Jupiter, Florida – If you have tickets for spring training from March 5 to March 7, cancel your plans and go for a refund. If you have tickets for opening day? Don’t get excited yet. Still, take solace in the fact that baseball players and owners took a step forward on Friday. With three days left before the announced deadline for the MLB’s opening match scheduled for March 31, the two sides spent their longest day to date at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium. Multiple sources said Commissioner Rob Manfred and…
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The pain of the fans who saw it firsthand
Buyer, Florida – Want to see fanatics? Are you looking for the best offer ever for unconditional love? Come to the unflatteringly named Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium, where the future of Major League Baseball is currently being discussed and decided upon. As about 15 members of the media stand outside the gates of the stadium – we are also confined – and we find ourselves joined by about 20 people here who are not out of profession, but out of passion. “Ah yes. I love baseball,” said Richie Nestro, 75,…
Read MoreGlobal DH likely to end 50 years of debate
Register here To get beyond the back page delivered to your inbox every morning of the week. Rob Manfred has shrugged it off, ending decades of shouting at what counts as a shrug. During a February 10 news conference, the Major League Baseball commissioner went point by point in updating the league’s position and players in talks to end the shutdown. After a minute and a half of publicity meant to show how much MLB was being sacrificed — agreeing to a draft lottery to help curb decline, and higher…
Read MoreMLB Labor Negotiations Still On Doomsday Road
Jupiter, Florida – Doomsday Tuesday. Two, Twenty Two, Twenty Ew. It wasn’t a good day for Major League Baseball fans, as a small sample of them still loved the game so much, despite the current garbage fire across North America, that they stood outside Roger Dean’s Chevrolet stadium for hours, excited. Get out of these labor negotiations and chant the names of the players upon their arrival and departure. Francisco Lindor of the Mets and Paul Goldschmidt of the Cardinals were among those who waved back without getting close enough…
Read MoreMLB Lockdown Conversations Reaches a New Low with a 15-Minute Meeting
Well, that should be the low point, right? Unless you probably imagine an 8-minute meeting the next time representatives of Major League Baseball players and owners meet? Thursday provided a beautiful spectacle outside, much less so inside the MLB Players Association headquarters in Manhattan, where the collective bargaining session lasted roughly, only 15 minutes. cruel. like mets Louis Gillorm tweeted“I’m sure I spent more time than this meeting at the bat…” The scoreboard now reads six meetings, five of them in person, since Rob Manfred shut down players on December…
Read MoreMLB lockout disaster strikes harder amid end of NFL season
We didn’t all come up with a name for the day, did we? In our collective defense, we’ve all been pretty busy. Now, however, with the NFL’s power declining, we feel the sting of the day’s arrival without its standard relevance. Now, officially, the window of missed baseball opportunity opens. Winter baseball’s resentment with no end in sight. In normal times, we’d follow Al Michaels’ Super Bowl sign out of SoFi Stadium with the question: How many days are left for bowlers and catchers? Ironically, the NFL’s addition of a…
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