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Byline: Maury Brown I'll keep this short and bittersweet... On February 22nd, BizofBaseball.com, better known as The Biz of Baseball is shutting down. The reasons are numerous... Upgrading the Joomla [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Hello, it's me. Yes, it's been an exceptionally long time since I've posted to The Biz of Baseball. For those that follow my comings and going via [...]

Byline: Maury Brown It's not often that I pump out a column that reaches far deeper than sports, and instead, asks uncomfortable questions that each of us need to face, [...]

Byline: Maury Brown 'The A's have a problem. Baseball has a problem. Portland is the solution.' I'm talking with long-time Portland business associate, Lynn Lashbrook. Since 2000, he and I [...]

Byline: Maury Brown When it comes to video games, like movies, reboots can come with a mixed bag. On one hand, we're happy to rekindle a beloved title, but updating [...]

Byline: Maury Brown It seems nothing is beyond reality when it comes to concession offerings at the ballpark these days. Whether it's a $25 corn dog (http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2014/03/18/a-25-corn-dog-arizona-diamondbacks-unveil-18-inch-stuffed-d-bat-dog/) from the Arizona [...]

Byline: Maury Brown With MLB revenues increasing, clubs are taking more risks with contract amounts, and more importantly, lengths As we roll up on the start of the 2014 MLB [...]

Byline: Maury Brown A note from the author... They say, better late than never, but I've never believed in that. This data should have been published long ago (after all, [...]

Byline: Maury Brown FOX Sports today announced their 2014 MLB broadcast schedule, and with it, fans will see a several changes compared to year's prior, including changes to the blackout [...]

Byline: Maury Brown UPDATE: According to several sources, the naming rights deal has an AAV of approx. $5 million. That would place total value at approx. $50 million Today, the [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Click to read (http://bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5920:fredric-horowitz-decision-on-alex-rodriguex-suspension-pdf&catid=38:performance-enhancing-drugs-peds&Itemid=49) the Horowitz decision on Alex Rodriguez The Biz of Baseball has been updated with a new document With arbitrator Fredric Horowitz rendering a [...]

Byline: Maury Brown As the calendar turned from 2013 to 2014, we can officially look back on the last season in Major League Baseball and size it up, not only [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Former Dodgers GM Dan Evans and I discussing the business of baseball at the SMWW Baseball Career Conference If you spend enough time around those that work [...]

Byline: Maury Brown When the Braves announced plans on Monday to move from downtown Atlanta to approx. 10 miles away in Cobb Co., it took most everyone by surprise. After [...]

Byline: Maury Brown MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) has been a cash cow for Major League Baseball and its 30 clubs, but how it has increased over the past few years [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Nolan Ryan, who was a key figurehead during the bankruptcy sale of the Texas Rangers; who nearly left the club at the beginning of the season when [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Major League Baseball today announced the national broadcast schedule for the 2013 World Series, set to begin on Wednesday, October 23rd at either Boston's Fenway Park or [...]

Byline: Maury Brown The 2013 postseason hasn't been completed, but already those that are looking to get a job in Major League Baseball for the 2014 season have an opportunity [...]

Byline: Maury Brown The dramatic comeback by the Boston Red Sox in Game 2 of the ALCS was a massive ratings win for FOX Sunday night. That dramatic comeback that [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Major League Baseball today announced the umpires who have been assigned to the National League and American League Championship Series. Thirty-year Major League Umpire Gerry Davis will [...]

Byline: Maury Brown With a decisive Game 5 between the Pirates and the Cardinals, with the winner moving on the meet the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS, viewers reached [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Ratings continue to be strong with the Division Series seeing crucial 'win or go home' elimination games on the slate. TBS' national telecasts of Athletics-Tigers and Red [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Whether it's large markets and storied brands (Red Sox, Dodgers), or that the Pirates are in, or that Tigers are trying to get back to the World [...]

Byline: Maury Brown They say that life isn't fair, so get used to it, but there's times when that cold splash of reality in such a neat package isn't enough. [...]

Byline: Maury Brown With the first playoff game in Pittsburgh since 1992, and the winner-advances format for the Wild Card, fans tuned in to Tuesday's NL Wild Card game to [...]

Byline: Maury Brown ' width='150' height='132' style='float: left; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;' />When Bud Selig made his announcement last week that he was, indeed, retiring at the end of his [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Touting it as a 'way to have a piece of history' the Miami Marlins are selling $15 tickets to yesterday's no-hitter by Henderson Alvarez. The tickets will [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Comcast SportsNet Houston, the regional sports network created in partnership with the Houston Astros, Houston Rockets, and NBC Universal/Comcast, filed involuntary bankruptcy on Friday. The Houston Astros, [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Selig is officially retiring. Now the question is, who will replace him? This time it counts. No, it's not the outcome of the All-Star Game, but rather [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Jack Zduriencik, the general manager of the Seattle Mariners will be returning for at least the 2014 season, according to a report (http://blogs.seattletimes.com/mariners/2013/09/24/chuck-armstrong-confirms-jack-zduriencik-back-in-2014/) by Geoff Baker of [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Hiroshi Yamauchi, the man listed as majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, and a key figure that headed Nintendo from 1994 to 2002, passed away at the [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Important message.... Dear valued sports business member, For nearly a decade, those of us at the Business of Sports Network have strived to bring you not only [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Minor League Baseball announced today that its regular season attendance surpassed 41 million fans again this season, as it has done so for nearly a decade. The [...]

Byline: Maury Brown When NBA commissioner David Stern decided that it was time to retire 30 years to the day he took the position, the league and its owners knew [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Major League Baseball today announced the schedule for the 2013 Postseason, which is set to open with the National League Wild Card Game presented by Budweiser on [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Unless there is catastrophe, a glance at the AL East standings shows the Boston Red Sox either winning the division or being an AL Wild Card team. [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Kirk Gibson (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gibsoki01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-bizofbaseball.com) must have nearly run out of ink for this historic line-up card While most were fast asleep, the game raged on. Inning after inning, [...]

Byline: Maury Brown What are we to make of Ryan Braun's public apology? Verbose in its length (see all 10 paragraphs and 944 words of it by selecting, Read More [...]

Byline: Maury Brown How are we supposed to feel about A-Rod? There's a pill for that In a sense, listening to Bryant Gumbel's closing commentary on HBO's Real Sports with [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Kansas City Royals infielder Miguel Tejada (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tejadmi01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-bizofbaseball.com) has received a 105-game suspension without pay after testing positive for an Amphetamine in violation of Major League Baseball's Joint [...]

Byline: Maury Brown On a day that Commissioner Selig called, 'historic', Major League Baseball is expected to have expanded instant replay on virtually all aspects of the game, short of [...]

Byline: Maury Brown By now you've probably heard that the Rangers and Angels have each been part of $3 billion television rights deals. And, you're bound to be aware that [...]

Byline: Maury Brown When the Single-A Yakima Bears moved in to fill the void in Portland, OR for professional baseball, the owners knew that with the larger market, rebranding would [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Barring injury, Alex Rodriguez will likely play out the remainder of the 2013 season On Wednesday, the Major League Baseball Players Association formally filed a grievance regarding [...]

Byline: Maury Brown There he was in front of a microphone just prior to the Yankees game against the White Sox. Alex Rodriguez, who the league had just hours earlier [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Alex Rodriguez could lose $63,312,219 if his suspension is upheld The largest number of suspensions for players using performance-enhancing substances has now occurred as Major League Baseball [...]

Byline: Maury Brown Barring a last minute change, Alex Rodriguez (http://www.baseball-reference.com/player_search.cgi?results=rodrial01,rodrig011ale&utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-bizofbaseball.com) and up to 12 other players, including Nelson Cruz (http://www.baseball-reference.com/player_search.cgi?results=cruzne01,cruzne02&utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-bizofbaseball.com) of the Texas Rangers, Jhonny Peralta (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/peraljh01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-bizofbaseball.com) of the [...]