The Latest Changes To Major League Baseball Rules Are Misguided
These changes replace baseball’s timeless, adaptable ways with the hidebound legalism that is already strangling the life out of football.
How To Make Baseball Appealing On Television Without Changing Its Character
A plan to increase baseball’s entertainment value and adapt the game to our ever-shortening attention spans. The future of the sport depends on it!
Go Deep! A Simple Plan To Rescue Major League Baseball
The problem with baseball right now is that Major League ballparks are too small. The players have outgrown them.
Baseball Fans Clap Back At Online Mobs Out For Players’ Careers Over Teenage Tweets
A career death penalty for a tweet seems egregious especially when the same guardians of public morality are extolling those who offend public sensibilities in other ways.
What Baseball Can Teach Us About Valorizing Flawed American Heroes
The balance baseball Hall of Fame voters have struck in recognizing imperfect men with great achievements can inform how we view America’s founders.
Why Human Baseball Umpires Are An American Tradition Worth Preserving
Baseball must not be enslaved to the same mechanistic, progressivist paradigm worshipped by our technocratic elite.
Why Baseball Needs To Switch To Robot Umps As Soon As They’re Effective
If technology can provide an accurate and impartial strike zone, robot umps will enhance the real human elements of the game.
What Roberto Clemente’s Death Still Says To Us 45 Years Later
The dramatic and tragic end of Roberto Clemente’s career capped a story that is uniquely American and uniquely baseball.
Why MLB Should Put A Third Team In New York
The city best-suited for another MLB team is rarely mentioned despite all the demographic, economic, and historical arguments in its favor. Baseball should put a third team in New York.
3 Reasons Baseball Will Lose Big If National Anthem Protests Catch On
If Oakland As catcher Bruce Maxwell’s grandstanding spreads to the rest of the MLB, baseball is at a much greater risk for its survival than the NFL is. Here’s why.
MLB’s Wild Card Games Celebrate Randomness And Mediocrity
The baseball season tests and exposes teams over the long haul rather than isolated, random stints. That’s what makes this week’s single-elimination wild card play-in games so improper.
Don’t Add A Pitch Clock Unless You Want To End Baseball As We Know It
Baseball is not and has never been a timed game. Adding a clock would profoundly alter its very character by changing how the game’s outcome is determined.
How The Nanny State May Soon Destroy Fans’ View Of Baseball Games
The Mets announced they will extend field nets to the camera wells beyond the dugouts. That will both shield far more spectators while reducing the value of many more seats.
3 Players Who Might Fulfill Baseball’s Quest For A Cultural Icon
Regardless of which team you root for, if you are a fan of our nation’s oldest pastime you should be rooting for the success of the game’s next generation of superstars.
Want To Improve Baseball? Make The National League Adopt The Designated Hitter
There is no other major sport where an athlete is asked to perform a task so completely out of his comfort zone. The designated hitter fixes this problem.
Don’t Change Baseball’s Extra Inning Rules
For a sport with a deep connection to its history, changing the rules for extra innings would be dramatic. It would also be a huge mistake, and alienate longtime fans.
3 Crazy Coincidences That Could Win The Cubs The World Series
The improbable link between Javier Baez and Francisco Lindor isn’t this year’s only World Series parallel. Parallel universes are colliding all over the place.
For A Lifelong Cubs Fan, The Slow Wind-Up Into This World Series Was Breathtaking
Watching this Cubs team win the National League Championship Series against the Dodgers Saturday night was absolutely perfect.
I’m Sick Of Left-Wing Politics In My Sports Stories
So the Pedro Martinez celebrated the Cleveland Indians’ victory with a war whoop. Big freakin’ deal. Can we get back to the game?
Refusing To Call The Cleveland Indians By Their Name Is An Absurd Idea
It wouldn’t be out of bounds to ask sensitive Toronto folk to cast their eyes west and tell us why ‘Eskimo’ gets a pass while ‘Indian’ doesn’t.
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