The Winter Meetings & What About Marketing?

November 30, 2023

Baseball’s Winter Meetings are right around the corner. They start on Sunday, December 3rd, and run through Wednesday, December 6th. This year, the Winter Meetings are held in Nashville, Tennessee at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. This is the Fifth time since 2000 (2002, ’07, ’12, ’15) that the event has been held in Nashville. If you have never been there, it should be on your bucket list….

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Why Sam Fuld?

December 23, 2020

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020, the Philadelphia Phillies hired Sam Fuld to be their General Manager, with no real experience in front office player personnel decision making.  It is incredulous to me that an industry such as MLB can continue to operate in the manner they are currently operating.  It is one thing to talk about Social Injustice as MLB continues to do, and then another thing to do something…

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Chico IS the Man

July 9, 2020

This may not have the Hollywood ending that many would have liked to have seen, but this story does have Hollywood roots.  The saga begins March 2008. Francisco “Chico” Herrera was an 18 year old high school baseball player from Hollywood High School when he was hired to be a ball boy for his Los Angeles Dodgers.  Job Description: If a player needs something, he gets it. It is thankless,…

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Culture Change

January 7, 2018

On InsideSocal.com, J.P. Hoornstra wrote a blog on December 30, 2017 about O’Koyea Dickson going to Japan.  I took me until today to read it because J.P. seldom posts there… the last time he posted was on July 23, 2017, where he wrote about Clayton Kershaw Leaving the Game With a Back Injury. So, him writing a post there was an actual event.  When I saw the post entitled: “Headed for…

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