MLB Hot Stove 2020: Congratulations to the nations capital
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MLB to limit live video; Red Sox ruling due soon
Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday that Major League Baseball intends to impose new limits on what live video is available to teams during games. He also hopes to rule on alleged electronic sign stealing by the Red Sox by next week.
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Sources: Astros expected to sign Cuban OF Leon
Outfielder Pedro Leon, who defected from Cuba, is expected to sign with the Houston Astros for around $4 million when a new international signing period opens July 2, sources tell ESPN's Jeff Passan and Kiley McDaniel.
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New Details Emerge On Astros Sign-Stealing Scandal
New details emerged in the Astros' sign-stealing, trashcan-banging scandal, implicating Jeff Luhnow & raising questions about buzzers in 2019.
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Furthering how deeply the Astros cheated in apparently a very detailed NYT article. Also Hinch giving a very guarded/open ended answer as to whether the players were using buzzers or not with an interview with Verducci.
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Chanur
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Uh oh.
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Twins Pull Out Of Mookie Betts Trade
The Twins no longer plan to complete their portion of the proposed three-team trade that would send Mookie Betts to …
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DickTrickle
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They'll still trade him. I think there's no going back. And I feel like if this deal fails, they've only lost leverage for future deals with Betts.
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I want to go on record saying I do not like cheaters.
And if we cannot catch all of them, catching some of them is better than just giving up.
NO to Charlie Hustle in the HoF. And the so-called "steroid era"? I am not gonna spend one iota of energy defending them. I do not care, sports-wise, whether Barry Bonds lives or dies.
I think the best judgment we could make against these eras and these players, is just IGNORE them. Sorry for all caps. Give them all a special basement wing in Cooperstown. And just ignore them.
That is a fate worse than death for some of them.
When Mcguire, for example, is inducted, imho it would be very cool if no one showed up to the ceremony.
I can dream, alright?
And if we cannot catch all of them, catching some of them is better than just giving up.
NO to Charlie Hustle in the HoF. And the so-called "steroid era"? I am not gonna spend one iota of energy defending them. I do not care, sports-wise, whether Barry Bonds lives or dies.
I think the best judgment we could make against these eras and these players, is just IGNORE them. Sorry for all caps. Give them all a special basement wing in Cooperstown. And just ignore them.
That is a fate worse than death for some of them.
When Mcguire, for example, is inducted, imho it would be very cool if no one showed up to the ceremony.
I can dream, alright?
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McGwire is just a HR guy, if he hit 430 HR nobody would be talking about him being in the HoF. ARod, Bonds, and Clemens are different and if steroids were as obviously prevalent as they were at the time they should be in. As you stated you can have a separate section for that era and people will all have their own opinions on it, but to say that they're not part of the history of the game and weren't actually dominant amongst their peers is just silly. I'd put Rose in and just never let the dude have a MLB job. They might just wait for him to die then put him in.
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Every era of baseball is absolutely littered with advantages, and other nuances that really make each one very different and interesting. Yes, steroids skewed a lot of records, but so did Ruth not playing with Negro League players, or Mantle & Mays being allowed to play with amphetamines etc. Baseball should draw a line at a certain year, before stringent drug testing and note that for HoF guys. And if they failed tests etc, throw that on a plaque also etc. Steroid era has to be acknowledged, steroids were in sporting circles as early as the 70s etc. The whole bad connotation with the era is already faded compared to even 6-10 years ago.
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You had me interested until the Rose Issue.
I would be ok with a postmortem admission.
Gankak
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Rose should be in the hall for what he accomplished as a player. He should never be allowed to have another baseball job for what he did as a manger. The 'roids era players should be in because they played against people jacked on that shit so imo it was an even playing field. FFS the teams were handing out amphetamines to players so they could play double hitters and shit until at least the 80s and maybe into the 90s. No one balked at that. The only reason baseball cared about roids is cause Congress was going to get involved.
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Sterling
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Steroid era dudes need to compared to their era and not as all time metrics. I don't think McGwire or Sosa should get in, but Clemens, Arod, and Bonds should be no-brainers.
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