ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A monthly deep dive podcast on the history of baseball labor and what it means ahead of the 2027 Collective Bargaining Agreement. Podcast hosts Dominic Cotroneo and Scott Sweeney take the time to research singular topics over the years that pertain to the business of the game and the battles in boardrooms rather than the diamond.
SHOW SCHEDULE (Subject to change)
- April: Introducing the Players Association & the rise of Marvin Miller (1800s to 1976) — RELEASING FRIDAY 4/3
- May: The Commissioners: The 10 in charge, from Landis to Manfred
- June: The Owners, aka The Lords (the men who shaped the game before Marvin)
- July: The Business (Television, licensing, and expansion changing cash flow for teams & players)
- August: The Chaos of the 80s: A split-season, classic World Series matchups, major drug trials impacting reputations
- September: The Strike that changed baseball: Revisiting the 1994 strike and what we learned from it (1990-1996)
- October: The New Millennium: Home run races, new ballparks, and nearly another labor war through PED testing (1997-2014)
- November: The Modern Game: Technology, rule changes, and parity dominating the game (2015-2025)
- December: The 2027 CBA negotiations: Who is involved and what are they asking for?
More: ServiceTimePodcast.Substack.com
Email: ServiceTimePod@Gmail.com
Scott's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BaseballsNotDead
Update frequency:
every 33 days
Average audio length:
154 minutes
Video podcast
English
United States
7 episodes
since March 30, 2026
episodic
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When we think about baseball labor, everyone instantly goes to 1994 to point fingers. But how did we get there? As we laid out in the 80s episode, distrust between owners and players was bubbling over especially with collusion cases coming to light.
Donald Fehr would be running the show now, Marvi…
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Marvin Miller found himself pleasantly surprised by also worried. The ultimate goal of abolishing the Reserve Clause had tumbled in just ten years since he took the reins of the MLBPA. Free agency was a dream that suddenly brought new problems no one could have been prepared for.
The battle over f…
Major League Basebally as an entity generated over $12B in revenue last season as the Dodgers topped the Blue Jays in a seven-game World Series for the ages. But how does that flow of cash meander between the owners and the players and every licensee, vendor, fan, and rightsholder around the game. …
There are many names to remember across baseball's history, but a handful tend to stick around longer than you realize. Sometimes the names adorn stadiums that stood for decades, or television channels bringing their teams to the masses, or their names can live in infamy depending on the city that …
From Landis to Manfred, the “unknown soldier” to hardball, and everything in-between. This month’s episode focuses on the origins of the commissionership and how each man tweaked the role for their time in office.
We try to touch on as much as possible, but for the sake of future episodes (starting…
The MLB Players Association has a reputation as one of the strongest unions in the world ... but it did not start with that moniker. In fact, it took a near century for baseball players to be represented as a group to bring the playing population forward. That man was Marvin Miller, but he had a lo…
Welcome to our introductory episode of the Service Time Podcast. In this prologue we lay out the schedule ahead for the show and what we hope to gain out of the time we take to present what we've learned to you.
We hope to create a full audiobook-length catalog by the end of the nine episodes we ha…
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