Season Resumed

We celebrate as the Players and Owners have agreed to a new MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement for the next 5 years. Opening Day is April 7th!

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Season Delayed

The Season has been delayed. We discuss with Jeff Cohen from the podcast Baseball and BBQ and ponder why the players and owner’s can’t just take the plunge like Farley.

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Locked Out

The MLB owners have locked out the players. What’s next? Will Spring Training or the Season be delayed? We debate.

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2021 New York Yankees

The second half of the season has begun but some Yankees have COVID-19 again. Can the Yankees make a run or will the virus make them done? Ed Kasputis interviews Andrew Mearns from pinstripealley.com about those men in pinstripes.

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2021 Atlanta Braves

We interrupt our previously scheduled Milwaukee Brewers podcast and turn to Atlanta as Major League Baseball has abruptly pulled this year’s All-Star Game from the Capitol of the South in response to Georgia’s new Election Integrity Law (Senate Bill 202). We review the law, COVID-19 updates and the State of the Braves.

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Tired of the Noise

We are tired of the noise as MLB owners and the MLB Player’s Association continue to bicker about whether to start the 2020 season. Our PhD Committee discusses and our podcast concludes as we get perspective from the one and only, Zack Hample.

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100% Game Delay

Commissioner Manfred has promised that there will be a 2020 MLB Season. We celebrate and discuss but with an eye on the reality that the devil is always in the details.

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60 Games?

The players and owners are deadlocked? Could the Commissioner unilaterally declare a 60 game MLB regular season? If so, let’s play ball!

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Blame the Players?

Could this year’s MLB Season never begin because of collective bargaining problems? The owners have proposed a 50/50 revenue split. If the players balk, should we blame the players?

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MLB Playoff Expansion?

We debate the merits of the idea of expanding the Major League Playoffs from ten to fourteen teams.

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