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Sports Central July 30, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Hideki Irabu, RIP: The Troubled Dream Did Hideki Irabu's various crashes and prolonged burn finally cost him what mattered most, in turn costing him his life at 42? |
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 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 October 30, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Significant Shrinkage No one knows what to make of the rumors that some big league teams will disappear... |
Sports Illustrated June 8, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Sosa should have gone to Baylor first The Sammy Sosa saga; Billy Koch; Expo All-Stars; etc. |
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. |
AskMen.com May 14, 2003 Arash Madani |
The Financial Expansion Of The MLB A year after "contraction" was the buzzword in Major League Baseball, the latest trend is not to diminish the game, but to expand it. |
AskMen.com November 6, 2013 |
Is George W. Bush Going To Take Over Professional Baseball? Regardless of your positioning on the right or left side of the aisle, there is no denying the former Texas Rangers owner's qualifications for that job. |
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 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 Central July 28, 2010 Ross Lancaster |
Don't Forget About the Team The focus with the Texas Rangers seems to be more on the ongoing ownership battle that has been played out in Texas courtrooms over the last several months. |
Sports Central March 26, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sports Media's Steroid Hypocrisy Today's sports pundits have more in common with Major League Baseball's braintrust than they'd like to admit -- they all placed their heads in the sand just deep enough to play blind to the sport's steroid subculture while still being able to hear the cash register ring. |
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. |
Sports Central June 4, 2005 Tyson Wirth |
The 10 Greatest Records in Baseball The heroes of baseball past should share the same celebration as Memorial Day, but too often, fans and managers get caught up in the pitching probables of the day, strategic moves that were made or missed, and minor injuries to the game's biggest names. |
Sports Central May 17, 2005 Adam Russell |
Baseball's Five Biggest Surprises As it is nearly every year, the early part of the Major League Baseball season includes a number of surprises. |
Sports Central September 26, 2005 Chris Cornell |
Baseball's Big Embarrassment If those in charge of the sport don't change what is happening to their game in an appropriate manner, they will lose their fan base permanently. |
Sports Illustrated July 9, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Fehring the worst Baseball's union head has many issues to solve -- starting with steroids. |
Sports Central December 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Sports Illustrated September 6, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Making a case for Pedro Martinez With 16 wins, Pedro Martinez has a shot at winning 20. What does he have to do to win the Cy Young award? I thought he was already the clear frontrunner, but the mailbag brought some disagreement. |
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 August 22, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Hypocrite Hicks Owner's comments underscore baseball's (anti)trust problem. |
Salon.com August 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
What baseball needs to do now A few modest proposals to prevent the game from squandering whatever fan goodwill remains. |
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.... |
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. |
Salon.com July 17, 2002 King Kaufman |
Dismal dog days This is always a slow time of year, but now, with baseball's labor unrest dominating the news, it's downright depressing. |
Salon.com March 28, 2002 Allen Barra |
What Barry Bonds did wrong He's the best player in baseball, but hitting 73 home runs at age 37 isn't just unnatural, it might be ruining the game... |
Sports Central August 17, 2005 Josh Frank |
Baseball's Numbers Game: One For the Record In the midst of the latest steroid scandals, baseball has found its record books being threatened. But this isn't the first time those records have come under assault by a changing game. |
Sports Illustrated June 11, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Risky business Investing big money and long years in pitchers can backfire. |
Sports Illustrated May 9, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Expected to be one of the Rangers' strong points, their relief corps has been absorbing a Texas-sized pounding |
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 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 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 July 6, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
D-Train's Derailment, and Others' How strange and sad it is, now and over a lifetime of watching and loving the game, that as often as not the players who are the most fun to watch become the players whose careers derail soon enough after they get their first tastes of success. |
Sports Illustrated May 8, 2002 Tom Verducci |
The toughest out Patience makes Bonds more dangerous than Sosa... |
Entrepreneur October 2005 Steve Cooper |
Iron Man Cal Ripken Jr. goes to bat with a business to promote the joy of baseball. |
PC Magazine March 3, 2009 Daniel S. Evans |
MLB 09: The Show Whatever level of baseball realism you want and whether you want to work your way up, just play the Big One, manage -- you name it, this PS3, PSP, and PS2 game lets you do it. |
Salon.com March 31, 2001 King Kaufman |
Nine predictions and nine observations The Yankees won't do it again, the A's will go far. And stop calling them "ballparks"! |
Sports Central November 13, 2009 Matt Thomas |
The MLB Anti-Team of the Decade The team in question must be bad -- not just run-of-the-mill wins/losses bad, but terrible on a more philosophical level. |
Sports Central October 4, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
Baseball at its Best Down to the Wire The stage is set for a MLB playoffs season that lends itself to great theater, with no sure winner and possibly surprising upsets. You can't ask for any more from this game of baseball. |
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! |
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 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 24, 2002 Frank Deford |
The boors of summer It's hard to take either side in baseball's labor battle. |
Sports Central July 23, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
The Era of Having a Chance It struck me that this is a year where there just aren't that many baseball teams that look very strong. |
Sports Central June 23, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Roger(s) Hold 'Em in Texas Two not fully unexpected performances, but remarkable for their ages and compiled years in the majors, are those of pitchers Kenny Rogers, playing for the Texas Rangers, and Roger Clemens, ace of the Houston Astros pitching staff. |
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 October 8, 2001 Phil Taylor |
Not so fast Baseball overlooks one thing when saluting past stars: the pre-1947 exclusion of black players from the major leagues... |
CIO October 1, 2001 Jon Surmacz |
A Uniform Decision Major League Baseball is online. How it got there is a lesson in cooperation and conformity. How the Internet encouraged baseball teams to work together. Why MLB.com used a common template for many websites. How MLB.com hopes to cash in... |
Sports Illustrated April 25, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Led by closer Kazuhiro Sasaki, the pen is no longer a Seattle headache |