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Salon.com June 24, 2002 King Kaufman |
Death and life at the ballpark After the stunning loss of Darryl Kile, the Cardinals played again, and lost. That's life. And that's baseball. |
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 October 4, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
New Playoff Structure a Swing and a Miss Let's get right to the heart of the matter: while Bud Selig's new expanded playoffs has resulted in some extra hope in September, it has left open the potential for some serious competitive unfairness in October. |
Sports Central November 14, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Expansion For Baseball MLB thinks the way to solve baseball's image and primacy problems is to expand the postseason. |
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 10, 2002 King Kaufman |
All-Star outrage The game ended in a tie. That's not a problem, but baseball still screwed up. |
Sports Illustrated April 2, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Striking Out Bud Selig wants you to be reassured. The baseball commissioner announced last week that the owners will not lock out the players this season... |
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. |
Salon.com October 8, 2002 King Kaufman |
America loves underdogs Just not enough to watch them play. Too bad, because the baseball teams that are still alive are a stone gas. |
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2002 |
Saving baseball The August 5 issue of Sports Illustrated lays out a simple plan to get baseball back on track. Topping the magazine's list of suggestions is that Nolan Ryan be installed as the game's new commissioner. |
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 Central February 2, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Selig's Legacy, For Better and For Worse Part of the problem is that, say what you will of the man one way or the other, Selig really is a baseball fan when all is said and done. |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Time to Fess Up If Pete Rose hopes to be reinstated, he must admit he bet on his sport. |
Salon.com February 19, 2002 King Kaufman |
The fashion of team passion Columnist Paul Lukas scrutinizes the trends and minutiae of sports aesthetics, from square-neck jerseys in hockey to the impact of frills in Olympic figure skating... |
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. |
Sports Illustrated July 24, 2002 Frank Deford |
The boors of summer It's hard to take either side in baseball's labor battle. |
Sports Central September 11, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Selig Shows Lack of Leadership We need direct communications oversight within the Commissioner's office to address matters of emergency, whether weather or security related, to avoid another debacle. |
Salon.com July 27, 2000 Susan B. Shor |
Baseball for bimbos Apparently, commissioner Bud Selig has just figured out that wives, moms and other female significant others have decision-making power in their families. |
Popular Mechanics April 2003 Jim Kaat |
The Mechanics Of Baseball Baseball has evolved in favor of the hitter. Here are nine factors that have changed the game. |
Sports Central August 11, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Sportswriter Scoops Self to Remain Relevant When a journalist perhaps sees the writing on the proverbial wall, does he or she then deliberately bend the rules to remain relevant? Such apparently appears to be the case as evidenced in a July 27, 2009 NY Daily News column written by highly regarded sportswriter Bill Madden. |
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 Illustrated April 26, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Vlad, undervalued? Believe it Baseball Q&A: Who is over/under rated?... Considering how thin starting pitching is, why don't managers entertain the idea of returning to the days of four-man rotations?... Are the Braves interested in acquiring A-Rod in the off-season?... etc. |
Salon.com July 23, 2002 King Kaufman |
Taking baseball owners at their word If competitive balance is the main issue in the contract talks, why does their main proposal address payroll imbalance? |
Sports Central June 20, 2007 Joe Boesch |
Giambi Shouldn't Be the MLB Scapegoat But he may have opened his mouth too much this time on the issue of steroids. |
Sports Illustrated July 10, 2002 Tom Verducci |
The Milwaukee Embarrassment Baseball got the All-Star fiasco it's been asking for |
Sports Central October 15, 2008 Chad Wilson |
America, Baseball Need Philly/Tampa Series I like is seeing new, hungry teams in the World Series. That is why I am praying for a Phillies/Rays series. |
Sports Illustrated January 24, 2002 Frank Deford |
This Bud's for who? The controversies continue for baseball's commissioner... |
Sports Illustrated May 17, 2000 |
The great juiced-ball conspiracy This much we know. More players hit more home runs than ever before. But we don't know why.... |
Salon.com August 30, 2002 Allen Barra |
Strike 4 The baseball deal will either make the game worse for fans or it'll be a sham that won't hold salaries down. The owners came close to wrecking the season for this? |
Fast Company May 2006 |
The Piniella Effect Former Tampa Bay Devil Rays manager "Sweet" Lou Piniella may get tossed from a lot of games, but he's also consistently effective. Here's a chart that shows baseball team management that produced results. |
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 13, 2002 Lester Munson |
Re-lease me What really killed Major League Baseball contraction for 2002... |
Sports Illustrated June 25, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Don't stop short Once again it's time to play that fascinating annual game of Shortstop Musical Chairs, where one unlucky American League shortstop will find himself without a spot when the All-Star Game music stops. |
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Allen Barra |
John Rocker, whipping boy He was torched for talking about New York the way baseball executives do. But he'd still be in the majors if he'd been getting people out. |
Salon.com June 16, 2000 Allen Barra |
Spread the wealth The solution to baseball's revenue-sharing "problem" is for the teams to share the revenue. |
Reason May 2005 Matt Welch |
Subsidies and Lies Few corporate welfare tales are filled with as many tawdry lies as the return of professional baseball to the nation's capital. |
Sports Illustrated May 8, 2001 Michael Bamberger |
Downsize This! Baseball may have blundered into its best idea in years: contraction... |
Sports Illustrated August 30, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Blame it on the jerseys What the heck is up with the baseball uniforms?... If Felipe Alou is fired at the end of the season, where do you think he will end up?... What happens if there is a three-way or even four-way tie for the wild-card spot?... |
Sports Central October 31, 2012 Stephen Kerr |
Defending America's Pastime Now that San Francisco has swept Detroit, and this year's World Series is over, I'll watch some good pro and college football and basketball. But I'm already counting down the days until spring training starts another season. Hurry back, baseball! |
Sports Central December 20, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
Nation's Capitol, MLB Go Full Circle At one time, Major League Baseball was our celebrated pastime in the spring, summer, and early fall. Over the past couple of seasons, however, we have been put on a perpetual baseball calendar of an ongoing sideshow. |
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). |
Salon.com October 30, 2002 Keith Olbermann |
Why the World Series is going down the tubes (literally) Greedy, shortsighted owners and one-dimensional teams playing bad baseball add up to an event that nobody cares about. |
Sports Illustrated September 20, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Subway Series? It could happen The Jets and Giants are undefeated. The Yankees are just days away from clinching another division title. The Mets have a solid grip on the NL wild card (with assistance from the D-Backs.) The bottled water is safe to drink. Yes, sir, these are heady times for New Yorkers. |
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. |
Salon.com June 15, 2000 Gary Kaufman |
Shoeless Joe, Hall of Famer A pair of South Carolina lawmakers say the "Black Sox" star's lifetime ban from baseball should be lifted. They're right. |
Sports Central October 2, 2013 Bob Ekstrom |
What a Difference a Day Makes If all this hyperbole about an extra day on the schedule tells us anything, it's that baseball is by far the most hyper-analyzed of any major sport. |
Sports Central April 3, 2005 Mike Round |
Baseball Returns After a Tumultuous Winter It hasn't been a great winter for sports in general, but only baseball has drawn the wrath of Congress. So who's to blame for this steroid mess, and how does the sport repair the damage? By playing the games and letting the actual drama of the season take precedent. |
Sports Central January 19, 2012 Diane M. Grassi |
In-Debted MLB Owners Welcome Back Bud And debt is the key word here, as MLB team owners handed current MLB Commissioner Bud Selig an extension to his present contract by adding another two years. |
Sports Central June 7, 2005 Danny Sternfield |
The Secret Lost Labor Letters As the NHL lockout drags on ... and on ... and on, somewhere out there are tens of fans longing for hockey. |
Sports Central March 8, 2005 Martin Hawrysko |
Selig's "I Didn't Know" Act Wearing Thin, Dull Steroid responsibility falls on the lap of MLB Commission Bud Selig... Baseball's veteran committee fails again... Illinois maintains top ranking after loss... etc. |