MLB may have finally evolved the All-Star Game to the point where it no longer knows what it is for. The ceremony is lavish, the staging immaculate, the production values high enough to make an emperor blush. But beneath the glitter, the game itself can feel like an afterthought, a moving backdrop for the spectacle that surrounds it. P.T. Barnum would have admired the scale. I’m not sure he would have loved the baseball.
No announcers or brightly-colored anythings or disgraced former ballplayers intruded on that, which was nice. But, the fact they were really close to being able to should be taken into account by Netflix. This is the first year of a three-year contract to broadcast the event.
Read moreSome of the voting was on point. Some was a Canadian conspiracy. A couple of the finalists do not have the stats to be there. Several of the second place finishers also did not deserve the votes they received.
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It’s going to be a battle. Three teams are pretty obvious playoff contenders.
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One of these teams just seem to have a little bit more in every way
Read moreAdvertisements What has been a great season for the Philadelphia Phillies took a turn Thursday as Bryce Harper limped off the field at the end of a 7-4 loss to the Marlins…just an inning after Kyle Schwarber left the game with groin tightness. Their impact is impossible to ignore on a team with some quality players, but only one who
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Advertisements It is not often that we can be the very best at something. Major League Baseball umpire Angel Hernandez’s career has seen a lot of “bests.” Let’s celebrate them now that he has called it quits after 30 years of missing things. The best check swing strike three call: Bryce Harper’s bat was parallel to the inside of the
Read moreAdvertisements Good news for the Phillies: they beat Miami even with designated hitter Bryce Harper hitting .169 and neither he nor Nick Castellanos had a home run. Bad news: Castellanos is a .194 career postseason hitter (fun fact: Castellanos ended the season with no errors in right field). Schwarber hit 47 home runs to lead the club and nine players
Read moreThe Rays were equally situated and they got smoked.
Read morethe loss of Boston DH JD Martinez cannot be over-emphasized. If he’s unable to play, that levels the offensive playing field and Tampa already has a significant edge pitching-wise.
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