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Method Hagan | Thursday, March 17, 2022
Baseball is back! Last week, after a lockout that lasted more than three months, the MLB and MLBPA finally came to an agreement on a new labor deal. The new Collective Bargaining agreement that the two parties agreed to was quite controversial. Of course, baseball fans were relieved to hear that there would be a
David Kramer | Monday, December 6, 2021
With the enforcement of the MLB, lockout comes haunting questions about the future of the game. Of course, concerns over the resumption of baseball activity this season are legitimate, but the proposals of the lockout hold much greater bearing on how baseball will modernize itself. For the first time in nearly 30 years, the MLBPA-owner
David Kramer | Monday, September 20, 2021
Bennett Miller’s quintessential baseball film “Moneyball” remains one of the most honest looks about transformative thinking and cognitive biases in the realm of sports. Peter Brand, Jonah Hill’s wonderfully depicted assistant to Billy Beane, places the narrative under this lens throughout the film. But perhaps most definitively, through his anti-establishment viewpoint among a group of
David Kramer | Friday, February 19, 2021
All it took for the MLB to lose its integrity was a viral video about juice. Amid the seemingly uncontainable spread of the coronavirus last summer, Major League Baseball executives became the laughing stock of the sports community at the hands of Andrew McCutchen, Phillies outfielder and outspoken ambassador for the MLB players’ union. June