{"id":301729,"date":"2021-07-17T19:55:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T16:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mlb-finally-gets-one-right\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T19:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T16:55:25","slug":"mlb-finally-gets-one-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mlb-finally-gets-one-right\/","title":{"rendered":"#MLB finally gets one right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2daebc14000\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2daebc14000\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mlb-finally-gets-one-right\/#Coverage_clouded_with_chaotic_displays_babbling_voices\" >Coverage clouded with chaotic displays, babbling voices<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mlb-finally-gets-one-right\/#Grad_to_be_here_sort_of\" >Grad to be here, sort of<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#MLB finally gets one right<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If justice is supposed to be blind, it doesn\u2019t hurt to take a peek, now and then.<\/p>\n<p>MLB, which can make a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> between Point A and Point B an unintended journey through the alphabet \u2014 consider its replay rules \u2014 has finally gotten one right.<\/p>\n<p>The in-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, on-field stop-and-frisk umpire inspections of pitchers for game-afflicting substances may not be pretty, but they work as a deterrent. Besides, what\u2019s pretty about the current state of baseball?<\/p>\n<p>Who cares how it looks? I\u2019ve got a scar on my neck from spinal surgery. (I was on the helicopter with NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>\u2019 Brian Williams when we were shot down in Iraq.) It doesn\u2019t look good, but I sure feel better.<\/p>\n<p>Such on-the-spot, im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te examinations seem to prevent chicanery that can occur once a pitcher reaches the dugout. Only one pitcher, the Mariners\u2019 Hector Santiago, has thus far been busted, and his 10-game suspension seems about right, also as a deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>The MLBPA\u2019s silence on this matter, a silence that can be interpreted as cooperation, is welcomed. Perhaps, unlike throughout the long Steroid Era, enabled by Bud Selig and players\u2019 union boss Donald Fehr, the MLBPA might now support a clean game.<\/p>\n<p>And now back to MLB\u2019s usual absence of foresight \u2026<\/p>\n<p>For MLB to even consider legislating against the shift is missing the larger point. It\u2019s the treatment of a symptom \u2014 tissues for a cold \u2014 rather than a cure.<\/p>\n<p>Pulling the ball into the shift has become the natural by-product of trying to hit a home run during every at-bat. That\u2019s why sluggers (and those who aspire to be) are batting .200, striking out three times per game but hitting enough home runs to be considered indispensable or at least valuable.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Hector Santiago received a 10-game suspension for having a foreign substance on his glove in a June game.\" class=\"wp-image-18844458 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Hector-Santiago-received-a-10-game-suspension-for-having-a-foreign-substance-on-his-glove-in-a-June-game..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Hector-Santiago-received-a-10-game-suspension-for-having-a-foreign-substance-on-his-glove-in-a-June-game..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Hector-Santiago-received-a-10-game-suspension-for-having-a-foreign-substance-on-his-glove-in-a-June-game..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Hector-Santiago-received-a-10-game-suspension-for-having-a-foreign-substance-on-his-glove-in-a-June-game..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Hector-Santiago-received-a-10-game-suspension-for-having-a-foreign-substance-on-his-glove-in-a-June-game..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Hector Santiago received a 10-game suspension for having a foreign substance on his glove in a June game.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s painfully obvious that where a two-strike pitch once logically compelled most batters to \u201cshorten up\u201d to try to put the ball in play, it now doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s an 0-2 or 2-0 pitch, batters will try to smash it 500 feet.<\/p>\n<p>From my chair, the worst thing to h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en to Clint Frazier was hitting 12 homers in 69 games in 2019. That has today made him a .186 batter who often strikes out swinging.<\/p>\n<p>I also see that short outfield wall in Yankee Stadium\u2019s right field as a steady inducement to both strike out and hit into the shift.<\/p>\n<p>Legislating against the shift will only produce a few more unintended ground ball hits to left or right field. It won\u2019t make for fundamentally more skilled batters nor create smarter baseball played by smarter players.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Coverage_clouded_with_chaotic_displays_babbling_voices\"><\/span>Coverage clouded with chaotic displays, babbling voices<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Reader Tommy Barth has sent us a screen shot from Monday\u2019s Home Run Derby on ESPN, one that confirms that TV excesses now elude the minimal boundaries of both common sense and maximum neurological functions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"ESPN's coverage of Monday's Home Run Derby featured a screen split into two panels with multiple data boxes in a scene of information overload, writes Phil Mushnick.\" class=\"wp-image-18844485 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/ESPNs-coverage-of-Mondays-Home-Run-Derby-featured-a-screen-split-into-two-panels-with-multiple-data-boxes-in-a-scene-of-information-overload-writes-Phil-Mushnick..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/ESPNs-coverage-of-Mondays-Home-Run-Derby-featured-a-screen-split-into-two-panels-with-multiple-data-boxes-in-a-scene-of-information-overload-writes-Phil-Mushnick..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/ESPNs-coverage-of-Mondays-Home-Run-Derby-featured-a-screen-split-into-two-panels-with-multiple-data-boxes-in-a-scene-of-information-overload-writes-Phil-Mushnick..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/ESPNs-coverage-of-Mondays-Home-Run-Derby-featured-a-screen-split-into-two-panels-with-multiple-data-boxes-in-a-scene-of-information-overload-writes-Phil-Mushnick..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/ESPNs-coverage-of-Mondays-Home-Run-Derby-featured-a-screen-split-into-two-panels-with-multiple-data-boxes-in-a-scene-of-information-overload-writes-Phil-Mushnick..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>ESPN\u2019s coverage of Monday\u2019s Home Run Derby featured a screen split into two panels with multiple data boxes in a scene of information overload, writes Phil Mushnick.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Tommy Barth<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Welcome back. On the subject of TV excesses, the trend \u2014 plague \u2014 to fill every telecast with empty-headed talk actually seems to be worsening. Networks hire voices, then throw them out to sink or swim, no swimming lessons or lifeguards provided.<\/p>\n<p>We know of no network that employs an effective verbal content coach, if such an important role is even filled. Few hires seem to realize that TV isn\u2019t radio.<\/p>\n<p>Thus a parade of the verbally excessive continues. Some, such as John Smoltz, simply talk far too much, and he is an analyst on the baseball telecasts on two networks, Fox and TBS. Whatever useful observations he might make are lost in a sea of words.<\/p>\n<p>He would be twice as good if he spoke half as much, but apparently he\u2019s told he did a great job after every telecast \u2014 and we\u2019ll see ya next week.<\/p>\n<p>On YES, Ryan Ruocco , a steady fill-in for Michael Kay, continues to try too hard to please, leaving viewers with an earful of extraneous matter as he tries to sell us a game and a team we\u2019re already watching.<\/p>\n<p>He can\u2019t leave the obvious alone, thus, with the Yankees batting we hear, \u201cThe Yanks have a 4-0, lead and are trying to add to that here.\u201d Well, of course they are. Yet we hear such useless filler throughout his assignments.<\/p>\n<p>        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Podcast\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/pinstripe-pod\/yankeessecondhalfpreviewfeat.constantinemaroulis?accentColor=2a2a2a&amp;bgColor=f6f6f6&amp;font-family=proxima%20nova&amp;logo=false&amp;secondaryColor=cc3333\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n        <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And there is little more transparently annoying than forced laughter at nothing worth more than a slight grin. The fabulous Phillies team of Harry Kallas and Richie Ashburn would grunt to demonstrate they \u201cgot it.\u201d When something was genuinely funny they, as well as viewers and listeners, all laughed \u2014 real laughs.<\/p>\n<p>Is there no one at YES who can help Ruocco, and, by extension or even extortion, help us? Answer: No.<\/p>\n<p>One can sense that Ruocco so wants to please \u2014 to dazzle us \u2014 that you begin to hurt for him.<\/p>\n<p>Ruocco, Smoltz and dozens of others should apply the you-are-there test: Would you like to be seated at a game next to a fellow like that?<\/p>\n<p>A fellow who always aced that test was Jim Spanarkel, and YES last year saw fit to dump him.<\/p>\n<p>Again, it\u2019s TV. If you\u2019re stuck for something to say, chances are that saying nothing is the smart path to travel. As Will Rogers said, \u201cGood judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Grad_to_be_here_sort_of\"><\/span>Grad to be here, sort of<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Your Educational, Student-Athlete Tax Dollars at Work: Rutgers\u2019 publicly funded grad schools apparently continue to fill with full-scholarship athletes unlikely to stick past their remaining season of sports eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, of course, it\u2019s all an academic, win-at-all-costs con that exploits NCAA eligibility loopholes. And most Division I schools\u2019 athletic departments know, off the record, it\u2019s exactly that. If these basketball and football players were legitimately drawn to grad schools, why not the school from which they just graduated?<\/p>\n<p>Last week Rutgers basketball \u201clanded\u201d 6-foot-8 forward Ralph Agee, a San Jose State graduate from California.<\/p>\n<p>With, \u201cI really feel Rutgers is a place where I can spend my graduate year at,\u201d he has already indicated that he\u2019s not traveling across the country to earn his Masters unless he\u2019s enrolled in a bang-zoom accelerated program.<\/p>\n<p>Not that anyone on the Big Ten Network will tell us, but Rutgers is Agee\u2019s fourth college.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>I\u2019ve long maintained that my plan is to EX-pire before I RE-tire. But if I do retire, the first thing I\u2019m going to do is what you\u2019ve been able to do for years: Watch sports with the mute button engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, no more than 20 seconds into watching NBC\/Golf Channel\u2019s second round British Open coverage, a shot appeared of Bryson DeChambeau, who was 3-over and two strokes over the cut line at that time, to which was heard this:<\/p>\n<p>Host Steve Sands: \u201cHe needs to kick it in gear if he wants to make it to Saturday and Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporter John Wood: \u201cHe does. He definitely does.\u201d Alrighty, then.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later we were told that Jon Rahm\u2019s \u201ctee shot found some really thick rough.\u201d Sure it \u201cfound\u201d the rough \u2014 that\u2019s where he hit it.<\/p>\n<p>That was followed by a nice, speaks-for-itself chip by Louis Oosthuizen, to which we were told, \u201cHe\u2019s a beautiful chipper of the ball,\u201d as if he might otherwise chip an egg salad sandwich or a small child.<\/p>\n<p>Then, with a major being contested and the cut being sweated via live coverage, NBC\/Golf Channel took us to a nine-minute studio insert. The Golf Channel ran out on live Open coverage!<\/p>\n<p>Wait for me, mute button, I\u2019m a comin\u2019!\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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MLB, which can make a trip between Point A and Point B an unintended journey through the alphabet \u2014 consider its replay rules \u2014 has finally gotten one right. 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