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Hear me out: Derek Jeter for MLB Commissioner

We’re going to be without big league baseball for the foreseeable future, launching a sport that’s already been on the decline into what feels like its death throes....

by Jesse Spector|Derek Jeter

|Wed Mar 02 2022

I want baseball to die

Not that Rob Manfred would care, but his smirking and laughing visage as he announced the first cancellations of the 2022 regular season, which caused just about every baseball fan to have an urge to reach through their screens and thrust their fist through to the back of his skull, is the image tha...

by Sam Fels|baseball

|Wed Mar 02 2022

With the MLB trying so little to end the lockout, here are other things they could try less at, too

I’ve seen disgruntled NBA superstars dogging it because they want to be traded, try harder than the MLB has tried to end this lockout. All parties bear some of the onus over these extended, aggravating negotiations, but when given the choice between ripping the proverbial Man, or ripping the people ...

by Sean Beckwith|the MLB

|Tue Feb 22 2022

Rob Manfred claims he wants to help young players, then threatens to eliminate hundreds of MiLB jobs

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred claimed that while MLB and the MLBPA were far removed from an agreement on several key topics, one topic everyone supposedly agreed on was that minor leaguers were not paid well enough. ...

by Jon Hoefling|Rob Manfred

|Tue Feb 15 2022

Hey commish, love the universal DH idea, but when will the season start?

Earlier today, Rob Manfred held his first public press conference since the MLB lockout began at the start of December last year. With the future of the 2022 season hanging in the balance, one would assume the commissioner would address the many concerns fans have, and detail the steps that he and M...

by Jon Hoefling|Sports

|Thu Feb 10 2022

Even a lockout can't prevent the Cubs from being greedy and stupid

It’s still worth it, every so often, to consider how impressive it is that the Ricketts family pissed all over the glow of being the ownership group that brought the first World Series title to the Northside of Chicago in 100 years to being universally hated in less than five....

by Sam Fels|Chicago Cubs

|Mon Feb 07 2022

MLB has tried nothing and it's all out of ideas

I guess that’s not completely fair. They have one idea. It’s a Hail Mary to try to reclaim the PR battle for themselves which the players union has had in their pocket ever since Rob Manfred started throwing all of his toys out of the crib about the reduced schedule of 2020. It’s half of an idea, ma...

by Sam Fels|MLB

|Fri Feb 04 2022

Hall of Fame voters dig the nice guy cheats

We’ve known for several years now that 2022 was going to be a landmark year which would set the standard for Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voting for years to come. Baseball progressives had been pleading their case for years for people like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens to make the Hall of Fam...

by Jon Hoefling|Justin Verlander

|Wed Jan 26 2022

Of course they’re willing to miss games

While the MLB owners and MLBPA actually talked to each other yesterday, and even plan on talking to each other today with spring training coming over the horizon, the news out of yesterday’s meeting was that MLB owners expressed to the players that they basically had no problem canceling regular-sea...

by Staff Report|the MLB

|Tue Jan 25 2022

A Ray of nope

And now a quick bit of baseball news before we get back to our regularly scheduled lockout. The MLB shut down Tampa’s proposal to alienate their current fanbase and play half of their home series in Montreal. It was a move so stupid that whoever came up with it should’ve been fired immediately....

by Sean Beckwith|Sports

|Fri Jan 21 2022

Nick Saban speaks up for the right to vote (kinda)

There is no shortage of examples of athletes using their public platforms to elevate social justice causes, from the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics to the Black Lives Matter marches led by collegiate athletes in the summer of 2020, and the countless moments in between. Multiple athletes in ...

by Grace McDermott|Nick Saban

|Wed Jan 19 2022

Rob Manfred wants his Pravda

The thing about work stoppages in sports, and really anywhere involving a very well-known company, is that P.R. is a part of it. Rob Manfred is, somehow, the first commissioner to get most of the public to back the players’ side, as he did during the pandemic when the owners and players were trying ...

by Sam Fels|Rob Manfred

|Tue Jan 04 2022

IDIOT OF THE YEAR #1: Jon Gruden, the face of a rotten NFL

Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE YEAR festivities! Nos. 50 through 11 are available for your enjoyment here. And our top 10:...

by Thomas Laforgia|NFL

|Fri Dec 31 2021