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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 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. |
BusinessWeek
July 21, 2003
Mark Hyman |
This Waiting Game Is a Smart Play For the past two seasons, the future of the Montreal Expos has been hanging like a pop-up in the thick air of a July afternoon. But is Major League Baseball now ready to act? |
BusinessWeek
October 18, 2004
Mark Hyman |
Washington: Who'll Win the Expos? The jockeying to win Washington's new baseball team gets fierce. It'll take more than cash. |
Sports Central
April 25, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
DC Politics Intertwine With MLB Ownership The Nationals are now going to be used by MLB as the poster child for recruiting the black community back to baseball. However, the way it is being done will probably fall on deaf ears to the very ones MLB is supposedly trying to reach. |
Sports Central
April 11, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Opening Daze The 2005 Major League Baseball season carries over many of the same story lines from the 2004 season. |
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
November 30, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Jeopardizes 2006 Season for Nationals Any success the Washington Nationals enjoy in 2006 will be in spite of Commissioner Selig, not because of him. |
Sports Illustrated
July 23, 2002 |
Defend This As it faces a racketeering suit, baseball should be afraid, very afraid. |
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 Central
October 2, 2004
Greg Wyshynski |
Capital Concerns I never got the baseball thing. That insatiable quest to bring America's pastime back to the District after losing franchises to Minnesota and Texas over the last century. |
BusinessWeek
November 26, 2007
Ronald Grover |
Extra Innings in the Digital Game Digital rights looked like peanuts in 2000. Now some Major League Baseball owners want a bigger share. |
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 2, 2011
Diane M. Grassi |
A Fair Process to Becoming an Owner? The question needs to be asked as to whether presiding Commissioner of MLB Bud Selig makes major decisions such as team ownership based upon sound business acumen or subjective reasoning influenced by his personal relationships. |
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? |
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
August 2, 2011
Diane M. Grassi |
Joe Torre, the Next MLB Commissioner? Joe Torre, former Major League Baseball manager of no less than five MLB teams, as well as a former 17-year MLB player, has been making his way through the maze of MLB executive life in 2011. |
Sports Central
April 14, 2009
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Ramps Up Casino Sponsorships How does MLB oversee such sponsorships between MLB teams and those casino operations that allow legal sports betting on their premises? |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
Mark Hyman |
The Next Great Baseball Rivalry The Nationals and Orioles will be fierce competitors -- at the ticket window |
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. |
Sports Central
February 25, 2005
Kevin Ferra |
Questions, Answers, and More Confusion Everyone has been talking about it -- the steroid issue. Yet, believe it or not, baseball will survive with or without the steroids, and any allegations Jose Canseco has made. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
July 24, 2002
Frank Deford |
The boors of summer It's hard to take either side in baseball's labor battle. |
Sports Illustrated
September 4, 2003
Albert Chen |
Inside Baseball: The Last Run? Free-agent-to-be Vladimir Guerrero has kept Montreal in the playoff race |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004 |
How the Baseball Commish Calls It Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig on money in the majors, steroids, a certain rich New York team, and much, much more. |
Sports Illustrated
June 20, 2000
Michael Farber |
Scorecard The Expos may leave behind -- don't laugh -- a great baseball town |
Sports Illustrated
January 15, 2002
Kostya Kennedy |
Captain Conflict It's high time Bud Selig steps down as Major League Baseball commissioner... |
Sports Central
April 24, 2012
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Desire For Cuban Players Overshadowed One can only hope that one day MLB will not solely rely upon the almighty dollar to feel right about its decisions, but also will do right, on behalf of not only American baseball community, but for the Latin American community, rather than just bleeding its talent dry. |
BusinessWeek
October 2, 2006
Mark Hyman |
The Racial Gap In The Grandstands Major League Baseball is aggressively courting Latinos as African Americans drift away. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011 |
Frank McCourt on MLB's Takeover of the L.A. Dodgers In April, Major League Baseball seized financial operations of the debt-ridden Los Angeles Dodgers. Still, the owner continues to dig in |
Sports Central
August 24, 2005
Andre Watson |
Dreams Fade Quickly For D.C. Teams (Pt. 1) The 2005 baseball season was only a month old and something strange was happening: The Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals were each in first place in their prospective divisions. But what a difference a couple of months make. |
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. |
Sports Central
March 19, 2012
Diane M. Grassi |
Investigation Casts Cloud Over Marlins An orchestration of monumental cover-ups, glad-handing, and pay-for-play campaign finance schemes continue to inflict consumers, taxpayers, and the public-at-large, by way of MLB, with civil practices by government officials from the unethical to the criminal in the case of the Marlins. |
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 20, 2010
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Gaming the Sale of Texas Rangers Continues The sale of the Rangers still awaits finalization and most importantly, the investment group to be awarded the final sale of the club has yet to be determined by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and ultimately to be approved by MLB and its respective owners. |
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
March 17, 2005
Kevin Beane |
Remember the Expos A retrospective of the Expos history in Montreal as they make their new home in Washington, DC. |
AskMen.com
October 15, 2003
John Clarkson |
The Wild Face Of Baseball Baseball may be the national pastime, but there has been legitimate cause for years to wonder if Major League Baseball (MLB) is the forum in which America chooses to express her love for the sport. |
Sports Central
August 20, 2007
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Suffers No Lack of Hypocrisy Major League Baseball fans over the past several years have not only been witness to performances taking place on MLB baseball diamonds across America, but have also been privy to after-the-fact cover-ups, collusion, denials, and authoritarian control of their National Pastime. |
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 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. |
Salon.com
July 21, 2000
Allen Barra |
Blue-ribbon nonsense The baseball owners' hand-picked committee, working from cooked books, has an absurd plan to fix the sport's finances. Why is the media taking it seriously? |
Sports Central
July 5, 2011
Diane M. Grassi |
National Pastime's Future Remains on Shakey Ground As we celebrate America's birthday this week, it is perhaps a good time to revisit how America's "national pastime" is doing. |
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
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). |
Sports Central
June 20, 2011
Clinton Riddle |
Flim-Flam Man Fleecing the Fish? Judging by the reputation Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria is now preceded by in his business affairs, one gets an image in mind of a common flim-flam man being run out of town on a rail, putting as much ground between him and his former victims as he can. |
Inc.
April 1, 2003
John Anderson |
Managing the Impossible Starting with nothing but the force of his entrepreneurial leadership, Omar Minaya took the orphans of baseball and made them winners -- a lesson in grit. |
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... |
Salon.com
August 31, 2002
King Kaufman |
Savoring the season that almost wasn't 2002 hasn't been a classic, but it's great that the heroics of Schilling, A-Rod and the rest won't be lost. |
