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They’re protesting public funding for the Marlins’ ballpark down in Miami: Elected officials, community organizations, business owners and others gathered outside the Fillmore at the Jackson Gleason Theater in Miami Beach on Tuesday, explaining how the proposed Marlins baseball stadium would divert needed money from the local economy. One member of the coalition, City of […]

If you would have asked me three months ago whether it would more likely that Manny Ramirez or Jeff Weaver had a job come mid-February, I would not have bet on Jeff Weaver. Of course, I would have lost that bet.

Yesterday I dismissed the notion that the A-Rod stuff would have a negative impact on the Yankee brand, as it were. I still believe that, but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be some repercussions in fanland. I am far too old and lame to understand how social networks actually work, but THT’s own Bryan […]

No more arbitration for Big Ryan: Ryan Howard just wanted to concentrate on baseball this spring. No squabbles over his contract. No daily questions about his future. The big slugger got his wish — and a hefty raise, too. Howard and the Philadelphia Phillies agreed to a $54 million, three-year contract on Sunday, avoiding a […]

Lots of moves occurred this past week: the Chicago Cubs dumped off two pitchers while the Philadelphia Phillies locked up Ryan Howard for three years.

The first of two articles looking at some of the more notable starting pitchers for a franchise who never had a hurler elected into Cooperstown via the BBWAA

We’ve come across this guy before, but here’s more on Carl Yastrzemski’s grandson, who will soon be playing for Vanderbilt. I find the scouts’ comments the most interesting. Maybe Keith Law is more qualified to parse their assessments, but they sort of sound guarded, like the way you sound when someone gives you a clunker […]

Blood is clearly in the water with respect to the Citigroup-Mets naming rights deal, and when blood is in the water, reason is often the first thing thrown overboard: “They just act as though the taxpayers’ money is free money, and they can spend it any way they want. Well, no they can’t,” says Rep. […]

The latest in the business of baseball.