{"id":60179,"date":"2020-09-04T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mlb-trying-to-pass-off-this-farce-of-a-game-as-baseball\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T01:48:00","slug":"mlb-trying-to-pass-off-this-farce-of-a-game-as-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mlb-trying-to-pass-off-this-farce-of-a-game-as-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"#MLB trying to pass off this farce of a game as baseball"},"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-6a3dd961e74e7\" 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-6a3dd961e74e7\" 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-trying-to-pass-off-this-farce-of-a-game-as-baseball\/#YES-men_well-versed_in_selective_honesty\" >YES-men well-versed in selective honesty<\/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-trying-to-pass-off-this-farce-of-a-game-as-baseball\/#Theres_a_stand-up_guy_on_the_Cardinals\" >There\u2019s a stand-up guy on the Cardinals<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#MLB trying to pass off this farce of a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> as baseball<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Ron Hassey, a Yankees catcher in the mid-1980s, was asked how he was feeling. \u201cPhysically, I\u2019m fine,\u201d he replied. \u201cMentally, I\u2019m day-to-day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We get it.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, the Marlins led the Mets, 4-3, in the seventh. Brandon Nimmo was on first for the Mets, none out, Jeff McNeil at bat. The Marlins went into a radical shift toward first. A bunt or anything close to a t<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>er toward third would give the Mets at least two on.<\/p>\n<p>But not even a try or a feint. On a 3-2 pitch, McNeil lined into the shift, double play. Although the Marlins struck out 13 times, they won this thoroughly modern, dreadful game, 5-3.<\/p>\n<p>With The Game in horrible fundamental decay due to home-run-or-strikeout \u201cstrategies\u201d and managers who pull effective pitchers in search of arsonists, the simplistic cry has been renewed: ban the shift!<\/p>\n<p>In other words, MLB should continue to legislate changes to artificially treat badly eroded skills while sustaining or worsening the abandonment of smart, winning baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Even by this season\u2019s farcical standards, this past weekend\u2019s Yanks-Mets <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> offered a continuum of inexcusably bad, Laurel and Hardy baseball played at the highest professional level.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16243965\"><img alt=\"Shohei Ohtani \" data- data- height=\"313\" width=\"296\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Shohei Ohtani strikes out for the Angels.<\/span><span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Game 1 of Sunday\u2019s scheduled abbreviated doubleheader \u2014 an eight-inning game played in 3:22 \u2014 the Mets, in the process of blowing a big lead, struck out 14 times and left 30 men on base. Nimmo, the Mets\u2019 leadoff man, left five on by striking out four times.<\/p>\n<p>In the seventh Mets\u2019 radioman Howie Rose, who, despite his \u201cPut it in the books!\u201d remains an honest voice of New York baseball, was flabbergasted to report Michael Conforto as the \u201conly man in the Mets\u2019 lineup who hasn\u2019t walked, struck out or both!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rose made no secret that he was calling a badly diminished skills game \u2014 again.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the seventh, when Aaron Hicks, batting .200, hit a home run that just cleared the right-field wall, he had the modern, no-upside audacity not to run, choosing to stand and marvel at his achievement \u2014 even if he risked blasting a self-impressed single.<\/p>\n<p>If Hicks thought he looked cool, he was wrong. He looked like a fool.<\/p>\n<p>But again, this is how The Game is played. In the series, mild infield grounders were cause for defensive confusion and panic while two games were decided by wild pitches. The replay rule was applied to make second-guesses at very close calls that were never intended for replay review.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Saturday\u2019s 2-1 Yanks\u2019 win didn\u2019t end on a Dellin Betances extra-wild pitch \u2014 about 10 feet above the plate \u2014 but according to YES\u2019s Michael \u201cExit Velo\u201d Kay, it ended on a \u201cwalk-off wild pitch,\u201d because silly slick expressions are now a big part of broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>And with both Sunday games lasting past seven innings, Kay was twice able to emote his worn out \u201cTime for free baseball!\u201d \u2014 even if no one who watches on cable or satellite watches for free, let alone received a credit for nearly four months of unplayed sports.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was more YES drivel about how hard Gary Sanchez is hitting the ball, even if as of Thursday morning he had raised his batting average to .130 with 42 strikeouts in 91 at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>Of course he hits it hard! It stands to reason that anyone who indiscriminately swings at everything as hard as he can will occasionally hit the ball hard.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez ended Sunday\u2019s all-DH doubleheader in the eighth with a monster grand slam that also demonstrated his sense of self-awareness. He stood and posed as if he\u2019d just conquered Abyssinia, not a flake of humility or dignity. Given his continued failings on offense and defense, he\u2019s still the man!<\/p>\n<p>Why would Sanchez, even in a rare successful moment, provide knowing fans with another reason to find him insufferable?<\/p>\n<p>And then it began: Sanchez was the first Yankee to hit an extra innings grand slam!<\/p>\n<p>But as reader\/author Guy Kipp notes, he hit it the eighth, which began, by 2020 rules, with a runner automatically placed on second \u2014 like those automatic 200 points just for taking the SATs.<\/p>\n<p>But at least the Mets didn\u2019t again suffer that Aug. 26 loss, when Miami\u2019s Jon Berti, exploiting repetitive neglect, stole second, third and then home. Pure farce is what now passes as Major League Baseball. And mentally, we\u2019re pitch-to-pitch.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"YES-men_well-versed_in_selective_honesty\"><\/span>YES-men well-versed in selective honesty<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I guess we\u2019re never supposed to grow weary of being treated like imbeciles.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, the Rays\u2019 Ji-Man Choi homered to right, a ball that barely cleared the short right-field wall in Yankee Stadium. We\u2019d seen scores of Yankees hit similar homers, but never heard anyone on YES lament that they were cheap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16244035\"><img alt=\"Michael Kay\" data- data- height=\"278\" width=\"292\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Michael Kay<\/span><span>Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Choi\u2019s homer brought this out of Michael Kay: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t exactly a blast, but it counts, and it would\u2019ve been a home run in four of the 30 ballparks, Houston, Philly and Tampa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next night, given the same opportunity on a DJ LeMahieu home run that barely cleared the that wall, Kay just hollered that it was home run! Same as he did after Hicks\u2019 just-made-it homer to right, Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s selective honesty, a bit different than rank dishonesty. Sunday night\u2019s Islanders-Flyers playoff game on NBCSN was advertised as an 8 p.m. start. It began at 8:20, a time-dishonored deception, but one that works if viewers don\u2019t know better.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the King of Shamelessness, ESPN. This week it reported that LSU WR Ja\u2019Marr Chase will enter the NFL draft early, \u201ca source told ESPN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A bit later that report added, \u201cCBS Sports was the first to report the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>.\u201d Oh.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Theres_a_stand-up_guy_on_the_Cardinals\"><\/span>There\u2019s a stand-up guy on the Cardinals<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Need A feel-good?<\/p>\n<p>If I were King of a baseball network, I\u2019d already be dogging Cards\u2019 pitcher Adam Wainwright as an analyst. He\u2019s engaging, sharp and one of the extra-good guys in all sports.<\/p>\n<p>Against Cleveland, Sunday, Wainwright\u2019s 39th birthday, he threw a 122-pitch complete game for a 7-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>After the final out the entire Cleveland dugout stood to applaud him.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>Why don\u2019t TV sports producers bother to preview or even consider what they\u2019re about to show us?<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, CBS presented a WNBA game, Who Knows? vs. Ya Got Me. The only things on the screen to identify the teams were unfamiliar, small team logos.<\/p>\n<p>After roughly 20 minutes we learned it was Dallas vs. Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>Misanthropic Aroldis Chapman, who could\u2019ve killed the Ray\u2019s Mike Brosseau with a 101 mph beanball, Tuesday, complained that his three-game suspension was \u201charsh.\u201d Harsh? He\u2019s lucky Brosseau can still speak!<\/p>\n<p>Of last-name coincidence, in 1920 Cleveland infielder Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch to the head thrown by the Yanks\u2019 Carl Mays.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Sports News 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\/09\/03\/mlb-trying-to-pass-off-this-farce-of-a-game-as-baseball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#MLB trying to pass off this farce of a game as baseball&#8221; Ron Hassey, a Yankees catcher in the mid-1980s, was asked how he was feeling. \u201cPhysically, I\u2019m fine,\u201d he replied. \u201cMentally, I\u2019m day-to-day.\u201d We get it. 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