All across baseball, teams, agents and amateur players will be engaged in a high stakes game of chicken as tonight’s midnight deadline for signing players selected in the recent June Rule IV draft approaches. August 15 is the last day that teams are permitted to retain the rights of their selections from the most recent […]
Archive for August 16th, 2010
Down to the Wire: Signing Deadline Creates Game of Chicken Between Teams and Draft Picks
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Crying Wolf: Mounting Criticism Prompts Dibble to Clarify Remarks
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During yesterday’s Washington Nationals broadcast on MASN, Rob Dibble issued an “apology” for allegedly sexist remarks made during a game earlier in the week. Because his comments happened to fly under my radar screen, I wound up reading the apology (expounded upon in a blog entry) before knowing the offense. Usually, when someone evokes the […]
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