Baseball Page 963 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
No, Baseball Does Not Have a Moral Imperative to Return This Year
It seems to be an affliction within any baseball writer above a certain age that baseball still has a special place in American culture or society. While media from all sports have tried to claim, at various times, that the sport they cover returning to action would “help” the country, it is far mor...
MLBPA Makes Counteroffer That Owners Take Minutes to Crap on Before Pooping Out One of Their Own
There may have been a moment where baseball fans hoped that MLB owners wouldn’t use the cover of national chaos to act like the same dickheads they have always been. “Blind hope” would probably be the better term. That maybe with not as many, or no one, watching, the owners could back off their hard...
Former MLB Star Dale Murphy Takes Stand Against Systemic Racism and Police Brutality After Son is Shot in Eye During Denver Protest
Former Major Leaguer and two time NL MVP, Dale Murphy, said his son, Tyson, was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet peacefully protesting the death of George Floyd at a demonstration Sunday in Denver, Colorado....
Laid-Off Minor Leaguer Takes Shots At Tebow, ‘Toxic’ Mets System
On Thursday night, after being released by the New York Mets along with many other minor leaguers, pitcher Andrew Church took to social media, ripping the team for treatment he described as “toxic” and hurling shots over the team’s handling of Tim Tebow....
64 Hours of Jeter is 62 Hours Too Long
We get it, sports channels have to fill airtime. Networks are replaying old games, rereleasing old productions, and giving us the latest updates on the sports world in a pandemic....
American Greed: The Tug of War Between Owners and the MLBPA
This country has a problem....
Scherzer Throws High Heat At Owners' B.S., Players Expected To Propose Longer Season
When the MLB owners introduced their “sliding scale” plan to limit players’ salaries, their plan was obvious. With the highest-paid players giving up the largest percentage of their salaries and the lowest-paid the lowest, the owners were clearly hoping that they could turn the players on each other...
MLB Plan Seeks To Splinter Players Union With Pay Cuts Aimed At Highest-Paid
The inherent advantage that Major League Baseball has in any labor battle is that players’ salaries are public and much higher than yours, while the teams do not have to open their books....
Reliving the 2000s Pittsburgh Pirates, A Time of Bow & Arrows, Tony Plush And Beating Sausages
Perhaps no team in history defined a single decade like the Bulls of the 90s. They racked up wins, fans, championships and pop-culture adulation on their way to immortality, ultimately etching a lengthy run of dominance that none of us may ever see again. Hence the 10-episode documentary The Last Da...
The Most Underrated Ballplayers Since 1990
Today our esteemed panel of Chris Baud, Sam Fels and Jesse Spector ramble on while choosing the Deadspin Underrated MLB Team of the past 30 years....
The Most Overrated MLB players Since 1990
The Deadspin’s Most Overrated NBA Players of the Past 30 Years was a team effort, then we had Chris Baud, Sam Fels and Jesse Spector do the NHL version in a roundtable format, because no one else would admit to watching hockey. ...
Drive-in Theater To Open At Yankee Stadium … Parking Lot
You may have heard on Thursday that Yankee Stadium is becoming a drive-in movie theater this summer, as that was the headline at Travel & Leisure and Cosmopolitan, and even the content of a tweet from the Yankees’ flagship radio station, WFAN....
Oakland A's Lead National ‘Rent Freeze’ Movement
Oh, wait. Nope! They’re just greedy....
So-Called 'Smoking Gun' In MLB Labor Fight Is Just Another Attempt To Railroad Players Via Media Partner
This is a critical moment for America amid the coronavirus pandemic, as states like Texas focus on reopening businesses, even as COVID-19 cases surge there. The role of the media, as ever, but particularly now, should be that it “enables conversations on issues of public concern, and holds the power...
Yankee Voices Sterling & Waldman Have Nothing To Talk About — That's Sheltering In Place, Suzyn
From the window of his living room overlooking the Hudson River, John Sterling can see the George Washington Bridge if he cranes his neck far to the left. No matter how hard he tries, however, he can’t quite see where he would really like to be, which is in the radio booth at Yankee Stadium....
MLB Owners Claim To Show Their Cards, Ignore The Ones Up Their Sleeves
While most of the attention this past weekend was paid to the exhaustive and detailed outline of what the safety and health protocols and procedures would be for MLB to resume action, MLB owners attempted to cloak their projections of losses for a season behind closed doors underneath that. However,...
MLB'S Testing Plan Is Thorough, But Does It Pass The Doolittle Test?
While there are certainly many miles of financial sparring between MLB owners and players to get through before the league can return to play, issues rooted in the players’ concerns over safety. While a good portion, if not all, being the players’ anger over the owners reneging on a deal they made i...
MLB Has 67-Page Plan To Restart Baseball, But That Doesn't Mean It's The Right Thing To Do
Major League Baseball has a plan for how to return to play, and it started coming to light on Saturday as Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic and Jeff Passan of ESPN reported on a 67-page draft document outlining the health-and-safety protocols being considered....
You Don't Actually Care That Much About Cheating In Baseball
Sorry to break this to you, but cheating is as much a part of baseball as Babe Ruth, hot dogs, and obnoxious drunk guys in Philly. ...
Art Howe In ICU With COVID-19, Reminding Us Again It's Not Just Players Who Are At Risk If Baseball Resumes
Art Howe, who managed the Moneyball-era Oakland A’s in addition to stints as a skipper with the Houston Astros and New York Mets, has been hospitalized with COVID-19 and was in intensive care as of Thursday night, as reported by Houston NBC affiliate KPRC....