A good chunk of today’s schedule has been postponed. Today is Jackie Robinson Day where every player wears #42, which I strongly disagree with. Are the makeup games going to have the players wearing #42?
I certainly think Jackie Robinson should be honored on April 15, I just think that one player per team should be given the honor of wearing the #42.
Like maybe you?
Which reminds me, it’s always a good day to hearthis tune.
Why?
I’d also note that you responded then, too.
Went to the Boston-Baltimore game yesterday. Game time temperature was announced at 34F. I think that was the high. Lasted through six full.
I don’t have much of a memory for such things.
Heh…definitely wasn’t meant as a criticism. I just knew it wasn’t the first time I’d seen dalej42 mention the issue. But I couldn’t remember the rationale, either.
What a silly position to take. Are only really good baseball players allowed to honor the significance of racial integration and the contributions of Jackie Robinson to the game and to American culture?
I guess, by that standard, only really good public speakers or full-time political activists should get to honor Martin Luther King. And forget asking whole stadiums full of baseball or football fans to honor the troops; only military veterans should get to do that.
I tend to agree. Robinson’s greatest contribution to the game—the one we celebrate each year—was to push the door open wide for everyone to be able to play on the big stage. So it seems odd, then, to want to limit the ability to honor that accomplishment solely to star players.
Toronto Blue Jays twitter, this morning:
(The tweet was deleted but was screenshotted here: x.com)
Toronto Blue Jays twitter, this afternoon:
Suppose a MLB player hit a home run and carried the bat with him around the bases. Would that violate any rule?
Not anymore. They changed the rule a few years ago. 
In all seriousness, there does not appear to be any rule that addresses a player being able to carry that bat with him. With a “live ball,” this would run a serious risk of being called for interference, but I don’t see how that would be an issue with a home run.
Only some unwritten one that would upset a crotchety veteran or retired player whose objection and opinion would make them somewhat newsworthy again for about a week
I really wish someone would do it. Maybe kiss the barrel a few times rounding second. It really would piss off a lot of people, though.
OK, I’ll be the one. Why would that be good? If some batter did what you described, I guess I would be hoping he tripped and put himself on the DL in an embarrassing way.
It would be entertaining because “styling” has been a part of baseball for a long time. Think of Rickey’s snatch catch, or Eckersley’s pistol finger, or Sosa’s little hop. Now we have closers with their own signatures, like the shirt untucking or the arrow to the sky.
I just like the idea because it would be funny, and unique. It would piss me off if it was the opposing team, like Buatista’s bat flip, but hey, it’s a new world. It wouln’t be as bad as Big Papi taking forty minutes to circle the bases.
If Ozzie can do a flip running out to shortstop, then some other guy can walk on his hands to the pitching mound. My guy…hmmm, let me see…let’s say Bryce Harper…he can run the bases hugging his bat.
I struggled with this when I first moved to the United States and started playing softball. I grew up playing cricket, where you carry your bat with you every time you run. Throwing the bat aside after making a hit just didn’t come naturally, and for my first half-dozen games, I would constantly end up at first base with the bat in my hand.
That’s funny to me because I had the opposite experience. I grew up playing baseball and wound up going to high school in England. Every time I hit the ball in cricket I just let the bat go. Holding on to it was the hardest thing to learn.
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