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First of all, enough with the spitting. I get why we’re all so fascinated by the notion that coronavirus baseball will be expectorate-free. Spitting is as synonymous with baseball as are home runs, stolen bases and poverty-crying owners. Guess what, though? Most players, understanding the logic behind the banishment, will go along with it. Those …
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The answers just might be in those 67 pages. Unfortunately, so are all the difficulties. MLB sent the union a “2020 Operations Manual” to cover the protocols designed to restart the game with health and safety. The 67 pages delivered Friday night are an exhaustive effort covering items as large as testing for COVID-19 and …
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A 2020 without Major League Baseball would lead to losses for the industry that “could approach $4 billion,” commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday night. In an interview on CNN’s “AC360” with Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Manfred also expressed hope that he and his Players Association equivalent Tony Clark could find common ground on …
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Versatility has proven a trademark of the Tampa Bay Rays, who unleashed super-utility man Ben Zobrist on the baseball world and introduced us to openers. I doubt they’ll take any credit for Blake Snell’s words and actions Wednesday. Yet the Rays southpaw managed to establish a novel versatility plateau. Who knew one could exhibit tone …
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Take less money to play baseball in 2020? Blake Snell will see you in 2021. The Rays’ Cy Young Award winner made little secret about how he feels regarding a potential 50-50 revenue split that MLB owners are expected to propose to the union in order to resume its season, saying it’s “just not worth …
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Alex Wood hasn’t lost his fastball, even two months after coronavirus suspended MLB’s season. The Dodgers pitcher reacted to Mark Teixeira’s suggestion that players should take less money than expected to play baseball this year, slamming him for the take on Twitter. “I refuse to judge someone I don’t really know off of one comment …
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MLB did not make a formal economic proposal as part of its presentation Tuesday to the Players Association on how it sees restarting the season. The sides met for 90 minutes, broke, then continued for another hour, with MLB focusing heavily on the protocols for how it believes it could keep the players and support …
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The Knicks could break their six-season playoff drought after all in a post-coronavirus restart scenario — but it would come with an asterisk. According to a source, one of the many plans of an NBA restart is having additional teams not mathematically eliminated from the playoffs stage a short play-in tournament in July to advance …
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MLB owners agreed Monday to the proposal that will be officially sent to the Players Association with the hope of initiating a new round of negotiations as early as Tuesday that most optimistically would begin spring training in about a month and start the season in the first week of July. The 30 control people …
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Sony has shut down its PlayStation Store in China to upgrade its security there — cutting off income from the world’s largest video game market. PlayStation China announced the temporary suspension of the store on its Weibo account Sunday, saying only that it was for a “system security upgrade.” The Japanese tech company did not …
First of all, enough with the spitting. I get why we’re all so fascinated by the notion that coronavirus baseball will be expectorate-free. Spitting is as synonymous with baseball as are home runs, stolen bases and poverty-crying owners. Guess what, though? Most players, understanding the logic behind the banishment, will go along with it. Those …
