Sports Illustrated July 17, 2002 Tom Verducci |
The Milwaukee Misunderstanding Don't take All-Star Game criticism personally. |
Sports Central July 11, 2011 Corrie Trouw |
An All-Star's Break Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez did not make the All-Star Game irrelevant. Their absence is just a symptom of the game's chronic maladies. |
Sports Illustrated July 12, 2000 Tom Verducci |
All-Star Game has lost its luster The All-Star Game Tuesday night proved that what has been the definitive showcase in sports is sadly degenerating into just another glitzy exhibition.... |
Salon.com July 2, 2002 King Kaufman |
You call those guys All-Stars? I got all set to write a column blasting the Yankees and Diamondbacks managers for their hometown favoritism. I sat down and figured out my own All-Star squads -- and guess what? They're not that different from the ones Torre and Brenly chose. |
Sports Illustrated July 3, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
All-Star snubs Here are four baseball players who should go to Milwaukee |
Salon.com June 19, 2002 King Kaufman |
My All-Star teams The Midsummer Classic comes along at the perfect time to start arguing about who makes it and who doesn't. |
Sports Central April 15, 2013 Adam Russell |
MLB Should Consolidate the Leagues Could there ever be the possibility of MLB proposing a unified organization with consistent rules and a more objective schedule? If enough fans jump on the bandwagon, it most certainly could be possible. |
Salon.com July 11, 2002 Allen Barra |
Ted Williams, Bud Selig and baseball's very bad week Ted Williams transcended the game; Bud Selig took the fun out of it. The clueless commish should have used position players to pitch in the All-Star Game. |
Salon.com July 11, 2001 Allen Barra |
What's wrong with the All-Star Game? Too many players, for starters. But it's not too late to save baseball's midseason matchup... |
AskMen.com July 24, 2002 Mark Simmons |
The (Sad) State Of The Pastime The question should no longer be when the music will stop for the two potentially contracted teams, but rather, when the music will stop for baseball as the national pastime. |
Sports Central July 3, 2007 Scott Shepherd |
2007 MLB All-Star Snubs When the players and coaches filled out the remaining roster spots with worthy participants, they dropped the ball. |
AskMen.com Troy St. Louis |
The Price Of An MLB All-Star Team For the past few seasons there has been a growing concern that small market teams cannot compete in professional baseball today. Examining the cost of rising salaries for players you may conclude that they have a point. Or do they? |
Sports Illustrated January 15, 2002 Kostya Kennedy |
Captain Conflict It's high time Bud Selig steps down as Major League Baseball commissioner... |
Salon.com July 12, 2000 Gary Kaufman |
The really big show Cue the sappy French horn music, they're introducing All-Stars. |
Sports Central December 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Illustrated July 22, 2002 Peter King |
From vacation to camp Taking the world's temperature before long NFL training camp trip |
Sports Illustrated July 9, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Fehring the worst Baseball's union head has many issues to solve -- starting with steroids. |
Sports Central July 10, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 4) It is the age-old argument that will never go away amongst baseball aficionados. And that is the comparison of individual players from different eras in which they played. |
Sports Illustrated July 10, 2002 Tom Verducci |
It's time to start caring Players need an incentive to attend the All-Star Game. |
Sports Central August 20, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Does Manfred Have a Vision Thing? Sports Illustrated's Cliff Corcoran, said Rob Manfred's ascension "represents an unprecedented continuity in leadership for MLB." This is not entirely a consummation devoutly to be wished. |
Sports Illustrated February 20, 2001 Daniel G. Habib |
A Selig Smoke Screen Talk of beanballs and a new draft clouds baseball's big issue... |
Sports Central June 18, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Cardinal Sinners? Royal Stuffers? If the St. Louis Cardinals' front office isn't facing an investigation into whether they hacked into the Houston Astros' internal data networks, Kansas City fans are gleefully stuffing online all-star ballot boxes in favor of the Royals. |
Sports Central July 3, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
The Bright, Elusive Butterflies of Cy They don't just speak of R.A. Dickey as the likely or most obvious candidate to start this year's All-Star Game; they're talking about his possibilities for bagging the Cy Young Award. |
Sports Central July 17, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
2013 All-Star Game: Priceless Who'd have figured American League All-Star manager Jim Leyland thinking he could perform the marriage of sentiment and sound strategy in a single gesture and get away with it because, damn it, it worked, the American League held onto a 3-0 win? |
Sports Central July 7, 2006 Alvin Chang |
Redman Deserves to be an All-Star No one has tried to justify Ozzie Guillen's Redman selection -- until now. |
The Motley Fool July 26, 2004 Nathan Parmelee |
On Pitchers and Investing Similarities abound between investing in baseball players and investing in companies. |
Sports Illustrated July 4, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Half-season awards Baseball's wacky first half makes for unexpected winners... |
Sports Central May 19, 2010 Brad Oremland |
Bud Selig Gets it Wrong Again Major League Baseball's Bud Selig has long been the most tone-deaf commissioner in major North American sports (sorry, Gary Bettman). |
Sports Central September 21, 2005 Chris Lindshield |
Addressing Baseball's Needs Baseball still seems to be losing ground to football in the battle for America's heart. Here are a few thoughts about how we can change this trend. |
Sports Central August 22, 2007 Parimal Rohit |
Orel Hershiser? Meet Brandon Webb! Phoenix may very well be the city where baseball crowns a new champion. |
Sports Illustrated February 9, 2001 Phil Taylor |
Playing head games with Wallace Is it me or are Rasheed Wallace's technical tirades getting a bit out of hand? There's a difference between using a technical to light a fire under yourself and teammates -- a la Charles Barkley -- and acting like a two-year-old... |
Sports Central February 14, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Why the NBA Has the Best All-Star Game The NBA All-Star Game has started to separate itself as the best event of its kind among the four major sports. |
Sports Central January 6, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
From Cy-VP to Sayonara? Some speculation commences that precedent argues against Justin Verlander, the American League's Cy Young Award winner and Most Valuable Player Award winner for 2011, facing other than sobering after-effects. |
Sports Central August 3, 2007 Joe Boesch |
The MLB Connection in Israel Was bringing the game of baseball to Israel designed to expand the game -- or create a distract from some of Major League Baseball's problems? |
Sports Central July 16, 2012 Jonathan Lowe |
Out Amongst the Stars In Kansas City this past week baseball's All-Star Game (along with all of its pageantry) descended on the Heartland for the second time in three years (it was in St. Louis in 2009). |
Salon.com April 25, 2001 Allen Barra |
The golden age of pitching is now When you consider what today's hurlers have to deal with, our low opinion of them is way off-base. Plus: Does God answer NASCAR prayers? |
Sports Central May 9, 2005 Tyson Wirth |
Modern Problems, Modern Solutions An outline of innovative and appropriate solutions to baseball's major problems such as foolish fans and luxury tax failures. |
Sports Illustrated July 2, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Half-season awards In this trying year for baseball, let's recognize the positives. |
Sports Central December 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Illustrated June 5, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Solving the steroids problem Players have the power to clean up baseball. |
Sports Illustrated June 20, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Balancing act Lineups thrive with versatility more than power... |
Sports Illustrated October 9, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Rotation proclamation This MLB postseason proves that depth is vital to a winning staff |
Sports Central July 13, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Derek Jeter's All-Star Blessing A lot of the folk are hemming and hawing over Derek Jeter's withdrawal from the All-Star Game. But nobody seems to catch onto his withdrawal as an inadvertent blessing upon it. |
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2002 Tom Verducci |
A glimmer of hope Opponents could benefit as the Yankees' rotation struggles. |
Sports Central July 16, 2013 Brad Oremland |
A Moneyball Primer For David Wells The unfortunate downside is that when people try to explain why they don't like sabermetrics, they usually don't know what they're talking about. |