2019-20 MLB Running Hot Stove Thread

You're here for one goddamned thing, to fuck us.

"For fucking up World Series?"

 

They check the bathrooms. If it's leaking no. 1 its a fastball. Leaking no. 2 - a breaking ball.

 

Well, here we are: apparently the shared-cities concept is getting enough traction we now have Prospects 2.0: Arizona and Vancouver.

Why officials from a Major League Baseball franchise visited...

What makes this one kind of interesting is that no argument could be made that either city would have to build a new stadium to reach "major league standards."

They'd certainly want "improvements," but the minute anybody mentioned a "new stadium," they'd be told to pound rocks.

 

I wonder if any free agent would ever willingly choose to join a franchise that plays in two cities.

 

There is absolutely no way a team located in two different cities could function, let alone win. It'd be a permanent road trip, because they sure as hell couldn't play the first half in one place and the second half in the other. Team gets off to a bad start, and home town #2 sells like six tickets for its 41 games.

 

Agree 100 percent. It’s one of the dumbest ideas in pro sports history.

 

Wait, seriously? MLB has never had a black crew chief until now?
Danley first black umpire to be MLB crew chief

 

I am a little surprised New Orleans isn't bandied about more as an expansion site.

 

That’s insane.

 

New Orleans is a small market, poor, and, I think, without a lot of corporate money to support a team. Basketball was nothing before Zion was drafted and the Saints almost left when the team is in the league most favorable to small markets.

 

It couldn't be any worse than baseball's failed markets.

Baseball does not work in Tampa-St. Pete. There are two decades of evidence to show it does not work, will never work.

I have driven past rollerdromes in Europe with more character than the Trop, but once you get inside it's not that fucking bad. It's about as family-friendly a joint as you can find. It's just time for all parties to move on.

 

But where else will the Sox and Yankees play their home games?