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Sheryl Crow Fundraising All-Star concert
With Sheryl Crow headlining the MLB All-Star Game with a fundraising concert this weekend in St. Louis she sets to further back Major League Baseball’s prototion of President Barack Obama’s ‘United We Serve’ initiative as a part of a daylong celebration of baseball history.
“I’m from such an avid baseball-fan family, especially the Cardinals,” said Crow. “When we got asked to do it here, in St. Louis, that made it even more special. I have great memories of seeing summer bands under the arch. In fact, I was here in the ’70s when Elton John played under the Arch, and there was like 70,000 people here. So it’s an honor and a real privilege to get to do it for MLB and Stand Up To Cancer.”
The 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Charity Concert is a free concert will be help under the St. Louis Gateway Arch on Saturday July, 11th which it is just one of many charitable events leading up to the All-Star game. During which the MLB will donate $1 million to Stand Up To Cancer.
La’Roi Glover Tackles Retirement
Veteran defensive tackle La’Roi Glover makes his move final move, announcing his retirement after 13 NFL seasons.
His noteworthy career encompassed a number of teams, starting with his initial 1996 NFL draft into the Raiders organization and included a number of seasons played for New Orleans and Dallas before finishing out his playing days with the St. Louis Rams.
“I’m blessed that I was able to play this game that I love for so long. It has been such an incredible journey. The players, coaches, and front office staff in the cities I’ve played have all given me so many great memories,” said Glover with Monday’s announcement. “I still love the game with the same passion I had as a young player in high school, so I plan to always be attached to it in some way, whether commentating, working in the front office, or scouting. But who knows what opportunities await in the next chapter of my life.”
Streamlining Baseball’s In-Market Streaming Service
Bud Selig has outlined terms in a June 19th memo that the remaining 30 Major League Baseball teams, aside from the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres, and have been sent specifying details for an in-market plan that allows teams to offer live streaming games and resolve the current local blackout issues.
Selig called the framework, “a fair and practical outcome to break what I have called the in-market streaming ‘logjam.’” Although the deal did outline a 50-50 revue split between the MLBAM and the local interests that could very well be adjusted as early as 2011 in order to “determine the fairness of the allocation and the impact upon industry economics.”
With the onset of the Yankees and Padres deals as well as MLB President Bob DuPuy’s expectations that “a majority” of the MLB teams will have similar local streaming deals as soon as next year but most teams may have been waiting to see just how lucrative the local streaming services would be before bartering a deal.
President Obama’s Second Chance at a First pitch
It is official, in an announcement made by the White house, President Obama will be in route to St. Louis to throw the first pitch kicking off the Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 14th.
“Major League Baseball is truly honored that President Obama will be in attendance to throw out the first pitch at the 80th All-Star Game on July 14 in St. Louis,” MLB Commissioner Bud Selig said.
Being just the fourth president to have held this honor during an MLB All-Star game including Kennedy, Nixon and Ford Obama looks to use this opportunity for more then just an appearance. He reportedly plans to use this face time to inform fans of his “United We Serve” initiative.
Fehr Well
After a quarter-century as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, Fehr is being tagged the one lenient source that enabled the degradation of baseball through steroid use. A position that enabled him to run the MLBPA in away that allowed him “to get to do what you think is the right thing to do.” as an executive director that ran the MLB into the ground perhpas, “as long as you make a reasonable case for doing what you think is the right thing to do,” Fehr said.
Just like a school boy of today’s age, not knowing is a formidable response, or at least one that moved onto the next question as fair stated in regards to the steroid use in baseball, “If we, I, had known or understood what the circumstances were a little better, then perhaps we would have moved sooner”.
Moreover Bud Selig did have these words to say about Fehr’s ‘influence on Baseball, “for more than 25 years, Don has represented his constituency with passion, loyalty and great diligence . . . We have worked together to find a common ground for the betterment of the game, which will have resulted in 16 years of unprecedented labour peace by the end of our collective bargaining agreement”.
Vin Mazzaro was Off on the Right Foot
With Bob Green’s words, Vin Mazzaro’s career begun, as Geren called to the bench announcing “The future, is now.” With the young pitcher off on the right foot in his MLB debut win against the Chicago White Sox after two innings of loosening the butterflies and settling into the rotation. He had thrown 105 pitches, 60 of which were strikes and only walking four batters.
However his second debut was not so picturesque. Despite striking out 8 batters rookie pitcher Vin Mazzaro continued Oakland Athletics’ five game losing streak and Rockies first sweep of the A’s.
We’re swinging it pretty well, the ball’s just not dropping,” Mazzaro said after Oakland out-hit Colorado 11-9 at the Coliseum. “We’ve just got to go out and keep hacking.”
MLB DEA Team Up
MLB president Bob DuPuy confirmed the leagues cooperation with the DEA investigation. Federal investigation into how Manny Ramirez obtained hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) which became a banned substance from the MLB last year because of the masking effects it has on detecting steroid use.
Allegedly doctor Pedro Publio Bosch and his son Anthony Bosch, said to be the middle man between the doctor and Ramirez, are the focus of the investigation and whether or not Dr. Bosch is the source of other illegally obtained prescriptions.
Yankees Bold Streaming Move
With most teams looking for more ways to bring the fans to the staduim, the Yankees make a bold move by offering local streamed online games.
“We know there’s a demand” for streamed New York Yankees games, Bob Bowman, the chief executive of MLB Advanced Media, said in a conference call. “The No. 1 e-mail issue we receive is the out-of-market blackouts.”
Current available options for the service by the YES Network through service provider Cablevision at either a $19.95 a month or $49.95 price point, for the rest of the current season, giving fans streaming Yankees game coverage. The concept is laid out but how much convenience does the TV experience bring to a baseball viewer? I would say that on the job streaming may in fact be the ticket with so many computer related working professionals. However with the games only being streamed to New York Yankees fans in the local New York area, the reach may be slightly minimal for the time being.
Celebrating MLB’s mark on Civil Rights
“Baseball led the nation, integrating ten months before Harry Truman became the first president to send a civil-rights message to Congress, a year before integration of the armed forces, three years before the first black player was taken in the NBA draft, and way ahead of the nation’s political mood. Washington was still sharply segregated. Throughout Jackie Robinson’s first year with the Dodgers, there was not a single mention in any Washington newspaper of any statement by any congressman – from anywhere- that was critical of segregation policies still in effect in the capital. Baseball….deserves recognition for leading-dragging-the rest of America a little closer to the ultimate goal of equality and opportunity,” Reported Mike Bauman from the civil rights game.
The MLB civil rights game was a commemorative celebration honoring racial equalities integration into society and the importance of civil rights. With the integration of the Negro league into the MLB in 1947 it marked a vital event in the civil rights movement and a show of equality.
The civil rights game also featured a speech from former president Bill Clinton and his words of wisdom in recognition of baseballs part, “Baseball is a social institution with very important social responsibilities, and on behalf of baseball I am proud to honor those who fight for civil rights and improve our society. I’m proud of the role baseball has played in giving people of all creeds, races and colors the chance to enjoy the life that freedom brings.”
MLB and the Rooney Rule Enforcing Fairness
Affirmative action may in fact be more of a less cordial and well known term when describing what the NFL extended the policy that requires NFL teams to interview at least one minority when interviewing for senior football operations, general manager, executive vice president or other related staffing position.
“The discussion at the league meeting identified the strong reasons for taking this step, which in large part simply confirms a recommended practice that clubs have voluntarily embraced,” Goodell said in a written statement released by the NFL. “The recommendation also recognizes that this process has worked well in the context of head coaches, and that clubs have deservedly received considerable positive recognition for their efforts in this respect.”
Previously it was only necessary for a club to interview at least on minority when considering a new candidate for a head coach position. This has been widely known as the Rooney Rule after Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney and chairman of the league’s workplace diversity committee made steps toward encompassing minority interviewing requirements.
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