A ludicrous slippery-slope response to baseball’s recent announcement that they will enforce rules limiting the wearing of protective “body armor” at the plate? Of course it is. No one wants to see batters lose their head protection, no matter how much they crowd the plate.
Over the past three seasons, the National League West has been a royal pain to project. The teams with the best individual players have had incomplete lineups and rosters; the teams with the best pitching have had lousy offenses; the teams spending the most money have put on the worst performances.
Over the past three seasons, the National League West has been a royal pain to project. The teams with the best individual players have had incomplete lineups and rosters; the teams with the best pitching have had lousy offenses; the teams spending the most money have put on the worst performances. In that time, the…
NEW YORK, March 15, 2006 — A 50-year baseball tradition has come to an end. Batting helmets, mandatory equipment for all major-league hitters since 1956, will no longer be allowed in MLB games, officials announced today. The move comes after previous league attempts to back hitters off the plate resulted in little change in batter…
Add Forbes to the ever-growing list of those who don’t believe MLB’s cries of poverty.
I don’t mean to defend the actions of certain fans, which went well past the rules of decorum, but the emotion displayed by those people struck me as a large one-finger salute to those who want to say that the Montreal Expos can be eliminated and no one will care. Many people will care; perhaps not enough to make this destroyed franchise viable again, but certainly enough to make the point that the Expos didn’t die: they were killed by an ownership group content to collect welfare rather than compete.
You had to like the scene in Montreal last night, where 34,000 people showed up to express their displeasure with the visiting Florida Marlins. The Marlins, of course, were what Jeffrey Loria upgraded to after selling the Expos to Major League Baseball. I don’t mean to defend the actions of certain fans, which went well…
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Add Forbes to the ever-growing list of those who don’t believe MLB’s cries of poverty. The April 15 issue of Forbes contains the magazine’s annual survey of MLB’s finances. Michael Ozanian has been compiling these surveys since 1991, first for the…
“That’s not like a fight. Mike could have taken his head off and thrown it in for a souvenir.”
This week’s question comes from A.F., who writes:
I recently found an article from last season by Joe Morgan that I don’t quite understand…
My recent articles about competitive balance generated a ton of e-mail in which many people made reasoned, passionate, and most of all intelligent arguments about why competitive balance is so important to them as fans of baseball.
I’ve been convinced. Baseball is entertainment, and what’s more entertaining than parity?
So I solicited the other authors and with their help (particularly Keith Woolner’s), I’ve assembled this list of sweeping reforms that will guarantee the competitive balance I think we all can agree would be best for the game. Now, some of them run into each other a little, but we’re putting these out in the hopes that they’ll generate new ideas and elevate the level of discussion.
This week’s question comes from A.F., who writes: I recently found an article from last season by Joe Morgan that I don’t quite understand. The part I’m really struggling with is at the bottom where he writes: "My philosophy is that a pitcher’s job is to win games. His job is not to have a…
My recent articles about competitive balance generated a ton of e-mail in which many people made reasoned, passionate, and most of all intelligent arguments about why competitive balance is so important to them as fans of baseball. I’ve been convinced. Baseball is entertainment, and what’s more entertaining than parity? So I solicited the other authors…