by Bob Harkins | Jul 19, 2020 | Major League Baseball
If you’re like me, you’re skeptical that MLB will be able to pull off even a shortened season without having some kind of negative impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, if you’re like me, you’re absolutely thrilled that we’re going to be watching real baseball...
by Bob Harkins | Jul 6, 2020 | Major League Baseball
Let me start this piece off by stating, unequivocally, that I love baseball. I have covered the game for many years. I have lingered in many clubhouses, interviewed players, managers, coaches and team officials, befriended security guards and team staffers. I love the...
by Bob Harkins | Jun 21, 2020 | Major League Baseball
With no baseball games to watch, no players to analyze and no prospects to track, we’ve found ourselves over at The Warehouse (subscribe!) talking quite a bit lately about what a season might look like if owners and players ever decided to buckle down, get together...
by Bob Harkins | Jun 7, 2020 | Major League Baseball
Let’s be honest, Major League Baseball was slow to respond to the death of George Floyd and the protests, unrest and, ironically, further police violence against minorities that ensued. Once MLB did finally respond on June 3, it came in mealy-mouthed and frankly a...
by Bob Harkins | May 29, 2020 | Major League Baseball
The coincidence was stunning. This week, I was notified that I will be joining the massively swelling ranks of the unemployed, effective July 1. A day later, Jeff Passan of ESPN reported that hundreds of minor league baseball players would be losing their jobs,...
