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I get the conflict of interest -- makes sense -- but to have it all go down (with both organizations) at the same, smells to me. Ditch the Mets gig and all's well. But ESPN, who you know loves to have a woman in the both and point to it, demotes her on top of it? Seems like there's something more to it, like maybe your latter point. I'd love to know.
This. They made the press release make it sound like it was already in the works but I doubt it. @shadyridr it did say in the release Cone is a possibility to pair with ARod and maybe Vasgergian (or he might be gone too).
So am I, still doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be upset thinking I’m uprooting my entire life to move somewhere else and then having it not happen.
But this is the nature of the business. Complaining that a trade fell through and you have wait a week to move to a new city is not high on the list of "worst things to happen to you at your workplace." Let's keep a little perspective here.
I don't get the no Joc trade. Sounds like the Angels owner was butt hurt that it took so long to finalize. But it seemed like a good trade for both teams. If they Dodgers ship Joc somewhere else, the real losers will be the Angels.
Timing overall was weird. You had the Betts Trade, then the Joc trade, then the arbitration decision on Joc, then the no betts trade, then the betts trade, then the no Joc trade.
Yes. Some guys. But not these guys. These are prospects that are either making decent money, or will be making decent money. Again, let's keep things in perspective here. And if they have a problem with it, talk internally. Don't go to Twitter to try and make it sound like you're being hosed by the man.
The complaint by Turner doesn't make sense because the players would have been made aware of the trade well before the press anyway. Trade fell apart after a physical.
not me - Downs could end up a good'un, but i was looking fwd to a decade of a sane Fernando Rodney closing games for us.Kraft... said:Downs is an interesting prospect, could be 2B option in a year or two. Wong looks like a backup but Catchers mature late so may he'll be a starter down the road. Still hate losing Betts but I like this version of the trade better than the Graterol version
That would affect a lot of other teams than the Astros. Lot of roster turnover in 3 years.
I don't disagree with that at all. In fact, I said I thought that was a terrible decision. But much like a court of law, they decided to give them immunity in order to get all of the details of the cheating. But once they gave immunity to the players, they had limited options on punishments. They gave the maximum fine allowed. And they banned two people for a year, which is the second longest ban ever handed down. I mean, I guess you could have banned them for 2 or 3 years, but is that really more damaging? All in all, Manfred threw the book at them as much as he could.
Another reason this wasn't done. Ban a full team. Plus all of the other players who were on the team. Then maybe all of the Red Sox. And any other team. Banning players would have led to baseball being hurt. Cutting off their nose to spite their face.
I don't really have a ton of interest one way or another, the whole story is kinda indicative of how pathetic MLB is as a whole. I think you still get some kind of suspension if you're caught taking PEDs right? But cheating to influence your success rate in this way doesn't warrant any punishment on the player side? What exactly has this done to deter this kind of behavior in the future on the players' part?
There were concerns that the players association would appeal each suspension dragging the process out even longer. I also think that to an extent the players used the Nuremberg defense. Hinch never told the players to stop doing it and Luhnow buried the memo from MLB threatening severe penalties. The players could claim they were simply following orders or at least were never told it was against the rules.
Oh ya. Let’s cheapen the regular season like the NBA! So we can make a little more money.
Strip the title for starters and then any awards as well. That alone would have stopped me from chirping.
They’re not stripping titles. That’s dumb. They won. You can’t rewrite history.
I actually like this. It would stop teams from tanking so much and allow more cities to enjoy meaningful baseball games later into the summer.
I’m a Braves fan, my team wasn’t there. I’m also a baseball fan.
I am not so sure. I don't really think it would stop that much tanking. There would still be bad teams that don't have any shot so it wouldn't stop them. There are aspects that are interesting.
