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  • BASEBALL: Yankees had 8 Home Runs today. Is this the reason?

    03/29/2025 7:28:56 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 56 replies
    x.com/JoePompliano ^ | March 29, 2025 | Joe Pompliano
    Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano VIDEO AT LINK............ Well this is wild…The Yankees made new bats that moved more of the wood into the label so the hardest part of the bat strikes the ball.They have 8 home runs today. pic.twitter.com/CH2cOmvOh8— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) March 29, 2025
  • Calls Mount for MLB, Rob Manfred to Investigate New York Yankees’ New Bats (Yanks cheating?)

    03/29/2025 11:18:59 PM PDT · by Az Joe · 77 replies
    Athalon Sports ^ | 03/29/2025 | Michael Gallagher
    The New York Yankees put on a show for their fans against the Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium on Saturday. The only problem is many watching started to question whether New York’s offensive onslaught was legal. First baseman Paul Goldschmidt, left fielder Cody Bellinger and right fielder Aaron Judge hit back-to-back-to-back home runs off Brewers starter and former teammate Nestor Cortes on the first three pitches of the first inning.
  • Baseball, which is dying all over the place, should get off its fat, lazy ass, and elect Pete Rose, even though far too late, into the Baseball Hall of Fame!

    02/28/2025 8:52:26 PM PST · by hardspunned · 115 replies
    Truth Social ^ | 2/28/25 | DJT
    Major League Baseball didn't have the courage or decency to put the late, great, Pete Rose, also known as "Charlie Hustle," into the Baseball Hall of fame. Now he is dead, will never experience the thrill of being selected, even though he was a FAR BETTER PLAYER than most of those who made it, and can only be named posthumously. WHAT A SHAME! Anyway, over the next few weeks I will be signing a complete PARDON of Pete Rose, who shouldn't have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING. He never betted against himself, or the...
  • MLB games will soon be off ESPN airwaves in media bombshell

    02/21/2025 4:28:14 AM PST · by Libloather · 49 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2/20/25 | Dylan Svoboda
    It appears Major League Baseball will be off ESPN’s airwaves after the 2025 season. The two sides “mutually agreed” to cut their national television deal short after this year, according to a memo from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, via The Athletic. Manfred has “not been pleased with the minimal coverage that MLB has received on ESPN’s platforms over the past several years outside of the actual live game coverage,” according to the memo. The league and network had a March 1 deadline to opt out on a deal that would’ve extended their partnership through the 2028 season. ESPN will continue...
  • Rickey Henderson, Hall of Famer and MLB’s all-time stolen bases leader, dead at 65

    12/21/2024 11:11:47 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 62 replies
    New York Post ^ | Dec. 21, 2024 | Bridget Reilly and Andrew Battifarano
    Rickey Henderson, a Baseball Hall of Famer and MLB’s all-time stolen bases leader, has died, The Post has confirmed. He was 65. Henderson, a 10-time All-Star and 1990 American League MVP, was the game’s greatest base stealer, racking up 1,406 stolen bags in his career, an MLB record that still stands. SNIP “I still cannot believe I’ve lost one of my favorite teammates and great friend Rickey Henderson. Rest in peace,” former Yankees teammate Dave Winfield wrote on Instagram.
  • End MLB Pride Nights

    11/10/2024 4:33:55 PM PST · by Salman · 19 replies
    Defector (employee-owned sports and culture website) ^ | November 8, 2024 | Lauren Theisen
    More than Freddie Freeman or Francisco Lindor or those Yankee jamokes who tried to rip off Mookie Betts's hand, I will remember the 2024 MLB postseason for the commercials. Specifically, it was impossible to sit through any game across the entire month of October without being forced to watch multiple Donald Trump campaign ads that fear- and hate-mongered about trans people. Here's an example, if you somehow missed them ... {that ad with Kamala Harris pitching sex change operations for prisoners} ... That incarcerated people must have access to a high standard of health care should be non-negotiable for all...
  • What does the MLB fan interference rule say? Is what the Yankees fans did to Mookie Betts legal?

    10/30/2024 12:58:39 AM PDT · by blueplum · 29 replies
    AS USA via msn ^ | 29 Oct 2024 | Jeffrey May
    In Game 4 of the World Series, baseball fans got a moment as unforgettable as it was controversial, unfolding between Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts and a front-row Yankees fan at Yankee Stadium. In the bottom of the first inning, Gleyber Torres sent a fly ball slicing toward foul territory. Betts, ever the defensive powerhouse, sprinted to the wall, poised to make the grab. But just as he leapt for the ball, the fan reached over, grabbed Betts’ glove, and yanked the ball away. The umpire’s decision was swift: Torres was out due to fan interference, and security quickly escorted the...
  • Fan Wearing 'MAGA' Hat Goes Viral During Dodgers-Yankees World Series

    10/26/2024 8:34:30 AM PDT · by chrisinoc · 69 replies
    The Spun (via MSN) ^ | October 26, 2024 | Chris Rosvoglou
    Prior to Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam, MLB fans couldn't get over a certain fan's hat for Game 1 of the World Series. There was a fan wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat while sitting in the first row behind home plate. It's unclear if she was rooting for the New York Yankees or Los Angeles Dodgers. For all we know, she could've went to the game strictly to make a political statement before the presidential election.
  • Baseball Legend Pete Rose Dies at the Age of 83

    09/30/2024 4:24:08 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 20 replies
    6ABC ^ | 9/30
    Major League Baseball legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83, the medical examiner in Clark County, Nevada, confirmed to ABC News on Monday.
  • ood Riddance: Radio Stations Ban Green Day After Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong Calls Las Vegas ‘Worst S**tHole in America’

    09/27/2024 8:08:04 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 41 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 9-26-24 | Alana Mastrangelo
    Las Vegas radio stations have banned Green Day after frontman Billie Joe Armstrong called the city “the worst shit hole in America” during a recent performance. While Armstrong’s comments were connected to his opinion on the A’s leaving Oakland and planning to move to Las Vegas, the Green Day frontman nevertheless chose to trash the entire city in an expletive-laden rant.
  • Astros’ Jose Altuve Ejected For Showing Umpire His … Naked Foot?

    09/18/2024 6:37:14 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | September 18, 2024 | Andrew Powell - Sports and Entertainment Blogger
    The beauty of baseball is there’s always a first we haven’t seen before, and here we go again. Tuesday night’s game between the Houston Astros and San Diego Padres couldn’t have been more filled with drama, and then when we got to the ninth inning, things started to overflow when Houston superstar Jose Altuve was up to bat with two outs and a runner on second base. The game was tied 3-3 at the time. Squaring off against San Diego relief pitcher Robert Suarez, Altuve knocked what originally appeared to be a grounder to third to put an end to...
  • Danny Jansen becomes the first man in history to play for BOTH teams in an MLB game... and here's how he did it

    08/27/2024 4:20:07 PM PDT · by Libloather · 12 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 8/26/24 | Ben Nagle
    Former Toronto Blue Jays and current Boston Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen has become the first man to play for two teams in the same game - and he did it all in a single inning. In a statistical oddity made possible by two of the quirkiest entities on Earth - the baseball rule book and the New England weather - Jansen became the only player ever to appear on both sides of a baseball box score when he took the field for Boston on Monday in the resumption of a rain-delayed game he started for Toronto in June, before...
  • Danny Jansen to Play for Blue Jays, Red Sox in Game Game Play

    08/23/2024 5:41:22 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 2 replies
    ESPN ^ | Aug 23, 2024 | ESPN
    Danny Jansen will make baseball history Monday when he appears in the same game for both teams. The unique scenario was set in stone July 27, when the Toronto Blue Jays traded Jansen to the Boston Red Sox -- about a month after a game between the two teams was suspended in the second inning because of severe weather at Fenway Park. Jansen was in the Blue Jays' lineup that night and set to take his first at bat before the game was called and announced as a split doubleheader for Aug. 26. A month later, the Red Sox, in...
  • How Lyle Miller-Green became the 'Siberian Sultan of Swat'

    07/17/2024 3:13:02 PM PDT · by DFG · 1 replies
    MLB.COM ^ | 07/16/2024 | Anthony Castrovince
    When Stephanie Miller saw the baby boy, her heart melted. In an instant, all the pain and frustration Stephanie and her husband, Richard Green, had endured in their inability to conceive a child went away. Because there, on a VHS cassette sent along by an adoption agency, was footage of a 6-month-old child in need of a loving family. “He looked precious,” Stephanie says now. “I instantly fell in love.” The only problem? He was in Siberia. And so it was that, after a few months of patience and paperwork, Stephanie and Richard made the long, long journey from Virginia...
  • Texas Rangers Double Down With 'No Homo Night'

    06/26/2024 3:36:17 PM PDT · by DFG · 21 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 06/26/2024 | Babylon Bee
    ARLINGTON, TX — Despite facing ongoing criticism for being the only remaining Major League Baseball team to not hold a Pride Night, the Texas Rangers announced the club would double down by celebrating a "No Homo Night" at the ballpark. Whereas all other MLB teams scheduled special nights to cater to celebrating LGBTQ lifestyles, the Rangers instead decided to institute "No Homo Night," which will include overtly heterosexual hotdogs, no physical touching between male fans other than aggressive high-fives, and a strict ban on any Dallas Cowboys clothing. "It's going to be a sweet time at the ballpark. No homo,"...
  • LGBTQ+ groups left FURIOUS as Texas Rangers still refuse to join the rest of MLB in hosting Pride Night: 'It's an embarrassment'

    06/25/2024 7:35:23 AM PDT · by DFG · 92 replies
    AP via UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/25/2024 | AP
    The Texas Rangers have sparked anger among LGBTQ+ groups by again refusing to host a Pride Night during the Major League Baseball season. Texas stands alone among the 30 MLB teams but they responded to fury from campaigners by insisting that they are welcoming to all baseball fans. In September 2003, however, two years after the Chicago Cubs hosted what is considered the first Pride game, the Rangers invited local LGBTQ+ groups to a game as part of a fundraising event. Some Rangers fans expressed opposition and there were even some protests outside the stadium before the game. DeeJay Johannessen...
  • RIP Willie Mays

    06/18/2024 6:12:28 PM PDT · by texanyankee · 54 replies
    Just heard that a baseball legend passed away today.
  • Report: Padres' Tucupita Marcano Faces Lifetime Ban for MLB Betting; 4 More in Probe

    06/03/2024 1:23:32 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 17 replies
    Bleacher Report, Inc ^ | June 3, 2024 | Timothy Rapp
    San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano is reportedly facing a lifetime ban from baseball for violating MLB's gambling policy, according to ESPN's Jeff Passan and Jared Diamond and Lindsey Adler of the Wall Street Journal. Per the WSJ's report, "Marcano, 24 years old, has been accused of betting on games involving the Pittsburgh Pirates last season while he was on the injured list for that team." Four other players are also reportedly facing punishments for betting on games at the minor league level, according to Diamond and Adler.
  • Polarizing umpire Angel Hernandez set to immediately retire from MLB

    05/27/2024 7:31:47 PM PDT · by TBP · 57 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 27, 2024 | Christian Arnold
    One of MLB’s most infamous umpires, Ángel Hernández, is planning on retiring on Tuesday, The Post’s Jon Heyman confirmed.USA Today first reported the news late Monday night. Major League Baseball and Hernández were negotiating a financial settlement over the past two weeks and came to an agreement during the holiday weekend, according to the report. Hernández, a Cuban-American, is viewed by far as the league’s most controversial umpire for his propensity to miss calls and had previously sued for racial discrimination back in 2017, claiming that he had been passed over for World Series assignments and a crew chief position...
  • Sean Burroughs, Olympic gold medalist, Little League World Series champion and former MLB Player, dies at 43

    05/16/2024 10:03:24 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 33 replies
    CNN ^ | 5/11/24 | Wayne Sterling
    Sean Burroughs, a 2000 Olympic gold medalist, Little League World Series winner and former first round MLB pick, died Thursday, the California-based Long Beach Little League organization announced Friday. He was 43. Burroughs died of a cardiac arrest, his mother, Debbie, told the Southern California News Group via text, the San Bernardino Sun reported. According to Doug Wittman, Long Beach Little League president, Burroughs was found unresponsive next to his vehicle at the Long Beach complex after dropping his son off for a game Thursday, The Sun reported.