{"id":42238,"date":"2020-08-07T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/leagues-networks-offer-no-answers-to-sports-most-dubious-decisions\/"},"modified":"2020-08-07T06:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:41:00","slug":"leagues-networks-offer-no-answers-to-sports-most-dubious-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/leagues-networks-offer-no-answers-to-sports-most-dubious-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"#Leagues, networks offer no answers to sports\u2019 most dubious decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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-6a4ef052a2140\" 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-6a4ef052a2140\" 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\/leagues-networks-offer-no-answers-to-sports-most-dubious-decisions\/#What_HBO_chose_not_to_show_about_soccer_star_Rapinoe\" >What HBO chose not to show about soccer star Rapinoe<\/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\/leagues-networks-offer-no-answers-to-sports-most-dubious-decisions\/#Getcha_New_York_bets_here\" >Getcha New York bets here!<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Leagues, networks offer no answers to sports\u2019 most dubious decisions<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Woke up Thursday with two questions. 1) What will Kanye West have to say? And 2) Why do our sports now produce far more good questions than good answers?<\/p>\n<p>How is it that the rest of MLB teams and thousands of fans knew Yoenis Cespedes made himself good-riddance to three previous teams because of his selfish unreliability \u2014 every team except the Mets, who signed him to a $110 million deal?<\/p>\n<p>But no one has an exclusive on ignoring the obvious. Through Wednesday, Austin Romine, the reliable backup catcher the Yankees allowed to sign with Detroit in the offseason, was hitting .273 with seven strikeouts in 22 at-bats. Incumbent, indiscriminate swinger Gary Sanchez was at .074 with 16 strikeouts in 27 at-bats. Last season, in 396 ABs, Sanchez struck out 125 times, 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>More: How did both MLB and its partner TV networks, during the restart, all decide to lard the telecasts in artificial crowd additives, thus sacrificing the rare opportunity for fans to hear the real, unfettered sounds of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s as they are played?<\/p>\n<p>Why has the NBA allowed its game to be lost to a low-percentage boardwalk game? The Nets on Tuesday upset the Bucks. Cool. But this game \u2014 108 3-point attempts, 56 percent of the attempted field goals \u2014 was another that looked nothing like competitive five-on-five team basketball.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA\u2019s rules against \u201cflopping\u201d \u2014 once considered a skill (M.L. Carr made it an art form) \u2014 have quickly become irrelevant as driving toward the basket has been lost to 3s and outside loitering.<\/p>\n<p>TV\u2019s standard foresight-free neglect continues unfixed, uncured. Tuesday, MSNBC knew it was important to twice replay the injury to Winnipeg star Mark Scheifele, but both times the view was hidden behind fat graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, the Reds struck out 13 times. No big thing these days. Except they did it in a seven-inning game. Against four pitchers, 21 outs, 13 on K\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Now that there are no fans, no parking fees to charge and no overpriced food and beer to sell, MLB has no trouble scheduling doubleheaders, even if they are just seven-inning games. In normal times, the teams would schedule day-night doubleheaders as a matter of pure greed.<\/p>\n<p>So to comply with unshakable tradition, the seventh-inning stretch is now in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Why can we no longer tune to ESPN Radio-NY\u2019s \u201cThe Michael Kay Show\u201d without hearing co-host Don La Greca either becoming transparently desperate for cheap, ineffectual attention \u2014 unless he has legitimately become a raging, self-centered, thin-skinned, unglued lunatic?<\/p>\n<p>Why does ESPN continue to proudly show us what it can do with numbers \u2014 as if all games are the same, played by the same people under the same circumstances? Friday, when the Mets led the Braves, 10-5 after five, we read that the Mets\u2019 win probability was 97.1 percent. The Mets lost, 11-10.<\/p>\n<p>Why does Rob Manfred bother with his baloney, including how kids are MLB\u2019s top priority, when it\u2019s obvious that TV money is the only priority. This past Saturday, there were no scheduled day games.<\/p>\n<p>If MLB\u2019s new extra-inning rule \u2014 half innings begin with a runner on second base \u2014 held any promise of quickly ending games through small-ball tactics \u2014 bunts, hitting away from shifts \u2014 consider that last week the Dodgers beat the Astros on Edwin Rios\u2019 leadoff two-run homer in the 13th.<\/p>\n<p>Not even three full innings of starting with a runner on second prevented batters from trying to hit home runs, until one finally did. You can lead a horse to water, but you can\u2019t make him bunt.<\/p>\n<p>Did MLB, the NHL, NBA and NBA do even two minutes of research before fully throwing their support behind Black Lives Matter, a sweet-sounding but radical, Marxist, anti-American, hateful, bigoted and destructive movement that clearly doesn\u2019t care about black lives unless there\u2019s political treasure and mayhem to mine?<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s \u201cYes\u201d or \u201cNo,\u201d the answer is beyond disgusting, one that should infuriate every reasonable fan. Good thing there are no statues of Whitey Ford.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_HBO_chose_not_to_show_about_soccer_star_Rapinoe\"><\/span>What HBO chose not to show about soccer star Rapinoe<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you missed HBO Sports\u2019 special \u201cSeeing America with Megan Rapinoe,\u201d you deprived yourself of such a propagandized tank job that it was comical.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe and her guests \u2014 fantasy-driven <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ist N.Y. Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and the New York Times\u2019 factually suspect racial historian Nikole Hannah-Jones \u2014 took turns ripping the U.S. as a rotten, racist place just north of hell.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16099553\"><img alt=\"Megan Rapinoe\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"661\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Megan Rapinoe<\/span><span>Anthony J. Causi<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What we saw: Rapinoe taking a knee during the national anthem at last year\u2019s World Cup, and, though otherwise dressed nicely to <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>ear from HBO\u2019s studio, she chose to wear her capitalist endorsement Nike sneakers reportedly made by sweatshop laborers in communist totalitarian Red China.<\/p>\n<p>Left unseen: Rapinoe\u2019s excessive, nauseating, all-about me, scene-stealing celebrations during last year\u2019s Cup, and her speech after the NYC parade saluting the team, during which she treated hundreds of kids to a mindlessly vulgar rant.<\/p>\n<p>But she knows what\u2019s wrong with the country.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>Regardless of COVID circumstances, the NHL playoffs, predictably, have been a good watch as a team sport in which everyone at all times plays as hard as they can \u2014 especially Carolina in its sweep of the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrations after goals are joined by all the team\u2019s players on the ice. Unlike Rapinoe, the scorer immediately pivots toward the passer.<\/p>\n<p>The calls of the Islanders\u2019 MSG team, Brendan Burke and Butch Goring, have been alert, informed and good on the senses.<\/p>\n<p>When Burke mentioned the Isles\u2019 bubble-housed intramural pingpong tournament, Goring suggested that the best must be \u201cthe college players. The junior hockey players were usually in the pool rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, with Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin, who was to start the first game and presumably the second, to be repeatedly fed the NHL\u2019s line by MSG\u2019s Sam Rosen and Joe Micheletti that he\u2019s \u201cunfit to play\u201d seemed like lo mein, hold the noodles.<\/p>\n<p>What did that mean? Was he COVID-infected? Sick? Injured? Or was it a personal hygiene issue, say, head lice? That it turned out to be a tight hamstring was top secret?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Getcha_New_York_bets_here\"><\/span>Getcha New York bets here!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I wonder if MSG\u2019s John Giannone and SNY\u2019s Gary Apple ever thought it would come to this:<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, after the first period of Game 3 in the Rangers-Hurricanes <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>, Giannone was forced to shill for an MSG-partnered gambling operation, giving the latest odds from in front of a graphic that read, \u201cPlace Your Bets Now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next day, from SNY\u2019s studio, Apple was forced to similarly shill before Mets-Braves. Hey, said Apple, just put up $100, and if Atlanta\u2019s Marcell Ozuna hits a home run you win $300!<\/p>\n<p>Giannone graduated from Fordham, Apple from Syracuse. You think their educations included courses on how to sucker audiences into losing their money?\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/06\/leagues-networks-offer-no-answers-for-sports-most-dubious-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Leagues, networks offer no answers to sports\u2019 most dubious decisions&#8221; Woke up Thursday with two questions. 1) What will Kanye West have to say? 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