A mere fortnight of “Camp Coliseum” is all that remains before the alleged start of the “season.” Whether Krusty shows up or not, we can still have a good time here grilling.
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Really fun Brisbee piece in The Athletic on the history of San Francisco coming to realize that Candlestick was a disaster.
A few highlights:
-Richard Nixon threw out the first pitch on the day it opened and said “San Francisco can say that this is the finest ball park in America.”
-By May 1962, 15 people were reported to have had heart attacks climbing up to the seating levels.
-This:
That hot water heat plan is bonkers. Has any stadium anywhere else even attempted something like that?
Another fun part: “during a remodeling, the Giants found a small apartment under the stands” presumed to have been hidden there by one of the architects for his personal use.
While we’re talking about the Giants and I’m linking to the Athletic, the Giants’ radio team will not be going on road trips.
And will be practicing distancing for the home games.
There may also be a booth shortage problem. Ken and Vince probably won’t usually travel, but there are the three games in San Francisco, and I’d think Vince would do an in-person call of the two immediately following that in Phoenix, possibly with his son.
I think dom calls a good game and is prepared.
Charley Steiner is doing this one better, doing PxP for all games home and road from his living room.
I have not read of any radio broadcasters who plan on doing road games in person, because they would have to travel outside the “bubble”. Ken, Vince and Ray are doing tonight’s radio broadcast from the Coliseum; I’m sure they want to try out the setup in an exhibition game and would think they would drive over to San Francisco for regular season games.
You know, I meant to dial in KNBR last night to see how Miller and Fleming sounded calling a game from afar, but I forgot.
I’m guessing that Ken and Vince will not head to SF for the regular season games there because the Giants crew will be using all four of the regular broadcast booths and setting something new up for a weekend won’t be worth it. But who knows?
I am not one to police people’s word usage, but it was hard to read that after the word “Impromptu”
This whole story of a Baltimore homicide detective allegedly, with the help of three other cops, kidnapping a guy whose construction work he was unhappy with and forcing him to draw a cashiers check for a refund while threatening to “take you in the woods” is insane, but I want to especially call out the balls on his lawyer:
He should just argue that there is no clearly established case law saying they couldn’t do this, so qualified immunity applies.
Please give Mr. Black the same attention and respect you would have given to actual professional baseball.
I don’t know a whole lot about the International Baccalaureate program, but if they are really assigning grades this year based on a machine learning model whose inputs include “the grade that a teacher believes each student was likely to have obtained if the exams were held as planned” along with “miscellaneous other data, wherever it is available” that sounds extremely sketchy.
No return to the classroom this fall for OUSD.
Nor for SFUSD, though they are “hop[ing] to provide a gradual hybrid approach (a combination of in-person and distance learning) for some students when science and data suggest it is safe to do so,” according to the email I just got.
thanks for the heads up. just looked. I am in a position where I am not that impacted, because SLF and I are still fully* employed and our kids are of an age and disposition that learning at home is passable.
I am depressed for how we would handle this a few years ago
*SLF is a state worker and has 2 furlough days a month
Kyle Williams, who never had a sniff at a championship during his NFL career /cheapshot , goes into the final round of the ACC celebrity golf trailing Mardy Fish by 3 points. John Smoltz will be a third player in the final group but he trails Fish by 18 points. Fish has been playing here for quite a few years so I’ll go with the experience (it’s only Williams’ second appearance). That other FK favorite, Mark Mulder, is T7 but I can’t see him gaining 20 points on Fish in one day.
Mulder at least finished ahead of Derek Lowe.
Steph Curry (4th) must have enjoyed spending the weekend with Dell Curry (T7th) instead of holing up at Disney World.
530 7/11 you tube of batting practice. I saw a good KD round earlier.
“Lamentablemente” indeed. It has been 96 hours since the test was taken, over which time I have been spreading the virus if the result is positive but I haven’t been told about it.
I took a test in SF and had the results the next day. I was 5 days after I signed up for the appointment. If i didn’t get distracted for 3 minutes researching my schedule, I could have had the test 3 days after symptoms. (there was one time slot available.)
Checking again this morning, results still “pending”. I didn’t expect any change in that between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Collectively the results of asymptomatic testing are useless because the people being tested self-select. It’s not a random sample and is biased against certain groups (those who don’t have a car to get to a testing site for example). Individually giving me a result that will be at least 5 days old does nothing whatsoever to stop the spread of the virus.
However I’m sure this testing company LHI “Logistics Health Incorporated” collects a nice fee from government for conducting a “free to me” test to generate a worthless result. That’s a scam.
My dad is in assisted living in Mill Valley. They had an employee test positive about a week ago so now all residents and staff get tested by Marin Public Health… but supposedly it’s going to take ten days for results to come back. It’s amazing that testing is still sooo bad.
I finally received the result this morning, Day 7. One of the first things we heard was how important the testing would be. My expectation by now, 4 months in, would be something like a 72-hour turnaround for the results, but everything I’ve read says 7 days is about average right now with some people waiting up to 10 days.
Sagh
My dad got his test result very quickly. It only took them 12 days to tell him he’s positive. He’s completely asymptomatic, but still.
Watching Dan Snyder fumble this name change, I’m going to give free advice to the Cleveland baseball team owners to go ahead and secure the trademark and domain names for “Spiders” or whatever ahead of time.
steamers!
shoot. thought i’d get rich but i’m too late.
http://washingtonmonuments.com/
LOL!
so perfect
Mr. Fischer with the checkmate.
By pumping in music, he knows the players will love it and say they would rather have this than silence.
now he can’t broadcast the games or face ASCAP
finish the comment ed
All those Bama fans prefered Tommy Tuberville to you, Jeff.
I am unhappy to say that Tuberville wrapped up his career by coaching at University of Cincinnati
Also where he wrapped up his securities fraud career.
Not great, WNBA
She calls it “Chronic Lyme”. There’s no such thing as Chronic Lyme Disease, so
1. She’s a woonatic
2. The panel of doctors apparently includes at least a few trained in the ways of science, which is why they denied her request.
Sounds pretty cool!
BSOHL alert.
I didn’t know who he was in march april may 2018
Summer camp 2020: Did the A’s get nothing out of Sonny Gray and Josh Donaldson:
sigh
Luzardo updat…Nothing yet
Not enough time to stretch Luzardo out. Move to the bullpen-Jesus saves.
Somehow (probably because I still expect an imminent cancellation), it hasn’t hit me that the season is starting in exactly a week.
It’s getting close enough that I’m starting to believe that it will actually happen.
I am confident it will begin. How many games we get in, much less so.
LOL USC
Isn’t that what USC is for?
Dammit. Can’t read. Gonna leave the tab open and maybe I’ll finally get my parents to let me use their print subscription number to get the digital LA Times.
Don’t miss the part about “plying a UCLA dean with a golden camel statue…” (though UCLA retains its honor in the end)
Life imitates art.
what happened in the barça game? anything in particular, or just general bad play? i can’t find a video.
isn’t that the only thing bein does? Show Baca highlights?
The governor of Georgia this afternoon literally sued the mayor of Atlanta to enjoin her from issuing press releases or telling reporters that masks are required in her city. What in the world.
LOL
this thread keeps showing up with new messages and it’s always the same two.
and various old threads are showing up with unreads but there’s nothing there.
so, is WP broken? or are the bots ramping up?
Those old threads got spam comments. Someone marked them as spam, so they don’t show up any more, but still get counted by the unread comment counter.
I’m not seeing the problems you are with this thread, but have seen similar behavior in the past.
right on.
As someone who watches a lot of baseball where there are no fans, I really like this. I understand if you don’t
this is the right decision I think
Montas-Manaea-fires-puk-Bassit/luzardo I think until further notice
Montas is apparently hitting triple digits regularly.
My guess is wrong
I am really bad with subscriptions. I took no action wrt MLB at bat. I am now getting a message that says my account info is invalid and I need to subscribe.
I logged into a mostly dead email account and saw a 7/15 email saying I was refunded by MLB.
Does this mean I need to resubscribe?
Finally dug through it, apparently I was charge 149, then it was credited back. But they asked for 45 to subscribe for the year
If you happen to be on T-Mobile there’s this offer again.
That’s weird that they charged it all back to you automatically. They kept all of mine and (now that Im typing this) I dont think I have got the difference back yet.
And for the record I am still ticked that I’m paying whatever amount and Im getting almost 20% of the games blacked out.
Check your MLB account and see if you have a credit for the difference between the 162-game and 60-game seasons, which they hope you’ll leave there to be applied toward a 2021 subscription rather than having it refunded.
Good call. It looks like you have until August 31 to request the partial refund, or else it gets rolled over to next year.
I think infielder Ryan Goins should have dome more comins and less goins!
Have to keep hair equilibrium
He’s the guy who blew the no-hitter in my final (for a long time) game. Maybe “impressed one-stop”.
9 years in the minors (5 1/2 as a catcher, 3 1/2 as a pitcher), and only 10 appearances at AAA. Enjoy it kid, even if the roar of the crowd is piped-in.
I have the mets broadcast on
1) Cespedes in left. he is really really bad
2) judge is fun to watch
3)The met’s team is really good, Gary thorne said “People on the east coast didn’t get to to appreciate Semien year” in response to the top 5 AL MVP vote getters when LeMeheiu was up.
Ron dalrling then said “two shortstops” because boegarts was 5th. Thorne replied 3 if you include bregman who played a lot of short when Correa was out
The Mets’ TV booth is easily the best in the game imo. Funny, informative, and pleasant voices to half-listen to.
I’m feeling pretty COVID safe, having been deep in the woods for eight days. They’d have to do some digging to include me in this sample.
I like this?
(reads PR, hopes Shooty’s name is gone)
Rats.
58/60 on NBCS-CA with the other two on Fox; there aren’t any games where the other team’s telecast will be shown in A’s territory on MLB Network.
Saturday 8/15 at SF and Thursday 8/27 at Texas are the FOX broadcast exclusives.
If I’m understanding correctly, the radio and TV crews will be both be calling road games from booths at the Coliseum (a booth per person) set up with half a dozen monitors for different views of the other park.
Presumably no lawnmowing or repair projects involving hammers or power drills allowed in the Coliseum during road games.
Song running through my head: “The Boy in the Bubble”, Paul Simon
The Only Living Boy in the Bill King Broadcast Booth
is that john travolta?
Three out of four of those guys are great, too bad they won’t share their appearance dates equally. Also Brodie has grown into a strong host for both the A’s and Sharks. All together a good TV studio team.
Constitutional democracy is going the way of the Victrola, isn’t it?
i think you mean CD player.
https://victrola.com/
but yeah, every day looks closer to argentina ’76. even the mothers of plaza de portland are in place.
I have a victrola. Sorta. I told my Auntie Dot to give it to me, before she died my mom put it in her house. It’s there. I see it when I go. I think it’s the one thing of mine there that my mom won’t let me take back to my house
sslinger:
Also:
Oh yeah, I’m all over it. I’m catching up on last night’s show from the Station Inn, show #4 of his 9-night Nashville run. They’ve been riffing about how the audience reminds them of some of their early days when 5 people would show in some town like Amarillo. He’s also the guest with Marcus King tonight. Busy guy!
I am working and only half paying attention, but I think the host of NBC soccer said about 45 minutes ago that there have been 2000 tests in the premiere league and zero positive cases
Fauci throwing out the first pitch for Nationals’ opening day.
Further confirmation that baseball is back
I can add to this:
True Athletics to a man.
Am I just overreacting because we havent had actual baseball news in a couple of months,or is Puk Harden 2.0 and we should see what we can get for him before the rest of the league figures it out?
The time to do it would have been earlier this offseason. It’s probably too late now.
Will be like getting ace for something something
Lineup!
Semien, Chapman, Olson, Davis, Canha, Piscotty, Grossman, Murphy, Kemp
With that lineup looking awfully Opening Dayish, I am going to pre-complain about Laureano losing any starts to Grossman/Piscotty.
They said Laureano tweaked something, taking tonight off but expected to play tomorrow.
Still a fair pre-complaint though.
I think Grossman taking at bats from Canha is the more likely concern.
Not having Canha in the lineup every day after the numbers he put up last year would be insane. I can’t believe there is a risk of them doing that.
I dunno, that was kind of the impression I got from Slusser’s season preview.
Re-signing Grossman at all was baffling. Plenty of outfielders.
Signing Grossman at all was baffling.
You could do worse than a $5 flyer at +2800 on Matt Olsen to lead the league in homers.
The fake crowd noise seems a little detached from the on-field action, like when they’re doing The Wave.
so far it is not well done. I like the horns, more drums needed
There will be a learning curve on that. I’ve watched some golf the last few weeks and that’s not too much different (Tiger would disagree, I’m sure). This has a bit of a creepy factor I’m going to have to work to overcome. Initial thought, though, is that hearing the fake noise is a distraction and I’d be fine with just Ken and Vince and the crack of the bat.
Yeah, I could do without it completely. Or at least limit it to the occasional rally.
whomever is in charge is going too high when the ball is hit
Yeah that was weird on the Piscotty home run.
I didn’t see Manaea hit 90 mph once in the first inning.
crafy lefty
Chadwick Tromp.
loves it
did someone tell us who is doing the PA?
So are they going to have someone go through in tue 6th inning and remove half the cut outs from the Diamond Level?
Will need somebody to randomly throw beach balls on the field in Dodger Stadium and Anaheim.
Maybe let Chapman take that one, Marcus.
Tonight I like the Johnny Bench commercial. Im going to hate it by next week.
Is it for Krylon?
Nobody knows what its for
But it’s provocative.
They should do a fan of the game bit with the cutouts, upgrading one or more to the on-camera diamond level seats. Feels like an easy way to pitch the “member of the club” vibe they want from A’s Access. We just joined the cutout brigade thanks to Nurse Upgrade, who is very excited.
You should send that suggestion to Kaval.
Agreed. Also (with permission) they should tape a hot dog by your hand, maybe a helmet with nachos.
If we are going to do this season I fully endorse being weird. Heck, if I was going to get a cutout Id ask them to have me run on the field!
1/3 of the cutouts should be staring at their phones.
Someone needs to be paid to move FSU’s cutout to a better section in the 5th inning
Im going to remember how good Petit looked so I dont get as angry when he is gassed after BoMel has him pitch 110 innings this year.
Sounded like they are doing the music for dot races
Vince, the reason Diekman faced so many batters last year was he walked so many
I thought he looked good for the first batter tonight, but he has reverted to form.
Sane. He just doesnt finish hitters and he doesn’t finish innings.
I feel bad for thinking this, but he was the one player I wished would’ve opted out.
*DieBBman
I like the new guy’s long hair more than Puk’s. That straight hair always looked weird to me. This is proper headbanging long locks.
Puk was fresh from a blow out
Its been so long I’m even willing to not turn this tire fire off.
yup
A lot of ambivalence here, I just can’t see investing much in this knowing that the rug might be pulled out by Labor Day. It’s like, the moment I’m willing to commit, she’ll say she thinks it best if we’re “just friends”. I really don’t know at this point how much I’ll be watching.
I’ve missed the games, and I’ve missed game threading with all you people. So I’ll invest the time, even if not as much emotional energy.
With you on both counts.
Same. And we’ll see about the emotional investment. Usually I don’t give a damn about the preseason games vs SF, but today I woke up excited for them.
And I’ll keep reading the threads the day after
6 A’s runs please.
JB Wunderkind.
Hendrix and Wendelken sounded good. Maneaa was concerning. Diekman was as expected.
The offense? yuk
The thread, fun
Some really fancy looking suites right behind home at the Rangers’ park. Leather seats in the front, restaurant style set up in the back
That upper upper upper deck looks waaaaaay up there. I was hoping for a 2021 trip, now would probably be 2022, I expect I’ll pay up for the lower levels.
Hearing their Kara talk just now about how she would feel scared sitting in the front row of that section can’t have pleased team execs.
Yes but I wasn’t even talking about those upper left field seats which look almost “unique”, I meant the upper seats along the foul lines, which looks something like Staples Center for altitude relative to the playing surface.
I thought this 538 article was interesting. Apparently they were able to use new engineering methods to bring the upper deck seats ~30 feet closer to the field, at the expense of a small increase in height. I’m kind of curious what the visual effect of that will feel like.
Keeping up with the Jones’s.
Aside from that little angle in the left field corner which will give up some cheap homers the ballpark generally looks fair to pitchers. We’ll need a full season to see how it plays but initial impression is it shouldn’t be as hitter-friendly as Houston.
A different side of Chuck Woolery.
Poor Ken left helpless trying to call that Yaz homer off an inadequate TV feed.
Explains that for this game and the two network games they don’t have the full set of feeds they’ll have available for most road games.
Whatever the explanation, that wasn’t very promising.
Oof, the monitor set up did Ken no favors on that Yastrzemski homer.
maybe he lives in a blackout region.
I laugh. I remember I will be radio only all weekend. I cry.
you gotta look at it from the club’s point of view. if there are inevitable losses in ticket sales, concessions, parking… punish the fan base.
And then Ken miscalls the pop out to (as it turns out) Semien, playing way over in the shift. That’s going to be hard to call all season, no matter how many monitors you have.
Oly very committed to establishing the bunt threat early this year.
Interesting that Pinder is getting the start at 2B today instead of Barreto.
I’m doing my usual thing where I sync the crack of the bat on audio to the sight of it on video and poor Ken just doesn’t have a chance. FKing embarrassing.
The video feed to the Coliseum clearly was lagging their background audio. They may have fixed it by putting a delay in the audio but for Ken’s first couple innings, holy shit was that awful.
By the time I got to Hawaii in 1975 the Islanders road broadcasts were no longer re-creations from ticker tape with sound effects. But it was in the recent enough past that they talked about it. Reminds me just a little of what Ken’s going through.
They had the same problem I’ve been dealing with for years. Separate audio and video feeds are never in sync when they’re received by the end user. You have to delay one of them to match them up and it’s usually the audio. The consequence is, the broadcast isn’t live because of that delay they had to put in.
The final evaluation is that they’re going to have to prove they can do a much better job than we heard tonight to get me to listen to any of these Coliseum booth broadcasts of road games.
Some things will improve as they get more used to calling from monitors, as the techs get the feeds better aligned, etc. But calling balls in the air off the bat is going to be nearly impossible to do well. No feed is going to give you the continuous unbroken view of swing-contact-launch angle you need.
Gone. Krukow agrees.
Maybe Angel Hernandez is the replay official.
That should have been an overturn, but it took many looks for me to see that.
Yeah, the replay feed was terrible, and the fact it took so long and wasn’t overturned indicates there weren’t a lot of good looks.
This is going to be a constant problem because there aren’t separate RSN telecasts, will typically be 6 cameras rather than 12.
Exactly.
john miller is being a homer, said it wan’t a homer with clear evidence to the contrary.
Fiers working on things?
Kruk just said theyre going to put the McCovey statue inside of a Safeway.
there is a safeway a block away. it is very cramped. I can’t imagine where it would go
He was misspeaking. I guess there is a Seals plaza or park arlund there. He instead said Seals Stadium, which I believe is now a Safwway on 16th and Bryant.
Well darn. Our Safeway has slot machines. Who the FK would ever sit at a slot machine in Safeway? I rarely see anybody there (but I have seen them). That would be a logical space; Krukow lives in Reno so I thought that was his thinking too.
Why are they moving it?
A few years ago SF voted to allow the giants to build a huge housing project across the channel behind Pac bell.
Its actually a good project with something like 40% low and very low income housing. I happily voted for it despite is financially benefitting the giants.
I am assuming the area where the statute is is a staging area
that’s my safeway*
*not the closet one but 29th and mission safeway is the worst
I intend to stop by at some point. I want to get to all of the classic PCL sites. Of course I havent got to any of the ones down here yet so maybe “would like” is better than “want”…
The store that occupies the space two storefrints from safeway has a marker where they say seals home plate was. I’ll take you there even though I don’t think they are precisely correct.
this is the 10 year old article about it when it was office depot.
this is my house baseball. I am just foul about 500′ from home
That Burrito Justice article is amazing.
A team lost 66-4! What exactly are you doing when the score is say 60-4. I sure hope someone got hit.
“[coach] changes tone on [game], says [game] will get worse before it gets better.”
Man-I was sure it was in the Safeway. That is what you get for no factcheck posting..
And I will take you up on that trip when/if the world returns to normal. Food and beverage on me.
Isn’t there a good baseball bar right across the street?
Google maps shows the Double play bar and grill right across the street. Will have to go there.
I also want to go to the Oaks card club in Emeryville across the street from what was Oaks Park and is now Pixar.
forget the card club part. but do go in the oaks corner side and get a sammich.
I think I watched this game at the Double Play, and then still had to wait a couple of hours for the friends I was meeting, because Mulder worked so damn quickly.
I don’t know how good the bar is, but I think they have a bunch of PCL memorabilia in there that is worth checking out.
its nice
directly across mission bay from current.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/giants/article/Where-did-Willie-McCovey-statue-go-Giants-15385449.php
salad bar’s closed…
I think the A’s could use about 3 more weeks of summer camp.
So far the bullpen has been exactly where we left off, good and bad
old friend triggs
Can’t remember his first name
Well when youre facing a great pitching staff like the Giants you…
Someone whispers in ear…
What? Really?? Fk.
I want to cut the A’s hitters a little slack because the Giants threw a new pitcher at them every inning over two games. That’ll throw you off even if most of them aren’t that great.
I hope so. But what worries me is the reminder Suslu had on Twitter last night of how this feels exactly like the final week and WC game last year.
To be clear the slack I am cutting is just long enough to stretch into the third or fourth inning on Friday.
Until KD’s first pop up that gets 3 feet beyond the infield..
Ray’s x finity moment of the game is when bassit went back to the wind up after going to the stretch with no one on
Bassitt looked good.
Machin had a good AB. Barreto did not.
Is Khris just toast?
Canha –> DH
Khris –> oblivion
I dont see how this cant be done. I mean I get it-it is 2 exhibition games. But Krush looked just like last year. Nothing. I hope to God I can look at this in a couple of months and laugh at how negative I am.
Man, this grifter has always bugged me. I was never worried about him taking over, but the latest episode is perfect, although you could have saved time by just looking at his hair. Still though, the chef’s kiss to the fake DSA bullshit is this quote:
Buttar defended drawing a salary from campaign funds — which is legal. “Not everyone can be an oligarch like Nancy Pelosi,” he said. “I made more money in my first year out of law school.”
edit to add: he said that of making $52000 in 6 months. real man of the people
“D.C. Guerilla Poetry Insurgency”
This guy is ridiculous.
i’m sorry, but there are only two lyrics in house music.
and “can you feel it?” does not rhyme with “i feel good.”
The only acceptable lyrics sung from the roof of a street legal art car are “ghost ride your whip!”
Dan. Johnson.
[turns head sharply]
I get that a DSA guy needs to want to stick it to the man and such, but spare the air days are not the man that needs sticking.
Also 95% of the “art cars” on the street are just regular cars painted oddly with crap glued to them. If it’s not belching flames or demonstrating interesting kinetic behavior it’s just your eight year old’s art project.
I was down in Dogpatch today, where there was beat-up van parked along the main drag with decals and a scrolling LED screen denouncing NATO and claiming the CIA is running death squads in Ukraine and such. As I walked by, there was a familiar looking guy next to the van chatting with someone inside. Yep, it was Buttar.
that tracks
Dr Ed!
The comment Ed was responding to had gotten trashed, probably accidentally. I restored it.
30 man roster to be final tomorrow AM. Slusser predicts:
Montas, Manaea, Fiers, Bassitt, Mengden
Hendriks, Petit, Joakim Soria, Jake Diekman, T.J. McFarland, Lou Trivino, J.B. Wendelken, Smith and Weems — and Luzardo, initially.
Marcus Semien, Matt Chapman, Matt Olson, Khris Davis, Stephen Piscotty, Ramón Laureano, Tony Kemp, Mark Canha, Sean Murphy, Chad Pinder, Robbie Grossman, Franklin Barreto, Vimael Machin, Seth Brown and Allen or Heim.
The classically seedy Little Nugget on Virginia Street in downtown Reno closes for good next week. The original Awful Awful will be no more.
No! I don’t make it to Reno much anymore, but whenever close I would always stop by for an Awful Awful burger. So good.
So many old Reno properties I used to love are no more…the Comstock, the Sundowner, Fitzgeralds, and my personal favorite Pioneer Club (across the Truckee), which used to be the best blackjack game in all of Nevada.
Good lord
Every hour this nomad drama drags on damages the fragile credibility of this season even more. I’m dumbfounded that MLB hasn’t forced a solution.
I would put them in Chicago, if that city and the state will have them. Going through the schedules I have them playing 13 games at the White Sox place and 17 at Wrigley Field, with no series split between the two ballparks and with only one schedule adjustment, a swap of home series with the Rays on back to back weekends.
Something similar could be done in New York, but it would effectively give the Yankees 37 home games.
Jays players: “Aarrgghh Anyplace But Buffalo No No No Aarrgghh”
They could probably import some local talent from elsewhere.
Supposedly the hangup with Buffalo was stadium lighting for TV and other aspects of the facility (like the weight room) not being considered major-league standard. It’s actually a pretty nice park, the first of the retro ballparks a couple of years before Camden, but I guess without fans the aesthetics don’t matter nearly as much as the infrastructure.
Like FSU says, it’s pretty embarrassing that they are this close to the “opening day” and still scrambling for a solution.
The travelling band of merry base ballers is the easiest solution, yeah? It will suck for 2 months, butwhatever
The Mundys live!
Hell yeah
I am happy to see him play, unhappy to see him play for the angels
It would make this season even less credible if guys on his level didn’t play.
Clicking around on some stuff yesterday led me to an Aubrey Huff Twitter post. I didn’t want to degrade FK by linking it. He was ranting about Gabe Kapler and some of the Giants players kneeling the other night and said something along the lines of “All these players who are opting out, it’s not because of concern about the virus, it’s because they don’t want to kneel or wear BLM patches on their uniform and don’t want the criticism from the social justice jerks if they refuse.” The opt outs seem pretty limited though: Price and Posey are the two big names, Markakis, Desmond and a couple others on the next level and that’s about it. I suppose there could be some additions but I was expecting a few more.
Price desmond ross(s) don’t want to wear BLM?
??? I thought the postseason format, if they do manage to stagger through the 60 games, was one part of it that had been decided.
watching liverpool/chelsea today, I am reminded that campionship celebrations are going to look really dumb
you have no idea.
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watching liverpool/chelsea today, I am reminded that championship celebrations are going to look really dumb
We’re not getting our parade again are we.
My recollection is that the A’s haven’t had a real World Championship celebration since 1974. Everything was very subdued in 1989, even to the point of no champagne spraying, and I don’t think there was a parade because there was a linear heap of rubble where a freeway had stood just a mile or two from where the parade would have been held.
Edit: Hmmm, I whizzed past the word “again” in GM’s comment, didn’t I.
padres are fun to watch and I still love seeing jurikson profar playing baseball.
Agreed
what i meant to say was ptbnl and colin are saving us
I don’t think this measurement poses a problem for models of leptogenesis, where the matter-antimatter asymmetry is originally generated in the lepton sector. Basically neutrinos are our only hope.
More generally, despite its extraordinarily success we have lots of evidence of the insufficiency of the Standard Model of physics, including the incompatibility of its two components (Quantum Chromodynamics and General Relativity) and the absence from it of ~95% of the Universe (Dark Energy and Dark Matter). Moreover, the very early Universe – which is when the asymmetry has to occur for the observed Universe to exist – is precisely the environment in which the shortcomings of the Standard Model are most cruelly exposed.
We have to help
penguinoneutrino! Swiper, no swiping!The choice of “surge” as the descriptor for sending in the federal shock troops can’t be accidental, right? Baghdad by the Bay and all.
everyone know the baghdad cafe closed? I think years ago
With the expanded exemption from providing comprehensive health care on religious grounds, could a Christian Scientist employer refuse to cover *any* medical treatment?
No. Stop.
is that thumbnail a mid earthquake picture?
RTT AV
No surprises. Interestingly, least amount of turnover I have experienced