[USML Announce] Fwd: The latest from Jason Gay
Andy Klein
anrklein at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 21:37:36 EDT 2020
Jeff Winick assures me there will be baseball this year. Maybe only 50
games, but baseball nonetheless. Bring it on!
Impatiently,
-Andy
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 9:36 PM Bill Strotman via Announce <
announce at usml.net> wrote:
> What kind of fly by night league didn’t address this ?? Who wrote that
> damn thing ?? Ambulance chasers.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 11, 2020, at 8:31 PM, springkerb via Announce <announce at usml.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> Good question and I dont see that it's addressed in the constitution. Is
> it a 10-way tie, or just a write-off? If it's a 10 way tie, do we just
> draw lots for the draft?
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable
> smartphone
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Frank Luby via Announce <announce at usml.net>
> Date: 6/11/20 5:30 PM (GMT-06:00)
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Cc: Frank Luby <zachfehsvater at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Fwd: The latest from Jason Gay
>
> The bigger question is: what do we do if there is no season? Pretend there
> actually was one, and then redraft for 2021 with all contract statuses
> changed as if there was a season?
>
> On Thursday, June 11, 2020, 4:24:24 PM CDT, Bill Strotman via Announce <
> announce at usml.net> wrote:
>
>
> They ain’t gonna play
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 11, 2020, at 4:22 PM, springkerb--- via Announce <announce at usml.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> At my wife's suggestion.
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: karen springen <karen.springen at gmail.com>
> To: Karen springen <springkerb at aol.com>
> Sent: Thu, Jun 11, 2020 9:07 am
> Subject: Fwd: The latest from Jason Gay
>
>
> For your league?! xo
>
> Baseball’s Big Whiff: Where’s the Summer Game?It’s a golden opportunity
> for a sports-starved country. But the Major Leagues are deadlocked in a
> dispute over money.
> Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver yelled at umpire Steve Palermo
> during a game in 1979.PHOTO: AP
> <https://www.wsj.com/news/author/6268>
> By
> Jason Gay
> June 11, 2020 7:54 am ET
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> What the heck is baseball doing?
> Friends, I only want a few things in life: peace on earth, equal
> opportunity and justice for all, health and happiness for my family, decent
> tequila, and maybe—maybe—a talking cat that knows how to play tennis and
> make a frozen margarita. If I never have to log into another Zoom call ever
> again, that would be swell, too.
> I’d also like at least a fragment of a baseball season in 2020.
> What’s going on? The NBA is prepping
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-has-a-plan-to-restart-the-season-11591207131> an
> invite-only, no-bad-teams basketball bubble in Disney World—the thrill of
> Space Mountain, without the blah of the Knicks. Hockey has a two-city plan
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/nhl-proposes-a-return-to-play-with-24-team-playoff-11590533718> with
> a Stanley Cup free-for-all. Nascar has already
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/nascar-makes-move-announces-may-17-return-from-coronavirus-11588282060> started
> taking left turns, literally and figuratively
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/nascar-bans-the-confederate-flag-from-its-races-11591827836>.
> The UFC just announced a waterborne idyll called “Fight Island,” which
> sadly isn’t Nantucket.
> And baseball? Baseball’s just sitting in a lawn chair, drinking warm beer,
> and clipping its toenails.
> The country’s most stubborn sport is doubling down on its obdurateness,
> deadlocking itself in a dispute over money
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseball-had-a-chance-to-be-the-first-team-sport-back-it-blew-it-11591700401>,
> blowing a golden opportunity to delight a starving American sports audience.
> What a whiff.
> I’m not a serious baseball nut—if the Journal’s great baseball writer Jared
> Diamond
> <https://twitter.com/jareddiamond?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor> is
> an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10, I’m somewhere around “less than Jared”—but the
> standoff still makes me shake my head. I want to leap out of the dugout
> like the late, great Baltimore Orioles skipper Earl Weaver, throw my cap,
> cover home plate with dirt and shout at everyone involved.
> *Bleep bleep !@#$%!! Is it too much to ask to play some !@#$%! ball?*
> (That’s my Earl Weaver impression. I know: It’s amazing. Thanks.)
> At first, baseball seemed to have its act together. The change-resistant
> sport got serious about getting back to action as soon as public-health
> officials deemed it safe. It mulled a cactus quarantine season in Arizona
> before settling on a realigned, regional structure in which teams would
> play in their home ballparks before no fans.
> Opening Day on the Fourth of July was presented as a target. Kind of
> perfect, to be honest. Made me a little nostalgic and misty. Hot dogs on
> the grill and baseball? What’s not to like?
> A flag is unfurled in the outfield before a July 4 game between the
> Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers in 2019.PHOTO: MARK
> BLACK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
> Then baseball…went baseball. A sport that’s no stranger to labor strife
> started going sideways. With zero chance of playing a complete, 162-game
> season, owners and players began squawking over compensation. The players
> say they already took a financial haircut, when they agreed in March to
> have their salaries prorated to however many games they wind up playing.
> The owners want players to get a bigger haircut, because stadium revenues
> will be dramatically smaller.
> Round and round it goes, with counterproposals, dramatic claims of
> permanent damage and no solution in the offing. The situation veers from
> pessimism to optimism to screaming into the void, depending on the hour.
> The owners are using a familiar tactic, trying to corner the players as
> greedy and hoping public opinion turns against them. The players think the
> owners aren’t being fair—or financially transparent—in trying to
> renegotiate.
> No matter what side you lean toward, the optics are terrible. It’s
> millionaires vs. billionaires in a nation with double digit unemployment.
> An Independence Day opener is out the window.
> Cardboard Fans, High-Five Bans: Baseball During the Pandemic
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> Cardboard Fans, High-Five Bans: Baseball During the Pandemic
> Live sports are starting to come back after months of coronavirus-enforced
> standstill. Among the changes: quieter stadiums, ubiquitous face masks. The
> WSJ’s Andrew Jeong attends a baseball game in South Korea to see how they
> play through a pandemic. Illustration by Crystal Tai
> What a swing and a miss. As Jared wrote the other day
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseball-had-a-chance-to-be-the-first-team-sport-back-it-blew-it-11591700401>,
> baseball had a chance to get on the diamond before any other major American
> sport came back. With a nation climbing out of virus-driven lockdowns, it
> was a golden shot for an old sport with shrinking public mindshare to earn
> good will and the attention of casual fans.
> Think about it: This has been a long, challenging spring for this country.
> People are exhausted; lives have been derailed. I don’t buy into that
> treacly *baseball is a metaphor for life* mumbo-jumbo, but the sport is
> undeniably a soundtrack of the summer. Wouldn’t it be nice to turn on the
> radio in July and hear a ballgame?
> I’d be so happy baseball came back, I wouldn’t even make fun of the Trash
> Can Thumpin’ Houston Astros. OK, that’s a lie
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseball-wanted-everyone-to-talk-about-baseball-just-not-like-this-11582227326>.
> I’d still make fun of the Trashstros. I’m sorry. It’s too funny.
> MORE BY JASON GAY
>
> - The NFL Talks the Talk. Will It Walk the Walk?
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nfl-talks-the-talk-will-it-walk-the-walk-11591630348>
> June 8, 2020
> - The NBA Player Who Knew George Floyd Doesn’t Want Anyone to Forget
> Him
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/he-knew-george-floyd-he-doesnt-want-anyone-to-forget-him-11591188798>
> June 3, 2020
> - America Is Raging. Listen to What’s Being Said.
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-raging-listen-to-whats-being-said-11590934708>
> May 31, 2020
> - You Will Probably Ride a Bicycle in 2020
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-will-probably-ride-a-bicycle-in-2020-11590759959>
> May 29, 2020
> - Need a Lockdown Lift? Meet the Kettlebell Guy of New York City
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/need-a-lockdown-lift-meet-the-kettlebell-guy-of-new-york-city-11590424021>
> May 25, 2020
>
> Instead, we have a standoff—shades of the canceled season disaster in
> 1994. Every passing week means baseball’s calendar shrinks. At this rate,
> MLB is going to limp back in November with a twi-night double-header.
> Meanwhile, other sports are getting ready to jump into the pool.
> Could baseball blow it entirely and fail to come back? It’s possible—and
> it would be an unmitigated disaster—but I don’t want to go there just yet.
> The optimist in me says: this huffing and puffing, this is tactics, this
> is negotiation, this is what happens. Everyone in baseball must know it
> would be terrible to not get a season under way, so at the end of the day,
> there will be an agreement and a return to the field.
> I sure hope so. Summer’s coming, and baseball’s already behind in the
> count.
> SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS
> *Are you confident baseball can get back on the diamond this summer? Join
> the discussion.*
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