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I’m so tired of hearing, “Well, every owner is a billionaire, tell yours to spend like the Dodgers.” Okay.. HOW? Because this Dodgers competitive advantage goes WAY beyond one billionaire simply caring more than another. The Dodgers are expected to shield more than $1.3 BILLION from revenue sharing over the 25-year life of their local-TV...

Pittsburgh’s mayor is not hiding the ball on this one. Acrisure Stadium and PNC Park both need work, and Corey O’Connor says Pittsburgh stadium public funding belongs in the conversation. His logic is simple enough. The city pulls tax money out of those two buildings, so keeping them standing is good for everybody. Fine. Both...

Cal Raleigh hit 60 home runs last season. Right now he is hitting .159, and that number still does not look real. Line him up next to a couple of other guys and the World Baseball Classic hangover stops sounding like an excuse and starts sounding like the only answer anybody has. Start with Raleigh,...

A Shohei Ohtani opt out is the single most powerful card anyone could hold in professional baseball, and we found out this week he is never going to play it. The Athletic reported that even if Mark Walter sells the Dodgers, Ohtani isn’t going anywhere.. and look, I get it. I just don’t respect it....

MLB owners are ready to cancel the whole 2027 season and I hope they do it. I’m a Pirates fan. What the hell are you threatening me with? This is what baseball needs, a cap and a floor. A real MLB salary floor, not the soft one these guys just put on paper. Some of...

Ernie Clement almost beat Shohei Ohtani in the MLB All-Star fan vote this year and I need you to actually sit with that for a second, because it explains every single thing wrong with how this whole thing gets decided. The MLB All-Star Fan Vote Just Handed Ernie Clement Ohtani’s Spotlight Clement’s a good story,...

Tatsuya Imai walked three of his first four batters tonight, loaded the bases in the first inning against the Texas Rangers, and got bailed out when someone hit into a double play. He then pitched five more hitless innings, walked a fourth batter, and got pulled. Steven Okert came in, walked a fifth Rangers batter,...

I love football in the snow. Always have. Watching two teams grind it out on a frozen field in January while guys can barely feel their hands is some of the best sports television you can find. The elements don’t ruin football. They make it. Cold weather baseball in April works the same way. You...

MLB rule changes work. More than half of ABS challenges this year are getting overturned, which means umpires were wrong more than half the time somebody pushed back on a call. The pitch clock cut 25 minutes off the average game. ABS is working on day one of its first real season. There are four...

Rob Manfred called a lockout “a positive.” The commissioner of Major League Baseball looked at the idea of shutting his own sport down and used the word positive. Tony Clark, the head of the players union, just resigned in disgrace four days ago after getting caught in a federal investigation involving his sister-in-law he personally...

The MLB 2027 lockout odds just jumped because the players’ union lost its top voice at the exact moment it needed to look bulletproof. Tony Clark resigned this week, and the reporting around it is not the kind you file under “messy breakup” or “awkward office email.” It includes an internal finding of an inappropriate...

MLB can flirt with prediction markets, but after FTX and a fresh pitch-fixing case, baseball should keep its distance. Fans are already drowning in gambling ads, and this is how sports get unwatchable. Baseball doesn’t need another “innovative partnership” that sounds smart in a boardroom and feels gross on your couch. Rob Manfred has openly...

MLB’s ABS challenge system will roast players who swear they know the strike zone. Early spring numbers show challenges are basically a coin flip, and that’s the whole joke. Everybody wants robot umps until the players can’t stop challenging the wrong pitches. The helmet tap is about to become baseball’s new version of yelling at...

When the air downtown felt electric, fireworks blew over the Allegheny, and black and gold wasn’t just a color. It was a damn identity. You could feel it in your chest. The Super Bowl was expected. The Cup was realistic. The city moved different. 2009, 2016, 2017. We were alive. That’s gone. Long gone. Now...