MLB 2021 season: Corn-Driven Humidity

[Timby]

Any particular reason the Tuesday Redsox/Yankees game is a day game?

No big deal, just curious. I mean, most weekday day games are Wednesday or Thursday aren't they? Esp. if it's a getaway day, which this isn't.

Probably because MLB switched to putting its schedule together with the randomize function in Excel a few years ago?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Probably because MLB switched to putting its schedule together with the randomize function in Excel a few years ago?

Or the Magic 8 ball.

 

[Worf factor9]

Now I remember. Bumpus is the name of the never-seen hillbilly next door neighbors in A Christmas Story, the people with the army of slobbery hounds who eventually storm the Parker house and devour their Christmas turkey.

The lamp survived the chaos, thank gawd.

btw, Fra-gee-lee is an Italian word.

 

[cardinal biggles]

No it didn't, the lamp had already been buried in the backyard by that point.

 

[1001001]

No it didn't, the lamp had already been buried in the backyard by that point.

I could have sworn I heard Taps being played...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Probably because MLB switched to putting its schedule together with the randomize function in Excel a few years ago?

The worst part is the multiple west coast trips instead of doing one big trip. Seems to create more long distance travel in a time they should be angling towards less. I've seen some strange home/away schedules for teams.

 

[Jedi_Master]

Probably because MLB switched to putting its schedule together with the randomize function in Excel a few years ago?

God-awful.

 

[BillJ]

Padres close to adding Arrieta?

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/08/padres-sign-jake-arrieta.html

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Mets can't be very happy with going on a West Coast trip right after a night game...

 

[Jim Klag]

Any particular reason the Tuesday Redsox/Yankees game is a day game?

No big deal, just curious. I mean, most weekday day games are Wednesday or Thursday aren't they? Esp. if it's a getaway day, which this isn't.

Could it be the first game of a doubleheader?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Could it be the first game of a doubleheader?

Ope! My bad. That's exactly what it is!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Padres close to adding Arrieta?

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/08/padres-sign-jake-arrieta.html

The Pads can kiss every 5th game goodbye. Jake was washed up when we brought him back and he only got worse.

 

[Kronos]

This was before last nights 14-5 blowout loss...

The Cubs have been outscored by 114 runs in their last 45 games.

That's their worst run differential in any 45-game span within a season in the modern era (since 1900).

 

[The Nth Doctor]

...hooray.

Here's to another hundred years...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

This was before last nights 14-5 blowout loss...

The Cubs have been outscored by 114 runs in their last 45 games.

That's their worst run differential in any 45-game span within a season in the modern era (since 1900).

Those 14 runs were all on the bullpen except 2 (admittedly only in 4 innings for Steele). Our BP apparently only was Tepera-Chafin-Kimbrel and it's a wonder those guys have arms left.

 

[Timby]

Noted shithead Jack Morris has been suspended indefinitely from Tigers broadcasts after he decided it would be a great idea to go full-racist when discussing Shohei Ohtani.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Noted shithead Jack Morris has been suspended indefinitely from Tigers broadcasts after he decided it would be a great idea to go full-racist when discussing Shohei Ohtani.

Whether racist or just stupid, how can you be so stupid as to forget you're in a radio or TV booth with live mics (even if in commercials)? Did he learn nothing from Brennaman?

 

[BillJ]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021...ax-threshold-100mm-salary-floor-to-mlbpa.html

MLB’s proposal included a lower threshold for taxes on team spending, with teams subject to a 25% tax on any spending above $180MM, report Drellich and Rosenthal. There would be three additional tax brackets at some point above that mark (for a total of four tax brackets), with the tax rate increasing as teams hit those higher overage levels. As a trade-off, MLB proposed that teams be subject to a $100MM salary minimum. MLB’s entire proposal was presented as a package deal as opposed to a series of one-by-one potential provisions.

 

[Timby]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021...ax-threshold-100mm-salary-floor-to-mlbpa.html

Really can't wait for the lockout this winter. Good gravy, what a horseshit proposal and a transparent attempt at making the luxury tax even more of a soft salary cap.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Considering how many COVID cases there have been in the majors this season, maybe it's just as well if baseball took a year off anyways.