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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 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 Illustrated
January 24, 2002
Frank Deford |
This Bud's for who? The controversies continue for baseball's commissioner... |
Sports Illustrated
February 13, 2002
Lester Munson |
Re-lease me What really killed Major League Baseball contraction for 2002... |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
July 30, 2002 |
Saving baseball The August 5 issue of Sports Illustrated lays out a simple plan to get baseball back on track. Topping the magazine's list of suggestions is that Nolan Ryan be installed as the game's new commissioner. |
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 Illustrated
November 30, 2001
Lester Munson |
Selig's uphill battle As his plans for the contraction of Major League Baseball by two teams crumble around him, you have to wonder about Bud Selig. Did he actually think this strategy would work? |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
July 27, 2000
Susan B. Shor |
Baseball for bimbos Apparently, commissioner Bud Selig has just figured out that wives, moms and other female significant others have decision-making power in their families. |
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 2, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Selig's Legacy, For Better and For Worse Part of the problem is that, say what you will of the man one way or the other, Selig really is a baseball fan when all is said and done. |
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 Illustrated
February 20, 2001
Daniel G. Habib |
A Selig Smoke Screen Talk of beanballs and a new draft clouds baseball's big issue... |
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? |
Salon.com
June 16, 2000
Allen Barra |
Spread the wealth The solution to baseball's revenue-sharing "problem" is for the teams to share the revenue. |
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. |
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 Illustrated
July 23, 2002 |
Defend This As it faces a racketeering suit, baseball should be afraid, very afraid. |
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
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 Illustrated
January 15, 2002
Kostya Kennedy |
Captain Conflict It's high time Bud Selig steps down as Major League Baseball commissioner... |
Sports Central
October 25, 2010
Joshua Duffy |
Baseball No Longer Rules October After more than century of dominance in the american sporting marketplace, baseball is no longer king. |
AskMen.com
April 6, 2013
Brett Smiley |
Baseball Fans The dawn of baseball every April tends to shower fans of every team with a clean slate and hope, when in reality, the writing is on the wall: a large chunk of the league is hopeless. |
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 Illustrated
July 24, 2002
Frank Deford |
The boors of summer It's hard to take either side in baseball's labor battle. |
Entrepreneur
August 2010
Bruce Schoenfeld |
The Turnaround Artist Jim Pohlad inherited a failing team - the Minnesota Twins - on the verge of disappearing from baseball. What saved it? Thinking like a small business. |
Sports Central
June 17, 2011
Andrew Jones |
How to Realign Major League Baseball Rumors have been floating around about the potential for MLB to realign into a system with two 15-team leagues and no divisions. |
Sports Central
October 4, 2012
Joshua Duffy |
New Playoff Structure a Swing and a Miss Let's get right to the heart of the matter: while Bud Selig's new expanded playoffs has resulted in some extra hope in September, it has left open the potential for some serious competitive unfairness in October. |
Sports Central
November 14, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Expansion For Baseball MLB thinks the way to solve baseball's image and primacy problems is to expand the postseason. |
Sports Central
June 20, 2007
Joe Boesch |
Giambi Shouldn't Be the MLB Scapegoat But he may have opened his mouth too much this time on the issue of steroids. |
Sports Illustrated
December 18, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Time to Fess Up If Pete Rose hopes to be reinstated, he must admit he bet on his sport. |
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 Illustrated
November 29, 2001
Frank Deford |
Owners, aiders and abetters There are plenty to blame for baseball's current woes... |
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? |
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 3, 2007
Joe Boesch |
The MLB Connection in Israel Was bringing the game of baseball to Israel designed to expand the game -- or create a distract from some of Major League Baseball's problems? |
Sports Illustrated
July 17, 2002
Tom Verducci |
The Milwaukee Misunderstanding Don't take All-Star Game criticism personally. |
Sports Central
April 15, 2013
Adam Russell |
MLB Should Consolidate the Leagues Could there ever be the possibility of MLB proposing a unified organization with consistent rules and a more objective schedule? If enough fans jump on the bandwagon, it most certainly could be possible. |
Sports Central
April 20, 2006
Zach Jones |
Marlins Part of Baseball Royalty? The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. To this short list of baseball royalty, add the Florida Marlins. Yes. You read it here first: it's good to be a Marlins fan. |
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. |
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. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Tim Reason |
Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind. |
Sports Illustrated
July 26, 2000
Frank Deford |
Incompetent owners ruining baseball Do you ever want to, as I do now, just give up on baseball? I don't mean on the game, but on the way it is run -- or isn't run. It's just the same old issues, over and over, that never get resolved... |
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... |
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
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. |
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 Illustrated
August 22, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
Hypocrite Hicks Owner's comments underscore baseball's (anti)trust problem. |
