The Confusing Priorities of Major League Baseball

By On April 10, 2012 · 3 Comments · In General Musings, Musings, Negative Storylines

Earlier today, the Miami Marlins announced that Ozzie Guillen would be suspended for five games for his inflammatory remarks about Fidel Castro (and Bud Selig subsequently rubber-stamped the decision). This comes as no great surprise for two consequential reasons. In terms of general insensitivity and idiocy, there is a very significant Cuban expatriate [...]

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Gathering info on Joba’s injury

By On March 24, 2012 · 9 Comments · In Injuries, Negative Storylines

“He’s facing a lot right now,” Cashman said. “I can’t tell you, really, anything more than something unfortunate happened. We’re in the very early information side of this thing.”

The somber tone of yesterday’s Yankee camp reflected the news of a gruesome injury to a well-liked teammate. We can question the wisdom of [...]

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Braun Deserves Benefit of the Doubt, but Leak Gives Black Eye to All

By On December 12, 2011 · 4 Comments · In General Musings, Negative Storylines, News and notes

(The following is being syndicated fromThe Captain’s Blog).

If  decision to head west was a time bomb, Ryan Braun’s positive test for performance enhancing drugs was an atomic blast. Already facing the loss of  to free agency, the Brewers must now go forward with Braun’s pending 50-game suspension hanging [...]

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Ryan Braun’s failed test for PED’s shows MLB’s commitment to enforcement, but is a black eye for the game

By On December 12, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Negative Storylines

I cheered when baseball announced the aggressive testing for HGH that was part of the new collective bargaining agreement. While I don’t care if players took steroids and other performance enhancing drugs before the game banned the use of such substances, it is better for baseball if its brightest stars don’t operate under a [...]

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Negative Storylines from the 2011 Season: Phil Hughes takes a giant step backward

By On October 24, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Negative Storylines

Last winter we did just two comprehensive “Positive Storylines” and “Negative Storylines” posts. In the interest of fleshing the 2011 positives and negatives out a bit further — not to mention we have more days to fill with content this offseason — the Positive and Negative Storyline trends are going to be broken [...]

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