Holy shit.

Woke Mike Schmidt is not something I was expecting:

“If you’re looking to expose individuals in baseball’s history who promoted racism by continuing to close baseball’s doors to men of color, Kenesaw Landis would be a candidate,” three-time NL MVP Mike Schmidt of Philadelphia said.

“Looking back to baseball in the early 1900s, this was the norm. It doesn’t make it right, though,” said the Hall of Famer, who is white. “Removing his name from the MVP trophy would expose the injustice of that era. I’d gladly replace the engraving on my trophies.”

https://apnews.com/57b022c3497967230fa7 ... ce=Twitter

He just wanted to remind people of his MVP's.

For an midwestern white dude his age who reached superstar status I always thought Michael Jack was fairly reasonable in views and actions

Uncle Milty wrote:For an midwestern white dude his age who reached superstar status I always thought Michael Jack was fairly reasonable in views and actions

Yeah. He has gotten a lot of flack for dumb things that he's said, but it always seemed to me to be more an issue of him tripping over himself trying to make a point and it coming out bad rather than any sort of malicious intent behind it. He seems like a decent guy, just not the brightest bulb. I still don't want him in the booth.

Slowhand wrote:

Uncle Milty wrote:For an midwestern white dude his age who reached superstar status I always thought Michael Jack was fairly reasonable in views and actions

Yeah. He has gotten a lot of flack for dumb things that he's said, but it always seemed to me to be more an issue of him tripping over himself trying to make a point and it coming out bad rather than any sort of malicious intent behind it. He seems like a decent guy, just not the brightest bulb. I still don't want him in the booth.

More Biden than Trump, if you will.

Uncle Milty wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:Ian Desmond opted out.

Quite a statement from him.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCCp7aSptTr/

Good for him. Definitely think more resources and opportunities would help but idk how you compete against:
* basketball and football just being "cooler" - the players themselves, the gear, the video games, etc.
* the overall trend of specialization, with kids being forced to "pick" 1-2 sports instead of playing 3+
* incentives for MLB / teams to invest in Latin America where they can lock players up freely (without requiring the draft), early, and favorably
* (early) financial incentives - full scholarships in football and basketball, path to making big money sooner
* pace / length / style of play - longer games with less action, vs. basketball and football pace increasing
* MLB owners decision to maximize value per ticket vs. filling the stadium (which requires lower-priced tickets)

Minor League season officially cancelled.

PSUsarge wrote:

Uncle Milty wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:Ian Desmond opted out.

Quite a statement from him.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCCp7aSptTr/

Good for him. Definitely think more resources and opportunities would help but idk how you compete against:
* basketball and football just being "cooler" - the players themselves, the gear, the video games, etc.
* the overall trend of specialization, with kids being forced to "pick" 1-2 sports instead of playing 3+
* incentives for MLB / teams to invest in Latin America where they can lock players up freely (without requiring the draft), early, and favorably
* (early) financial incentives - full scholarships in football and basketball, path to making big money sooner
* pace / length / style of play - longer games with less action, vs. basketball and football pace increasing
* MLB owners decision to maximize value per ticket vs. filling the stadium (which requires lower-priced tickets)

All good points.

Plenty of opportunity if the owner's and players could unite.

My other point would be...but Soccer!

First BIG trade. Padres acquire Jorge Mateo from the As for a PTBNL

Uncle Milty wrote:First BIG trade. Padres acquire Jorge Mateo from the As for a PTBNL

Kinda surprised the A's didn't keep Mateo around, what with Semien being a FA at the end of the year. He is out of options, though, so...

shilling came out of twitter retirement to respond to the trevor bauer thread he was on before.

Trevor Bauer@BauerOutage
Coming out of Twitter retirement to come at me again? My guy, we can have our own corners of the Internet. You can do you. I can do me. And we can co-exist. It’s not hard. I can “bask” in my numbers and you can “bask” in your numbers, if the bank has let you keep any of them

Omg

swishnicholson wrote:Mexican League season canceled.

it's a shame. nice stadium.



don't know about the rocketship thing going on. would've just kept with the baseball theme and did a bat surrounded by two balls instead.

I find it INAPPROPRIATE

Slowhand wrote:I find it INAPPROPRIATE

millennial

agreed! I mean SCOREBOARD IN THE BATTER'S EYE CMON

reminds me of a super hero building opened up for the jet to leave/arrive