by Kent Sterling Twenty-five years ago tonight, an exceptionally old man named Harry Grossman wheezed, “Let there be lights!”, pressed a button on a box with some wires sticking out of the bottom, and the lights came on at Wrigley Field for the first time. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter Grossman was one […]
by Kent Sterling National media folks who line up to kiss Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig’s ring for his work to solve the PED problem in baseball are nauseatingly wrong. The steroid age never went anywhere. Players still juice, just with different stuff than before. The consequences for doping still fail to deter those who feel […]
by Kent Sterling Can Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig pour a cup of coffee without consulting an attorney? Does he need Alan Dershowitz to call his cardiologist to negotiate an extra pack of sugar or dollop of creamer? It’s time for Bud to sack up and lead, or get the hell out of the way. Click here to […]
by Kent Sterling If you want a reason why the improvement of the Chicago Cubs through the Theo Epstein rebuild is an act of futility, it’s because St. Louis Cardinals General Manager John Mozeliak is a really smart guy – smart enough that he won’t allow it. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter After […]
by Kent Sterling The players former Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry signed are all gone, but the bills will keep coming for another 14 months as Alfonso Soriano has been dealt to the New York Yankees. The Cubs will pick up $17.7 million of the $24.5 million he is owed, according to reports, and for […]
by Kent Sterling There is a tendency within people to forgive, and it has not place in ensuring equity and fairness in sports. Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis was the first commissioner of baseball. The owners asked him to clean up baseball’s gambling problem. In particular, they wanted answers about the allegations that the 1919 World Series […]
by Kent Sterling Chicago Cubs President Theo Epstein and the Texas Rangers finally pulled the trigger on a trade that was cooking for more than a week as Matt Garza goes to Texas for #22 overall MLB prospect third baseman Mike Olt, mediocre young arm Justin Grimm, and rising pitching prospect C.J. Edwards. Click here […]
by Kent Sterling The “simple truth” is Ryan Braun is guilty, and has been suspended for the remainder of the 2013 baseball season. Ryan Braun screamed from the rooftops that he was innocent two years ago when he appealed a suspension for the use of performance enhancing drugs, and called into serious question the professionalism […]
by Kent Sterling Colts tight end Weslye Saunders has been suspended for the first eight games of the 2013 season because of a positive test for PEDs. Ryan Braun, Alex Rodriguez, and at least a dozen others await their fate in baseball’s ongoing crackdown against PEDs, and the induction ceremony at the Baseball Hall of […]
by Kent Sterling If players don’t care about who wins, fans are smart enough to not care themselves, and fans are caring less about Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game than ever. The five-year averages for TV ratings have dropped from 17.4 (1988-1992) to 14.0 (1993-1997) to 11.2 (1998-2002) to 8.8 (2003-2007) to 7.9 (2008-2012). While it […]