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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.
AskMen.com Lewis Helfand	Strikes & Lockouts In Professional Sports Everything from ticket sales to stadium parking takes a significant hit when games are canceled. The strikes and lockouts listed below show just how much professional athletes, teams, and even leagues stand to lose when faced with a work stoppage.
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.
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 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.
CFO April 1, 2004 Tim Reason	Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind.
Sports Central October 21, 2012 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's Haves and Have-Nots Not StubHub's Fault Now that the 2012 Major League Baseball postseason is in full swing, what better time than now to revisit the access fans have to attend MLB games?
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.
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 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.
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 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.
Sports Central November 15, 2007 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's Fantasy to Monopolize Suffers Blow Major League Baseball struck out for the second time in its pursuit to limit and essentially monopolize the fantasy league business that utilizes statistical information associated with MLB players' names.
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 November 3, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	Umpire Woes Rest With MLB Operations Without a uniform standard overseen by Major League Baseball, simply implanting new technology will not solve the systemic problem, demonstrated by numerous 2009 postseason bad calls from umpires.
Sports Central January 9, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Network Rolls Out With Bait and Switch On January 1, 2009, Major League Baseball launched its long-awaited Major League Baseball Network on major cable broadcast providers throughout U.S. television markets.
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 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 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.
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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 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 December 15, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	The Epitome of Hubris At a time when Major League Baseball could really use its players to promote a positive image, two of its biggest stars -- Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez -- choose to take the easiest route to earn the quickest return without including the community or its children.
Sports Central August 11, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	Wildcards Not Too Soon to Tell Even though it is still only August and there is still much more Major League Baseball left to play this season, the beginnings of what battles lie ahead in competition for the playoffs have already taken shape.
Sports Central March 27, 2011 Jess Coleman	Can You Buy Wins in Baseball? Could the Yankees' unlimited sum of cash really result in an astonishing 27 World Championships?
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.
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 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.
AskMen.com October 16, 2002 Mark Simmons	Can We Make Baseball Profitable? At a time when most baseball franchises are crying poverty, how can MLB increase revenue for its franchises?
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 August 16, 2011 Paul Foeller	From Spring Training to the Fall Classic It may not be the way the baseball purists want to see it, and it may put a dent in yearly revenue, but a shortened MLB regular season will eventually happen.
AskMen.com February 5, 2003 Mark Simmons	Why The NFL Is So Fantastic As the NFL powers into the 21st century, it is head and shoulders above all other professional sports circuits. It is firing on all cylinders; both in terms of financial metrics and public relations goodwill.
Salon.com May 2, 2001 Allen Barra	Damn Twins! The standings better turn upside down, or baseball's "small markets can't compete" argument is going to look pretty silly...
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.
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 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?
Sports Central November 29, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's HGH Test More Smoke and Mirrors Major League Baseball's latest feat of extended "labor peace" with the Major League Players Association was reached on November 22, 2011.
Sports Central March 21, 2005 Diane M. Grassi	Hearings Expose Inept Congress and MLB The House of Representatives and its House Government Reform Committee held hearings on March 17, 2005 supposedly to bring light to the subject on the prevention of steroid use in Major League Baseball.
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.
AskMen.com Troy St. Louis	The Price Of An MLB All-Star Team For the past few seasons there has been a growing concern that small market teams cannot compete in professional baseball today. Examining the cost of rising salaries for players you may conclude that they have a point. Or do they?
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.
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 September 15, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	Will MLB's Latest Tech Hurt the Game? As the end of the 2009 Major League Baseball season approaches, here's a critical look at the technological advances instituted in 2009 and intended for the game's future progress.
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.
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.
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.
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