During the current 2022 baseball lockout, a few things have come to light. Baseball fans just want baseball back and want the players to be taken care of fairly – including Minor League players. Some fans may not have been aware of the Minor League players’ income (or lack of income) until Major League players, […]
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The Great Fall
February 27th, 2022 at 8:00 am 
by 0799291000348 * * * Humpty Dumpty sat on a wallHumpty Dumpty had a great fallAll the king’s horses and all the king’s menCouldn’t put Humpty together again * * * * A children’s nursery rhyme that seems applicable to the current state of Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association (the Union). A […]
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‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’
February 26th, 2022 at 9:00 am by 0799291000348 The MLB lockout continues to hold baseball hostage, and fans have been going through withdrawals during the long, quiet offseason. To everyone’s disappointment, little headway has been made in recent weeks towards Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association establishing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement after the old one expired on December 1, 2021. […]
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Additional Spring Training Games Cancelled
February 26th, 2022 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was being widely reported on Friday afternoon that even though talks between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association had made progress towards establishing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, MLB announced that three additional Spring Training games were being canceled, which means the earliest that Cactus League or Grapefruit League games would begin […]
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‘Workers vs. Owners’
February 25th, 2022 at 9:15 am by Ron Cervenka In 2021 the median household income in the US was $79,900. In 2021 the average income of a Major League Baseball player was $4.17 million, with the highest being Angels future Hall of Famer Mike Trout at $37,116,667. Although it may be difficult for the average person to wrap their head around the amount of […]
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T-Minus 162 … and Counting
February 24th, 2022 at 9:15 am by Ron Cervenka Against the hopes, wishes, and prayers of baseball fans around the globe, the chances of a full 162-game 2022 regular season are diminishing fast; so fast, in fact, that according to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, if a new Collective Bargaining Agreement is not in place by Monday, February 28, the start of the regular season […]
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It Just Keeps Getting Worse
February 23rd, 2022 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Believe it or not, there once was a time when you could buy a Dodger Dog at Dodger Stadium for about a buck. No, really. But alas, and as they say, ‘All good things must come to an end.‘ When the Dodgers played their final game at Dodger Stadium on October 21, 2021, against the […]
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The Other 22
February 22nd, 2022 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka Like every minute in time, if you missed it, you missed it – 2:22:22 on Tuesday morning, February 22, 2022, affectionately called “Twosday” – and there will never be another palindrome like it again, not ever. The good news is that if you missed the one at 2:22 a.m., there will be another one at […]
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A Light at the End of the Tunnel
February 21st, 2022 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka With Thursday’s announcement by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred that Spring Training 2022 has officially been delayed, and with bickering between MLB and the MLB Players Association at its absolute worst (so far), there is a light – albeit extremely faint – at the end of the proverbial tunnel. As bad as things are on Day-82 […]
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Negotiations Nonsense
February 20th, 2022 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Enough already! Negotiations between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association reached an all-time low on Thursday and were reminiscent of a playground scuffle between two elementary school children. Shortly after noon on Thursday, Major League Baseball released this statement, which many (most) MLB sportswriters immediately posted on Twitter: The statement went on to […]
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