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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.
Sports Central August 4, 2008 Diane M. Grassi	Gaming Congress, Yanks Could Strike Out The issues raised with the public financing of the new Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY may have a broad impact for cities across the United States.
Sports Central January 9, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Network Rolls Out With Bait and Switch On January 1, 2009, Major League Baseball launched its long-awaited Major League Baseball Network on major cable broadcast providers throughout U.S. television markets.
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 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.
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 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 October 21, 2012 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's Haves and Have-Nots Not StubHub's Fault Now that the 2012 Major League Baseball postseason is in full swing, what better time than now to revisit the access fans have to attend MLB games?
Sports Central December 15, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	The Epitome of Hubris At a time when Major League Baseball could really use its players to promote a positive image, two of its biggest stars -- Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez -- choose to take the easiest route to earn the quickest return without including the community or its children.
Sports Central May 30, 2006 Diane M. Grassi	Why Baseball's Losing its American Identity The decline of participation of the black athlete in baseball is a far more multi-faceted problem than commonly expressed.
Sports Central September 15, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	Will MLB's Latest Tech Hurt the Game? As the end of the 2009 Major League Baseball season approaches, here's a critical look at the technological advances instituted in 2009 and intended for the game's future progress.
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?
Sports Central May 28, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	Auto Industry's Demise Impacts Baseball If MLB remains as shortsighted as it has been the past several years, not only will the younger generation of potential players and fans erode, but they will permanently vanish.
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Mark Hyman	The Racial Gap In The Grandstands Major League Baseball is aggressively courting Latinos as African Americans drift away.
Sports Central February 19, 2007 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Profits From Change in Immigration Law MLB has far more in common with American-based multi-national conglomerates than it does with the idea of inclusiveness, where bottom-line profits dictate company policy.
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 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.
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.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2007 David Lee Smith	Baseball Beans the Cable Guys Cable's iN Demand group cries foul after striking out with a choice baseball offering.
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 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 March 19, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	Grainy Issue Remains For MLB Bat Makers MLB would be doing itself a service if it far more respected those who brought it to the dance -- the fans and the small businesses that prop it up.
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 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?
Reason January 2004 Matt Welch	If You Build It, They Will Leave Sports teams fleece the taxpayer, again, by threatening to leave even after taxpayers pay for new stadiums to placate team owners.
BusinessWeek April 12, 2004 Tom Lowry	Take Me Out To The Webcast? Major League Baseball is betting that fans will pay to see games on their PCs
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.
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.
Sports Illustrated April 17, 2002 Frank Deford	Pay ball Watching games on free TV is not a constitutional right...
Sports Central August 30, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Presumes Labor Peace in Approaching Offseason As we enter the final weeks of the 2011 Major League Baseball season, unlike other impending offseasons in recent years, this will be of the collective bargaining kind.
CFO April 1, 2004 Tim Reason	Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind.
Fast Company April 2009 Zachary Wilson	HOK Imagines the Ballpark of the Future A look at the Yankees' and Mets' pricey new homes -- and the baseball stadium of tomorrow.
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Lowry & Hyman	The Making of ESPN's Baseball Deal More than two years of talks between the ESPN and Major League Baseball offer a telling glimpse into the complexity of today's big-money sports.
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.
Sports Central September 27, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	Bud Selig's Final Task of the Season The final week of the 2004 Major League Baseball regular season is upon us and league titles and wildcards are still up for grabs. But the real question lingers -- where will the Expos call home next season?
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Fast Company April 2008 Will Leitch	MLB's Digital Dominance As the world scrambles to master online video, crusty old baseball already has it figured out.
InternetNews April 17, 2006 Roy Mark	Baseball Fans' Have an Online Six Pack Major League Baseball plans to debut a new interactive broadband TV service this week that allows viewers to watch six live games simultaneously on one screen with selectable audio and statistics, as well as the ability to click to any one game on a full screen.
Fast Company April 2012 Chuck Salter	MLB Advanced Media's Bob Bowman Is Playing Digital Hardball. And He's Winning. Major League Baseball Advanced Media - BAM, for short - is as technologically sophisticated as any company, anywhere. Here's how a winning and profitable strategy is being built by an online player that breaks all the rules.
Sports Central August 31, 2005 Diane M. Grassi	Unaccountability Leaves Cloud Over MLB As long as positive drug test results can be dismissed by players, doubted in the headlines, and penalties to players so meager, Major League Baseball will continue to have a public relations cloud over its head.
Sports Central May 10, 2007 Diane M. Grassi	Does Clemens' Contract Disrespect Baseball? There are a number of questions beneath the veneer that are far bigger than one Roger Clemens.
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud	Enjoy Baseball Games Without Going Broke Fortunately, some good values do exist in baseball, and I'll tell you about some of them -- from expensive major league games, to more affordable ones, and even minor league games.
Sports Central May 31, 2008 Ben Feller	Why Baseball Needs Replay Now The main reason for replay is to get the calls correct. Another is for baseball to start to shy away from its old school image.
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 Central August 16, 2011 Paul Foeller	From Spring Training to the Fall Classic It may not be the way the baseball purists want to see it, and it may put a dent in yearly revenue, but a shortened MLB regular season will eventually happen.
Sports Central March 21, 2005 Diane M. Grassi	Hearings Expose Inept Congress and MLB The House of Representatives and its House Government Reform Committee held hearings on March 17, 2005 supposedly to bring light to the subject on the prevention of steroid use in Major League Baseball.
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