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Dear Bud Selig, An Open Letter #3 on how to fix the MLB: Recruit Men Like Mark Cuban
Dear Bud,
This letter continues my thoughts for you on how we can save the MLB. I realized how timely these letters are this weekend. Think about how good things are going right now for baseball.
With the exception of the AL West all of the races are tight. The AL east is an absolute heavy weight fight. The Central is interesting and the whole NL has compelling story lines
and
yet
people aren’t watching. That’s annoying. It made me think that maybe we don’t need to fix baseball but we might need to tweak the MLb a little bit more, which of course, is what these letters are about. To this point we’ve covered two fairly simple possibilities:
Posted in Media, Open Letters To Bud Selig, Opinion, mlb
Tagged Baseball, Bud Selig, Mark Cuban, Ownership
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Dear Bud. An open letter to address the issues of change for MLB. Alternately titled: If I were commissioner
This is a series of posts written as open letters to Bud Selig. The point is to throw out some proactive ideas on how to “fix” major league baseball.
Dear Mr. Selig,
I don’t really feel comfortable calling you Bud yet, but that might change. This letter is the first in a series of letters in an attempt to open a dialogue about how we can fix MLB. Let me be honest, I make a huge distinction between baseball and MLB.
Baseball as a game is just fine. It’s a beautiful game that moves like a wonderful sensual dance.
Posted in Media, Opinion, mlb
Tagged Baseball, Bud Selig, CBS sports, ESPN, FoxSports, Jason Stark, Ken Rosenthall, mlb, Sports Media
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ESPN was bad bad bad
It is well documented that Lebron is a Yankee fan so please don’t try and tell me that this has nothing to do with the Yankees.
I would like to say that I officially don’t care that Lebron went to Miami. I think it’s funny that everyone moans and complains when an athlete takes a huge contract to go somewhere or stay somewhere. They bitc& and moan about how terrible it is that the athlete sold out for money. They talk about how in the old days it was about winning.
Tim McCarver, Joe Torre, The Yankees, Joseph Stalin and Fred Phelps?
Everyone has them. I know I do and I bet that you do too. You know that friend that is often right but is so annoying that you just don’t care. Maybe it’s a crazy uncle. The information is good but the delivery makes the information more painful than a double root canal sans Novocaine.
That’s kind of how I feel about Tim McCarver. I remember when he just did Mets games back when Doc Gooden hadn’t quite gotten into the nose candy like a fat kid swimming in cotton candy. Back when Daryl Strawberry was known for his sweet as sugar swing and not his prolific support of the prostitution and drug industry Tim McCarver actually did a decent job as a broadcaster.
George Will and Joe West Drinking the same Drink…
Yesterday (Sunday, The 11th), Gorge Will was on MLB Network George Will was interviewed about the length of games. George dropped a beautiful load of illogicality. George said something to the effect that Joe West worked the plate at an Orioles game the night before and the game only went 2 hours and some odd minutes (I think it was under 2.5 but I don’t want to pay for the transcript of the interview). Then Georgie gave us a beautiful throw away line. He said, “The final score was 3-0.”
George, maybe you should go back to writing articles debunking Global Warming.
Ozzie Guillen on Joe Torre and Cashman (Quote of the Year)
I absolutely love Ozzie Guillen. I actually want to write a post about why I think he’s good for baseball. If you haven’t heard there is a little fiasco currently going on in the White Sox organization because of something his something his son posted on his personal twitter page. This led to Oney resigning from his position with the White Sox.
Of course, the media is in a lathered frenzy. Is a divorce between Ozzie and White Sox management imminent? Personally, I doubt it. One of the things I appreciate about Ozzie is his ability to differentiate between personal and business. All of this brings me to Ozzie’s quote on Torre and Cash. He said this:
Posted in Media, Opinion, White Sox, managers
Tagged Drama, Ozzie Guillen, White Sox, Yankeesblog
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Racism and Baseball
So last week Milton Bradley came out and said that the reason he so underperformed (and single handedly killed my OF’s in fantasy baseball) was due to racism in Chicago.
This angered a lot of people. One talk show on the Four Letter Self Proclaimed World Wide Leader (all of the other four letter words were taken) had commentators, hosts that were so irate I could hear their tirade down the hall from where my T.V. was on.
Then Tori Hunter came out and said that Latin players were not black players. The actual quote is this according to the 4 letter word station
Ken Rosenthal is One Crazy Man: Split the Yankees and the Red Sox?
I admit that I Ken Rosenthal sits on my last nerve like no other sports writer. I don’t know why. Even when I agree with him, it makes my stomach tighten. 
Today I came across an article of his that did nothing to change that.
This article in particular. Blow up the leagues? Pull the Yankees and the Red Sox out of the same division because now on top of making money they have diminished any “intellectual advantage” low budget teams may have had? Oh the poor Marlins, they made more money in revenue sharing than they put into their lineup.
Baseball is like Good Sex: Why The Game is Just Fine.
I am so sick of ESPN telling me how football is better than baseball. A few years ago I read Bob Costas’ book, Fair ball. It made me ill realize it was written a number of years ago now, but he makes so many arguments that I believe have come to be proven wrong that I almost feel like I wasted my time reading it. One of the contentions he makes is that Baseball is no longer
America’s past time and he insinuates that baseball is to blame. In fact he says baseball is broke. Here’s my one word response: HOGWASH.
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