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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 December 26, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
Salon.com May 2, 2001 Allen Barra |
Damn Twins! The standings better turn upside down, or baseball's "small markets can't compete" argument is going to look pretty silly... |
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? |
Fast Company September 14, 2011 Emma Haak |
Baseball By The Billions (Of Dollars) How do you assemble a great American pastime? With bats, balls, beer -- and a pro league that nets $6.1 billion in revenue. As the World Series looms, we break down what's driving Baseball Inc. |
Salon.com March 31, 2001 Allen Barra |
Everything you know is wrong The major leagues are more competitive than ever, small-market teams can compete, and home runs and giant salaries aren't ruining the game. Plus: Who's going to Cooperstown? |
Sports Central September 24, 2007 Phil Backert |
MLB Playoff Chase Down to Final Stretch The last week of the season in Major League Baseball could not be more exciting for fans as the hunt for October hits the final stretch run. |
Salon.com December 20, 2000 Allen Barra |
The Alex Rodriguez FAQ Is he worth all that money? Will these giant contracts ever stop? Is salary inflation driving up ticket prices? Ruining baseball? (Short answers: Yes, no, no, no.) |
Salon.com April 3, 2002 Allen Barra |
Baseball 2002: The fix isn't in So you think the big-market teams have it all locked up? Then I guess you'll be betting on the Los Angeles Dodgers... |
Sports Central December 25, 2008 Sean Crowe |
The Yankees Have Ruined My Christmas Someone needs to remind the Yankees that the United States is going through a pretty bad recession. |
Sports Central November 10, 2009 Ryan Day |
Stop Blaming the Yankees Instead of tearing down the Yankees, let's complain about the kind of system that allows the Yankees to do what they're doing. |
Sports Central September 2, 2010 Corrie Trouw |
The Bottom Line of Bottoming Out The willingest spenders like the Yankees and Red Sox receive mixed messages from their sports: Try to win as much as you can, but you better not use all of your resources to do it. |
Sports Central June 17, 2011 Andrew Jones |
How to Realign Major League Baseball Rumors have been floating around about the potential for MLB to realign into a system with two 15-team leagues and no divisions. |
AskMen.com Lewis Helfand |
Strikes & Lockouts In Professional Sports Everything from ticket sales to stadium parking takes a significant hit when games are canceled. The strikes and lockouts listed below show just how much professional athletes, teams, and even leagues stand to lose when faced with a work stoppage. |
Sports Central September 18, 2013 Andrew Jones |
Wild Card Drama The National League has a fraction of the excitement contained within the American League as we enter the final two weeks of the 2013 major league baseball season. September baseball is bound to be exciting. |
Sports Central July 10, 2008 Chris Gonzales |
My Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Rays That's right, the leader of the AL East is not a powerhouse with a huge payroll from the Northeast, but a young, upstart team from the Sunshine State. |
Sports Central September 20, 2006 Ryan Day |
The Team Everybody Wants to Play Florida is ripe with young baseball talent. Yet, beginning in 1998 the Tampa Bay Devil Rays have done nothing but lose, finishing last in their division in every year except one. |
Sports Central October 5, 2007 Alvin Chang |
Farewell Baseball, From Yours Truly Every time the baseball playoffs start, fans are subjected to the same David vs. Goliath story line. |
CFO April 1, 2004 Tim Reason |
Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind. |
Sports Central September 18, 2015 Joe Messineo |
The Top Five Bullpens in Baseball When things are going well for a Major League Baseball team, it's easy for fans to undervalue the role of the bullpen. |
AskMen.com April 6, 2013 Brett Smiley |
Baseball Fans The dawn of baseball every April tends to shower fans of every team with a clean slate and hope, when in reality, the writing is on the wall: a large chunk of the league is hopeless. |
AskMen.com October 16, 2002 Mark Simmons |
Can We Make Baseball Profitable? At a time when most baseball franchises are crying poverty, how can MLB increase revenue for its franchises? |
Sports Central November 1, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
2004 MLB Season in Retrospect While articles, book deals and high-paying endorsements will be doled out to the Boston Red Sox and their individual players well into the 2005 season, the ending to the 2004 Major League Baseball season left a lot of us perplexed and yearning for a more balanced and tidier ending. |
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 Central July 21, 2009 Corrie Trouw |
The American Premier League While a remarkable 18 teams were within five games of a playoff spot on Monday morning, such parity is more of a Bud Selig parlor trick than an exhibition of competitive balance. |
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 August 15, 2011 Matt Thomas |
Wait Till Next Year? No, Wait Till June! Major League Baseball has on the table a proposed rule change that would result in an increase in the number of playoff teams from eight to 10. |
Sports Central May 3, 2005 Eric Poole |
The P-Word in Baseball? A summary of the Major League Baseball season so far, and looking ahead to the playoffs. |
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? |
Sports Central July 25, 2004 Diane Grassi |
How Small-Market Teams Can Compete As we have now crossed the threshold of the first-half of the 2004 Major League Baseball season, we will begin to see the races tighten up amongst the contenders for the various leagues' division titles and the wildcards. |
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Tim Beyers |
Quick Take: The Best Part of the Tribune Deal Be grateful, Cubs fans. Now that real estate magnate Sam Zell has announced his intent to sell your team and keep the rest of ailing media giant Tribune Co., you have hope. Take it from a Yankees fan. |
Sports Illustrated August 14, 2001 Daniel G. Habib & Mark Bechtel |
Two for History Are the Devil Rays the worst team ever? Are the Mariners the best team ever? |
Sports Illustrated December 4, 2000 E.M. Swift |
The parity's over But so what? Sports dynasties are dynamite... |
Sports Central May 31, 2006 Joe Pietaro |
MLB at a Glance as We Pass Memorial Day Baseball fans can start to see how their teams are shaping up by perusing the standings at the end of May. |
AskMen.com November 28, 2001 Mark Simmons |
MLB: From Expansion To Contraction In this game of musical chairs, when the music stops, so will the game for two teams. So why has MLB decided to break with tradition? Will MLB contract for the first time in approximately 105 years? |
AskMen.com July 26, 2000 Mark Simmons |
Baseball Finances: Owners & Players Whether it's players asking for astronomical salaries, or owners complaining about million dollar losses, the public in general is bombarded with messages advertising the greed of owners and players alike. |
Science News September 8, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: May the Best Team Win Designing a sports schedule so the strongest team prevails: The winner of the Superbowl or World Series is that season's best-performing team. Right? Wrong, according to scientists. |
Sports Central October 13, 2008 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB is No Longer Recession-Proof When Wall Street tanks, it not only has profound global ramifications, but impacts the local economies and the financing of MLB teams is entrenched in corporate sponsorships. |
AskMen.com November 29, 2000 Mark Simmons |
Pro Sports Salaries How can we explain the meteoric rise of players' salaries? |
Salon.com September 17, 2002 King Kaufman |
The Angels-A's race is a dud Thanks to baseball's boneheaded wild-card system, we once again have two great teams playing meaningless games in September. |
Sports Central August 11, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
Wildcards Not Too Soon to Tell Even though it is still only August and there is still much more Major League Baseball left to play this season, the beginnings of what battles lie ahead in competition for the playoffs have already taken shape. |
Sports Central June 6, 2011 Paul Foeller |
Eyes on the Prize Roughly a third of the way through the MLB season, there are five teams that stand out from the rest. |
Sports Central January 26, 2011 Jess Coleman |
Vernon Wells? Really, Angels? The Angels should focus on winning back their seat atop the American League West. Vernon Wells was is not the answer. |
Sports Central August 9, 2004 Hank Waddles |
Dodgers Aiming For Playoff Success Thanks to the new GM's guidance, Dodger fans can look forward to watching their team win games in October for the first time in 16 years. And this time, it won't take a miracle. |
Sports Central September 26, 2011 Paul Foeller |
Kings of the Hill The Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees have been the unquestioned leaders of their respective leagues some time now. |
Sports Central February 16, 2006 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
Sports Central June 20, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: The Damn Yankees Are the NY Yankees going to their customary form? |
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 October 25, 2011 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Files Lawsuit on Manner of Exposed Finances Major League Baseball should be enjoying the fruits of an above-average 2011 postseason performance, which will be crucial to the impending expiration of its Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association on December 31, 2011. |
Sports Central August 13, 2012 Paul Foeller |
Centralized Power Only three players in the National League rank in the top 10 of all three triple crown categories. All of them play in the National League Central. Only one division has three of the top five in wins and in saves -- the National League Central. |