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I know what images you’ve been fed for the last couple of years. But get one thing straight. The A’s aren’t moving to Las Vegas because the fan base is unworthy. It is the owner who doesn’t measure up. Column:
Marc Carig
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Marc Carig
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- Per Elias, David Ross the first Cub to homer in both the 1908 and 2016 World’s Series.
- So, Mike Trout, the best baseball player on Earth, who is criticized often for being bland, showed no hesitation coming after the Astros.
- You no longer care, which is understandable. But you should know that the Owners did this to baseball. Not “both sides.” The Owners.
- Fernando Tatis Jr. get reprimanded for trying, even in a blowout. Yet, if in that exact same context he were to hit a routine grounder and then jog out of the box to first base, would it be OK for him to say "ah screw it, we were up big, i didn't feel like running"?
- Most teams that leave town go out in a whimper. The Boston Braves slinked away. The second Washington Senators forfeited their game because the few fans that came caused a scene. The Montreal Expos got a decent crowd. Let the record show that the Oakland A's packed the house.
- Baseball needs more people like Mike Fiers, not fewer. The game owes him for saying something and putting his name to it. Silence and whispers only creates a sequel of the Steroid Era. Time for more light, not darkness.Jessica Mendoza is the first Mets employee to publicly address the Astros scandal. She said she has a problem with whistleblower Mike Fiers going public and telling the world about the Astros’ cheating.
- Gerrit Cole apparently also chasing 61 homers for the season.
- Rockies GM Jeff Bridich once said he was above media criticism because “99 percent of them, they’ve never even led anything in their lives.” Worth noting that 99 percent of them have also never enraged a star player and then paid $50 million for the pleasure of trading him away.
- Imagine booing unity.
- Per Statcast, Aaron Boone slamming the press conference table is the Yankees’ highest exit velo in the last week.
- The same A’s fans that got mocked by the commissioner for not showing up pulled off their own unsanctioned fan fest. Meanwhile, the owner is lurching closer and closer to screwing the pooch on the franchise’s move to Las Vegas. But, yeah, it’s the fans’ fault. Sure.#FansFest2024 is popping.
00:00 - So today’s fiasco seems to be either: 1. The Mets sent a statement designed to shame Yoenis Cespedes. or, 2. The Mets sent out a statement to say Yoenis Cespedes didn’t come to work — but without first determining his wellbeing. A well-run organization would do neither.
