Since a month or so, MLB is under attack due to the way it handles the Astros sign-stealing scandal. But the way it is treating fans may even lead more to a declining interest in Major League Baseball. What’s the case? Well, first of all the Oakland Athletics have canceled their on air radio station….
All over the internet, Houston Astros fans are getting irky about the attention that the sign-stealing by their team is getting. How do they expect this to blow over like that when people are still talking about the 1919 Black Sox scandal or about the 1990s PED scandal. People will remember this for decades and…
In an interview with ESPN’s Karl Ravech, Rob Manfred defended MLB’s “punishment” of the Astros’ sign-stealing. In a long interview, he explained why he did not punish the players. In this interview, Manfred made a couple of statements that must make fans and non-Astros players shake their heads. Take this one for example: “Yeah, I…
Yesterday, new Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker, pleaded MLB to protect his players from being beaned by their opponents. If MLB would have acted the way it should, this plea would not even have been necessary. With Thursday’s press conference by the Astros in which José Altuve and Alex Bregman apologized and also owner Jim…
Through the years there have been quite some examples of former MLB players that kept on playing baseball, although on a lower level. The most recent example is Bartolo Colon. After a 21-year career in the Bigs, he has signed a deal with a team in the Mexican League. Previous examples of players that could…
Yesterday José Altuve and Alex Bregman made their apologies to the baseball world for their role in the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal. Also, Astros owner, Jim Crane made a statement. In both cases, fans must have raised their eyebrows. A local Los Angeles news station, KTLA 5, broadcasted the Astros’ press conference and labeled José Altuve…
Normally, I don’t post about the achievements of this blog. Sometimes about the number of posts or hits, but that’s about it. But this morning I found out something that I am really thrilled about. Even this thrilled, I needed to write a note about it. In the past days, the Dutch Baseball Hangout wrote…
A lot has been written about the sign-stealing scandal of the Houston Astros already. Yesterday, former Astros manager A.J. Hinch was interviewed by Tom Verducci. In this interview, he confessed he tolerated too much. Hinch claimed to be sorry for what happened. You may wonder if he is not only sorry for the fact they…
In today’s episode of “Baseball Related Songs,” we pay attention to “My oh my” performed by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. The song is about the magical year 1995 in which the Seattle Mariners made it to the ALCS after beating the Yankees in the ALDS. Macklemore is the stage name of Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, a…
Today, on the first day of their fanfest, the Pittsburgh Pirates presented their 2020 jerseys. Like so many clubs, the Bucs lifted the veil a little bit at Instagram as they showed their alternate black jersey first. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7rrzkdnff5/?utm_source=ig_embed The new black alternate road jersey shows the script the Pirates’ jerseys of the nineties were sporting….
