Like every other professional sports league, Major League Baseball has been forced to postpone its games due to COVID-19. Rather than beginning the season as scheduled on March 26, MLB franchise owners and the MLB Players Association were busy negotiating player service-time and salary issues, as well as a framework for a hopeful return to … Continue Reading
The beginning of October saw the start of the postseason in Major League Baseball and we are now at the finals stage in both the National and American League competitions. In the American League, the LA Dodgers lead the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 in the best of 7 series, whilst last night the Boston Red Sox … Continue Reading
Most sports have rules or guidelines of varying complexity which are written down and interpreted by teams, umpires, players and fans (according to their respective affiliations). Inevitably there is always a sense of ambiguity to the interpretation of these rules (for example, see the differences in how northern and southern hemisphere rugby referees, and/ or … Continue Reading
The Chicago Cubs 8-7 victory over the Cleveland Indians last week was not only dramatic in purely sporting terms, not least given that the Cubs stormed back from a 3-1 World Series deficit to clinch the Championship. It also ended the small matter of the Cubs’ 108 year wait for the World Series, a period … Continue Reading
