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The rapidly-spreading coronavirus pandemic, which has now killed 9,989 people worldwide, has forced the cancellation of baseball, football, hockey, soccer, auto racing and other sports. The 2020 regular baseball season will likely not begin until mid-May and may be canceled altogether.......along with the draft.
MLB considering skipping 2020 draft to save money during COVID-19 shutdown
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/m...d-19-shutdown/
In 2013, the Dodgers entered into a 25-year, $8.35-billion deal with Time Warner (now Spectrum) to create their own cable channel, SportsNet LA. The Dodgers thought all the local television providers would gladly pay the fees to carry the channel. They were wrong. For more than six years, a majority of residents of southern California have been unable to watch the Dodgers on television. It is with deep delight that I divulge the dismal Dodger drought is dead and done. Of course the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the postponement of the 2020 season – but when games finally begin we'll be able to see them. Go, Dodgers!
Dodger games to be broadcast on DIRECTV after Spectrum announces deal with AT&T, ending longtime blackout
SportsNet LA will be available on DIRECTV, U-Verse, AT&T TV and AT&T Now in Southern California, Las Vegas and Hawai'i.
https://abc7.com/sports/dodger-games...ckout/6068716/
The 2020 minor league baseball season has been canceled.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ls-2020-season
The Mets began play in 1962. They've won six National League East division titles, six National League pennants and two World Series (1969, 1986). Pending the approval of at least 23 MLB team owners, Steve Cohen will become the new owner of the Mets.
Billionaire Steve Cohen agrees to buy the New York Mets
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-n...-idUSKBN2653I1
"All right, fellas, we're going to have to tone down all the cursing and yelling."
Marlins hire Kim Ng, former Dodgers assistant GM, as MLB’s first female general manager
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story...ale-gm-dodgers
For baseball fans, this year is not starting off well.
Legendary Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda dies at 93
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...3-heart-attack
Baseball Hall of Famer Don Sutton dead at 75
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/us/do...rnd/index.html
Hank Aaron, baseball's home run king who defied racism, dies at 86
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/s...aron-dead.html
Pedro Gonzalez who played with the Yankees and Indians also died.
What a dumb name. I won't be thinking of Bryan Shaw, Zach Plesac, Owen Miller, Bobby Bradley and José Ramirez. I'll be thinking of Star-Lord, Gamora, Groot, Rocket Raccoon and Drax the Destroyer.
Cleveland changing name from Indians to Guardians after 2021 season
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ians-guardians
Last night the Atlanta Braves beat the Houston Astros to win the 2021 World Series, four games to two. At each game, Braves fans repeatedly did their idiotic chanting and "tomahawk chop" gestures. Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, said "degrading rituals like the tomahawk chop that dehumanize and harm us have no place in American society." True – but a majority of Braves fans don't care.
Atlanta Braves fans celebrate World Series win with racist cheer that won't go away
"This is pathetic and disgusting," one Atlanta supporter wrote after the team's victory.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atlan...b0ad6f587c05aa
"Hey, WALL·E, are you blind? That pitch was way outside!"
Rob Manfred says he wants robot umps in MLB by 2024, hints at expansion to 32 teams
https://www.aol.com/sports/rob-manfr...023056520.html
On opening day of the 2022 Major League Baseball season, the average salary was $4,410,000, a 5.9% increase over the previous year. That works out to $27,222 per game. Twenty-eight players will make $25,000,000 or more this season. Mets pitcher Max Scherzer will make $43,333,333. Angels leftfielder Mike Trout will make $37,116,666. Can salaries get any more outrageous? Sadly, yes.
Nationals superstar Juan Soto rejects 15-year, $440 million offer; team could entertain trade offers
https://www.aol.com/sports/nationals...163354065.html
MLB changes 2023 game rules, adopting pitch clock, bigger bases
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...es/ar-AA11EOdE
Bigger bases, a.k.a. "tripping hazards." But the pitch timer will speed up the game.
Pujols, 42, will retire at the end of this season.
Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols becomes fourth MLB player to hit 700 career home runs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...ns/ar-AA12bosA
The Astros and the Phillies will face each other in the 2022 World Series. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess, Evan Drellich's book about the 2017 Astros cheating scandal, will be released February 14, 2023. Surely the Astros won't cheat this year, will they? "I don't know – and don't call me Shirley."
In the 2022 World Series – which includes only two teams and both are in the United States – the Phillies now lead the Astros two games to one. In tonight's game, which the Phillies won 7-0, the Phillies tied the record for hitting the most home runs – five – in a World Series game. Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. set a record for giving up the most homers in a World Series game. Go, Phillies!
The 2022 World Series is now tied, 2-2. Four Astros pitchers combined tonight to pitch a no-hitter against the Phillies. Houston won, 5-0. It is only the second no-hitter in World Series history. The first was on October 8, 1956, when the Yankees' Don Larsen pitched a perfect game against the Dodgers.
The 2022 World Series – the first since 1950 to have no U.S.-born black players – is over.
Houston Astros top Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 in Game 6 to win World Series
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ries-rcna55728
In tribute to Gaylord Perry, his pallbearers will coat the handles of his coffin with Vaseline.
Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry dead at 84
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/sport...ntl/index.html
The A's hope to be playing in their new Las Vegas stadium in 2027 – but team president Dave Kaval told The New York Times that the A's might be in Las Vegas sooner than that. Their Oakland Coliseum lease expires following the 2024 season and they might play their 2025 and 2026 home games at Las Vegas Ballpark, the home of their triple-A affiliate the Aviators.
Oakland A's agree to purchase land for $1.5 billion Las Vegas ballpark
https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports...lpark-2764701/
The A's could also extend their Oakland Coliseum lease for two more years. But they may not want to do that because their attendance is so low.