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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 26, 2011
Diane M. Grassi |
Eyes Wide Shut: MLB, Wall Street Lay Bets at Same Table As we learned by way of the U.S. Court of Bankruptcy, through its court appointed trustee, Irving Picard, that the Mets' owners are being sued for nearly $1 billion. |
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
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. |
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? |
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
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
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
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
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. |
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. |
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
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
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
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
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
March 12, 2008
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Goes to Harlem Seeking Welfare MLB and two of its two major league teams cash in on public entitlements, courtesy of the City of New York. |
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. |
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 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. |
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
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
January 15, 2002
Kostya Kennedy |
Captain Conflict It's high time Bud Selig steps down as Major League Baseball commissioner... |
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. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Tim Reason |
Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind. |
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 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
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
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). |
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 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. |
Salon.com
August 30, 2002
Allen Barra |
Strike 4 The baseball deal will either make the game worse for fans or it'll be a sham that won't hold salaries down. The owners came close to wrecking the season for this? |
Sports Central
February 24, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
A One-of-a-Kind Character Witness Some think Fred Wilpon, the beleaguered New York Mets owner who stands in danger of losing part or even most of his ownership thanks to the Bernie Madoff scandal's fallout, may be in need of a character witness or two. |
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 Illustrated
April 2, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Striking Out Bud Selig wants you to be reassured. The baseball commissioner announced last week that the owners will not lock out the players this season... |
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 11, 2009
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Sportswriter Scoops Self to Remain Relevant When a journalist perhaps sees the writing on the proverbial wall, does he or she then deliberately bend the rules to remain relevant? Such apparently appears to be the case as evidenced in a July 27, 2009 NY Daily News column written by highly regarded sportswriter Bill Madden. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
May 8, 2001
Michael Bamberger |
Downsize This! Baseball may have blundered into its best idea in years: contraction... |
Sports Illustrated
July 23, 2002 |
Defend This As it faces a racketeering suit, baseball should be afraid, very afraid. |
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. |
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? |
Sports Central
June 7, 2005
Danny Sternfield |
The Secret Lost Labor Letters As the NHL lockout drags on ... and on ... and on, somewhere out there are tens of fans longing for hockey. |
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. |
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
November 22, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
D-Backs Axing Backman Typifies Double Standard Major League Baseball, as an entity, seems to have no written standard for its players or managers regarding their past unethical or illegal behaviors for which they have paid their dues and have supposedly reformed their illicit behaviors. |
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Ramirez Suspended For Drug Violation Ramirez is the most prominent suspended under the drug policy players and owners put in place seven years ago. |
Sports Illustrated
February 13, 2002
Lester Munson |
Re-lease me What really killed Major League Baseball contraction for 2002... |
Sports Central
July 21, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
The American Premier League While a remarkable 18 teams were within five games of a playoff spot on Monday morning, such parity is more of a Bud Selig parlor trick than an exhibition of competitive balance. |
Sports Central
May 26, 2011
Jess Coleman |
"Madoff's Curveball," Uncovered Jeffrey Toobin's article outlines the problems faced by Met's owner, Fred Wilpon, who allegedly had knowledge of Bernie Madoff's infamous scandal, and who could be hit with a near-billion dollar judgement. |
