Posted on 06/17/2020 8:04:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s the title of the piece which I did not write.
Well, after a few weeks, let’s just go straight to the playoffs. That’s where I get my kicks anyway.
One team I can't stand, or rather the fans of the Atlanta Braves with their stupid Tomahawk yell.
Yep, baseball is missing out on an opportunity to be the adult sports league. Instead, they have overpaid crybabies on one side and skinflint billionaires on the other.
Baseball is the one sport I pay attention to - as a Pirates fan it’s not in anticipation of a winning season but rather because I love the game. I miss it, and I will pay attention again if it comes back, but probably only through box scores so I won’t be a contributor to the revenue chain.
I have as much interest in the identity of a sports champion as I have in the location of the highest-grossing Walmart.
No. The last thing we just finished was Peaky Blinders. Very good...but subtitles are a must. It’s incredibly hard to follow otherwise.
The average minor league player makes $1500 per month when the season is active, ranging from as little as three months at the Rookie or Pioneer League level to just under five months at the AAA level.
Obviously, every player has to hold an outside job the rest of the year, just like it used to be at the major league level.
The latest proposal supposedly is for DH for 2020 AND 2021. That probably never goes away. Expanded playoffs of 16 teams in BOTH 2020 and 2021. I don’t know if they do the regional divisions in 2021. 2020 would play 60+ games in 70 days with expanded rosters I think. Regular season starts 6/19 and ends 9/27. No grievances can be filed for the duration of 20 and 21 seasons.
Seems to be a real mess, especially if they still enforce the relief pitching limits like they planned to do. That seems like just a crap ton of changes at one time to try.
Freegards
Did you know that Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn finished his storied career on that sorry team? How far back in baseball history do you need to go to find a team that finished 40-120 or worse?
I'm not sure I buy that analogy. You're saying those girls on the corner have worked for years at their craft and are the absolute best at what they do? I thought they did that because they were either trapped/trafficked, that was the only marketable skill they had to pay for a drug habit, or, in a few unusual cases, they just saw it as an easyway to make money for a few years.
They are doing the opposite. MLB is in the process of reducing the number of minor league teams each team can have. THe gut will go from about 160 to 120 affiliated teams total.
That said, some leagues my continue as independent leagues.
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