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The jury is still out, but early reviews this spring training are showing that MLB has succeeded in speeding up the game significantly with the pitch clock in place. Even with other new rules that primarily address beefing up offensive numbers, the pitch clock has had the…
Even though the majority of the Dodgers fans indicated they supported Trevor Bauer and wanted him back, Mark Walter and Guggenheim Partners decided that the woke mob carried too much clout, and so they decided to virtue signal how righteous they were. Mark Walter has no balls…
I will not presume to speak for Trevor Bauer, but I do not think the “WIN” he got today was enough or what he wanted. I also will not pretend to know if he can play while appealing the verdict. From what I know about Trevor Bauer, I think he is willing to go “balls to the wall.”…
I was all ready to post this piece and then came to realize that I miscalculated a major portion of it, which goes to show you, always do your research “before” writing. Initially I believed that Trevor Bauer’s suspension of 324 games would be retroactive to the date of his…
Within the past few days, 81-year-old Pete Rose wrote this letter to Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred: I became a baseball fan in 1963 when I was nine years old (FYI: I will be 69 next week!). I grew up near Dayton, Ohio (about 50 miles North of Cincinnati), and my father was a…
I received an E-Mail yesterday from the Dodgers PR staff about getting media credentials for the NLDS. I used to get them but have not done that for about nine or ten years. Anyway, towards the bottom, it said this: “ All individuals must be both vaccinated and boosted to…
I was listening to a conversation a couple of days ago where Person A was arguing that it was “ crazy that baseball was making all these changes . The game is just fine – Don’t go changing everything! ” Person B had a different take, “ Other than the DH and lowering the mound…
In 2008, Andrew Friedman took the Tampa Bay Rays to the World Series with a $51,000,000 Dollar Payroll. They didn’t win. The $112,000,000 Dollar Phillies did, but it was remarkable that the Rays made it that far on so little money spent. In 2021, the Dodgers did not even get to…
I am not a Manfred Man (see what I did there? Not everyone will get that…), but this delay of the baseball season is not on Rob Manfred. It’s on his bosses. He takes his marching orders from them – he does not tell them what to do. Baseball has a huge problem with its ownership…
I guess that some progress has been made in the negotiations between the owners and players, but currently, it is not enough. Let’s look at what has been accomplished or offered so far (formal agreement has not been announced): The DH will be universal in both leagues. Draft…
This is a call up from the archives from an article I posted on December 7, 2016. The game we all love has changed considerably since the first published rules of baseball were written in 1845 for a New York baseball club called the Knickerbockers. Alexander Cartwright authored…
The truth about Trevor Bauer is more of a reflection of the person who forms an opinion about Bauer than the truth about the accusations against Bauer himself. We may never know “ the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!” However, this is still America where a…
Back in Colorado after my holiday trip. Colder than a you know what . But baseball has not been off of my mind. My brother gifted me with 12 new bobbleheads…well not new, but new to me. Four Dodgers and a bunch of other guys! But I still followed all of the stories I could on my…
At first blush, you might think I am talking about the lockout and that certainly is what appears to be the biggest problem, but if you look deeper, you will find that baseball popularity is on the wane – that is the Deep Trouble that MLB is in. Jeff Dominique wrote about it…
On August 12, 1994, the MLB Players walked off and the player strike began. The strike ended 232 days later on April 2, 1995, making it the longest such stoppage in MLB history. Who is hurting? The fans. The same people they (both sides) are trying to keep coming to games…
Of course, you know I don’t care, but I took a lot of flack from various and diverse fans earlier this year when I blasted Rob Manfred and MLB Baseball for moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver because the State of Georgia had passed what the Democratic White House and…
AKA/The Sex Blog! I have a few questions: Is it legal for a man and a woman to have sex if they are not married? Is it legal for a man and a woman to have sex if they are married? Is it legal for a man and a man to have sex if they are not married? Is it legal for a man and a…
Since 2009, the Los Angeles Dodgers have been Clayton Kershaw’s team. Excluding his rookie year of 2008, Clayton has NEVER had an ERA over 3.00 but once (3.03). His career ERA is 2.47. Until Monday, he had not pitched since early July this year due to injury, but this year his…
There are a lot of new commenters here since I first started writing for LADT in 2017, and I guess many do not know who I am. I will admit that this post is really out of my comfort zone. But I have been advised to push the comfort zone for better mental health. The other day, Mark intimated that I may have more contacts now than him. I have
Excuse me for borrowing the title of one of my favorite baseball movies, but it is a perfect title for this post. Baseball is at a crossroads in my humble opinion. For years, I was a traditionalist. Still prefer the old-style NL game. But it this day and age, that kind of baseball has become very boring for the most part at least to younger fans. And that is where
Who will go down next? That seems to be a broken record for this season. Hopefully, everyone gets healthy for the stretch run. Tonight, Trevor Bauer goes against the D-Bags in AZ. The Dodgers are 3rd in team ERA within .06 of the Padres and .10 of the Mets. They are still #2 in starter ERA behind the Mets, but deGrom keeps breaking down (he s older than Clayton) and it
This is not about politics. It is about the 2021 MLB All-Star Game which should absolutely be returned to Atlanta, where they planned to honor Hank Aaron in his adopted hometown of Atlanta. I know many of you want me to ignore what MLB did to Atlanta in moving the All-Star Game, but MLB is the one who made that racist decision. How is it a racist decision? It is
Here s an interesting question: How many different pitchers will have saves for the Dodgers this season? The Dodgers already have three different pitchers with saves after Dave Roberts elected to use David Price in a save situation last night. It looked like a bad choice for a minute as Daza and Trejo both singled to start the inning. Then Trevor Story pinch hit and Price fell behind 2-0 only to
“Baseball flows with the rhythm of life. Comes forth in the spring, lives in the summer, goes in the fall, plays in shitty Latin American ballparks in the winter” Walt Whitman I have to admit that I’m conflicted about MLB’s decision to move the All-Star game from Atlanta. I’m not conflicted about their decision. Simply put, I disagree with the MLB’s action. Why I disagree is not important. I’ll
but, I don t know if it will ever be the same. Baseball was always an escape from the troubles in the world and a break from politics that have become increasingly divisive. When Joe Biden was elected President he promised to bring the country together. Instead, he has driven it further apart, and nowhere is it more apparent that in baseball, when he parrotted the false claims of Stacy Abrams,
Late last week, I listened to a podcast on the state of MLB and MiLB from Baseball America’s Kyle Glazer and JJ Cooper. Baseball America has some of the best baseball journalists anywhere, and I have not yet found any baseball journalist who is more up on the subject of the state of MLB and MiLB than JJ Cooper. I try to read everything he publishes. The National Association of
Yes, baseball is a game played by a bunch of kids. In MLB, they are very rich kids paid by very rich owners. As much as most of us want it to remain strictly a game, we cannot. MLB is a business played at a very high stakes level. While the face of MLB (Rob Manfred) and MLBPA (Tony Clark) are problematic (and I am being kind), the high priced
Here I am, in the office on what has to be the most unusual 4th of July holiday in my lifetime. Had several things that I wanted to write about (including the “Art of stealing pop bottles” :-), but busyness has reared its ugly head and gotten in the way. It stinks to be your own boss and then have your boss be such a jerk. ● Well looks
I want to be clear from the start. I am now, and I always have been on the side of the players when it comes to salary. They are entitled to whatever they can get. Scott Boras and Gerrit Cole can convince NYY that Cole should be paid $324MM, and that becomes his Fair Market Value (FMV). But Scott has no right to dictate to the owners as a group
Well I got my hopes up earlier in the week when Rob Manfred met face to face with Tony Clark and “reached a framework that could form the basis of an agreement” for a 2020 restart with full prorated play. On June 17, the twitter world was all abuzz about this pending “deal”. Jon Heyman Breaking: MLB and players union are closing in on an agreement to play the 2020
