Baseball

[Uncle Joe]

11 minutes ago, Foxx said:

This kinda blows.

 

https://twitter.com/MiLBAdvocates/status/1404910571892379649

 

https://twitter.com/MiLBAdvocates/status/1404910574593511427

 

I'm pretty sure Adley can afford the team hotel.
 

https://www.milb.com/bowie/roster
 

MLB Draft Top Pick Adley Rutschman, Orioles Agree to Record $8.1M Contract

 

[Koko]

14 hours ago, Foxx said:

This kinda blows.

 

https://twitter.com/MiLBAdvocates/status/1404910571892379649

 

https://twitter.com/MiLBAdvocates/status/1404910574593511427

 

 

Sounds like all of the players need to get together and no-show a game or two.

[Ann]

 

 

https://twitter.com/BradleyGelber/status/1405342197994692613

[Ann]

More tickets will be available

 

 

 

[Ann]

 

https://twitter.com/BRWalkoff/status/1408088265870172163

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 Major League Baseball’s latest attempt at “hip threads” is the All-Star uniform design. It’s awful.  I don’t mean a hesitant, “Yeah, I don’t know”; it’s more like “Oh that’s hideous” look.

 

 

 

I know where this came from. The NBA has had success marketing team jerseys that adopt abbreviate names like “ATL” for the Atlanta Hawks, or “The City” for the San Francisco Warriors. The design is a letter abbreviation of the team city with the team logo above it. Literally topping that off – every All-Star hat has a hat with a star and the team logo embedded in it. Every All-Star is an Astro for a day? At the pitch meeting, no one thought that turning the MLB into the cheating Houston Astros was a bad look?

 

Manfred didn’t design this pestilence but he approved it. He’s full of great ideas. He moved the All-Star game out of Atlanta because he got blowback from about a dozen players and some sportswriters. And he’s responsible for the spider tack strip searches and body cavity exams every half-inning. He’s not known for media smarts, but whoever designed this is likely the same dope who designed the “black and white” weekend two years ago. It was 2019 when the MLB caused snow-blindness with all-white home uniforms with outlines around the numbers and team names. It was a design disaster only to be topped by this year’s All-Star clunker.

 

The MLB All-Star weekend is the sole All-Star event worth watching. The NBA’s only watchable event is the dunk contest. The game itself is absurd. My grandmother would play better defense and she’s dead. The NFL’s Pro Bowl is a scrimmage. Anyone who claims they’ve watched a Pro Bowl game start to finish is either lying or a professional gambler.

But now Manfred has ruined this too. It’s in Denver because of politics, and the uniforms are terrible.  Fitting. Yo, Manfred, Commish. Fellow cool kid – you’re ridiculous.

 

https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2021/06/25/code-red-comics-yo-mlb-you-ruined-the-all-star-game-n402283

[Ann]

 

 

https://twitter.com/Braves/status/1408818540807925760

[Uncle Joe]

‘We suck right now’: Brian Cashman sounds off on Yankees

Wait, what alternate universe am I in right now? Bizarro world?
Yankees suck but the Bills are righting my universe.

[Ann]

They can go back, but what happens if someone is on an American team and not vaccinated?

[GG1]

On 6/29/2021 at 7:54 PM, Uncle Joe said:

‘We suck right now’: Brian Cashman sounds off on Yankees

Wait, what alternate universe am I in right now? Bizarro world?
Yankees suck but the Bills are righting my universe.

Kate's curse.  

[Ann]

 

 

https://twitter.com/Zoo757/status/1411728129190764550

[KD in CA]

2 hours ago, Ann said:

 

 

https://twitter.com/Zoo757/status/1411728129190764550

 

Nice catch, but I've never understood people bringing small children to sporting events.

[Ann]

 

 

https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1412391500718219266

[Koko]

 

[KD in CA]

25 minutes ago, Koko said:

 

 

He's fantastic;  a joy to watch.  If I was starting a team I'd take Tatis over anyone in baseball.

[Uncle Joe]

I just saw Judge hit his 20th home run in Seattle.
Yankees up 5-1 and I am still annoyed.
Why? Trains horns, damn Train horns!

[B-Man]

 

 

Rob Manfred’s split-doubleheaders are stealing from baseball fans

https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/rob-manfreds-split-doubleheaders-are-stealing-from-baseball-fans/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons&fbclid=IwAR36sgwCLs9qNnSY-EicUNgvc6NYPta8DeoLZIpPFAteGeoPy2AFueudeJA

 

This ought to be a layup for Rob Manfred, and the embattled commissioner of baseball sure could use a couple of point-blank easy decisions. Manfred has developed a reputation – and it is earned, make no mistake – for caring far more about baseball fans he wants to cultivate as opposed to the ones he already has.

 

There is a belief – fairly or unfairly but, again, well-earned – that he doesn’t much like the sport over which he has held guardianship since 2015.

 

He needs a layup. Here is his layup.

 

Sometime Wednesday – too late to save Mets fans who had a separate-admission, seven-inning doubleheader foisted on them, but in plenty of time to spare untold thousands of others going forward – he must announce an immediate executive order as of the start of business Thursday:

 

These out-in-the-open bits of larceny must end. At once.

 

From now on – immediately – if inclement weather forces cancellation of a game there are two, and only two, options:

 

1) A single-admission doubleheader with two seven-inning games.

 

2) A separate-admission doubleheader with two nine-inning games.

 

That’s it. That’s all it will take. In the eyes of a lot of baseball fans that won’t be nearly enough of a roll-back to undo the damage that Manfred has already inflicted on the game, but at least it will keep his owners from – and there’s no delicate way to put this – STEALING FROM THEIR CUSTOMERS.

 

 

 

[KD in CA]

Every change Manfred make cheapens baseball.  If there was a worse commissioner in the history of North American sports, I'd like to know who it was.  Hockey fans should shower Gary Bettman with thunderous applause by comparison.

[TakeYouToTasker 2.0]

On 7/5/2021 at 12:49 PM, KD in CA said:

 

Nice catch, but I've never understood people bringing small children to sporting events.

Its how I was forged in the fire. Easiest memories year one.

[TakeYouToTasker 2.0]

On 7/6/2021 at 9:52 PM, KD in CA said:

 

He's fantastic;  a joy to watch.  If I was starting a team I'd take Tatis over anyone in baseball.

Nah. He’s not a shortstop, and he’s going to be a problem when you move him.

 

Im taking Soto.