{"id":318190,"date":"2021-08-07T21:41:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T18:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rays-mets-red-sox-among-mlbs-best-have-big-flaws\/"},"modified":"2021-08-07T21:41:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T18:41:37","slug":"rays-mets-red-sox-among-mlbs-best-have-big-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rays-mets-red-sox-among-mlbs-best-have-big-flaws\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rays, Mets, Red Sox, among MLB&#8217;s best, have big flaws"},"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-6a261ef0d7ade\" 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-6a261ef0d7ade\" 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\/rays-mets-red-sox-among-mlbs-best-have-big-flaws\/#Turning_a_blind_eye_to_atrocities_of_womens_gymnastics\" >Turning a blind eye to atrocities of women\u2019s gymnastics<\/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\/rays-mets-red-sox-among-mlbs-best-have-big-flaws\/#Doing_little_for_%E2%80%98students_of_the_game\" >Doing little for \u2018students\u2019 of the game<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Rays, Mets, Red Sox, among MLB&#8217;s best, have big flaws<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>More from the desk of Dooley Noted:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While I haven\u2019t seen much of the Giants or A\u2019s, thus far, it strikes me that MLB this season might be without a good team, meaning the World <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> will be played between two new-standard, substandard teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t seen a team that\u2019s even marginally proficient at doing those things \u2014 the fundamental things, big things, little things \u2014 that win ball<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s. And I haven\u2019t witnessed the manager who demands better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re often told that the Rays, first place in the tough AL East as of Friday, are special, yet they led the majors in strikeouts per game with 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They also led the bigs in grounding into double plays, something of an incongruity given that having a runner on, then hitting the ball in play, and striking out exist in opposite orbits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox? They had the second most errors; only the Marlins had more. Boston catcher Christian Vazquez led MLB in passed balls and errors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That the Mets, who had been in first place for 90 consecutive days before Friday\u2019s games, lost three of four to the Marlins this past week in a series determined by bad baseball, especially indiscriminate batting and rotten defense, didn\u2019t strike the attentive as surprising or unusual.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the worst <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> is that this is the direction in which big league baseball has been headed for 20 years. While flamboyant home run celebrations are practiced until perfected, game circumstances are ignored.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And not only has it grown worse, no organization seems even slightly inclined to fix it. It\u2019s self-destruction from the inside, out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Turning_a_blind_eye_to_atrocities_of_womens_gymnastics\"><\/span>Turning a blind eye to atrocities of women\u2019s gymnastics<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>From reader Louis Motola:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFair-minded people decided that the abuse of circus elephants must end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet the same people have no problem with the exploitation of young women gymnasts. Where else can you find women more mentally and physically abused? Where do they exist in everyday society?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well played. This hideously unconscionable international reality has been on universal display since before whip-cracking Bela Karolyi and his wife\/assistant defected to the United States from Romania, where he coached \u2014 ruled \u2014 the Romanian Olympic team in the mid-1970s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"818\" alt=\"Bela Karolyi, right, congratulates Dominique Moceanu after the US won gold in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.\" class=\"wp-image-19058710 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Gymnasts_Abuse.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Gymnasts_Abuse.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Gymnasts_Abuse.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Gymnasts_Abuse.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Gymnasts_Abuse.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1988 1988w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bela Karolyi, right, congratulates Dominique Moceanu after the US won gold in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since then, the abuse, much of it self-evident and much of it reported by victims later in their physically diminished lives, has been copied and sustained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These symptoms include squeaky voices, chalky skin, growth and nutritional deprivation \u2014 so many female gymnasts are tiny compared to their biological parents \u2014 hormonal manipulation, brittle bones, chronic hip, wrist and back ailments, ankle and foot fragility, and an absence of menstrual cycles that in some cases have lasted lifetimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, on we go, NBC hyping the women\u2019s Olympic teams as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Darlings,\u201d no good questions asked as they have no good answers. After all, there\u2019s money \u2014 TV ratings \u2014 at stake, thus the truth be damned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>American TV, depending on who owns the rights, has always taken a dive for the Olympics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not until CBS lost rights to the Winter Games to NBC in the 1990s did \u201c60 Minutes\u201d report that IOC boss Juan Antonio Samaranch (who died in 2010) was an unrepentant World War II fascist operative later given to buying the Olympic allegiance of murderous dictators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Then-IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch looks on during the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.\" class=\"wp-image-19058743 lazyload\" width=\"618\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-246073-1-e1628359183135.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-246073-1-e1628359183135.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-246073-1-e1628359183135.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-246073-1-e1628359183135.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-246073-1-e1628359183135.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1236 1236w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>Then-IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch in 1992.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Until then, CBS regarded Samaranch as a pal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, Samaranch bestowed the Gold Medal of Olympic Honor on Romanian despot and Soviet puppet Nicolae Ceausescu, who in 1989 was convicted at trial then executed as a mass murderer of his own people, mostly anti-Communists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But with NBC next in bed with the IOC, Samaranch, a former Spanish diplomat, was addressed as \u201cYour Excellency.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>Yoenis Cespedes, Robinson Cano and now Javy Baez. Why are the Mets always the last to know and the first to acquire \u201cstars\u201d who specialize in giving both sides a chance to win?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watching Baez leave eight runners on while striking out five times Thursday \u2014 all against unaccomplished pitchers, one with an ERA of nearly eight \u2014 was beyond the beyond, a prop bet DraftKings doesn\u2019t even offer. Make. It. Rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Mets infielder Javier Baez walks to the dugout after striking out against the Marlins.\" class=\"wp-image-19058793 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Mets_Marlins_Baseball-2-e1628359449833.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Mets_Marlins_Baseball-2-e1628359449833.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Mets_Marlins_Baseball-2-e1628359449833.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Mets_Marlins_Baseball-2-e1628359449833.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Mets_Marlins_Baseball-2-e1628359449833.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Javy Baez<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s nuts out there. And it\u2019s not just Aaron Boone. Hardly!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why shouldn\u2019t Thursday\u2019s 5-0 Angels win over the Rangers have lasted an illogical three hours?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why was it necessary to use eight pitchers in such a game? Three relievers were removed after allowing no hits and striking out three in three total innings. But at 3-0 after 2 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings, the game was unplugged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also Thursday, the Diamondbacks had the Giants beaten, 4-0, when Arizona manager Torey Lovullo decided starter Merrill Kelly, who had allowed just three hits through eight, had to be yanked in order to play Bullpen Roulette. Arizona lost, 5-4, in 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019d do it again! They all would!<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Doing_little_for_%E2%80%98students_of_the_game\"><\/span>Doing little for \u2018students\u2019 of the game<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>All there radical changes in college football and basketball \u2014 conference additions and subtractions, money paid directly to players (in addition to the cash they\u2019re handed through Pell Grants), scores of easy-come, easy-go transfers \u2014 yet nothing to cure the academic, financial and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> fraud that allows American colleges to operate as fronts for football and basketball teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And still nothing to even minimally encourage full scholarship student-athletes to depart their colleges with the ability to speak discernible, useful English or balance a checkbook \u2014 if they have any funds to track.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And if you don\u2019t make it as a pro, you\u2019re returned to the squalor from which you were recruited, unemployable despite an ostensible and free college education. Whereas legit students begin their social, financial and filial ascents with graduation, countless athletes, recruited only to help win games, peak at 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>In 1989, NFL defensive lineman Dexter Manley made national news when he testified before a U.S. Senate panel about how he matriculated for three years at Oklahoma State \u2014 his coach was Jimmy Johnson, now of Fox, who later exploited such recruits to coach the University of Miami and the Cowboys \u2014 despite being a functional illiterate.<\/p>\n<p>Shocking! We must act to ensure it never 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>ens again!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, sure. Now the Dexter Manleys are a dime a dozen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NFL is eager to promote equality? Start with literacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>Nurse!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having long been afflicted by acute clumsiness, two Saturdays ago I took a header in a Peekskill restaurant parking lot, cracking my head open. A swollen head, 30 stitches and a three-day stay in an ICU head trauma unit, I left looking like Mr. Met.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But as I awaited the ambulance in that parking lot, I was tended to by a gracious, generous restaurant patron named Allison, a physician\u2019s assistant somewhere in Westchester County. My eyes were so filled with blood I couldn\u2019t even see her, but I know she had two kids waiting in her car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was spectacular.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d very much like to find Allison to thank her for her kindness and treatment. If you can put me on that track, please email me. 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