David Halberstam was quite a writer. He touched on a wide variety of issues in his books, from Vietnam to America in the fifties to John F. Kennedy’s administration. Halberstam also spent a lot of time writing about sports, touching on baseball with Summer of ’49 (about the Red Sox and Yankees) and October 1964, [...]
So way, way back in this crazy-long series, I talked to you about Out of the Park Baseball. For those that don’t remember and don’t want to click through, OOTP is a long-running baseball simulation series. It’s got a full partnership with MLB, so you get all the players, all the teams, etc. (I mean, [...]
I never cared for Bud Selig as commissioner. There were very few decisions that he made that I agreed with and honestly felt like he stayed too long. Plus there was that whole “cancelled the World Series” thing. Usually when someone writes a statement like that before reviewing a biography, there’s sentences that follow about [...]
With another weekend in the books and (as I write this Sunday afternoon) nothing to show for it in regards to labor peace and an actual season, it’s time again to dive into the past to check out a game from this date in the past. We’ve done 1996 and 2004, so this time let’s [...]
When there was no movement on the return of baseball over the weekend, there was hope that maybe the beginning of the week would bring something. And it did! Just not anything real useful. MLB suggested a plan where the players get 75% of the pro-rata salaries over 76 games. Which, while not full pro-rata [...]
Let me preface this, as I do often when ownership comes up, with the following statements. I’m glad that the DeWitts are in charge of the Cardinals. I most definitely appreciate their tenure as owners, as it is not a coincidence it comes at the same time as the best stretch of baseball in Cardinal [...]
The players actually wasted no time returning serve in the current negotiations, sending back a proposal Monday night that, while owners said was nothing new, really did make a step toward some sort of compromise. The players wanted to start the season on July 10 and run through October 11, then have expanded playoffs. While [...]
In a regular world, a world not ravaged by the coronavirus, the Cardinals would be in London right now. They’d be doing some clinics, trying to spread interest and enjoyment in a land that’s not used to their sport. I bet we’d have seen Matt Carpenter take a shot at cricket and perhaps some pictures [...]
You know when a band takes a famous song and reworks it to make it their own? Sometimes the cover is really good, sometimes it’s not as good as the original, but the words are pretty much the same and the tune often is similar. It’s definitely not a huge creative endeavor. It’s taking something [...]
The players have had enough. Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark today released the following statement: pic.twitter.com/d1p3Oj4K70 — MLBPA Communications (@MLBPA_News) June 13, 2020 So let’s think about what this means. There will be baseball. We’ve known this for a while, but there will be some sort of season. It may not [...]
Many of you may have already listened, but Friday night Kyle Reis joined Allen and I on Meet Me at Musial to talk mainly about the draft from a few days ago. While much of the talk was centered around those that were drafted, obviously, but closer to the end the discussion turned to those [...]
Do you remember the 2020 MLB First-Year Player Draft? It was so long ago, all the way back to Wednesday. Back then, this is what the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Ron Manfred, had to say. Now, if you are like me and you don’t always watch videos, let me give you it in print. [...]
