Baseball has been played intermittently at the Olympics since 1904, but the sport wasn’t granted official medal status until 1992. Unfortunately, baseball’s full recognition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was only a footnote during that Olympiad because the Barcelona Games also marked the debut of the U.S. men’s basketball Dream Team. At the time, [...]
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Baseball Doesn’t Need Olympics; Should Step Away from Greedy IOC to Enhance Softball’s Re-entry Bid
Posted in Baseball, Interleague, tagged Olympics on August 3, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Maddon’s Defense of Peralta Shifts Blame, but Is It Out of Bounds?
Posted in Baseball, Interleague, MLB, tagged Joe Maddon, Tampa Rays, washington nationals on June 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It’s not cheating if everyone is doing it, right? Tampa Bay Rays’ manager Joe Maddon seems to think so. At least that’s what the unorthodox manager implied when he defended reliever Joel Peralta, who was ejected from last night’s game because he had what home plate umpire Tim Tschida called a “significant amount” of pine [...]
Junior Circuit Once Again Tipping the Interleague Scales
Posted in Baseball, Interleague, MLB, Yankees on June 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last season, the National League won the All Star Game, World Series, and 48% of regular season games against the American League. After years of being dominated by the junior circuit, it appeared as if the N.L. was starting to narrow the gap. With one more week in interleague remaining on the schedule, however, the [...]
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