I told my wife yesterday that the players rejected the owner’s offer and that there was going to be NO BASEBALL SEASON this year. She said: “Honey, that’s negative, think positive!” so, I thought about it for a while and realized that I am a “glass half full person.” I am optimistic in general. I am a positive person! So, I have changed my opinion on the baseball season: “I…
Many baseball fans are on the side of the players. After all, it is those “damn greedy owners” who are responsible. NOT SO FAST! I have some questions: How do the owners make their money? How do players make their money? The owners make their money by playing games, selling tickets, and selling broadcasting rights to those games, and concessions. There are other ways, but that is substantially it. The…
There evidently was progress made in the negotiations on Sunday and I think the players and the owners both feel a sense of urgency to settle this. I am not a big fan of Bob Nightengale, but he hit it out of the proverbial ballpark on Sunday when he wrote this in the Arizona Republic: The players are livid at the owners, convinced they are making a killing and would rather…
I have always been told that if you want to find out what is behind anything, you should “follow the money.” So, that is exactly what I am going to do. The BIG MONEY can be found in the paychecks of Mike Trout, Mookie Betts, Max Scherzer, Corey Seager, and numerous other multi-millionaires in MLB. Of course, it can be found in the owner’s pockets as well. But, before you…
Another story idea from SpokaneBob. The game had its start at Dodger Stadium in 1967. It was a softball game between celebrities and MLB baseball players. The Managers were Leo Durocher for the Stars and Milton Berle for the big league players. The MLB players included Wills, who was with the Pirates, Brooks Robinson, Clemente, Mays, Frank Howard, Killebrew, McCovey. Jim Garner started for the celebs and after giving up…
I am not on the side of the MLBPA or the MLB Owners. I am on the side of truth and fairness. I am a baseball fan. I want to see fair competition. I want to see small market teams do well. If the Dodgers really have the #1 Farm System in baseball, it is because they “bought it” by spending more on facilities, trainers, scouts, analytics, front office, and…
The LA Rams just won the 2022 Super Bowl by going “all in.” They said, “forget about the future – just win now!” They have made lots of moves, trades, Free Agent Pickups, etc., and they have not had a first-round pick since 2018 and won’t have one until 2024. They have been horrid at times, BUT THEY WON THE BIG ONE THIS YEAR! The Rams are currently operating with…
Players are sitting, Furillo, Koufax, Pafko, Gilliam, Neal, Erskine, Carey and Babe Herman Second row. Campy, umpire Al Passarella, Ump, Jocko Conlon, Ump, Beans Reardon, Shuba, Wills, Larker, Tracewski, Roseboro, Stengel, Moon, Craig, Demeter, Skowron, Dixie Walker, Roebuck. Back row. Pignatano, Hodges, Ump Pat Orr, Lavagetto, Maglie, Podres, Newcombe, Hermanski, Sherry, Reese, Drysdale, Burright, Essegian, Black, Snider, Branca. Those were the first oldtimers to get together and play a game…
I keep hearing that “baseball purists” do not like some of these newfangled rules. Let me translate the term baseball “purist.” It means “grumpy old men who don’t like change and are adept at complaining when there is nothing to complain about except that change is what they hate… because of course, they do.” There is nothing as constant as change in human life. Nothing says the same. It always changes or it dies. The NFL and the NBA have changed quite a lot over the years. In the NFL, the rules have changed immensely over the years.
Over the years, politics have been taboo on this website. Oh, it was not unusual for someone to do a “driveby shooting” or engage in “political innuendo” or “doublespeak” but it was somewhat tolerated as it was too difficult to stop. In 2016, the rhetoric was amped up as the Media lost their minds that Trump won the election and TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) immediately set in. 90% of all…