![]() ![]() League discipline came Tuesday, but the consequences won’t be known for two or three testing cycles, at best.Ĭleveland Indians' pitcher Mike Clevinger watches the flight of a home run ball off the bat of Minnesota Twins' Eddie Rosario in the first inning of a baseball game Friday, July 31, 2020, in Minneapolis. Two teams were rolling around in the dirt in Oakland on Sunday afternoon. The Pittsburgh Pirates had no one to play against Tuesday night. The Toronto Blue Jays were a true home team Tuesday night for the first time - in Buffalo. Louis Cardinals, whether by untidy behavior or bad luck, haven’t played a baseball game in August. They presumably were aware the Miami Marlins had nearly lost their season to a few among them who made their choices, too. The players presumably measured their actions against risks that include teammates, coaches and a manager who are vulnerable to a very mean and pertinacious virus. Plesac and Clevinger, grown men, educated, aware of the world and significant figures in the micro-culture that is a baseball team, which means they care for the others, made their choices, which neither president Chris Antonetti nor Francona detailed during a call Tuesday. (By Tuesday evening, Clevinger had released a statement in which he said he was remorseful.) … They’re probably in different stages acceptance,” you can probably guess who’s who. So when manager Terry Francona said of the two, “I think they’re probably in different stages of understanding. Plesac apologized, was put in a car and sent home from Chicago, while Clevinger reportedly took the team charter before the team was onto him. ![]() Their next COVID-19 test is scheduled for Wednesday. While in Chicago last weekend, they’d allegedly gone over the wall for a Saturday night leg stretch and currently are isolated. Just Tuesday, three weeks into The 2020 Season: Fury Road, the Cleveland Indians put two starting pitchers - Zach Plesac and Mike Clevinger - on their restricted list. When they open up that bubble, there’s a good chance the game will fall over the threshold, from exhaustion. So, Rob Manfred gripping the inside-out umbrella, Tony Clark chasing the gown train, bride skating, makeup running, bouquet slumping and then the pictures come and everyone laughs and asks why they didn’t park closer to the door to begin with. Because men are men and young men are bulletproof and beer is beer, it will look like a transition in the way a wedding-day bride transitions from the car to the church door in a rainstorm. They’ll call it a “transition” into the bubble(s). This is a fine idea, given people have a practice of acting quite like people, which is sometimes really great and other times they can’t help but sneak off to The Lodge or some such sudsy Eden. They’d shrink the game from 30 mobile bubble-ish habitats to one or two or three, a plan they hope would safeguard first the playoff money and then the poor souls generating the playoff money. Everything after breakfast is a crapshoot. The word they use is “contingency,” so nothing is for sure, because nothing is for sure anymore. They’re contemplating October baseball in a bubble. ![]()
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