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The topic of expansion in Major League Baseball has been bounced around a good bit lately. This topic distracts from discussing the elephant in the room (not the Athletics mascot). The labor dispute between players and owners , or millionaires and billionaires, is looming at the end of this season. If they don’t get that worked out, it won’t matter if there are 2 teams or 50. The game will be on thin ice. I’ll have more to say about that as the year goes by, but for now I’ll

I remember…… When it was rare to hear of a kicker attempting a field goal from 50 yards or more. Now these are common. Last year in the NFL there were 70 from 50-59 yards and 12 from over 60 yards. When you could pick up a newspaper and review box scores from all the previous night’s baseball games. When baseball players had to have a job in the off-season to support their family. When we didn’t know anything about an athlete’s personal life. We just knew their stats and thei

The first week of Texas Rangers Spring Training is in the books. The record after the first three games is 2-1. Since that would project to a 108-54 regular season record, we’ll settle for that. I never really did a full postmortem on the 2025 season. Never could get prepare my usual full evaluation and report cards for the team. Unfortunately it was too much like the previous year’s autopsy, and I just couldn’t get around to it. There were certainly some good things to remem