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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 Selig, Letter #2
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 Bud,
Thanks for continuing to read my letters. It’s been quite a few weeks. I mean, Jeter passes the Babe, A-Rod hits 600, poor Tony LaRussa gets picked on for playing baseball the right way all these years (it’s not really his fault that Mac was putting stuff in his pooper to get stronger). I’m not a big LaRussa fan. Talk about a guy that has his priorities screwed up!
Roy Oh Boy
Have you heard? Roy Oswalt went to the Phillies! My oh my! Roy oh Boy. I had two thoughts about this.
My first thought was, “Well, I wonder if the Philly fans will start crying about “buying” a championship now. Of course, they won’t. They won’t stop and cry for the Pirates or the Astros.
Posted in Astros, Phillies, Trades, mlb
Tagged Astros, Phillies, Roy Oswalt, Rumor Mill, Trades
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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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5 Burning Questions
So, I found this article on Bleacher Report today and figured I’d throw my own answers out here.
1. Who has been the best player in the AL East?
-This has to be Cano. The man has been spreading the ball around the field like a farmer fertilizing his fields.
2. And the most disappointing?
-I think this is Joba. The man is more inconsistent than a politician looking for re-election.
3. Who will win the division? And the Wild Card?
Posted in Opinion, Red Sox, Yankees, mlb
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What if you were commissioner?
I’ve been traveling a lot on a mini vacay with my wife this weekend. We did the Brickyard so my posting will suffer until Tuesday but I am excited to start a new series called If I were commissioner. I’m going to throw some wild ideas to you on how the game of MLB can be improved.
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Contraction: An Opening Argument
Contraction.
I know, it’s a dirty word. Merely saying it to some people causes their eyes to bulge and their stomachs to contract with copious amounts of acid.
But this post starts my argument for it. Anyone who has been around me for any amount of time knows that I consider the National League to be mostly quad A ball. That is to say that it is barely a step above triple A ball. I recently heard Vince Scully say that we have “watered our summer wine.” He went on to say that he thought we were trotting out 3 or 4 teams each night that are nothing more than AAA teams.
What is Wrong with the Umpires?
Seriously, what is wrong with the umpires this year? It feels like there has been way too many blown calls this year. Maybe there have been, I don’t have any data to say one way or the other.
But
I can say for sure that there have been way too many unprofessional moments. Jerry West sounded off about the Yankees/Red Sox speed of the game. Unprofessional? Check. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen an umpire take his mask off and invite an argument with a coach or player. That simply cannot happen. They are impugning their right to be unbiased arbitrators of the game.
Posted in Opinion, Tigers, Umpires, mlb
Tagged Blown Calls, Detroit Tigers, Jim Joyce, Perfect Games, Umpires
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MLB passes the Anti-Yankee Rule?
Major League Baseball passed a new post-season rule today. They have eliminated the day off between games 4 and 5 of the League Championship series (LCS).
The post season is just too long! Too much time off. Last year, the Yankees and Phillies had 14 and 17 days off during the regular season respectively.
During the off-season guess how many games off they had? ***Wait for it***
***Gasp***
14 days!!!
***Shudder***CRY***SHOW ANGST***
Money Doesn’t Buy Rings; The Yankees are Just Better
As a Yankee fan, I’m used to people hating on the Yankees.
I get it.
People hate winners and want to blame winners for their own team’s misery.
I know a guy on Facebook that I have thought about deleting because every time I bring up the Yanks, he gripes about how MLB is broken.
Whining is whining. It’s annoying when a three-year-old does it because he perceives something isn’t fair and it’s annoying when a grown man does it about baseball.