MLB 2025 Season

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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    That Jomboy break down was great.

    I’m a Joe Kelly fan.
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,852
    Fuck the Astros.  Every one of them.  
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,527
    pjl44 said:
    Manfred's the worst right? Like he's making a run for all-time worst right?
    Depends on the topic. It's not always easy for me to figure out what is uniquely his decision vs. having to act on behalf of shitty owners.
    But that's a given right? Every commissioner in the major sports are an extension/representation of every shitty owner.
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,525
    pjl44 said:
    Manfred's the worst right? Like he's making a run for all-time worst right?
    Depends on the topic. It's not always easy for me to figure out what is uniquely his decision vs. having to act on behalf of shitty owners.
    But that's a given right? Every commissioner in the major sports are an extension/representation of every shitty owner.
    It comes down to how they manage that relationship though. If they're just a mouthpiece, it doesn't much matter who's in the commish role.

    The negotiation to start this season is an interesting example. Would a better commish have been able to avoid that train wreck? Or was it a forgone conclusion based on dug-in owners? Or did he actually do a good job by even salvaging a season, given how contentious the parties are toward each other? I honestly don't really know how to separate his work out.
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,527
    pjl44 said:
    pjl44 said:
    Manfred's the worst right? Like he's making a run for all-time worst right?
    Depends on the topic. It's not always easy for me to figure out what is uniquely his decision vs. having to act on behalf of shitty owners.
    But that's a given right? Every commissioner in the major sports are an extension/representation of every shitty owner.
    It comes down to how they manage that relationship though. If they're just a mouthpiece, it doesn't much matter who's in the commish role.

    The negotiation to start this season is an interesting example. Would a better commish have been able to avoid that train wreck? Or was it a forgone conclusion based on dug-in owners? Or did he actually do a good job by even salvaging a season, given how contentious the parties are toward each other? I honestly don't really know how to separate his work out.
    Personally, for me, it's how he's handled the roll-out of this season (lack of substantive plans for scenarios like we're seeing with the Marlins) - and therefore by doing so showing how this whole thing is driven by greed for the dollar - along with the accelerated changes he wants to make to the game. He wants to draw in as many eyeballs as possible to the sport (seems like the eyeballs he's chasing could not care less for the sport to begin with), ultimately to increase the money coming in (obvious, and of course something that all commissioners want) - even if it's at the detriment to the long-term growth of the sport, especially when some ideas are contradictions (you can't shorten games and also increase offense, it's one or the other). The marketing of individual players is awful (though this precedes him, but you would think it'd be a priority). The rules changes made, and he'd like to go further on, are just awful. Again, worry about improving the reach of the game instead of trying to lure in people that would rather not watch baseball to begin with. So, on the whole, my issues with this guy were pre-Covid, Covid has just been the thing that has put him over as the worst for me (as is the case with many "leaders" currently).

    From what I understand he had the authority to implement a 60 game season regardless, so I don't know if I give him any credit for this thing starting. Seems like he's being as passive as possible to the point you wonder if anyone's manning the helm.
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,629
    igotid88 said:
    Suspended 8 games
    I miss igotid88
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,025
    Manfred is such a clown.  That is the same as 22 games in a 162 game season. Dude sucks
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,112
    igotid88 said:
    igotid88 said:
    Suspended 8 games
    8 games for talking shit?  what the heck.....
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    I’m cool with a couple games, but that’s outrageous. 
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432

  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,882
    #joekellyforpresident2020 :lol:
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,908
    Orel Hershiser after Altuve strikes out 'guessing is harder than knowing'. awesome.  
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432

  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,993
    edited July 2020
    pjhawks said:
    Orel Hershiser after Altuve strikes out 'guessing is harder than knowing'. awesome.  
    That was awesome. It's a shame the Astro' can't face the fans' wrath right now but if homer announcers like Hershiser will give them hell, I'll take it. 


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  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,527
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,527
    Posting this here for those without access because it is worth it, and scathing. Again, worst commissioner ever (bolded text added for emphasis are mine):

    https://theathletic.com/1961530/2020/07/30/elusive-details-inconsistent-protocols-why-didnt-mlb-stop-marlins-phillies/
    By Meghan Montemurro and Jayson Stark 44m ago

    Four days later, baseball is still feeling the ramifications from Sunday’s Marlins game against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.

    In particular, the timeline of what the teams and league knew, and when they knew it, remains murky. Plenty of questions are still unanswered. Nobody from Major League Baseball or the Marlins has publicly provided detailed answers about the behind-the-scenes decisions or protocols that led the league to determine it was safe to play Sunday. What we do know is this: By the time the Marlins and Phillies took the field for the 1:05 p.m. start, three Miami players had learned they’d tested positive for COVID-19. A fourth had learned of a positive test two days earlier. Miami’s scheduled starting pitcher, José Ureña, was scratched from the game Sunday and put on the injured list the next day without an injury designation.

    On Thursday, another positive result raised the Marlins’ total to 17 players and two coaches who’ve tested positive for COVID-19 since Friday, sources told The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal. The Marlins remain in quarantine in a Philadelphia hotel.

    People within the Phillies organization have been frustrated this week by the lack of communication from the league, sources said. Phillies general manager Matt Klentak spent nearly 40 minutes Wednesday afternoon addressing the media on a range of issues resulting from the Marlins’ virus outbreak. Yet the picture of why Sunday’s game was played remains incomplete.

    Klentak said the Phillies found out about the Marlins’ three positive tests Sunday around noon, about the same time it was publicly reported by media outlets. At the time of first pitch, Klentak said the team “knew some but not all details,” though he did not explain what that entailed. He noted that the decision to play, or not play, is determined by MLB.

    All I can tell you is that there was plenty of communication before that game,” Klentak said. “There were others at the league level who knew about the positive test before we did. So the determination was made at that point that it was safe.

    “Obviously, the escalation of that came on Monday with nine more positives. That’s what led to a lot of the scheduling changes that are now taking place.”

    When there are positive tests on a team, MLB is responsible for relaying those results to the club. But how open must teams be with each other? Health privacy laws create another layer for teams to navigate.

    “There’s obviously a broader safety component to this that affects other players and staff in that clubhouse or in the opposing clubhouse,” Klentak said. “There is a fair bit of communication, not just among teams but with the league centralizing that. The league has taken on a lot of the burden in this to make sure that information is changing hands efficiently and that players and staff are kept as safe as possible.”

    However, an epidemiologist working in professional sports – who requested anonymity because he is not authorized by his employer to speak publicly – told The Athletic he is concerned by how baseball has handled the Marlins’ outbreak and the continued issues stemming from Sunday’s game being played at Citizens Bank Park. He cited a seeming lack of communication or miscommunication among teams and said MLB’s protocols raise serious questions about how communication should be handled for similar situations in the future when a team has multiple positive tests.

    The epidemiologist said it can’t be left up to players to decide whether to play in a situation like the one the Marlins found themselves in on Sunday.

    “There has to be some medical intervention,” he said. “There has to be someone who can say, ‘This is what we have,’ and can say, ‘We need to stop it here.'”

    He said if the Phillies don’t turn up any positive tests by Saturday, the probability is low that any would surface after that as a result of last weekend’s games against the Marlins. But a lack of positive tests among Phillies players or coaching staff doesn’t eliminate the problems highlighted by the Marlins fiasco. The sports epidemiologist also questioned whether baseball’s protocols communicate enough urgency about the dangers of multiple positive tests on a team and the corresponding response.

    “It’s urgent to try to stay ahead of this,” he said, “because you can’t catch up to it once you fall behind.”

    One thing that has been puzzling to the Phillies, and other teams as well, is the apparent inconsistency with which MLB has handled testing issues since the regular season began, compared to the way similar issues were handled before Opening Day. During Aaron Nola’s intake screening process when he reported for summer training camp, for instance, it was determined through contact tracing that he had been exposed to someone who’d tested positive for COVID-19. Nola was required to quarantine for one week and missed multiple workouts, even though he never tested positive.

    Yet in the Marlins’ case, MLB seemed, at least from the Phillies’ perspective, to treat the news of three positive tests with less caution than it showed throughout training camp. In addition to the positive test results revealed Sunday, a fourth Marlins player had learned two days earlier of his own positive test. And infectious disease experts were already questioning why MLB didn’t consider this to be an outbreak, considering that Marlins players had spent the past several days in close contact on two flights and in their dugout and clubhouse.

    So, it was difficult for Phillies officials to understand, sources say, why Nola was prevented from simply working out, whereas the Marlins were able to play a game. If the same standard had been applied, those officials wondered, how would the Marlins even have had enough non-exposed players to field a team?

    Commissioner Rob Manfred addressed this question during an in-studio interview on MLB Network on Monday, saying that contact tracing was done on the four initial Marlins’ positive tests and, as a result, “a small number of players who met the CDC guidelines … were quarantined.” Neither the Marlins nor the league has identified those players.

    When asked Wednesday about the contact tracing and what explanation the Phillies were given by MLB for playing Sunday, Klentak deferred the question to the league or a Marlins official.

    “I don’t know that I’m in the position to answer that,” he said.

    Klentak confirmed Wednesday that no Phillies players or coaches had tested positive since Friday, when the series against the Marlins began, though a member of the Phillies’ visitors clubhouse staff did test positive. Phillies personnel were tested Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Klentak said he expects they will be tested again Thursday and will continue daily testing for the foreseeable future. Because of the typical delay between exposure to the virus and positive tests, Phillies personnel are most concerned about the test results due back between Thursday and Saturday, sources say.

    By not stepping in and preventing the Marlins from playing Sunday, MLB now finds itself trying to reactively fix the problem. The Phillies are left in limbo in the process.

  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,594
    He's bad but....worst ever? You think Bud Selig would've done better? Dude presided over a cancelled world series...
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  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,527
    He's bad but....worst ever? You think Bud Selig would've done better? Dude presided over a cancelled world series...
    I mean yeah good point - no work stoppages....yet. And this is from a competency standpoint, too. Because otherwise I guess Gooddell would be the worst, or at least Manfred is gaining quickly here.
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,852
    Commissioners are largely just the mouthpiece of their league's board of governors and most powerful owners/stakeholders.

    Manfred was hand selected by the large market teams.  He is great for the status quo and the same economic model that is great for large market teams and shitty for everyone else.  
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,594
    What a fucking joke. This isn’t a real season


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