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America Might Finally All Rise for Aaron Judge in 2020
MLB needs Aaron Judge — even more than the New York Yankees do....
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This is Going Great: Where MLB Stands with COVID [UPDATED]
When last we left our intrepid MLB, it was crowing about getting guys into summer camp (sponsored by Camping World!) and making a naked bid to get Domino’s Pizza to sponsor their health “plan.”...
Ian Desmond, Baseball, and Living in Someone Else's Home
A friend messaged me early this morning about an Instagram thread by Ian Desmond that I had to read....
Sports Returning is the Perfect Statement About What We Are
With MLB’s announcement last week that it will officially return, every major professional league is in the pool. The NWSL started this past weekend in Utah. MLS will start next week with a tournament in Orlando. As we move along, the NBA, NHL, and WNBA will return with their various plans. Lurking ...
30 Reasons Why Baseball Isn’t Ready to Return
Here’s hoping that you enjoyed that 35 minutes of feeling good about baseball on Tuesday night....
Josh Gibson and the Long Gone Summers That Should Have Been
The following is adapted from the podcast script for Stick to Pods Episode 11, “Josh Gibson,” which originally aired on April 12, 2018...
1998 As Baseball’s Salvation Is B.S.
What last night’s underwhelming (and that’s being kind) and uninspired 30 for 30 on the 1998 Home Run race tried to capture was that baseball would have been in the toilet without it. It’s a narrative that Bud Selig tried to push to do himself credit, then shit all over to also do himself credit, an...
MLBPA Tells Owners This Is Their Mess
Last night, in a quite similar fashion to George Harrison’s had-it-ness with Paul McCartney in the Beatles’ final days, the MLBPA told the owners and world that the owners are going to install a season they want anyway, so they might as well get on with it. Not really that much different than George...
Some Got It Right, But Most Sports Teams' Statements Are Tone-Deaf
The idea that sports teams have to say anything during this crisis/chaos is a mightily flawed one....
No, Baseball Does Not Have a Moral Imperative to Return This Year
It seems to be an affliction within any baseball writer above a certain age that baseball still has a special place in American culture or society. While media from all sports have tried to claim, at various times, that the sport they cover returning to action would “help” the country, it is far mor...
With COVID-19 Cases Climbing In South America, Venezuelan Ballplayers Are Stranded In Dominican Academies
The coronavirus pandemic is a global event, and that extends to islands. In the Dominican Republic, there have been 15,723 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, a rate of 1,518 per million people, well under the United States’ total rate of 5,267 per million, but higher than several states and...
The Most Overrated MLB players Since 1990
The Deadspin’s Most Overrated NBA Players of the Past 30 Years was a team effort, then we had Chris Baud, Sam Fels and Jesse Spector do the NHL version in a roundtable format, because no one else would admit to watching hockey. ...
MLB Owners Claim To Show Their Cards, Ignore The Ones Up Their Sleeves
While most of the attention this past weekend was paid to the exhaustive and detailed outline of what the safety and health protocols and procedures would be for MLB to resume action, MLB owners attempted to cloak their projections of losses for a season behind closed doors underneath that. However,...
MLB'S Testing Plan Is Thorough, But Does It Pass The Doolittle Test?
While there are certainly many miles of financial sparring between MLB owners and players to get through before the league can return to play, issues rooted in the players’ concerns over safety. While a good portion, if not all, being the players’ anger over the owners reneging on a deal they made i...
Kroger, MLB Bosses Reveal America’s True Pastime: Worker Exploitation
James Andres, who had just started working at the Kroger supermarket in Westland, Mich., in March, contracted coronavirus in April and died last weekend. The manager of a Kroger in Murfreesboro, Tenn., died after testing positive for COVID-19. Kroger announced that its $2-an-hour “hero pay” bonus fo...
With Baseball’s Sharpest Coronavirus Takes, Sean Doolittle Goes A Long Way
The idea that Sean Doolittle wouldn’t want to play baseball is one of the most ridiculous notions that anyone could come up with, and completely ignorant of the path the Washington Nationals reliever took in his career....
This Week, We Were Reminded That Darryl Strawberry Is An Always-Trumper
Missions Box is a website focusing on Evangelical Christianity, and an example of some of the content you’d find there is a piece from April 28, titled, “Survey Reveals America’s Greatest Existential Threat?”...
The Coolest Bo Jackson Story You’ve Never Heard Before
You’ve seen the commercials, you’ve seen the 30 for 30 — “You Don’t Know Bo.” But here’s a story about Bo Jackson you’ve never heard....
Scott Boras And His Normalcy Can Both Get The Hell Out Of Here
The melding of one person and one institution each so galactically up their own asses to have quite possibly come around again that is Scott Boras penning an op-ed in The New York Times is so perfect I might vomit up my own scrotum. I can’t believe it didn’t happen until now, honestly....
WTF, Conjugal Visits For Baseball Players? That’s A Swing And A Miss From 'Bachelor' Bigwig
The idea of “fixing baseball” is nothing new. Even in non-pandemic times, there have been plenty of suggestions floated, at outlets ranging from public radio stations to Fox News. There’s always a presupposition that the game is somehow broken and that baseball’s decline in TV ratings is emblematic ...