Dan Rosenheck writes about his idea to “fix” revenue sharing in light of some of the leaked financials this week.  He suggests rather than have the money paid to revenue sharing be based on the payroll of the team, have it be based on market size, so the teams with access to more fans, higher [...]

Even though you may have already found your way to this piece, I just think it is a must read.  Crasnick writes about the new role of Jeff Bagwell as hitting coach, and the effect it has had in Houston.  The Astros have looked better than during the first half- and perhaps it is simply [...]

Big news our of Washington yesterday, as the Nationals announced that pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg will mist the rest of this season, and at least part of 2011 after he undergoes Tommy John surgery.  For such a young, unproven pitcher, Strasburg’s pitching has demanded headlines since he was drafted in 2009, and yesterday was more [...]

I didn’t quite get to this story earlier in the week, but beginning over the weekend, the new owners in Texas did some amazing things to say thank you to fans.  They cut prices of parking and concessions.  In the midst of what has been their best season in at least a dozen years, with [...]

ESPN’s Outside the Lines did a study on umpiring and MLB, examining how many close calls the umpires got right and wrong.  They found in the very small sample size that umpires blew 20% of the close calls- not 20% of calls, but 20% of the calls that could have been questioned.  That probably isn’t [...]

The Milwaukee Brewers used their commercial time between innings to talk about the charitable arm of the organization on Tuesday nights broadcast.  Instead of selling the ad time FOX Sports Wisconsin donated the ad time, and the team used it to talk about the foundation which gives to educational and health causes and to organizations [...]