Reading Time: 3 minutes But the NHL, the league that never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, will sit back and let others get the gravy
Tag: Baseball
How can you replay a World Series?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Deciding what to do about rampant rumours of Houston Astros cheating isn’t simple. But one of baseball’s best teams needs to be punished
Progress? Sport? The two shall never meet
Reading Time: 4 minutes From disputed strike zones to goal-line uncertainty to bloody high-sticks, major-league officiating can’t seem to embrace high-tech
Fan injuries from foul balls up dramatically
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time for MLB to put protective netting up from home plate to the foul poles
Jim Bouton’s impact reached far beyond the baseball diamond
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Ball Four author was a significant social activist, speaking out about apartheid, and exposing small-town government and media corruption
Baseball’s unwritten rules are stupid and archaic
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s time for players and managers to grow up and get rid of the ego-based false machismo that ruins the game
When it comes to injuries, MLB teams remain clueless
Reading Time: 4 minutes Injury research through analytics should be priority one, since baseball owners spent $745,769,319 on injured list players in 2018 alone
Financial illiteracy on the campaign trail won’t serve Sanders
Reading Time: 4 minutes The U.S. senator is using baseball to decry the inequalities that crop up in capitalism. That’s just nonsense
Tanking takes the heart out of statistical analysis in sports
Reading Time: 4 minutes Only the purity of competition assures that the resulting data has relevance and application in a sport
Video replay: is the solution worse than the crime?
Reading Time: 3 minutes We can’t go back to spitballing the big calls. For the teams and the fans, too much depends on getting it right