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Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 09:36PM MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - OPINION - This is the slot where the nice story on the "Women in Baseball" meeting, a new event for MiLB, should have gone.
I say "should have gone," because coverage of the event was
Monday, December 15, 2008 at 09:44PM MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Las Vegas, Nev. - OPINION - MLB took a roll on Las Vegas and came up snake eyes with its selection of a host city for the Baseball Winter Meetings. Unfortunately, the dice split on to two tables twenty minutes apart, which caused all kinds of problems.
Each year, the owners of both
Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 10:22AM MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore spoke about family and baseball, and knowing the difference between the two yesterday morning at the Baseball Chapel Breakfast.
"God is not impressed with your stats here on Earth," Moore told the crowd of 200 minor league executives and front office staffers gathered in the Las Vegas Convention Center meeting room. He shared his decision to
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 04:17PM MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Las Vegas, Nev - The Omaha Royals are on the move, getting the blessing from the Pacific Coast League at their annual Winter Meetings to pursue a move to the suburbs of Sarpy County and to downsize to a new "flex" park set for an estimated 6,700
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 02:18AM AJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Las Vegas, Nev. - Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle was there at both the beginning and the culmination of Dexter Fowler's journey to the big leagues.
"It's fun to watch young players develop, and I watched Dexter's first game with us in the
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 01:48AM MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Las Vegas, NV - Tommy Hanson, featured in MLN's recent AFL piece, was named the 2008 recipient of the Arizona Fall League's Joe Black MVP Award. Pitching for the Mesa Solar Sox, the right-hander led the AFL in victories (5), ERA (0.63) and strikeouts (49).
Hanson, an Atlanta Braves farmhand, is the first pitcher in Fall League history to take home the MVP honors.
During the 2008 regular season, the 22-year-old hurler recorded an 11-5 record and a 2.41 ERA pitching for the high-A Myrtle Beach Pelicans and the Double-A Mississippi Braves.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 11:40AM MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Las Vegas, NV - EXCLUSIVE TO MLN Sports - Reid Ryan, President and CEO of Ryan-Sanders Baseball has told MLN Sports this morning that his company will sign on to the Baseball Internet Rights Company (BIRCO). Ryan-Sanders had been one of the biggest organizations that had decided not to particpate in BIRCO during the mid-September voting held by the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (the NA).
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 04:21AM MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Las Vegas, Nev. - The 2008 season was a bitter sweet year for the International League. Things were rosy on the business side as the 124-year-old circuit set an attendance record by drawing 7,097,411 fans, breaking the previous mark of
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 04:12AM
MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Las Vegas, Nev. - 12.09.08 - National Association of Professional Baseball Leagus (NA) president Pat O’Conner announced that the organization had finally reached an agreement with Baseball Advanced Media (BAM) to become the exclusive provider of individual team websites under a collective entity called the Baseball Internet Rights Company (BIRCO) today at the opening session of the Minor League Baseball Winter Meetings.
O’Conner’s announcement may have been premature. There were still more tha
Monday, December 8, 2008 at 08:38PM 
Pat O'Conner, President, NAPBLMAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The buzz around the opening day of the MiLB side of the Baseball Winter Meetings was not about the latest player scheduled to sign, or even about steroids. The primary buzz this morning was about one thing very dear to minor league baseball, sponsorship money, that comes to MiLB clubs from three key businesses that are all in economic hot water and/or major reorganization: The Big Three, banks and beer. At a time of economic tension around the country, no one is apt to feel the pinch more than minor league sports.
Monday, December 8, 2008 at 08:14PM MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Minor League Baseball (MiLB) and its parent, the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (the NA) announced the Minor League Executives of the Year for each of the 15 leagues within the NA that make up MiLB. The complete story is available at our sister publication, MLN - The Raw Feed.
Monday, December 8, 2008 at 03:58PM MAJOR BLOGS - www.majorblogs.net - Oscar, Oscar, Oscar....
Mayor Oscar Goodman, flanked by his "bullpen," a pair of old-school showgirls, addressed the Minor League Baseball (MiLB) Awards Luncheon moments ago, with the Don Quixote-like call: "Las Vegas is a wonderful city, and it deserves a Major League Baseball franchise."
The problem?
Mayor Goodman took the opportunity to make the pitch to
Monday, December 8, 2008 at 10:44AM It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Okay that's as much Dickens as I'm doing this holiday season. We're coming to you live from the MiLB side of the Baseball Winter Meetings 2008 here in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Last year's meeting was embroiled in the pending Mitchell Commission report. We come into this year's meetings with a much more quiet, but equally profound contreversy.
Dickens' quote sums up the 400lb. gorilla in the room coming into these meetings. Things are going very well for both Major and Minor League Baseball, yet
