Alvarez, Manny situations a mess

...try to prove that the Royals had the Eric Hosmer contract done before midnight, but that Rob...in 2002, but Selig and union chief Don Fehr never got around to it. The next six...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 28, 2008

Players must regain public trust

...and left us with Bud Selig and Donald Fehr as the faces and voices of the game...the only subject of questions Brian Roberts and Eric Gagne will face. It may be two years...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 10, 2008

Mitchell lacked critical insight

...report is almost wholly absent of a direct examination and assessment of how the decisions of Don Fehr and Bud Selig led us to where we are today. We are told of the alleged drug...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 16, 2007

An inescapable legacy

Bud Selig announced his decision to follow Barry Bonds' pursuit of the all-time home run record, finally, and was at AT&T Park on Tuesday night, belat...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 25, 2007

Q&A with President Bush

George W. Bush, the former owner of the Rangers and current president of the United States, agreed to an interview with Karl Ravech on Sunday to talk...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 16, 2007

Summer steroid battle just starting

...we could, and if Henry Waxman and John McCain want more answers, then they can call Don Fehr and ask him. FANTASY ON THE RISE • Yovani Gallardo, Brewers: The best pitching prospect in...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 15, 2007

The plot thickens

Bud Selig has escalated the Jason Giambi issue in a way that any parent could understand. He's making threats. We've already passed the young man, yo...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 07, 2007

HGH issue suddenly erupts

The powers that be in baseball claim ignorance about steroid use in the 1990s. We didn't have enough information, they say. Red flags didn't go up unt...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 07, 2006

Rose too busy to think about Hall

...slight problem Monday morning: They had forgotten to bring their bats, literally. • You can assume Don Fehr and Barry Bonds talked about what might happen. Bonds tells Janie McCauley that his life is in...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 28, 2006

Perception of WBC injuries

...itself. Bud Selig says that the tournament has been better than he expected, and he and Don Fehr and Gene Orza have the most influence in generating the WBC. The players coming out of the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 18, 2006

Continuing the umpire discussion

Readers voice their thoughts on Rob Neyer's last column about Bob Davidson's botched call in the U.S.-Japan WBC game.

Story | Conversation | March 15, 2006

Neon Deion: A spring tradition

Headed off to spring training today. On the first day of the blog last spring, started off with a story about Deion Sanders, and we'll do the same thi...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 15, 2006

Secret Sox meeting with Rocket?

Could it be that the Red Sox have met secretly with Roger Clemens? There is evidence of this, Nick Cafardo writes. From Boston's perspective, there is...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 10, 2006

...was called to Congress to answer questions Wednesday, and instead, he mostly sat back and watched Don Fehr get hammered repeatedly by senators, who spoke to the union head the way parents nag at their...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 29, 2005

...about everything a senator is saying, then jab a thumb in the direction of union head Don Fehr, as if to say: You got problems with us? Talk to that guy over there. A senator...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 28, 2005