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Will New MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Allow Pete Rose Back Into Baseball?

Will New MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Allow Pete Rose Back Into Baseball?

Now that Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is stepping down – and being replaced by Rob Manfred – Pete Rose is hoping that he will finally be allowed back into baseball, The Celebrity Café is reporting. Earlier this week, Rose spoke to ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap and discussed the upcoming transfer of power at the […]

10y ago

Pete Rose Banned from Baseball 25 Years Ago, Still Hoping To Return

Pete Rose Banned from Baseball 25 Years Ago, Still Hoping To Return

Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hits leader, was banned for life 25 years ago for betting on baseball while he was the manager of the Cincinnati Reds. He still holds out hope of being reinstated. Rose recently managed the independent Bridgeport Bluefish for a game last month. “They took some extra bases, made some headfirst slides, […]

10y ago

Pete Rose’s Baseball Comeback: One Time Stunt Or Sign Of Things To Come?

Pete Rose’s Baseball Comeback: One Time Stunt Or Sign Of Things To Come?

Pete Rose returned to baseball last night, managing the Bridgeport Bluefish, an independent Atlantic League team. Rose, whose lifetime ban from baseball came about because of a gambling scandal, made jokes about Donald Sterling’s recent ban from the NBA. He also talked about the possibility of Bud Selig pardoning him before his retirement in January. […]

10y ago

MLB Instant Replay Crash And Burn! Another Blown Call Makes System Look Ridiculous

MLB Instant Replay Crash And Burn! Another Blown Call Makes System Look Ridiculous

When MLB rolled out its expanded instant replay system to start the 2014 season the point was not to insure that umpires get some of the calls right, or even most of the calls right. Major League umpires are good enough to do that already. No, the point was to get all of the calls […]

10y ago

MLB Instant Replay: System Has Managers, Players Crying Foul, But How Is It Really Working?

MLB Instant Replay: System Has Managers, Players Crying Foul, But How Is It Really Working?

Instant replay came to MLB for the 2014 season, allowing managers for the first time to challenge umpires’ calls on the field, with the calls for all games being reviewed on video replay in a “command center” in New York City. The new system, which allows instant replay of a wide variety of calls, has […]

10y ago

Atlanta Braves Mark Hank Aaron Record-Breaking Home Run On 40th Anniversary

Atlanta Braves Mark Hank Aaron Record-Breaking Home Run On 40th Anniversary

The Atlanta Braves, with help from MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, took time before playing their home opener to mark the 40th anniversary of Hank Aaron’s 715th career home run, belted by the then-40-year-old slugger on April 8, 1974. The blast broke the career home run record held by Babe Ruth, whose previous record of 714 […]

10y ago

A-Rod Sues MLB, Bud Selig Over ‘Witch Hunt’

A-Rod Sues MLB, Bud Selig Over ‘Witch Hunt’

Alex Rodriguez is suing MLB and Commissioner Bud Selig over what he called a “witch hunt.” The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in New York State Supreme Court by A-Rod’s lawyers. The suit alleges that Selig and Major League Baseball sought to smear A-Rod’s reputation and “gloss over” the commissioner’s past inaction over performance-enhancing drugs […]

11y ago

Bud Selig Announces 2015 Retirement

Bud Selig Announces 2015 Retirement

Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has officially announced a January, 2015 retirement. Bud Selig has been the league’s commissioner full-time since 1998, and partially since 1992. He has helped shape the sport over the last 22 years, and has seen his share of good and bad times. The two year wait before Bud Selig’s […]

11y ago

Bud Selig Candid On Oakland Coliseum and Rays Attendance

Bud Selig Candid On Oakland Coliseum and Rays Attendance

Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig doesn’t speak candidly often. With his term coming to an end though, Selig got candid on the radio recently, opening up about the Oakland A’s stadium situation and Tampa Bay Rays poor attendance. The Oakland Athletics play at O.co Coliseum, a stadium they share with the Raiders, and a […]

11y ago

A-Rod’s Suspension Is ‘Eminently Fair’ Says Bud Selig

A-Rod’s Suspension Is ‘Eminently Fair’ Says Bud Selig

Alex Rodriguez’s suspension is well deserved and “eminently fair,” according to MLB commissioner Bud Selig. A-Rod was suspended last week for 211-games after he was found to be accepting performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) from a medical facility. Twelve other players accepted a 50-game suspension, but A-Rod believed that was too high of a penalty for […]

11y ago

MLB Video Review Process Being Expanded In 2014

MLB Video Review Process Being Expanded In 2014

Major League Baseball (MLB) is getting an expanded video review process for the 2014 season. With the new program, team managers will have more opportunity than ever to challenge bad play calling from MLB umpires. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, during a press conference on Thursday, announced the new plan with representatives from the leagues 30 […]

11y ago

Mark Cuban Blasts Selig ‘Mafia’ For A-Rod Suspension [Video]

Mark Cuban Blasts Selig ‘Mafia’ For A-Rod Suspension [Video]

Mark Cuban slammed MLB’s Bud Selig “mafia” for what he called the “horrible” steroid-related suspension of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. The Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank star commented on the A-Rod suspension in an appearance on Jay Leno’s show Thursday night. Thirteen players were suspended this week following an investigation into […]

11y ago

2013 MLB Draft: Mark Appel Goes First Overall, Bud Selig Can’t Get Year Right [Video]

2013 MLB Draft: Mark Appel Goes First Overall, Bud Selig Can’t Get Year Right [Video]

The 2013 MLB Draft was full of expected picks and one very confused commisioner. Mark Appel was selected eighth overall in the 2012 draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates but he failed to sign, so he returned to Stanford University for his senior season and the move paid off. Appel went first overall to the Houston […]

11y ago

Bud Selig Creating Task Force To Increase Number Of African-Americans In Baseball

Bud Selig Creating Task Force To Increase Number Of African-Americans In Baseball

Bud Selig is creating a task force to look at the historically low number of African-Americans in Major League Baseball and find ways to bring more of these players into the game. This year just 7.7 percent of opening -day rosters were made up of African-American players, a number that has been steadily declining in […]

11y ago

MLB Expanded Replay Could Be Coming In 2014

MLB Expanded Replay Could Be Coming In 2014

MLB expanded replay could be arriving by the start of the regular season in 2014. Joe Torre, who is an MLB executive vice president and is the manager of the USA”s WBC team, says that the league will be using the WBC to start looking at just how the expansion can be carried out. Torre […]

11y ago

Bud Selig Calls For Tougher PED Use Penalties

Bud Selig Calls For Tougher PED Use Penalties

Bud Selig has issued a call for even tougher penalties when it comes to those caught using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). Major League Baseball is still trying to dig itself out of an explosion of use of drugs like steroids and synthetic testosterone that has seen some of the game’s biggest stars get outed as […]

11y ago

Bud Selig: MLB Does Not Need More Video Replay Right Now

Bud Selig: MLB Does Not Need More Video Replay Right Now

Bud Selig, Major League Baseball Commissioner, told a small group on Wednesday that he doesn’t believe more video review of umpires’ calls is necessary, at least right now. Selig, who was previously reluctant to add replay for umpires, instituted the practice in August of 2008 for use during boundary calls on potential home runs, according […]

12y ago

Bug Selig Accepts Two Year Contract Extension, Will Remain League Commissioner Through 2014 Season

Bug Selig Accepts Two Year Contract Extension, Will Remain League Commissioner Through 2014 Season

Sue Selig has said all along that there was no way husband Bug Selig would walk away from Major League Baseball (MLB) and now the man who will turn 80-years-old in July has agreed to extend his contract for two additional years, allowing Bud to lead the league through the 2014 season. On Tuesday I […]

13y ago

MLB Commissioner Bud Selig Will Be Offered Job Extension [Insider Report]

MLB Commissioner Bud Selig Will Be Offered Job Extension [Insider Report]

77-year-old MLB commissioner Bud Selig will be offered a contract extension and a source inside the league says he’s likely to accept it. Selig currently has just one year remaining on his contract and had previously said he would retire when that contract agreement expired. If the rumor is correct Selig is expected to stick […]

13y ago

What’s next for the Los Angeles Dodgers?

What’s next for the Los Angeles Dodgers?

It has been 581 days since Frank and Jamie McCourt filed for divorce throwing the ownership situation of the Los angels Dodgers into complete chaos. I don’t know which is sadder that it takes that long to get divorced, or that it seems their divorce proceedings is longer than many other marriages. Now the Dodgers […]

13y ago

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