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MLB Rallies To Help Boy
Whose Baseball Collection
Was Destroyed By Fire –
"[M]y house burned down in Santa Rosa and my saddest
things was my baseball collection cards, my 17 jerseys and 10 hats and my
baseball from the game and also a ball signed by the whole team and Ricky [Henderson] and Bob
Melvin," Smith wrote. "I had a major league baseball and it
all burned up. So sad. I know you are not all together but hope they get
this."
Read about how
Oakland stepped up.
There was a good deal of talk going into this season about
speeding up games by enforcing rules about how long there is supposed to be
between pitches and eliminating the need to throw four balls to intentionally
walk a batter.
The result: Regular season games average three hours, five
minutes, an all-time high.
I’m both a baseball fan and a baseball writer,
so I have no problem with how long the game goes. I’m usually writing when
watching the game at home or, those games I still attend, are minor league ones
that I have a press pass to sit behind home plate with a radar gun.
But, take my wife. She HATES baseball, mainly
because, as she says, ‘it’s so slow and boring”.
Still, I don’t think fans care about this
non-issue, especially the ones attending the games, eating burgers and fries
with their friends, and getting some adult to go buy them a beer.
No, they want the game to never end.
Porn star Mia Khalifa was reportedly ejected from a
baseball game after an altercation with a fan. The adult film star, 24,
attended the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs game on Saturday when a fan
tried to take a selfie with her without her permission, The Daily Mail
reported. According to reports, Khalifa punched the fan in the jaw before being
removed from the game.
“Baseball sucks,” she
added.
Takes one to know one…
In the first round of the Nippon Professional Baseball
playoffs in Japan, the Hanshin Tigers and Yokohama DeNA Baystars battled
through absolutely absurd conditions to play an entire baseball game in the
mud. The result was unlike any baseball game I’ve ever seen. To watch the
highlights with the full swampy effect, here’s “Born On The Bayou.”
I hope you are enjoying all this non-Mets
baseball articles that I am highlighting in my new ‘Mack’s Apple’s’ series.
Please share me your thoughts on this expansion in other baseball areas.
To be sure, many multi-sport stars still end up giving baseball the cold shoulder as they get older. Tom Kotchman, a longtime MLB scout, recalls seeing one such player while at a college baseball game about 10 years ago.
By then, the player had already forsaken baseball for the
school football team, but when he threw out the ceremonial first pitch that
night, Kotchman noticed something. It wasn’t just the arm strength. It was also
how visibly irritated he was when the pitch got away from the catcher. “You saw
the competitiveness,” he said.
Kotchman, then a scout with the Los Angeles Angels, asked
coaches to pass along an information card for him to fill out, eyeing him as a
likely late-round draft pick. But he never heard back, and the player continued
his foray into football.
His name was Tim Tebow.
Gotcha Tom!
6 comments:
As you once said to me a long time ago, it's a baseball site first and a Mets site second. Besides, until the positive news about Callaway coming down an entire off-season of Mets news would be an unmitigated bitchfest.
Mack, I am thinking of changing my pen name to Tom Tebow. Thoughts :)
We just had a pretty muddy 2017. Let's hope for a mud-free 2018.
This just in: Aaron Judge taking over for Judge Judy. All rise.
judge judy made 50mm dollars last year for less then 1 month worth of work. All her shows shoot at the same time in a condensed schedule.
Judge Judy by a landslide.
The change of pace is a good thing, Mack.
There will be a bunch of Mets' news (hopefully more good then bad) and speculation to fuel the Hot Stove, soon enough.
Side note, that chick epitomizes the word "skank" (hopefully that word is OK on here)
Mike
Great work as always Mack.
What? Aaron Judge lost again???
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