Reading Time: 4 minutes Expansion meant salary caps and luxury taxes were necessary to keep teams competitive. But the system has failed players and fans
Tag: Baseball
Dream big no matter how preposterous
Reading Time: 3 minutes Disappointment has the potential to destroy us but it can also make us great. What determines the difference?
Will fans stay loyal as the Blue Jays rebuild?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 2015 and 2016 Jays were wildly successful but that winning culture couldn’t be sustained. A new winning era will take time
Life is like playing baseball
Reading Time: 3 minutes Each of us is a gift to the world and we need to work hard every day to develop these gifts
In defence of sports greatness, from Justify to the Warriors
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why is greatness supposed to take a back seat to parity, the bastard child of bloated sports in North America?
Paving the way with quiet dignity
Reading Time: 4 minutes Larry Doby was the second African American to play Major League Baseball. His road to greatness was no less difficult for being second
Gambling and pro sports: a marriage made in heaven
Reading Time: 4 minutes But with so much more money to be made, the potential for mischief seems great. How do we control that mischief?
Are the Golden Knights the greatest sports story of all time?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a mug’s game to select one great sports moment over another. But that doesn’t make Vegas’s success any less remarkable
Drop-in ads on baseball radio broadcasts are getting out of hand
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s like meeting a longtime friend for a relaxing coffee chat only to get barraged by a multi-level marketing sales pitch
Baseball’s season of creative destruction
Reading Time: 4 minutes With 12 teams racing to the bottom and bonafide stars waiting for contracts, this looks to be a season of fan despair. Will the Blue Jays join the club?