MLB hoping for large replay expansion in 2014
NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball appears set for a vast expansion of video review by umpires in 2014 and is examining whether all calls other than balls and strikes should be subject to instant replay.
Replay has been in place for home run calls since August 2008. Commissioner Bud Selig initially wanted to add trap plays and fairfoul calls down the lines for 2013, but change was...
Dollars & Sense: Attendance Down, Expanded Replay Moving Forward Slowly
Some weeks, there are major developments in the business of baseball — like a team signing a new local TV contract. Some weeks, there are little developments on the big developments. My posts tend to focus on the big developments, but that leaves you in the dark on the little developments, unless those little developments become big developments down the road.
Dollars & Sense...
MLB zoning in on better replay plan
Did you really expect baseball commissioner Bud Selig to stand before the cameras Thursday and declare that, effective immediately, every pitch is subject to instant replay?
Of course you didn't. You're a baseball fan. You understand your sport. You know it isn't perfect. You also know that, in time, Major League Baseball usually gets it right. And that is what the latest...
MLB wants to expand replay in 2014
Major League Baseball hopes to expand video review by umpires for the 2014 season and says all calls other than balls and strikes could be subject to instant replay.
Commissioner Bud Selig and MLB executive vice president Joe Torre say they still can't commit to expanded replay for next year. Torre hopes to have proposals by the August owners' meeting.
Replay has been in...
MLB hoping for large replay expansion in 2014
Major League Baseball hopes to expand video review by umpires for the 2014 season and says all calls other than balls and strikes could be subject to instant replay.
Commissioner Bud Selig and MLB executive vice president Joe Torre say they still can't commit to expanded replay for next year. Torre hopes to have proposals by the August owners' meeting.
Replay has been in...
Review: 100 Things Brewers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
(Image: Amazon.com)
The back cover of Brewers beat writer Tom Haudricourt’s latest book, 100 Things Brewers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, bills it as “The Ultimate Resource Guide for True Brewers Fans.” It certainly is a resource, but true Brewers fans won’t find much in the book they don’t already know. The format of the book – a breezy list of events...
Bud Selig, MLB’s Push For Parity, And Its Impact On The Mets
In 1981, as owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, Bud Selig and several other owners colluded to undermine free agency by agreeing not to sign other teams’ free agents. The owners were taken to court and eventually ended up paying 280 million in damages to the players. It was with this failed attempt at collusion that the seeds of the 1994 work stoppage were sewn. In 1992, Fay Vincent...
Umpire Angel Hernandez Blows Call; Needs To Be Repremanded
There’s arrogance. There’s blind arrogance. And, there is Angel Hernandez arrogance, which by the way, incorporates a little bit of the blind.
Another night, another blown call, but Hernandez’s last night in Cleveland was compounded by his bullish behavior afterward, which should be met with swift and forceful action by Commissioner Bud Selig.
HERNANDEZ: Blows it big time....
The big stage
For once I have nothing bad to say about Bud Selig's Blackout Zone: the Pirates and Nationals play on FOX today at 4:15 and on 364 days a year I find it annoying to live in what's been insanely classified as Nationals Territory here in North Carolina, but today that means that I'll get to see the Pirate game. The Pirates kicked off this short homestand in strong fashion...
Baseball donates 100,000 to West victims
Major League Baseball and the players association have teamed up to donate 100,000 to people who were impacted by the fertilizer explosion in West.
The money is in addition to the more than 40,000 the Texas Rangers have already raised on their last home stand.
MLB is also encouraging fans to donate to the POINTWEST Bank Fund on its national television broadcasts. The charity will...
Carl Crawford’s Shoes and Why I Hate Bud Selig
For Jackie Robinson night, Carl Crawford did just about everything right for the Dodgers. Crawford got 3 hits. Crawford scored a run. Crawford drove in a run. The Dodgers dropped the game 6-3, but Crawford did his share to try to put the team in the win column. Jackie would’ve been disappointed by the game’s result, but I’m sure he would have been proud of Crawford’s...
A Futurist View of Major League Baseball in 2113
I probably should have wrote this article last year. Being that I was weaned on Rush, that forward look at MLB would have been 2112. We could have talked about how the Temple of Syrinx player payroll of $1.5 billion was over the $1.2 billion salary cap, but they said, “Don’t annoy us further, we have our work to do. Just think about the [batting] average. What use has they for...
Bud Selig to retire after 2014
Bud Selig, the 78-year-old commissioner of Major League Baseball, appears to be angling toward a retirement after the 2014 Major League Baseball season when his term expires on January 15, 2015. This according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports:
Selig turned down a 5-year offer to stay commish, says he will retire when terms up jan. 15, 2015. cbsprt.co/11IPH3P
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS...
MLB won't halt season for Olympics
Major League Baseball won't change its schedule to boost the sport's chances of getting back into the Olympics.
Baseball was an Olympic medal sport from 1992-2008, then was dropped for last year's London Games. IOC President Jacques Rogge says baseball should make its top athletes available, as they are in basketball and hockey.
''Look, we can't stop our...
NO F'N WAY
Selig okay with Ortiz's salty speech
MLB commissioner Bud Selig says he has no problem with David Ortiz's pregame speech at Fenway Park about the Marathon bombings that contained some profanity.
Selig: MLB won't interrupt season for Olympics
Major League Baseball won't change its schedule to boost the sport's chances of getting back into the Olympics.
Baseball was an Olympic medal sport from 1992-2008, then was dropped for last year's London Games. In an effort to boost the chance of readmission for 2020, the international baseball and softball federations are merging.
IOC President Jacques Rogge says baseball...
Frank McCourt made $1.2 billion in profit off the sale of the Dodgers
Back in 2011, former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and commissioner Bud Selig and MLB seized day-to-day operations of the team because of their concerns about finances of the organization. That was two years ago. Today? Frank McCourt is laughing all the way to the bank. According to a report in the LA Times, McCourt brought home...
MLB, teams taking students to see film '42'
Major League Baseball and its 30 teams plan to take thousands of teenagers to see the Jackie Robinson film ''42.''
MLB announced the movie outing Monday.
Teams will chose students from the eighth grade to the 12th grade in the United States and Canada for private screenings in their cities. Commissioner Bud Selig will host the first showing Tuesday in Milwaukee...
This is Boston Strong: Red Sox, MLB Red Sox Foundation, Red Sox Nation Make $646,500 Contribution to The One Fund Boston (Video)
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Tom Menino have announced the formation of The One Fund Boston, Inc. to help the people most affected by the tragic events that occurred in Boston on April 15, 2013.
Sports teams around the country have rallied around the city of Boston in the wake of those tragic events, and the Red Sox are doing their part to help those affected...
ON THE WRONG FOOT
MLB tells Crawford to ditch cleats
MLB reportedly told Carl Crawford to ditch his different colored cleats that he wore as a tribute to Jackie Robinson on Monday.
MLB Donates to Welcome Back Veterans
Major League Baseball donated $10 million to the Welcome Back Veterans Foundation. Welcome Back Veterans uses the money they receive to provide grants to hospitals and clinics that provide post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment to veterans and their families.
MLB commissioner, Bud Selig sees it as a duty to support the troops. “Major League Baseball considers it both a...
Hey Mr. Selig, will you pay me to testify against Arod?
OK, now I get it. Major League Baseball has finally become a kangaroo court.According to the Internet, MLB recently lost out in a bidding war over documents that it believes might incriminate evil Alex Rodriguez, tying him to a doping clinic. Thus, it has leaked to to the media another Arod-bashing avalanche of stories. How dare he buy those documents. Not fair! How can justice...
Mets Need To Weather The Storm In Minny
Of all the tweets in all the world of Twitter, the one with Target Field blanketed in snow is the most telling.
There is five inches of snow with more forecast in Minneapolis where the Mets play tonight. The high for the series is forecast at a blustery 43 degrees. It will be colder with the wind.
I would love to see Twins owner Jim Pohlad sit with Commissioner Bud Selig in short...
Get Ready For All the Chills and Thrills of the Mets vs Twins Series
Of all the tweets in all the world of Twitter, the one with Target Field blanketed in snow is the most telling.
There is five inches of snow with more forecast in Minneapolis where the Mets play tonight. The high for the series is forecast at a blustery 43 degrees. It will be colder with the wind.
I would love to see Twins owner Jim Pohlad sit with Commissioner Bud Selig in short...
Bud Selig refuses to meet with San Jose mayor about A’s stadium situation
Bud Selig, your clubhouse leader in apathy for the A’s stadium situation, has reportedly rejected a meeting request by San Jose mayor Chuck Reed to discuss the club’s perpetually stuck-in-limbo proposal to construct a downtown ballpark in the city. Because Bud Selig continues to be the worst.
According to the Merc, the formal request for a personal meeting was submitted last...
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