And of course KC travels to Milwaukee and gets swept by the Brewers.
In the off-season, the Royals signed journeyman pitcher Jordan Lyles to a two-year, 17 million dollar contract. He has started 9 games this season. KC has lost all nine of those games, with Lyles going 0-7 with a 7.14 ERA. Another savvy move by the KC front office.
My God, that’s a ton of money. I’m willing to fail for a quarter of that price! 
I hate seeing stories like this one.
And pitchers everywhere still vehemently oppose wearing helmets for little more reason than “it looks stupid.”
Can you back that statement up with some sort of cite?
The pushback against helmets I’ve seen is mainly it interferes with pitching. I’ve never heard the “it looks stupid” protest.
Is anyone actually going to wear this thing?
Oops. Sure doesn’t sound like it.
So how do I know that? Well, I spoke Tuesday with three pitchers whose skulls have been fractured by baseballs that collided with their heads at way too high a rate of speed – McCarthy (now of the Diamondbacks), Chris Young of the Nationals and McCarthy’s Arizona teammate, Brad Ziegler.
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So why not? Why wouldn’t these men wear this thing? How, you wonder, could a pitcher even think about not wearing it after living with the nightmares of a baseball roaring at his eyeballs?Because this cap looks funny, these men told us. And feels funny. And wiggles on their head when they move. And makes their head sweat.
The baseball world has spent years trying to develop suitable headgear for pitchers, but so far none of the designs have caught on. This spring, 20 major-league pitchers tested out the latest prototype, but none of them elected to use the helmet during the regular season.
Pirates pitcher Mark Melancon told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the helmet felt just fine, but admitted he was hesitant to wear it because it “looks funny.”
Thank you,
Well that is some seriously dumb shit then.
I think that is the usual reaction to adding safety equipment to an activity populated by mainly men in their 20’s. I don’t think you cn change it without making it a rule or some worse tragedy.
Yes but can you fail at such volume. Lyle’s main selling point is he can fail at scale.
The A’s have reached an agreement with Bally’s to build a Las Vegas stadium on the old Tropicana Hotel site, along the Las Vegas Strip. I think that this agreement replaces the earlier one, which would have had the stadium located on the other side of I-15.
The new agreement is scaled down from the previous one, and would feature a planned 30,000-seat stadium, which could open in time for the 2027 season.
Psst! Post #20.
I’m definitely picking up some Tropicana souvenirs when I’m in Vegas next month. It’s the last of the old Strip hotels still standing, I think.
I see that now; according to the ESPN article today, Bally’s made a new announcement about the deal today, so I am wondering what, if anything, is “new” about it, compared to the article from six days ago.
It is nice to see that the deal is being announced by someone other than the A’s. That makes it more of a “Done Deal” in my book.
If my quick research is correct, currently the smallest MLB stadium is Progressive Field in Cleveland, with a capacity of just shy of 35k. This new stadium would be the smallest in the majors.
This is the A’s we’re talking about.
I’d like to see a really tight stadium with limited foul territory, and a second story that juts out nearly right above row A of the bottom deck, like old Tiger Stadium. Those seats were right on top of the action. They’ll never do it, because… I don’t know why they don’t do it. More concourse space, maybe?
Funny that the Cubs play the Astros in Houston tonight. The Astros were in Chicago yesterday to play the White Sox.
What was it Ron White said?
“I went from Seattle to Salt Lake City by way of Anchorage, because my agent can’t read a fucking map!”
Philadelphia to Kansas City to Oakland and now Vegas. That must be the movingest team ever.
wow is this guy the most hated in baseball or what the tweets are savage,