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RAYS, MEET A’S 25 Aug 2013 | 05:58 pm
In the more than 40 years I have known Bud Selig, I have never heard him tell a joke. Ten days ago, speaking to reporters at the conclusion of the owners’ quarterly meetings, the commissioner told a j...
JUST LIKE OLD TIMES 22 Aug 2013 | 09:09 am
For 39 years, the byline appeared in The New York Times probably more than any other. This week it is making a return engagement. It’s the byline you have seen on this Web site approximately 550 times...
DODGERS ON RAMPAGE THROUGH WEST 18 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
Speaking separately to the top two executives of the Los Angeles Dodgers, I asked both the same first question: Which of your teams will show up in October? “I only have one team, the Dodgers,” pres...
HENRY’S ICONIC STATUS GROWS IN STUNNING GLOBE DEAL 15 Aug 2013 | 06:41 pm
John Henry divided the years of his youth among Illinois, Arkansas and California. He made his many millions in Florida and Connecticut. It wasn’t until the last month of 2001, when Henry was 52, that...
THE (RISE AND) FALL OF THE HOLY YANKEE EMPIRE 11 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
One of the most irritating byproducts of the ongoing Alex Rodriguez saga is that it detracts attention from the entertaining stories in baseball. Let’s hear less about the Joint Drug Agreement and mor...
QUESTION AND PREDICTION FOR BUD 8 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
I. A question (which just won't quit): If Major League Baseball, as its commissioner boasts at every opportunity and then some, has the toughest, strongest, best testing program in all sports to comb...
IT’S TIME TO JUDGE THE JUDGE 4 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
If Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun and other players are guilty of drug violations that warrant lengthy, if not lifetime, suspensions, how should Commissioner Bud Selig be judged? A case could be made for ...
PIRATES UPSTAGE SELIG AND STEROIDS 1 Aug 2013 | 04:12 pm
Starting out, this was going to be a column about new faces in new places – Bud Norris, Scott Feldman and Francisco Rodriguez in Baltimore; Jake Peavy in Boston, Alfonso Soriano in New York, Jesse Cra...
CIRCUS IS BACK IN TOWN 28 Jul 2013 | 04:43 pm
If I believed there was life after death, I would be certain that George Steinbrenner, who died in 2010, had returned. In fact, no matter what I believe or don’t believe, I at least have to suspect th...
NEGOTIATING PLEA BARGAINS, NOT CONTRACTS 25 Jul 2013 | 04:20 pm
Everyone has watched enough crime and courtroom television shows to know about plea bargains. But the plea bargain we saw in Major League Baseball this week was not the usual fare for “Law and Order.”...
