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Voting closed: February 13, 2022, 10:41:25 PM

[kiidcarter8]

Peanut gallery - with no comment on the actual statement.

[Yankguy1]

The comment on the actual statement is that it's idiotic.

[kiidcarter8]

Wow

Just reading now that Landry Shamet may die.

Tough times.

[Echo4]

Mad Dog Russo and other. apologists for this piece of crap commissioner can shut up, now:

https://sports.yahoo.com/rob-manfred-admits-mlb-never-intended-to-play-more-than-60-games-223213827.html

“The reality is we weren’t going to play more than 60 games no matter how the negotiations with the players went..."

Sham Commissioner.

It was never on the players, because the owners were never negotiating in good faith.

And the Commissioner did what he is paid to do - the owners' bidding, same as Goodell does, if with less news usually.

[Echo4]

'Nuff said.

All these athletes testing COVID-positive

Doesn't seem to be much concern that any of them will die.

Wow

Just reading now that Landry Shamet may die.

Tough times.

[kiidcarter8]

All these athletes testing COVID-positive

Doesn't seem to be much concern that any of them will die.

[Hamilton Samuels]

All these athletes testing COVID-positive

Doesn't seem to be much concern that any of them will die.

Concern from whom?

[Echo4]

All these athletes testing COVID-positive

Doesn't seem to be much concern that any of them will die.

Except Landry Shamet.

And all those school children - doesn't seem to be much concern that any of them will die.

And all those choir singers - doesn't seem to be much concern that any of them will die.

And all those partiers last night in DC for the White House gathering - doesn't seem to be much concern that any of them will die.

[kiidcarter8]

Really is zero concern.

It's m-COVID.

[Echo4]

Really is zero concern.

It's m-COVID.

Athletes are more often conservative than liberal. I suspect that has something to do with it.

Cody Lyster would beg to differ. So would Mary Roman.

From Twitter:

- Qiu Jun (72), Chinese bodybuilder, died on February 6 in Wuhan
- Italo De Zan (92), Italian cyclist, died on March 9 in Treviso
- Francisco Garcia (21), Spanish football coach, died on March 17 in Malaga
- Luciano Federici (81), Italian footballer, died on March 18 in Carrara
- Innocenzo Donina (69), Italian footballer, died on March 19 in Bergamo
- Jose Maria Candela (59), Spanish sports journalist, died on March 20
- Tomas Diaz-Valdes (78), Spanish sports journalist and amateur pilot, died on March 20 in Madrid
- Benito Joanet (84), Spanish footballer and coach, died on March 22 in Alicante
- Mohamed Farah (59), Somalian footballer, died on March 24 in London
- Azam Khan (95), Pakistani squash player, died on March 28 in London
- Pearson Jordan (69), Barbadian sprinter, died on March 28
- Jose Luis Capon (72), Spanish footballer, died on March 29 in Madrid
- Angelo Rottoli (61), Italian boxer, died on March 29 in Ponte San Pietro
- David Hodgkiss (71), Chairman of Lancashire County Cricket Club, died on March 30
- Pape Diouf (69), Senegalese journalist and former president of Olympique de Marseille, died on March 31 at Dakar
- Daniel Yuste (75), Spanish cyclist, died on March 31
- Goyo Benito (73), Spanish footballer, died on April 2 in Madrid
- Zaccaria Cometti (83), Italian footballer, died on April 2 in Romano di Lombardia
- Arnold Sowinski (89), French footballer, died on April 2 in Lens
- Tom Dempsey (73), American football (NFL), died on April 4in New Orleans
- Roger Chappot (79), Swiss ice hockey player, died April 7
- Donato Sabia (56), Italian athlete, died April 8 in Potenza
- Miguel Jones (81), Spainish footballer, died on April 8 in Madrid
- Francesco La Rosa (93), Italian footballer, died on April 8, in Milan
- Ho Kam Ming (95), Macanese-born Canadian martial artist, died on April 9in Toronto
- Francisco Aritmendi (81), Spanish athlete, died on April 12
- Baldiri Alavedra (76), Spanish footballer, died on April 13
- Zafar Sarfraz (50), Pakistani cricketer, died on April 13 kin Peshawar
- Cyril Lawrence (99), English Footballer, died on April 14
- Norman Hunter (76), English Footballer, died on April 17
- Lukman Niode (56), Indonesian swimmer, died on April 17
- Bob Lazier (81), American race car driver, died on April 18
- Urano Navarrini (74), Italian football player and manager, died on April 18
- Steve Dalkowski (80), American baseball player, died on April 19
- Josep Sala Mane (82), Spanish casteller, died on April 20
- Dave Bacuzzi (79), British footballer, died on April 21
- Teruyuki Okazaki (88), Japanese karate master, died on April 21
- Henk Overgoor (75), Dutch footballer, died on April 23
- John Rowlands (73), English footballer, died on April 26
- Francesco Perrone (89), Italian athlete, died on April 27
- Dick Lucas (86), American Football player, died on April 29
- Fernando Sandoval (77), Brazilian water polo players, died on May 1
- Jim Cross (83), American ice hockey player, died on May 2
- John Ogilvie (91), English footballer, died on May 2
- Roy Lester (96), American Football player, died on May 3
- Shobushi (28), Japanese sumo wrestler, died on May 13
- Marv Luster (82), American Football player, died on May 25
- Celio Taveira (79), Brazil footballer, died on May 29
- Riaz Sheikh (51), Pakistani cricketer, died on June 4
- E Hamsakoya (61), Indian footballer, died on June 6

[Echo4]

https://www.businessinsider.com/politics-sports-you-like-2013-3

[Echo2]

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29415582/yankees-masahiro-tanaka-really-good-spirits-taking-liner-head

[Hamilton Samuels]

https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2020/07/06/mlb-covid-19-test-delays-impacting-multiple-teams/

Covid-19 test delays — and at least one incident in which testers simply didn’t show up at all — have delayed workouts for at least two teams so far. And at least one team’s general manager is hopping mad about it.

Alex Coffey of The Athletic reported overnight that the Oakland Athletics have yet to have a full squad workout because of COVID-19 test delays. They were supposed to begin such workouts yesterday, but delayed them until today. They have since been delayed again until tonight, and even those may not happen.

Why? Because the initial team tests that are required before allowing the team’s full complement of players and coaches into the facility had not even arrived at MLB’s testing center in Utah as of last night. Indeed, they sat in the San Francisco airport all weekend because no one with MLB or the league’s testing company bothered to account for the Fourth of July holiday and expedite shipping.

Coffey obtained the text message Athletics’ GM David Forst sent to the entire club about the COVID-19 test delays. And, frankly, it’s gobsmacking.

The upshot, as Forst explains in the text, is that the test samples which were collected on Friday and which were due to be in Salt Lake City on Saturday sat at the San Francisco airport because of the July 4 holiday. Which, OK, fine, in which case someone should have changed the shipping instructions for Sunday delivery rather than have it just wait around until Monday like any other package. But no one bothered to do that. Forst, in the text:

On top of screwing up the logistics of this whole thing, neither MLB nor CDT (the company that collects the samples) communicated any of this to us until we pressed them for information, at which point all they could do was apologize, which frankly doesn’t really do much for us. Our best shot is to schedule a workout for [Monday] night with the hope that the samples arrive at the lab on time tomorrow and they are able to turn around your results in a matter of a few hours."

MLB is a royal screw-up.


Mistakes were made.

[bankshot1]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/05/sports/terry-francona-comes-out-favor-dropping-indians-name/?event=event12

CLEVELAND — Cleveland manager Terry Francona won’t sidestep the hot-button topic any longer. He believes the Indians need to change their contentious nickname.

“I think it's time to move forward,” Francona said Sunday.

I like the Cleveland Fellers, it recalls a storied player, an all-time great, but might be viewed as excluding the gals.

Cleveland Rocks would tie Cleveland's famous Hall of Fame and famed slugger Rocky Colavito, but Colorado might get pissed.

The Cleveland Harders might make a few fans happy, but some could pervert it and the logo might present an issue.

How about Cleveland Steamers, an ode to the city and region's industrial past and chest-thumping pride?

[Echo2]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/05/sports/terry-francona-comes-out-favor-dropping-indians-name/?event=event12

CLEVELAND — Cleveland manager Terry Francona won’t sidestep the hot-button topic any longer. He believes the Indians need to change their contentious nickname.

“I think it's time to move forward,” Francona said Sunday.

I like the Cleveland Fellers, it recalls a storied player, an all-time great, but might be viewed as excluding the gals.

Cleveland Rocks would tie Cleveland's famous Hall of Fame and famed slugger Rocky Colavito, but Colorado might get pissed.

The Cleveland Harders might make a few fans happy, but some could pervert it and the logo might present an issue.

How about Cleveland Steamers, an ode to the city and region's industrial past and chest-thumping pride?

Cleveland Rolls (since Rock doesn't work, as you said) - for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Cleveland Canals, after the Ohio & Erie Canal?

The Cleveland Supermen, because that's where he was created.

Cleveland Carnations?

Cleveland  Pawpaws?

Cleveland Lights - used to be known as the City of Light and was the birthplace of the electric traffic signal.

Cleveland Trees - was known as the Forest City (and some say still is).