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MLB, With Tensions High, Has Already Fired Its First Salvo At The Players

Even with the season still ongoing, MLB has fired the first salvo, and it’s not over the players’ bow, adding to the chance of a strike. Major League Baseball (MLB) has chosen to begin public negotiations with the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) in the middle of the baseball season and well before the current agreement expires in December. MLBPA and MLB Tangling Again 2021 For…

On MLB And Its Eternal Fight To Level The Playing Field

MLB has long been waging the fight to keep a level playing field between pitchers and hitters. The fact is, though, pitchers are smarter. The response by MLB to halt or at least curb the cheating pitchers epidemic is nothing new and part of a lineage that stretches back to the inception of baseball during the latter part of the 19th Century. MLB Historian John Thorne Consider this from MLB…

MLB: Why It Makes Economic Sense To Loosen Up On Game Blackouts

MLB’s policy to blackout televised home team games is misdirected and counterproductive. The policy needs to be relaxed, and here’s why… MLB’s Extra Innings package offers a lot to fans at a sensible cost for fans who wish to tune into games across America. But it’s also a steal from subscribers in another sense because home team games are blacked out. The theory put forth by MLB as a reason for…

MLB Hits A New Low Going All-In Promoting Sports Betting On The MLBN

MLB is always seeking ways to increase revenue. But the posting of real-time odds on their scoreboard is new, reprehensible, and sinful. Major League Baseball (MLB) has been licking its chops as they see NFL games played under a shield of fan interest that supersedes the action on the field with millions of dollars trading hands, based on a multitude of combinations that exhaust the mind. Until…

MLB: On Debunking The Claim These Early Games “Don’t Matter” Much

In MLB, we hear it all the time. “It’s only April; it takes time; we’ll straighten this thing out.” Oh yeah? Let’s talk again in September. No one seems to get it, but in Major League Baseball (MLB), losses count more than wins in the standings. In September, games lost in April cannot be atoned when the crunch hits and teams are competing for their season lives in trying to secure a spot in the…

MLB 2021 All-Star Game Scheduled To Be Played In Atlanta Is No More

The 2021 MLB All-Star Game is scheduled in a state that just passed a Jim Crow voting law. This Just In – It Ain’t No More. This is what we knew about the status of the 2021 MLB All-Star Game until a few minutes ago: MLB is gathering feedback from teams and executives about the status of its 2021 All-Star Game in Atlanta. The discussions follow the passage of Georgia’s new voting law that…

MLB Taxi Squads: Another Good Idea Squashed By Greedy Owners

MLB taxi-squads were introduced and used last year as a means to accommodate COVID. Good for the quality of baseball, what happened to them?  Author’s Note: The idea for this column came from a comment e-mailed to me by Paul Pickhardt, a Yankees fan who was responding to yesterday’s story about the Yankee’s struggle to decide between Jay Bruce, Mike Tauchman, and Tyler Wade in making their final…

MLB Editorial: The Pandemic In Baseball No One Wants To Talk About

MLB continues to ignore a non-COVID pandemic that has invaded its sport for more than a decade – the use of PEDS among Hispanic players… Major League Baseball (MLB), much like its conscious decision to ignore the prevalence of steroids in the Seventies and Eighties, choosing instead to watch the sport grow at the same rate of users’ bodies, refuses again to pretend a similar pandemic among…