Cespedes has always been a bit of a head case. His actions were thoughtless.
But give it a few days and they will let it slide.
Some people really hate confrontation.
Looks like Mike Soroka tore his Achilles. Out for a year.
Holy shit. What a cursed season.
It’s less a baseball season, more a bloodsport at this point
Apparently the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee has a rep around MLB for being haunted, and now I want stories…
Seem to be lots of retellings of these same players stories if you search:
That’s the stuff. :)
Also, that’s an awesome-looking hotel.
Baseball has got to institute a salary floor or similar. This Pirates team is a joke.
(Don’t have to convince me that this is a long play by the owners to force concessions by the players in the upcoming labor dispute. They had fucking better control themselves though because this shit is already on thin ice after the absolute nonsense wrt COVID this year. Fuckers.)
That Chris Archer trade was just franchise-destroying.
That and Gregory Polanco’s career-altering slide into second base in a September game that had little meaning in 2018.
So on Monday, Jerry Hairston, Jr and then Jon Heyman both reported that members of the Cardinals team were “at a casino” before the team’s COVID outbreak.
And their reporting was widely distributed and reported on.
And it turns out, it was bullshit.
Hairston and Heyman’s “source” for their casino revelation was apparently an instagram post by Dexter Fowler showing him, Harrison Bader, and former Cardinal outfielder, current broadcaster (and COVID sufferer from April) Jim Edmonds at a Nelly concert at the “Hollywood Casino Amphitheater”.
Aha! you’re thinking.
No.
Name notwithstanding, the venue is an outdoor one, and the concert was a drive-in concert. The photos of the guys at the event show them wearing masks, staying on their car, at a distance from others.
And the concert was on July 12. The outbreak the team suffered was detected by testing on July 30. All members of the team present for workouts and games prior to the 30th had tested negative.
(FWIW, the Cardinals think they know the source of their outbreak, and it was through a staff member who interacted with an outside person who was infected, and the staffer interacted with all the Cardinals who are sick: Molina, DeJong, and a raft of pitchers). Neither Fowler or Harrison has tested positive for the coronavirus.
As much as I was here for a little Cardinal nose-tweaking, Heyman is the worst.
This season is so doomed.
Would’ve been a great memo to send like 60 days ago.
I believe the original Boob Nightengale report about the Marlins was also discovered to be a typical Nightengale report.
Scherzer out with a hammy tweak, expected to be minor. Interesting that the injuries have been hitting pitchers (especially starters) much harder so far. Expecting that we’re due for a rash of position player injuries towards the end of this 60 game in 67 day sprint as they just wear out from all the play time and travel taking a toll on their bodies.
Right? How is prohibiting players from going to the bar or large gatherings in general not a part of your plan to play through a pandemic?
Heyman earns his money though, doing exactly what he is paid to do.
Be a rumor stooge for Scott Boras.
So…29 of MLB’s 30 baseball teams are having seasons underway and managing to avoid coronavirus infection.
The 30th – the Cardinals – hasn’t played a game since July 29th.
I’d be very much in favor of MLB booting them from the schedule for the remainder of the year…but it raises the question of how you’d put together a schedule for 29 teams going forward too.
Any ideas?
LOL, the standings by the end of this are gonna look like 19th century baseball, where the first place team plays 54 games, the second place 32, the third place 49, the fourth got to 5-1 before folding, etc.
There’s no way to avoid it this year given the parameters the league wants to operate under, unfortunately. I think for the playoffs you’ll have to take teams by winning percentage with a minimum number of games played (45 seems reasonable, and if a team is close through no fault of their own let them in).
The easiest solution is probably to just give any team scheduled to play them the day off. Sure, it isn’t particularly fair to the East and West pods but… oh well? Everyone knew going in this season was going to be weird. Looking at the STL schedule you might hear some complaints from the Reds who play them 3 weeks in a row but I’m sure everyone else would welcome some time off.
That proposed stretch in mid-Sept is brutal. 5 games @ MIL in 3 days ending with a night game, then off to PIT for 4, ending in KC for 3.
This is pretty much the definition of an “asterisk season” anyway.