BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: From disputed strike zones to goal-line uncertainty to bloody high-sticks, major-league officiating can’t seem to embrace high-tech (BASIC/PREMIUM content/Not yet a BASIC/PREMIUM member? $19)
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BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Giving young players a chance to grow? More like a salary dump that turned into a dumpster fire. Too many MLB teams won’t even strive for mediocrity (BASIC/PREMIUM content/Not yet a BASIC/PREMIUM member? $19)
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KEN READ: It’s time for MLB to put protective netting up from home plate to the foul poles (BASIC/PREMIUM membership content
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SPORTS: The Ball Four author was a significant social activist, speaking out about apartheid, and exposing small-town government and media corruption ($$)
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SPORTS: It’s time for players and managers to grow up and get rid of the ego-based false machismo that ruins the game ($$)
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KEN REED: Injury research through analytics should be priority one, since baseball owners spent $745,769,319 on injured list players in 2018 alone ($$)
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BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: The U.S. senator is using baseball to decry the inequalities that crop up in capitalism. That’s just nonsense ($$)
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BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Only the purity of competition assures that the resulting data has relevance and application in a sport ($$)
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BRIAN GIESBRECHT: What’s in a name? Apparently plenty when it comes to sports teams and imaginary slights (FREE)
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BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: MLB is in the throes of a sea change that promises to alter everything from parity in the sport to the running time of games ($$)
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BRUCE DOWBIGGIN: Far too many odious owners haunt the world of professional sports, preying on ticket-buying fans ($$)
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Every time MLB moves away from its history, tradition and nostalgia, the game doesn’t improve a little, it dies a little
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