[USML Announce] Fwd: The latest from Jason Gay
Andy Klein
anrklein at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 21:47:23 EDT 2020
Phew - thanks for the tip. He damn near got JD Martinez from me for some
college draftee I never heard of!
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 9:41 PM springkerb via Announce <announce at usml.net>
wrote:
> He said that to set you up for a trade offer. Beware the fog machine!
>
> Mark
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Andy Klein <anrklein at gmail.com>
> Date: 6/11/20 8:38 PM (GMT-06:00)
> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Fwd: The latest from Jason Gay
>
> 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
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>> On Jun 11, 2020, at 8:31 PM, springkerb via Announce <announce at usml.net>
>> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>>
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>> 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
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jun 11, 2020, at 4:22 PM, springkerb--- via Announce <
>> announce at usml.net> wrote:
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>>
>> 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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>> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseballs-big-whiff-wheres-the-summer-game-11591876459?mod=followjasongay#comments_sector>
>>
>> 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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>> [image: Cardboard Fans, High-Five Bans: Baseball During the Pandemic]
>> 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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>> Date: Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 7:10 AM
>> Subject: The latest from Jason Gay
>> To: karen.springen at gmail.com <karen.springen at gmail.com>
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