Obviously, one month won't be enough. If baseball is to be played in 2020, it certainly won't launch before Memorial Day, and gate revenues - with or without "Count Orlok" Giuliani and "Hydroxycholoquine" Hannity - will vanish like Dr. Tony Fauci. The owner of America's richest professional sports team will either support his people or throw them overboard. Right now, he's doing the Lord's work. Forhe'sajollygoodfellow, whichnobodycandeny.
Meanwhile, the toothless leadership of Minor League Baseball apparently has caved in to plans to shrink the number of farm clubs across America. In November, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred unveiled a scheme to eliminate 42 franchises - a scathingly cruel betrayal of small cities that bankrolled stadiums in the face of extortion by the wealthiest of the wealthy. Taxpayers ponied up to support franchises that, in general, didn't give a whit about the towns they were representing. Now, they'll be cut loose.
Nobody knows which cities will be disappeared, but upstate New York - heart of the Rust Belt - probably sits in the crosshairs. There are rumblings that the Binghamton Rumbleponies - a Double A franchise in a small city with a giant heart - could go. Baseball in Binghamton goes back to Joe Pepitone, Whitey Ford and Thurman Munson. Gone? Say it aint so.
These are dark days, my friends.
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Baseball will be a quaint casualty From earlier times. I may not make room in my life for it going forward.
Major league baseball can go fuck itself.
Trying to make the game more appealing to kids of all ages while destroying a small host of minor league baseball across America is disgusting. Towns like Billings, Montana only have short season single A teams for summer fun for kids at a decent price. Minor league baseball is the lifeblood of many of these out-of-the-way places. MLB wants them to upgrade their facilities? Let them pay for it.
Let the 2020 MLB season die. Let franchises go bankrupt. I no longer have any fucks to give for these self-righteous, entitled assholes, both the owners, managers, and players. Let them all go work for a living.
Fuck you MLB - you'll never get another dime from me. Ever again.
Fuck you MLB.
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So endeth the JuJu.
I JUST WANT TO GET MY SAY IN ABOUT THE ALL TIME 2ND BASEMAN PLAYING AGAINST US.
ROD CAREW WAS A GREAT SINGLES HITTER AND GREAT HITTER PERIOD.
...BUT I NEVER REMEMBER HIM, REALLY KILLING US.
NOT EVEN ONCE.
...AND MY YANKEE MIND REMEMBERS ALL YANKEE KILLINGS.
DUSTIN PEDROIA MURDERED US, OVER AND OVER.
EVERY AT BAT WAS UNCOMFORTABLE FOR US.
...AND HE MADE US PAY, OFTEN.
NOT TO MENTION HE WAS A BETTER FIELDER THAN CAREW.
THIS ONE ISN'T EVEN CLOSE, MY FRIENDS.
OKAY, ALL CAPS, we heard you. Your argument has merit.
Well, ALL-CAPS, I looked them both up.
Carew vs. Yanks: 184 games, 46 x-base hits, 11 HRs, .331/.395/.447/.843.
Pedroia vs. Yanks: 155 games, 58 x-base hits, 12 HRS, .294/.356/.422/.778.
In other words, Pedroia had only slightly more power, despite playing in a much more hitter-friendly park, and a much more hitter-friendly time. Granted, Carew played in more games against our guys.
Also, Carew compiled slightly BETTER stats against the Yanks than even his overall, remarkable lifetime numbers. A .328 hitter, he batted .331 against the Bombers, and his total OPS against us was that .843, as against an overall .822.
Pedroia actually played somewhat BELOW his normal stats against NYY: batting .294 as opposed to his overall .299, with that .778 against an overall .805.
If you want to throw in fielding, all right. But Carew was the better hitter against us.
As far as "killing us" goes, well, when Carew played we usually weren't as good—the games meant less.
Well, you know who actually killed us.
A guy named Mazeroski.
There's not even a chance the Batavia Muckdogs or Auburn Doubledays survive this. Binghamton is a giant in comparison.
I'll tell you a second baseman who killed us... Knoblauch when he was our second baseman.
Doug K.
MiLB owners are bigger carpetbaggers than MLB owners including the Steinbrenners. As soon a attendance drops a bit and another jurisdiction promises them bigger tax breaks and a new stadium, they bolt.
A good example: West Haven was the home of the Yankees AA team for 11 seasons. Then, Albany(Colonie) wooed them in 1983 with a new stadium and tax goodies. Then in 1995, Norwich, CT lured the Yankees back with a state-of-the-art minor league field of which the Yankees contributed only $ 400,000. That lasted until 2003 when Trenton built them a new park. Norwich has switched affiliation 2-3 times since then to towns with new facilities. MLB doesn't presently support much to their minor league affiliates as far as overhead. Local team owners bear that brunt. They don't have much leverage and in return get branding from whichever MLB team they agree to represent.
@Baer_Bill
MLB’s light punishments show the Astros/Red Sox calculus was correct. The benefits of cheating massively outweigh the downsides. A chilling realization given the league’s increasing involvement with gambling. Delegitimizes the entire sport.
It's absolutely disgraceful, their effort to kill the minors. I hope we see an increase in independent minor leagues.
There’s a good reason MiLB owners jump around so much:
They need a better deal to stay afloat!
I’ve been to games in Batavia, New York (on those odd days when it’s not snowing) and there is no way in hell anybody could make a decent living from the Muckdogs. The players get paid less than a living wage and the facilities are original 20th century fodder. Not to mention the SHORT season.
If MLB really wanted to improve the minor league franchises, they should spend a few dollars, improve the facilities - FOR THE FANS - and pay the minor leaguers a few extra bucks (as in, a real living wage) instead of soaking fans of the big club and keeping it in their own pockets - as in $7 for a Dodger Dog - which is a piece of shit - if the Yankees are as rich as everyone claims, let them chip in a few bucks across the harbor and make the Staten Island Yankees a model franchise. They have the power to do so - instead, they’d rather see single-A ball disappear.
I won’t even belabor the sins of the petulant little dickwad who owns the Angels and refused to help get a MiLB ballpark in the San Fernando Valley of LA - that ego doesn’t even see us down here until we reach for our wallets. I hope he choked on his breakfast every time he signed one of Josh Hamilton's paychecks.
FUCK MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Carpetbaggers indeed.
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