How Networks Killed Baseball

What in the hell am I paying for? No idea. It certainly isn’t consistent baseball coverage.

What in the hell am I paying for? No idea. It certainly isn’t consistent baseball coverage.
Fourteenth all time for double plays, was top-five five times for fielding percentage, is the all-time leader in home runs (351) , and is fourth in doubles. Kent’s feud (with Barry Bonds) would endear him forever in the hearts of those who later discovered that Bonds was part of the Balco scandal.
Read moreAdvertisements .are available to be purchased. Please contact the publisher for details. Somehow, allowing gambling to be associated with professional sports has allowed gamblers to…wait for it…infiltrate professional sports. Somewhere, a U.S. Supreme Court justice is saying, “Whaaaaaaat? How’d that happen?” This week, Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were indicted on charges they took bribes from gamblers.
Read moreThe Freddie Freeman walk-off homer was a crowd-pleaser; and yes Shohei Otani was otherworldly in reaching base in all nine plate appearances with an epic night. But had it not been for a gutsy relief outing by a guy few outside of Dodgertown have even heard of, all this would have gone for naught. Had you ever heard of Will Klein?
Read moreThe ninth was set up for Guerrero to be the hero.
Now in the 11th, he has to be the savior. He delivers. His ability to pull his hands in at hit a ball down the line with power is outstanding. He does it again with a rope down the line.
Read moreAdvertisements for thespitter.com are available. Reach tens of thousands of potential customers. Contact for rates and information. I hate to tell you this, but it is not June 28. Your bullpen is not reliable. Anthony Banda is falling so far off the mound to the right that it is almost impossible for him to know where the ball is going.
Read moreAdvertisements or thespitter.com are available. Reach tens of thousands of potential customers annually. Contact the publisher for rates and information. I don’t know when I started taking notes. Hours ago. Here they are. I’m going to bed. Game three Edman swinging at everything neck and higher. Then can’t get low enough to field what should have been an inning-ending double
Read moreAdvertisements This one could be fun. The storylines seem never ending. The Toronto Blue Jays were last in the World Series in 1993 and won it with the famous Joe Carter home run. George Springer won another game in the postseason with his 23rd career homer…after limping through a game and a half with a sore knee (Fouling a ball
Read more“Managers have to read the room. Snell and Yamamoto didn’t even break a sweat. Yamamoto look like he could’ve pitched forever.”
Read moreAdvertisements You would expect more from a manager with 14 years of experience as a catcher in the Major Leagues, especially one who put up really good numbers (.262 batting average, .995 fielding percentage) over a career that came up just one short of 1300 games. But, the postseason is a different animal from the regular season and Mariners’ manager
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