Tag: mlb
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Baseball’s Problem
Major league baseball’s biggest problem can be seen most prominently and surprisingly in one of their more successful franchises, the Milwaukee Brewers. The good news is that the Brewers have made the postseason for past three years and qualified for the playoffs seven times in the last eight years. Unfortunately, they are also a small…
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Celebrity Baseball Spotlight Series: Mario Cuomo
As part of our ongoing series of celebrities (which we have extended to politicians for this piece) that played either major or minor league baseball, we now present Mario Cuomo, who was the 52nd governor of New York, serving three terms from 1983 to 1994. In addition, Cuomo was previously the lieutenant governor from 1979…
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The Death of Sign Stealing – Part 1
Another aspect of MLB meddling in the fundamentals of the game, which has led to the …… dehumanization, standardization, homogenization, and over-regulation of baseball has been the introduction of Pitchcom. For those of you not aware of Pitchcom here is a bit of history: PitchCom is a wireless communication system used in baseball that lets…
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Wins and Innings
On October 31, 1973 Tom Seaver of the New York Mets became the first Cy Young winner to not win at least 20 games. Seaver only missed that mark by one win after recording a record of 19-10 for the 1973 season. How times have changed. There has not been a 20 game Cy Young…
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Yellow Uniforms Revisited
Recently we posted about the god awful yellow uniforms that the Boston Red Sox wear as part of MLB’s city connect series. We noted there were references online about how popular these bright yellow jerseys were with the fans. “Ok, we get it. People like the yellow”. “Given the popularity of our yellow uniforms with…
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The Natural
One of our favorite baseball movies is The Natural from 1984 starring Robert Redford as the fictional player Roy Hobbs. Truly an inspirational film and one that even a non-baseball fan would love. We remember this iconic film, since we feel it accurately juxtaposes the love of the game from the BP, many fans, and…
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Where is the Red?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Somehow though, someone in the Boston Red Sox organization decided that there was beauty in this uniform design?!!?! The above is the jersey worn by the Red Sox ever since 2021 when MLB introduced the City Connect jerseys throughout baseball. The Red Sox wear these yellow and…
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It’s Mostly About the Money
Money doesn’t buy happiness as the saying goes. On the other hand, we here at BP would rather take our chances with having money (and lots of it) and finding happiness than the other way around. The same goes for MLB team payrolls and success. As of August 27th, here is a look at the…
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Baseball’s Luxury Tax
In a recent headline that clearly highlighted the difference between the haves and the have nots was the news of the nine teams that paid a whopping $311 million in luxury tax. That tax also known as the Competitive Balance Tax assesses teams a “tax” when they go over the set thresholds set by the…
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The Easy Starting Pitching Solution
MLB is now considering more rules changes to “reemphasize” the stature to their starting pitchers and to prevent teams from going through a myriad of pitchers throughout a game. In many instances, MLB teams now employ an “opener” which is a strategy where a relief pitcher starts the game to face the toughest hitters in…
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A Uniform Win
We guess that the MLB hierarchy sometimes does hear the fans. There are not many topics that unite most baseball fans, but when it comes to the recent All-Star game uniforms, fans were pretty unified in their hate for these jerseys. MLB though has finally felt the fans pain and decided to revert to allowing…
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Cheer Up White Sox Fans
As most fans now know, the Chicago White Sox set the record for futility in 2024 with the most losses in a single season with 121. This mark “bested” the 1962 New York Mets, who previously held the record with 120 losses. Although this is a low point in White Sox history, they can in…
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