Elktonnick

That he is but he is the virtual in house flack. Gibbons was one of the few who was flown in for an interview prior to RR's hiring. And as they say where there is smoke.

Heyman is the second national sportswriter pushing Cora. WEEI's Rob Bradford, on the other hand, suggested John Gibbons is a strong possibility.

I certainly concur. If Bloom were going to rehire Cora why go through all the drama of discharging RR the way they did? ESPN's Buster Olney is the leading advocate for Cora's return to Boston.

I agree Bloom doesn't want to look back but rather move forward. I believe that Bloom always intended that RR would be a stop gap hire until he had enough time to fully evaluate all his baseball operations personnel. Bloom should now be free to make his own hires. I suspect that Bloom wants someone who shares his vision on how pitchers should be evaluated developed and managed and Cora may not share that vision. In any case both RR and Alex Cora were DD hires. The past is the past and the DD era is over. It is time for the Bloom era to begin and I doubt Chaim Bloom sees bringing back Cora would be in keeping with moving the organization forward

The biggest disadvantage the Yankees have in the playoffs is that the team is built for Yankee Stadium and after the first round no games will be played there.

Several days ago Jim Rice observed that JDM wasn't swinging at the ball but rather at a spot. Last night's game was an excellent example of how accurate Jim Rice's observations were. JDM's swing has become robotic. He looks really lost. As far as I am concerned JDM is right up there with Matt Barnes as to the reason why Boston lost last night.

This is going to make predicting how teams perform this year a real crap shoot...They way I see it this is going to a real free for all. The teams with the healthiest rosters will come out on top.not necessarily the team with the best roster. While injuries always play a factor because of the abbreviated schedule staying healthy becomes more important than ever. If they actually play all the way through.this could be wildly unpredictable.

If she were still alive I would say at spring training to JBJ. But No I don't.

Sontag's quote most apropos to baseball was "you can not think and hit (some one) at the same time."

A 60 game season 40 in division is a crap shoot.

I think this puts an end to baseball.

I think the logistical challenges are simply too great to make any season likely now.

I understand the Phillies closed their camp after a number of players and staff tested positive.

In the British West Indies, they say that the British introduced cricket to teach the colonies the value of patience.

I was not using argument in that context but rather in the context that it was Holmes reasoning ie to state a point.of view.

The argument is that mlb is not a business engaged in interstate commerce. Its business is giving exhibitions of baseball which is a state centric activity and not subject to the Sherman anti trust act.at least that is how Justice Holmes opined in 1922. You see baseball is a business that is not a business!???!????.That is why it is exempt from regulation by congress. If it makes no sense to you I understand because it is nonsensical. But that is the way it is until the Supreme Court reverses itself which it declined to do two years ago.

The latter might get killed assuming they had the cajones to stay in on a 100 mph.fastball.

Otoh soccer players have extraordinary eye-foot coordination.

I do.not know if it were your intention but you just.largely made the same argument that owners have made.historically as to why MLB can not be regulated under anti trust legislation.

Inshallah!!

It really doesn't matter who has the most to blame. If both sides do not reach an agreement both lose. Moreover if clubs do start to declare bankruptcy those long term "guaranteed" contract s become fodder for the bankruptcy court.

They say that the average Premier League football player covers 6.5 miles per game.

If a number of teams go bankrupt as some are suggesting then arguments over the lux tax and any reset are academic. Owners have a legit fear that the public will be reluctant to return to baseball parks in 2021 in any large numbers.. Projecting 2021 baseball economics will be highly speculative. If I were to guess, baseball will not see anything like a return to normality in 2021. The outlook is very pessimistic from my point of view.

If you subscribe to the Athletic, Jayson Stark's June 17 piece is a comprehensive yet grim picture of the state of the game. Here is an excerpt. "Hey, great. Believe it or not, the visions just got darker from there. We heard predictions of teams declaring bankruptcy, maybe even the sport declaring bankruptcy. We heard predictions of the commissioner being overthrown by a group of unhappy owners. We even heard an argument for basically blowing up the business of baseball and starting over, to try to get this right." "FREE AGENCY: Club officials, from markets of varying sizes, offered similar predictions – of unprecedented numbers of unsigned free agents … of up to 300 players getting non-tendered (yes, 300!) … of veteran players begging for any kind of deal … of even the marquee free agents – Mookie Betts, George Springer, J.T. Realmuto – settling for one-year contracts. SALARY DUMPS: Multiple executives predicted we’d see financially hurting clubs try to unload as many big contracts as they could – a process that might even begin as soon as spring training 2.0 this year, assuming there is a spring training 2.0. One exec’s take: “There’s no question you’ll see teams try to unload money. But they might have no one to unload them to” – because, theoretically, even the big-market teams will be reeling after losing hundreds of millions of dollars in 2020 revenues. PAYROLLS: An official of a small-market club described the financial hit being absorbed by many teams this way: “There will be a lot of focus on short-term economics and the impact on free agency. But the economic impact of this (season) will be felt for years, and it will affect (payrolls) for years in an industry that’s borrowing $2.4 billion just to operate. At some point, you can’t borrow any more. There’s only so much money banks will loan you before they say, ‘We can’t loan you any more.’”

The only reason I am interested is John Henry,'s Liverpool can begin play but not the Red Sox. It is so irritating.