Featured Who do you like for the 2020 baseball season? And other thoughts!?!

Short season and American League rules so I suspect the team from nowhere. Let's just toss out a random guess and say the Oakland A's.

 

This is irrelevant to baseball or any sport.
Give a Vet respect at anytime, but these are just sporting events. They have nothing to do with someone's service in the armed forces.
Just play the game.

 

You are the person judging respect or disrespect. Don't watch baseball if you think it's all about standing or kneeling for a song.
It's just a game. Let it be a game rather than politics.

 

Most are not Americans. They are internationals. It just happens that they work in the US. In what other place of business do we ask people to stand for the US national anthem before they can go do their job?

 

Kapersick () the one who introduced POLITICS into sports.

 

Hate to break it to you, but politics was introduced to sports far before Kapernick attempted to bring light to young black men who were being unjustly killed in US society.

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I have no idea who will win the World Series, assuming some team doesn't get decimated by the virus and if we are fortunate enough to complete the shortened season and the playoffs.

Baseball is the petri dish for the rest of the sporting world. If they can get through this, the other sports will likely continue on.

I haven't been bouncing off the walls, but I have missed real (live) baseball.

I'm failing to see the connection between sports not playing and people going back to church. I DO see a connection between not being able to go to a sporting event and being leery of going to church. If people could attend sports events again, I'm certain more people would begin attending church again as well.

 

It began because of the fear of Communism.

Now, Kaepernick took the opportunity to shed light on a continual national sin. You are free to think differently. My point is that baseball is a game and nothing more. Perhaps it's time to remove the national anthem from all sports events so that people such as yourself can't turn sports into a political agenda.

 

Other thoughts on baseball...

The playoff format is an abomination. The top two teams in each division will make the playoffs PLUS there will be two wild card teams per league. The wild card teams will be the two third place teams with the best records. That means that sixteen teams will make the playoffs. That is more than half the teams in baseball making the playoffs.

To add insult to injury there is no real advantage to taking first place or having the best record in your league. If a team goes 50-10, takes first place and has the best record in the league they play the number eight seed in the playoffs in a best 2 out of 3 series at the home field of the first place team. There is no playoff round bye for the teams with the best records. There is a real possibility that the number eight seeded team could have a losing record. Yet, they will be in the playoffs and they could conceivably get lucky in three games and beat the number one seeded team. So, it's possible that the 50-10 team could lose to a 28-32 team.

The new extra innings rule that puts a runner on second base to start the 10th inning is a joke. This is being done to speed up the game. I hope you like sacrifice bunts, intentional walks, 5 guys in the infield, and sacrifice flies.

I like the DH in the National League.

I like the new rule that requires a relief pitcher to face at least three batters and/or complete the inning.

 

The baseball players kneeling are not Marxists, Communists, or Socialists. They are kneeling to support blacks that feel they are being discriminated against. Obviously, kneeling during the national anthem is working because everybody is aware it is being done. People are talking about it and deliriously overreacting to it.

First people complained about Kaepernick kneeling. Don't protest like that, they said. Then they complained when NBA players wore patches on their jerseys. Don't protest like that, they said. Then they complained when black actors and actresses gave speeches at award ceremonies. Don't protest like that. Then they complained when black singers gave speeches at awards ceremonies. Then people complained when NBA players would mention black issues at after game press conferences. Don't protest like that, people said. Then they complained when NBA players wore tee shirts with messages on them during pre-game warm-ups. Don't protest like that.

Why don't you people just admit that you don't want blacks to articulate their issues?

 

Not that much into baseball, more of a football fan... Ok Jon you can stop you booing... May watch the playoffs and the World Series but that's about it... But I must say opening day was a hoot, with the virtual spectators and It was sad to see all the empty seats... Somebody is losing a ton of money... Well... It is what it is... Play Ball!... Brother Glen