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178. Tomás Nido 06/13/2021

Steven Matz has gone on the COVID IL.

Mudcat Grant, 85. https://www.mlb.com/news/mudcat-grant-dies-at-85https://www.mlb.com/news/mudcat-grant-dies-at-85

It was when Jacob deGrom reached into his right flexor and repaired the tendon within with his left hand that everybody realized those remarks that “he's not human” were truer than they realized.

Guillorme activated, Blankenhorn optioned.

Edgy MD wrote: Is it me? Am I going to have be the one to ask that guys dial back the 24-7 spooging over Pillar? 24-7 isn't nearly enough for Pillar.

Everybody run outside and venerate Derek Jeter and others in Cooperstown in September. Jane Forbes Clark, Chairman of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, announced today that this summer's Induction Ceremony will take place at 1:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Sept. 8 in front of limited crowds as an outdoor ticketed event on the grounds of the Clark Sports Center. The Induction Ceremony will be broadcast live exclusively on MLB Network. Planning continues to be adapted to guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and the State of New York. “On behalf of our Board of Directors and our Staff, we are thrilled to be able to welcome our Hall of Famers – the living legends – and fans back to Cooperstown to celebrate the Induction of the Class of 2020,” Clark said. “Returning the Induction Ceremony to an outdoor event will provide the baseball community with the opportunity to visit Cooperstown and celebrate the Induction of four of the game's Greats.” The Hall of Fame's 2021 Induction Ceremony will honor the members of the Class of 2020: Derek Jeter, Marvin Miller, Ted Simmons and Larry Walker. No candidates were elected for Induction in 2021. Lawn seating at the Induction Ceremony will be free, but unlike past years when seating was open, tickets will be required. Beginning at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, July 12, a limited number of tickets will be made available to fans exclusively here. At this time, seating areas will be designated for vaccinated and unvaccinated ticket holders. The Hall of Fame's Annual Awards Presentation will remain an indoor, television-only event, taking place on Saturday, July 24, with the Award Winners or their representatives being invited back to Cooperstown to be recognized at the Induction Ceremony. The Awards Presentation will honor 2021 Ford C. Frick Award winner for broadcasting excellence, Al Michaels, and the 2020 Frick Award winner, Ken Harrelson; the 2021 Baseball Writers' Association of America Career Excellence Award winner, Dick Kaegel, and the 2020 BBWAA Career Excellence Award winner, Nick Cafardo; and the 2020 Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award winner, David Montgomery. https://baseballhall.org/news/induction-ceremony-shifts-to-september-8https://baseballhall.org/news/induction-ceremony-shifts-to-september-8

Annoyingly smug family drives far from town (which is every other commercial, basically).

A more appropriate title would be city manager.

Bench Mob excels here, too. These cards are already favorites on the collectors' circuit. Taijuan wishes to thank the tightness in Jake's right side.

Bertha was pro-local teams in general. Gallo's cartoons seemed funny when I was a kid versus having been funny.

Gallo was too upset about Box the Compass to make any sense or decent jokes that day.

Jack Lang's lede that Dave Kingman's days are numbered is classic forest for the franchise-altering trees stuff. Then again, when my friend called me to tell me we'd just gotten KEITH HERNANDEZ, my companion reaction, besides some variation on exultation, was fretting that the additional player being cleared from the roster amid the flurry of deadline moves, might be Bob Bailor (it was Mike Jorgensen).

=stevejrogers post_id=67049 time=1623004634 user_id=57] Is there anything to this?

For two decades, Major League Baseball teams have hosted promotional days to celebrate their LGBTQ fans. Wrigley Field held them in the early 2000s, and Pride nights soon proliferated in stadiums across the country. This season, only one team, the Texas Rangers, does not have a Pride celebration of some kind on its schedule. The other 29 teams typically have an LGBTQ dignitary throw out the first pitch or sing the national anthem. They fill team store shelves with merchandise that includes rainbow colors where team colors normally would be. Sometimes club officials express their support in pregame speeches or videos. But rarely, if ever, do the players participate. As with most promotional days, the players' job is to play. The organization takes care of the fanfare. On Saturday, for the first time in major league history, the players were involved. The San Francisco Giants debuted hats with Pride colors in their logo and a Pride-colored “SF” patch on their jerseys, an unprecedented on-field expression of support for LGBTQ fans — and one that required the participation of the players. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/06/06/giants-pride-colors-logo/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/06/06/giants-pride-colors-logo/

Jacob deGrom returns microscopic earned run average to Elias Sports Bureau, http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2021/06/06/jake-from-state-we-cant-fathom/says he doesn't really need it.

Robert Kennedy was a senator representing New York by the time of his presidential run, and the New York Mets took the most vocal stand after his death. With the backing of Manager Gil Hodges and chairman M. Donald Grant, Mets players voted unanimously not to play their game against the Giants in San Francisco on the day of RFK's funeral. “Senator Kennedy represented our state,” Mets player rep Ed Kranepool said at the time. “He followed the game. He was running for election from New York. We decided it would be disrespectful to play.” The Giants were so angered by the Mets' move that they took their case to National League President Warren Giles, who said the game would be a forfeit, but the Giants eventually backed down. They issued a statement agreeing to cancel the game in deference to RFK and because, they said, a forfeit would not be in the best interest of baseball or the public. “The Giants sincerely regret the disappointment of thousands of young fans who had intended to attend the Bat Day game tomorrow and are compelled now to rearrange their plans,” the team added in a tone-deaf comment. “If we do forfeit, so what?” Kranepool said. “It's only one game. It's better than playing.” The Mets, a relatively new team known primarily as a National League laughingstock to that point, won admirers for taking on the baseball establishment. “Even the threat of a possible forfeiture of the game and a stiff fine could not get them on the field the day Bobby Kennedy was buried — a lofty principle displayed by a once lowly club,” Oakland Tribune sports columnist Ed Levitt wrote. Ron Swoboda, a young Mets outfielder who would make one of the most dramatic catches in World Series history in the Miracle Mets' championship season the next year, said in an interview last month that refusing to play was a no-brainer. “We felt like there wasn't any choice at all,” he said. “This guy was probably going to be the next president.” Swoboda said that he supported Kennedy for president but added there was “zero politics” in the Mets' decision. “It was the decent thing to do,” he said. “We just did it out of respect. If it had been a Republican candidate, we would have done the same thing. There wasn't a whole lot of discussion. No one said: ‘Why is this liberal Kennedy important to us? Why should baseball pause?'” https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/06/06/rfk-death-mlb-players-boycott/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/06/06/rfk-death-mlb-players-boycott/

McKinney RF Lindor SS Alonso 1B D. Smith LF Pillar CF Nido C Blankenhorn 2B deGrom RHP Peraza 3B Jake batting not high enough.

Sam McWilliams has been claimed off waivers by San Diego.

Brenly's taking a bit of a break. Former Cubs star Aramis Ramírez says he felt Bob Brenly made a point of attacking and deriding him on the air when Brenly was broadcasting Cubs games and Ramírez was in his final few years in Chicago. Ramírez said he and other Cubs players from Latin America felt Brenly was harsh with them because they were not White. Brenly, now the color commentator for the Diamondbacks broadcasts on Bally Sports Arizona, drew widespread condemnation Tuesday night for making a crack about Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman wearing a du-rag. Stroman is Black and tweeted after the game that the comment had “racist undertones.” Brenly apologized in a team-issued statement Wednesday morning for what he called a “poor attempt at humor that was insensitive and wrong.” Brenly also committed to seeking sensitivity training. On Thursday, Brenly went a step further and announced he would be stepping away from the broadcasts to reflect on his remarks. “I plan to return to the booth next homestand, hopefully a better person,” Brenly said in a statement issued to The Athletic. As screenshots of Brenly's initial statement went around social media, an unverified Twitter account seemingly belonging to Ramírez responded to many of them to say that he wasn't sure how Brenly still had a job. After Ramírez's agent, Paul Kinzer, confirmed to The Athletic that the account belonged to the former Cubs slugger, both Kinzer and Ramírez agreed to a joint phone interview Wednesday to discuss their thoughts on what they feel is a pattern of behavior with Brenly when it comes to talking about players of color. “It felt weird because every time he attacked somebody, it was a Latin player for some reason,” Ramírez said of his time in Chicago. https://theathletic.com/2631373/2021/06/03/former-cub-aramis-ramirez-says-bob-brenlys-commentary-was-discriminatory-brenly-to-take-week-off-of-diamondbacks-broadcasts/https://theathletic.com/2631373/2021/06/03/former-cub-aramis-ramirez-says-bob-brenlys-commentary-was-discriminatory-brenly-to-take-week-off-of-diamondbacks-broadcasts/