Take Me Out...Yes...It's BASEBALL!

[KarateKen]

Kind of crazy.  As long as they still launch the home runs, I assume it will stay legal.  That's where the money is. 

[sensei8]

According to MLB Rule 3.02…

“The bat shall be a smooth, round stick not more than 2.61 inches in diameter at the thickest part and not more than 42 inches in length. The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.”

Hence, the torpedo bat is perfectly legal.

Yankee Aaron Judge does NOT use a torpedo bat because he favors a traditional bat. Even with a traditional bat he launched 5 HR’s over the weekend.

Twins, Devil Rays, and Orioles have experimented with the torpedo bat over spring training.

[sensei8]

What can I say??

A’s are moving to Sin city. While that might’ve been a reason to smile at one time. That smile has turned into more of a frown.

Yes, the season has just started but the A’s are back in familiar territory…last place. The A’s are indeed coming to Las Vegas. 

I like that idea for only one reason…my Yankees play against the A’s during the season and yours truly will be there in the A’s brand new stadium cheering for my Yankees.

Poor A’s have to play their home games at a AAA stadium. Kind of a hint, I suppose. A MLB team playing in a AAA stadium, kind of a fitting tribute by its fans.

The media room is a makeshift tent and the clubhouses are beyond the outfield wall. 

Not what a MLB team looks forward to experience…and the season has just started…it’ll be a very long 162 games.

Latest mud in their face occurred just the other day during a A’s home game against the Mets when a Mets player, Jose Siri was injured by his own foul ball in the leg in the 2nd inning. Siri needed a ride to medical because where the A’s play during home games, medical is not a short walk at all.

Here’s the mud in the face for the A’s…the medical cart broke down—it either broke down or it ran out of gas. Either way, the grounds crew had to push the broken down cart off the field. The A’s had to bring out a second cart to help Siri to medical.

When you need an ambulance, the one thing you hope never happens is that your ride to the hospital doesn’t breakdown or run out of gas.

Hopefully for A’s fans that this latest unfortunate mishap is the end for the last place A’s in a series of Keystone Cops antics…but…it’s the A’s.

GO YANKEES!!

 

[Patrick]

Following up on recent conversations within this thread...

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-ineligibility-status-after-death-decision

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Major League Baseball removed Pete Rose and 16 other deceased individuals from the permanently ineligible list on Tuesday, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced. ...

In reinstating Rose, Manfred also reinstated the following individuals who have passed away while on the permanently ineligible list, including: Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver, Lefty Williams, Joe Gedeon, Gene Paulette, Benny Kauff, Lee Magee, Phil Douglas, Cozy Dolan, Jimmy O’Connell and William Cox. ...

“In my view,” Manfred wrote in a letter to Lenkov, “once an individual has passed away, the purposes of Rule 21 have been served. Obviously, a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game. Moreover, it is hard to conceive of a penalty that has more deterrent effect than one that lasts a lifetime with no reprieve.”

 

I'll be interested to see what happens with Joe Jackson.

[sensei8]

The Las Vegas Aviators, 27-13 record, who are the triple AAA affiliate for the A’s, hosted the El Paso Chihuahuas, 20-20 record, who are the triple AAA affiliate for the San Diego Padres.

Only reason I’m posting this is because of the games final score, which was:

Aviators 20

El Paso 2

Here’s how the game went down…

Inning 1: Aviators 8 and El Paso 0

Inning 2: NO SCORE

Inning 3: NO SCORE

Inning 4:  Aviators 4 and El Paso 0

Inning 5: Aviators 0 and El Paso 1

Inning 6: Aviators 2 and El Paso 1

Inning 7: Aviators 0 and El Paso 0

Inning 8: Aviators 6 and El Paso 0

Inning 9: El Paso 0

What a score!! Aviators better enjoy that because that kind of score is incogitable!!

[sensei8]

I guess you-know-what is no longer frozen.

Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson have been reinstated by MLB; both now eligible for Hall of Fame. 

This announcement came from baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday. The Commissioner also stated that he was changing the league's policy on permanent ineligibility, saying bans would expire after death.

Both of their baseball careers were pretty much destroyed by their betting scandals. That’s when you-know-what froze over solid.

Under the Hall of Fame's current rules, it appears the earliest Rose or Jackson could be inducted would be in 2028.

Never say never!!

[KarateKen]

2 hours ago, sensei8 said:

I guess you-know-what is no longer frozen.

Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson have been reinstated by MLB; both now eligible for Hall of Fame. 

This announcement came from baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday. The Commissioner also stated that he was changing the league's policy on permanent ineligibility, saying bans would expire after death.

Both of their baseball careers were pretty much destroyed by their betting scandals. That’s when you-know-what froze over solid.

Under the Hall of Fame's current rules, it appears the earliest Rose or Jackson could be inducted would be in 2028.

Never say never!!

Many were predicting this even back in the 90s.  Rose would get in after his death.  I think he will.  His punishment was not living to see it.