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I like the hire, but I don’t think those knocking Mo are off base. The brains of the front office left for Houston a long time ago, and Mo is still riding Lunhow’s coattails.
That said, I think they’ve finally constructed a roster that has offense and defense. The question, as it always is in baseball, is will the pitching be there. We shall see.
I’ve watched baseball for a long time, and this might be the first time I’ve seen a team be buyers at the deadline, not to try to make the playoffs, but to actively try to make their draft pick better.
Good to see that Yadi can’t be bothered to go do his job as the on deck hitter and tell Carlson to get down. These guys suck right now for a variety of reasons, but laziness and not caring are the most infuriating.
Almost wouldn’t mind is not the same as wouldn’t mind I hope, Pugs?
You can’t try to make sense of Pugs. Years ago, after a meeting with Dizzy Dean in Austin, he carried around an Easton bat for months.
Triple, I was hoping someone would catch the moon reference with my avatar lol.
I still remember your tag line that always appeared on your posts. It always made me laugh, and still does.
I don’t care how any of you guys feel with politics. I didn’t come on here protesting. I was just making light of the situation. I’m not protesting anything. I will still have the MLB package on Direct TV and watch darn near 162 Cardinals games on it.
What I think MLB should do doesn’t amount to anything. I can barely figure out what I should do. But I do find it odd that MLB hasn’t specified any details as to why. They just did it because they can.
Now I do worry about all this stuff harming the bottom line. I want sports to be healthy financially. As financially healthy as they can be. When their bottom line starts hurting, it isn’t the rich folks who get harmed.
It’s funny how much extreme overreaction there is to this. I thought this was a peaceful way to protest. I suppose all protests should occur 30 years from now on the moon so they don’t inconvenience anyone.
The moon rules!
Did you know that Colorado has voter ID laws, as well?
Something to ponder – if you are no longer interested in things on this thread, you could, now stay with me, not click on the thread anymore. I realize that this is some massive outside-the-box thinking that certainly would not occur to the average message board user. But it is something worth pondering.
Lastly, you sure have an odd way of showing you don’t care.
So we’ve gone from beating the dead horse to now kicking it. Soon we’ll be at shooting it.
Even better is that major airline came out against a bill for requiring people show ID.
MLB is going to have to boycott MLB, since they require ID to be shown in order to get tickets from will call. I, for one, can’t believe that level of racism still exists.
China didn’t drop the ball, they intentionally misled people, and jailed people for trying to tell the truth. They are still doing that. We can’t compare anyone to China since we have no idea what their real numbers or situation is like.
162 isn’t happening. But I understand why they are thinking what they are thinking. I’d call it hopium induced delusion. But there are likely some rough days ahead, and we can’t just wish that away. There is no path forward without pain here. Baseball will be a welcome relief back to normalcy in two or three months.
Anyone that thinks the virus numbers are going to look better in two weeks doesn’t understand how this thing spreads.
Yep. To show how quickly things change, it was just 48 hours ago when people thought it was a reasonable idea for the Mariners to play their games in Arizona.
What is the world going to look like in another 48?
I actually think we are on the right track for slowing this thing down and avoiding an Italy situation. We could be back to something close to normalcy in two or three months. Let’s just hope that our hospitals and and economy can keep their figurative heads above water.
I love the back and forth. I need people disagreeing me – it makes me think more than an echo chamber.
Sorry I deleted the earlier Tweet. I somehow thought today was Friday.
Haha, I’ve been there. Can’t blame someone for wishful thinking (though, in his line of work, it wouldn’t make any difference).
The U.S. population is close to 330 million, meaning our incidence rate so far is 1 in 330,000, about 1/20 of China’s rate. In other words, if our incidence rate grew to match China’s before leveling off, we would get to about 20,000 cases. There have been at least 34 million infected with normal seasonal flu this year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 20,000 deaths.
Every league is now in a virtue signalling race to give the appearance of concern. The over reaction is mind boggling.Patient 0 in China was infected in late November or early December, and you are using China stats that are from months later when they had built out a testing infrastructure. We are not months out from patient zero here, and we have had virtually no testing infrastructure.
You can’t make a judgement in comparing the 9th inning in one country vs. the 2nd inning in another.
Feel free to lick doorknobs if you like, but don’t use ignorant science to blast people for playing it safe.
It’s going to be interesting to see if playing without crowds for TV audiences is a possibility. I am sure MLB would do better financially with this than they would shortening the season.
Though they may need to learn from the NBA and make sure players are tested regularly. If this spreads through a clubhouse, it would devastate that team.
Yeah, it is pretty amazing how willing a lot of fans are to help out minor league ballplayers. People are pretty amazing sometimes.
Host families would be really good for a lot of those guys – really good. Not only would they save money, they would eat better, they would party less, and they’d get in less trouble.
I’ve always wondered why they don’t have these more places (I was thinking they had some of them in the low minors, but I could be wrong). Many of the guys who played in college have already had experience living with host family during Summer ball, and many of those lead to life-long friendships. It would be good for fans and players (though there would certainly be some “incidents” that would have to be dealt with).
Great idea, and I really hope it takes off.
