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BREAKING – Alex Cora is back as the Red Sox manager.
He was fired and suspended for the 2020 season in the wake of the Astros sign-stealing scandal, with the suspension ending at the conclusion of the World Series.
6:50am · 6 Nov 2020
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Red Sox about to re-name Alex Cora as manager...
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https://www.mlb.com/reds/news/reds-2...ter-predictionReds' 2021 Opening Day roster prediction
By Mark Sheldon
Ken Rosenthal
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New owner Steve Cohen cleaning house with Mets. GM Brodie Van Wagenen and several other front-office executives - Omar Minaya, Allard Baird, Adam Guttridge, Jared Banner - are gone.
12:16pm · 6 Nov 2020
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
As expected...
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...9?platform=amp
Rob Manfred won't punish Justin Turner for leaving isolation after testing positive for COVID-19
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Nice they waited to see if anyone got sick, apparently nobody important did so no punishment.
Lame.
Go Gators!
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Most of the Sox fans here aren't surprised they're happy. Most of them are Pats fans,too,they buy into if you ain't cheating you ain't trying.Originally Posted by 757690
Last edited by blumj; 11-07-2020 at 03:21 AM.
"Reality tells us there are no guarantees. Except that some day Jon Lester will be on that list of 100-game winners." - Peter Gammons
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Blue Jays sign Robbie Ray to a one year $8M contract.
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I’m no Wade Miley fan but I’d much prefer the Miley contract to that.
Go ahead everyone, go take a gander at Ray’s numbers.
Reds should go after Paxton.
MLB owners want expanded playoffs in exchange for permanent universal DH, per report
"Is the DH even happening in the NL next year?
Still unclear. Players want it, sources said, but owners want the players to agree to expanded playoffs for the 2021 season in exchange. Understandably, the players don't find that to be a particularly equitable trade. The complicating factor is that most front offices would love it.
There's already plenty of enthusiasm within the game for a universal DH, and at some point it's almost certainly going to happen. The question is whether it happens in time for 2021. Passan's report indicates that having the DH in 2021 is more likely than it seemed mere days ago.
As for the expanded playoffs, 16 teams isn't likely. Rather, a 14-team field that includes a bye for the team with the best record in each league is the likely the path forward.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/m...dh-per-report/
They'd need to offer up a heck of a lot more if they want expanded playoffs, I would think.
Perhaps a 26th and 27th roster spot might do it. (And an equal distribution of playoff monies between players and owners.)
I am strongly against expanding the rosters to 27 or 28. After watching a season where every other inning someone was replaced by someone else I can't believe MLB thinks most fans want that? MLB seems to be the only sport that progresses by doing things that most fans don't want. It's odd. I feel like other sports would've already banned the shift, tried to find ways to discourage the 3 true outcome approach and limited bullpen use. As I would argue most fans would be in favor of all that. MLB progresses by making their game less appealing to fans.
Jeff Luhnow is suing the Astros for breach of contract for making him the scapegoat for the Astros scandal in order to save over $22M in guaranteed salary.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story...mpression=true
Wish he would start naming names and burn the place down.
Go Gators!
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