Around Baseball 2020

[Beans]

🇯🇵 Katsuya Nomura, a Japanese baseball legend whose 657 HR and 1,988 RBI rank second on the all-time list behind the great slugger Sadaharu Oh, died this week at age 84.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/sports/baseball/katsuya-nomura-dead.html

[Terminator]

The mods are drunk on their own power! Something needs to be done!

[G-Snarls]

Bartolo Colon and Rajai Davis will both play in the Mexican League this year

[Pendleton]

Due to a lack of response, I am assuming that BTS decided to ban Boxcar for a specific, benign post in one of the fantasy threads that was objectively not offensive and did nothing more than lightly tickle BTS' thin skin.

 

This is an egregious overstepping of moderator power.

 

How can I report a moderator for abuse of power? Why are we putting up with a message board where mods can single out innocent posters for arbitrary, undeserving punishment?

 

This post is not a joke. I require a detailed response.

 

As someone who was born with thin skin I take a lot of offense to being used as a metaphor.

[Deadpool]

The mods are drunk on their own power! Something needs to be done!

 

I'm just drunk. Power has nothing to do with it.

[Spanky__99]

lol

[Bobthe4th]

Unrelated to arm issues but he seems like one of those guys that is going to be an ace when healthy but spends a significant amount of time each year being injured.

 

[Laika]

The Montreal group lead by Stephen Bronfman will apparently become a minority owner of the Rays within ~3 months. Huge news for baseball in Montreal. s*** might actually be happening.

[DigitalRock]

I've been watching Jim Crane in the Astros press conference, over and over, what a train wreck. Might be one of the worst responses i've ever seen lol.

[Brownie19]

I've been watching Jim Crane in the Astros press conference, over and over, what a train wreck. Might be one of the worst responses i've ever seen lol.

 

how many times are you going to share this opinion?

[Carlos Danger]

The Montreal group lead by Stephen Bronfman will apparently become a minority owner of the Rays within ~3 months. Huge news for baseball in Montreal. s*** might actually be happening.

 

Not according to the actual owner of the Rays...

[Ehjays]

https://www.mlb.com/news/phillies-to-retire-roy-halladay-s-no-34

 

Haven't seen this posted anywhere, Looks like the Phillies are gonna retire #34 on May 29th, the tenth anniversary of his perfect game.

[Grant77]

Not according to the actual owner of the Rays...

 

He actually said that it is happening. Just not in the timeline that was reported.

[DigitalRock]

how many times are you going to share this opinion?

 

As much as I want, does it bother you you little bitch?

[Spanky__99]

lol

[Beans]

I've been watching Jim Crane in the Astros press conference, over and over, what a train wreck. Might be one of the worst responses i've ever seen lol.

 

"Our opinion is this didn't impact the game. We had a good team. We won the World Series, and we'll leave it at that." ... 55 seconds later ... "I didn't say it didn't impact the game."

[jerb]

 

Ben Nicholson-Smith

@bnicholsonsmith

 

The Braves announced that they've promoted Alex Anthopoulos to president of baseball operations & GM while extending him through 2024

[glory]

If you want to listen to Rob Manfred speak for 45 minutes (who doesn't?), here is his latest ESPN interview where he discusses everything.

 

[bigpaulie]

John gibbons hired by the braves as a scout

[TheHurl]

What a terrible role for Gibby! He won't even get to do post game interviews

[Bobthe4th]

[Jimcanuck]

Snitker's seat just got a little more uncomfortable.

[Brownie19]

As much as I want, does it bother you you little bitch?

 

yes. obviously it does or I wouldn't have pointed it out. duh.

[Brownie19]

Brock Holt signs with the Brewers. Good little pickup for them.

[Carlos Danger]

Snitker's seat just got a little more uncomfortable.

 

Did you miss where they just gave him an extension same day?

[Brownie19]

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/minor-leaguers-to-be-paid-more-not-enough/

 

Minor league players get a 40% raise! still grossly underpaid, but a step in the right direction I guess.

[glory]

 

We can complain about Rogers, but at least they don't do stuff like this.

[Brownie19]

Man - I'd love to know what the proposed deal actually was. It sure seemed like a slam dunk deal for the Angels, which now appears to be off the table because Art don't wait for nobody. Brilliant.

[Carlos Danger]

MODS: I debated if I should put this in Politics, In The News or Around baseball. Feel free to move. But some BS in my opinion. I am all about free speech on your own time, regardless which side of the spectrum

 

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/giants-snub-aubrey-huff-world-series-reunion-social-media-posts

 

*I don't have Twitter..- If someone can post Huff's statement, that would be cool.

[Deadpool]

MODS: I debated if I should put this in Politics, In The News or Around baseball. Feel free to move. But some BS in my opinion. I am all about free speech on your own time, regardless which side of the spectrum

 

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/giants-snub-aubrey-huff-world-series-reunion-social-media-posts

 

*I don't have Twitter..- If someone can post Huff's statement, that would be cool.

 

 

The gist of it seems to be Huff made some Tweets in very poor taste (not many mentioned in the article, and I don't care to dig any further) and he went with the "it's just a prank, bro" defence when he got called out on it.

 

Bottom line is the Giants aren't censoring him or infringing on his first amendment rights because the Giants aren't the government, they're a private company that's free to not invite someone to their party if they don't wanna. *shrug* I had literally forgotten that Aubry Huff existed until you posted this