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Joe Kelly's troll game is on point.
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Turns out that might be a fan account. Regardless, it's funny as hell.
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Cubs relievers have walked 20 of the 95 batters they’ve faced this year, a walk rate of 21.1 percent. Their ERA has ballooned to 9.64. Both marks are worst in baseball.
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Everyone seems to do this.
During all these months of no sports, you'd think they'd air a wide variety of games. On all networks I saw, it's the same stuff repeated every week.
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I don't know if you mean just finding numbers on Baseball Reference or something, but I normally cite where I find those wicked numbers from, and if I don't that means I likely researched it on my own to come up with it.
For instance, the factoid that the Giants have started a different left fielder on Opening Day every year since 2007 is something I've been accounting for on my own, and I made it a trivia question last year on here. Someone mentioned it on ESPN this year (Kurkjian? Gammons? Olney? not sure) as another year has been added to the ledger, and whoever brought it up cited their source as well... but I don't know any MLB analysts who was mentioning that last year. Maybe it wasn't significant enough yet.
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There are some specific older videos that I just can't find anymore, either because they're too old to keep around or the links are inactive.
One is when Carl Everett was hit by a pitch, and at first base he told the pitcher "The next one's going out!" pointing to the green monster, and the next at-bat he went oppo to left-center field over the 37-foot wall. I'd love to find that.
Another one is when J.D. Drew hit an upper deck home run at Busch Stadium in RCF, and on SportsCenter they said it went 514 feet. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't, I'm not sure. I can't find it, though. Don't know if that one was ever online, so to speak.
A crazy one is when Charles Thomas of the Braves hit a deep fly ball to center field that Jason Michaels went back for, bobbled several times, and accidentally flipped it upwards as it sailed over the wall for a home run. I know Jose Canseco's is funny as hell, but this one was an outright ridiculous gift.
I'm also hunting for a defensive play made by a pitcher, and I want to say that it was a Milwaukee Brewers pitcher at Coors Field (maybe?), or perhaps a Rockies pitcher but they were playing the Brewers. Anyway, I believe it was the same year that Mark Buehrle made his epic play on Opening Day in 2010, because being a runner up to Buehrle's play means you'll be forgotten forever. It was a crazy throw to first after fielding either a bunt or short chopper near the third base line.
Not much on the Omar Vizquel/Arthur Rhodes earring scuffle either.
I'm just glad some of Barry Bonds' marquee home runs are still available on YouTube somewhere, including batting practice ones. They have him breaking a window across Sheffield Ave at Wrigley and him reaching the row of purple seats at Coors Field (no Toronto BP where he reached the hotel windows though). They also have his grand slam at Qualcomm where he hit it off the scoreboard, and of course hitting midway up the third deck at old Yankee Stadium. I can watch him on YouTube all day.
EDIT: I have found the Charles Thomas/Jason Michaels one on Twitter!
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I don't like the fact that the Commissioner can stagger the punishment so if many players are suspended they all don't served their punishment at the same time. I would make it a point to have the guilty party to suffer competitively.MLB, Manfred can punish players who steal signs electronically, per new rules.
Major League Baseball and the Players Association have agreed that players who steal signs electronically can be suspended without pay or service time, The Athletic has learned.
MLB’s rules on the use of electronics and video grew significantly in the wake of penalties for the Astros and Red Sox, according to a review of the document by The Athletic and conversations with officials familiar with it. The league has newly hired an outside security firm to police the video replay room entrance and no later than next year plans to edit out the signs from the footage players look at in-game.
But no alteration may be as significant as the league’s ability to discipline. Commissioner Rob Manfred has the hammer, although the union can always appeal his decisions.
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Whether MLB could have effectively administered that justice previously is a complicated question.
Technically, Manfred could have attempted to suspend Astros players had he not granted them immunity during his office’s investigations. But the punishments might not have stood up to expected grievances from the MLBPA because the league and union never before agreed how these specific issues would be handled. In fact, Manfred had declared in 2017, well before the Astros and Red Sox investigations, that he would hold club officials, not players, accountable for sign stealing. (If Manfred, in fact, made a mistake in not seeking player punishments, then arguably that mistake was made well before this offseason.)
Now everyone faces potential suspensions, and the rules continue to put the emphasis on the manager and general manager: “It is the responsibility of the Club’s top baseball operations official and field manager to ensure that all players, baseball operations staff and field staff understand the requirements.”
There is no preset length of punishment for players who violate the rules. Precedents will develop over time, but this offseason’s happenings are not considered automatic baselines — not for players, at least.
The fact that MLB did not punish Red Sox or Astros players is inadmissible as a defense for players moving forward. By the same token, the fact that Manfred suspended officials like Jeff Luhnow, A.J. Hinch and Alex Cora for a whole season also cannot influence the length of a player’s punishment.
Typically, when a player is punished for misconduct such as brawls — or a pitcher throwing at a hitter a la Kelly — the commissioner’s office determines the punishment and hears the appeal. The union believes Kelly’s punishment to be heavy-handed, but his appeal will arrive back at Manfred’s office.
Sign-stealing investigations won’t be handled the same way. Instead, players have broader protection that they’re afforded in the collective bargaining agreement. They’ll be repped by the union during an investigation and have the right to appeal to a neutral arbitrator.
The difference between regular on-field conduct and sign stealing also means that, for sign stealing, players can be suspended without pay. Players punished for standard on-field actions, as in Kelly’s case, are paid for the games they miss.
If three or more individuals on one team are to be punished for sign stealing, MLB and the union will discuss a way to stagger the punishments so that a large swath of one team is not unavailable at the same time. The same provision exists for brawls, for example. In the rare instance that MLB has to suspend, say, 15 guys, it does not want to do so at once for competitive reasons.
As for preventive measures designed to address rules teams have pushed or exploited, the new rules for 2020 are baseball’s strictest yet:
• Video replay rooms, where an operator looks at video feeds and communicates with the dugout when a manager is weighing whether to challenge an umpire’s call, are intended to be on lockdown. The video room operator is prohibited from communicating with anyone during the game except for a manager or a coach regarding a challenge. If the video room operator “needs to leave the room during the game, he or she must be chaperoned, and must immediately return to the room for the remainder of the game.”
• MLB has hired an outside security firm to watch clubhouses and the entrances to video rooms. While players have long been prohibited from checking their cellphones during games, it’s another thing to actually enforce that rule. For now, there’s one new guard per team, but MLB’s hope for next year is to expand to two when it is ideally safer to introduce more people to the clubhouse environment. “These are trained security people,” one person familiar with the policy said. “You tell them what’s allowed, what’s not allowed. They’re just third-party and they do their job: ‘No one’s allowed in or out of this room,’ and that’s it. And they’re also told to write down, and confront if necessary, any violations in the clubhouse themselves.”
• For now, MLB still has “video room monitors” in place, as it did last year. Those are people who are physically inside the video replay room. Those people are to be supplemented, or perhaps replaced, by a camera inside the rooms. It’s unclear when those cameras will be up and running. Unlike the security personnel MLB just hired to be outside the room, the “video room monitors” in the past were local hires who might not have had a trained background. (And telling members of your favorite team not to do something illegal is probably easier with a trained background.)
• Clubhouses have always had TVs on during games. This year, by Aug. 1, every TV in the clubhouse can show only an angle of the field that does not show signs. In the early days of this season, if such a feed is not already set up, the game has to be on a 15-second delay.
• Players do not have communal video terminals to review at-bats or pitches during a game this year. That was established in this year’s operations manual and is largely a COVID-19 measure. Players gathering around and utilizing the same station isn’t particularly hygienic. Instead, players have iPads — which can be loaded with content only before and after games, not during them — provided by and monitored by the commissioner’s office. As soon as possible, MLB is to set up a system where players can access video on those iPads during games but with the signs edited out (i.e., a black box over them). MLB hopes it can get this system up and running for 2020, but it might have to wait until 2021.
• No club personnel can tape from the stands using a handheld camera, including smartphones. At home ballparks, teams have plenty of stationary cameras installed, but they obviously don’t have the same range of cameras on the road. Some teams took to having a club official in the stands to make up for that fact, which didn’t sit well with every team. Even if the tape was being used for legitimate scouting purposes, as is always possible, the practice is now banned. (The same goes for setting up a stationary camera in another team’s park. MLB will still require every team to provide a list of the cameras it installs in its home park.)
• Wearable devices such as buzzers are not directly addressed in the regulations. But they’re covered by the general ban on the use of “Electronic Devices or Visual Enhancement Devices during the game to identify, communicate or relay the opposing club’s signs or pitch information.”
MLB distributed the rules to teams late on the night of the first game of the season, delayed by the many health and logistical questions league and union officials are grappling with. The rules were near completion for a long time, however. Before the U.S. arrival of COVID-19, MLB was hoping it could announce the punishment for the Red Sox at the same time it announced the regulations, a message of what was broken and how it might be fixed in one. Instead, the final haggling had to wait.
Following suspensions and firings this offseason for electronic sign stealing, the rules reflect a sport playing catch-up.
The imagination can still drum up ways teams can attempt to cheat. To stop a player from wearing a tiny buzzer on his body would be nearly impossible without a TSA-style scan before every at-bat, for example. But the potential of an egregious, clandestine effort to skirt the rules aside, MLB and the players union appeared to shore up the deficiencies around the place where the disappointing trend of electronic sign stealing took off: the video replay room.
Ultimately, players now face what should be an added deterrent: They know the commissioner can suspend them.
Technically, Manfred could still grant players immunity if he believes it would make an investigation most fruitful. But after this offseason, and even the Dodgers-Astros episode to start the 2020 season, he might be keen to wield his hammer.
And, needless to say, I don't trust Manfred's judgement one iota to properly discipline players.OSHA Inspector for the NBA.Comment
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Reese McGuire arrest video. [emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]Comment
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Not feeling this new neon color scheme that Quick Pitch has going on. And what's with the shaky cam "1st inning" transitions? Keep it simple.OSHA Inspector for the NBA.Comment
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An A's fan has started a gofundme to fly a Houston Asterisks banner around the coliseum when the Astros are in town this weekend.
$565 out of $1200 raised so far. Astros are getting off so easy, this has to happen.
Edit: up to $800 in 7 hours. Yea, this is gonna happen.Last edited by Mabster; 08-04-2020, 06:56 PM.Oakland Athletics San Jose Sharks
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