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If only the rumors of Fidel Castro trying out for the Washington Senators were true...

Antonio Inoki

Bill Bradley - HOF NBA, senator

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Generally an *******. Ty Cobb is in. Cheater. Gaylord Perry is in. Hated the media. Ted Williams is in.

40th in JAWS for LF behind players like Brian Downing, George Foster and Matt Holiday.

Why incur the expense for an overpriced JBJ?

One year contract for a team that's not going anywhere?

Or just re-sign JBJ on the open market for less than he's currently paid?

Puig hasn't been signed yet? Could have had Puig AND Pillar for JBJ's price tag.

Every Gulf Coast team is called Gulf Coast "Parent Club" for whatever reason.

Not great.

@ChrisCotillo Chris Sale had a serious illness in spring training. He tested negative for the flu. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, he is wondering if he might have had coronavirus. I was wondering the same thing.

https://957thegame.radio.com/articles/opinion/sports-as-the-vanguard-of-anti-science Dana White wants to have a "fight island" for his UFC cards, which until; baseball turned up was the dimmest and most arrogantly misguided idea for resumption yet proposed. Fortunately for him, baseball floated an idea that would send all the teams to Arizona for a mid-May start because — well, why should Dana White get all the stick for not understanding the issue? The story, provided us by ESPN's Jeff Passan, claims that MLB, the players union and the state of Arizona are focusing on a plan that would send all 30 teams to the greater Phoenix area for upwards of five months, sequestered except for the games at Chase Field and the 10 spring training ballparks has the potential imprimatur of federal health officials, which means that we have three separate groups who do not comprehend the nature of the virus besetting us all. Passan explains: "The logistics to pull off such a plan would be enormous and cumbersome on the league side and require the buy-in of players, who sources expect to be skeptical of separating from their families for an indefinite amount of time — perhaps as long as 4½ months, if the inability to stem the coronavirus outbreak keeps teams from playing in their home stadiums in 2020. "Still, there is hope among leadership on both sides that the combination of receiving paychecks for playing and baseball's return offering a respite to a nation beset by the devastation of COVID-19 would convince players to agree to the plan, sources said." So once again, we have people in sports who think they understand more about virology than virologists. Or, and this is demonstrably worse, they don't care because the only thing that matters is playing the games with a new emphasis on the word "sacrifice."

@alexspeier Sale says limits on elective surgery led to significant delay. Cedar-Sinai wanted to make sure surgery would have ‘zero impact’ on anyone else, esp COVID-19 patients. Sale says he got tested for the virus when he got to California.

@jcmccaffrey Chris Sale says he gets a cast off Thursday and will start moving his arm post surgery then. He'll likely start most of his rehab from home with initial exercises and range of motion.

@alexspeier Sale says he’s ‘going to have a better elbow than he did before’ after 9-14 month rehab process.

@alexspeier Sale on whether he regrets not having surgery last year: ‘I sleep easier knowing we did everything we could. ... We could have done this 6 months ago... (But) I wouldn’t have been 100 percent go’ on the surgery. Said he wanted to ‘turn over every stone’ before surgery. ‘ ‘It didnt work out, but at the end of he day...everyone did everything we could to make this work (without surgery)...I’m more than OK with that.’

Yuppers

@salemredsox The year is 2008. We are no longer affiliated with the Houston Astros and new names for the club are being tossed around as we join Boston’s MiLB line-up. The Salem Red Sox is off the table. The team takes the field in 2009 as the Salem ??? What would you have named us? The million dollar question.

It was so that teams wouldn't start letting players go instead of paying them.

And when COVID goes to AZ? Cancel the season again? This just doesn't make much sense IMO.

@JeffPassan NEWS: Major League Baseball and the MLBPA are focusing on a plan backed by federal health officials that could have players in training camps by May and games soon thereafter. Details at ESPN on how MLB may return -- and the difficulty in doing so:

Dafuq? Heard @Buster_ESPN suggest that many more in the game are coming around on 7 inning games in the future, maybe within 10 yrs.