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HBO How MLB Keeps Its Players' Salaries Down
Baseball's labor contracts are full of technicalities that depress Major Leaguers' earnings. Meanwhile, in the minors, things are even worse.
Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Baseball Players Don't Always Make Good Managers
The sport widely continues to hire athletes with no experience running a team for the top position—but it should stop.
USA Today Sports / Reuters Hunger Games: The Uncertain Future of Competitive Eating
The sport should worry that it has only one popular contest and one real star—who’s reached his peak.
Eric Thayer / Reuters Battering the Batter
For too long, MLB has tolerated the 'tradition' of pitchers intentionally hitting the other team's players. That needs to change.
Adam Hunger / Reuters Baseball's New Parity: A Myth
Despite Bud Selig's claims, the success of underdogs in this year's MLB playoff race is a fluke.
Allen Fredrickson/Reuters The Most Dominant Athlete in a Century? A Competitive Eater
Joey Chestnut’s likely eight straight wins at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest will place him as the longest-reigning champ in any sport—better than Ruth, Jordan, or Gretzky.
Reuters How Comments Shape Perceptions of Sites' Quality—and Affect Traffic
Even if you don't realize it, unmoderated comments change the way you think about what you read.
Baseball's Fancy New Instant-Replay System Is Useless
If MLB really wanted to cut down on umpiring errors, it could skip the bizarre rules of "extended instant replay" and start addressing erroneous ball and strike calls.
Richard Drew / AP Chris Davis Should Be Chasing Bonds's Home-Run Record, Not Maris's
Disregarding the records set by performance-enhancing drug users like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGwire gives too much credit to PEDs.
