Tag: Major League Baseball

In response to a new Georgia law that has civil rights groups concerned about its potential to restrict voting access for people of color Major League Baseball has announced it is moving the 2021 MLB All-Star Game from Atlanta to a location to be determined. In response to the decision…

Hats off to the Mets and Marlins.

Hey, a chance to talk politics, business, and baseball! Major League Baseball along with private equity firm, Seidler Equity Partners, are buying Rawlings Sporting Goods. Now I realize that Rawlings has been making the official balls for the MLB for ages…but doesn’t this automatically preclude any other manufacturer from bidding…

I don’t pay much attention to professional sports anymore and usually wouldn’t think about commenting on it or writing about it. But I did watch the All Star game at a sports bar with a few guys from my baseball team on Tuesday night…but we left after the dismal showing…

After getting just about everything he damn well wanted from the county for Miller Park, former Milwaukee Brewers owner and current baseball commissioner Bud Selig is raising money to stab the county board in the back: “…as the Greater Milwaukee Committee mounts a lobbying campaign to pass the measure. An…

Huge news from Miller Park, where it appears our hometown Brewers have acquired 2009 Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke from the Kansas City Royals. In return for Greinke and shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt, the Brewers sent shortstop Alcides Escobar, centerfielder Lorenzo Cain and pitching prospects Jeremy Jeffress and Jake Odorizzi…

Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel is reporting Bobby Valentine, former manager of the Texas Rangers, Chiba Lotte Marines (twice), and New York Mets, is the leading candidate for the Brewers’ managerial job and is expected to receive an offer. According to the report, Chicago White Sox bench coach Joey…

While I do root for the hometown Milwaukee Brewers, I’ve long been a fan of the New York Yankees. While many hate what the Yankees and their owner George Steinbrenner represented, I’ve long been a fan of the Yankees because of their history. From Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to…

I’m no Cubs fan, but I think Milton Bradley deserved every game of the season-ending suspension he was given by the Cubs for badmouthing the team in public. scratched from Saturday’s lineup with a sore left knee, Bradley was quoted as saying, “you understand why they haven’t won in 100…

Just a few random notes that caught my eye this evening: Congratulations to Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder, the 2009 Major League Baseball All Star game Home Run Derby champion. Fielder hit a total of 23 home runs during the three rounds, and his home runs traveled an average of…