
Back in June I made a guest appearance on CBC Sports’ online series “Trackside,” to discuss the implications of Grand Slam Track cancelling their season finale. The task: don my sports business reporter hat, and help the hosts and audience unravel GST’s corporate spin regarding the premature end to the league’s rookie season.

The cold, unappetizing truth for Steve Cohen is that he has only one person to blame for the backlash presently aimed at his baseball team, and it isn’t David Stearns. Oh, Stearns makes for an easy target, a never-played-the-game Harvard man who is the perfect contrast to the rub-some-dirt-on-it tobacco chompers who ruled the game for a century.