Oh let’s see….one newspaper figured out baseball isn’t coming back soon because Toronto banned public events until the end of June. Welcome to the party, pal. This is just starting. It isn’t almost over. It’s just starting. When even Trump is now floating 200,000 deaths and even Trump has punted on April, clearly this is going to be around for a while. I think the other blogs will give up. They can’t keep skating on “Top Mets First Basemen!” forever.
Al Leiter is quoted, and I am sure you will see it all over because nobody has anything to write about, including me apparently in this paragraph, about what baseball will be like when it does return. He has all sorts of ideas for expanded rosters and a harry up and get ready routine….and let me put an idea in everyone’s heads. Here’s what it will be like when baseball actually returns – pitchers and catchers will show up on February 15th, and we’ll play 40 games in Spring Training, and the 2021 World Baseball Classic will have its coming out moment because people won’t have seen baseball in 16 months. That’s what it will be like when baseball returns. Oh, with half empty stadiums.
Paul LoDuca commented on Trump Advisor Alex Rodriguez…..the start of this rant is about Paul being on the Mitchell Report.
“But I owned up to it. I didn’t lie. Owned up to it immediately, it was over with, and people can judge me the way they want to judge me. I could care less. But when you completely lie about it for years after years after years after years, you cash in 260 million and people are like, ‘Well, he’s successful,’ well, hell yeah, he’s successful. He got paid over 500 million in his career, I would hope he has some money where he could do whatever he wants with it. So now his relationship with J.Lo has taken him to a level that he’s a saint, give me a break!”
This is true.
Oh, this reminds me to comment on Trevor Bauer’s comments on the ESPN Pod. Mr. Bauer is one of the modern day baseball players that doesn’t realize modern baseball is the worst form of baseball since the day before Babe Ruth showed up. It is really terrible.
Anyway, if you listen to it you will hear Bauer talk about how great today’s players are and how Barry Bonds would be an average player in today’s game. Really, he says this. An average player. Look man, if Vulgar Pete is hitting 50 plus as a rookie while laying in Citi Field, Bonds would have hit 116 home runs last season. Come on Trevor, you sound stupid.
Trevor’s logic was something something about pitchers busting inside or working harder or something. but seriously bro?
SLACKISH REACTION: I see I lost a bunch of followers on Twitter, presumably because I have been political in live tweeting the Trump presser every day, and as The Last Republican I have carved out my own little corner where everyone hates my politics, but that’s OK. As I have been saying, I will burn this whole thing down to have sanity prevail. And it’s not like there are Mets games to tweet about.
I have site stats back to December of 2010, and March 2020 was the second lowest on record for the site – doing about half what a normal March would do, and handing in a number that looks more like December which is usually the nadir. It doesn’t matter to me, I do this for fun – but as I mentioned the other day, I imagine many many websites are going to really struggle. Consumer behavior is changing, and we’re all seeing the “value” of people killing time at work or on commutes. Also that there’s no news driving content on sports websites – I bet the traffic on NYTimes.com is fine.
Anyway, I enjoy the creative challenge. I have my Duck Knight stuff which you can read or ignore. The Coronavirus Filler jersey series is doing OK, and last night I started Best Mets By Number….guess who #1 was? None of that is award winning, but that’s OK.
