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2021 Around MLB: Return of the Dead Ball Era

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No, I was not old enough to visit League Park, but I do enjoy this sort of re-creation/retrospective...

 
Addressing the alleged conduct laid out in The Athletic article, Antonetti said he wanted to make one thing clear: “When I read the article, that was the first time I became aware of the alleged behaviors.”

One reporter pushed Antonetti on that, pointing out that after the Mets hired Callaway as their manager before the 2018 season, they learned about an incident that happened during his time in Cleveland. The reporter asked Antonetti if there was ever any communications between the Mets and the Indians about that incident.

“Not to my knowledge, no,” Antonetti said. “And there had never been any complaints against Mickey in his time with us, either to me or to our human resources department or other leaders.”

Since the publication of The Athletic’s first article, more women have come forward to say that Callaway made them uncomfortable by sending them inappropriate messages and/or photos, making unwanted advances and more while they worked for the Indians. Additionally, in 2017, an angry husband repeatedly called the team’s fan services department to complain that Callaway had sent “pornographic material” to his wife. Those calls were brought to the attention of Antonetti, manager Terry Francona and general manager Mike Chernoff; the Indians spoke with Callaway about the matter. A Cleveland attorney spoke with the wife and said – in a phone call that was recorded – that Callaway had expressed remorse to him. The attorney added that “the Indians are frickin’ pissed as hell” at Callaway and offered to have Francona call the husband. Additionally, an MLB security official contacted the husband and told him: “Mickey wants this all to go away,” and the husband later emailed MLB directly about Callaway.

Over the past month, The Athletic has interviewed 22 people who interacted with Callaway during his years in the Indians organization, including 12 current and former employees. They say that Callaway’s sexual indiscretions permeated the workplace to such an extent that it would have been difficult for top officials to not be aware of his behavior, and they push back against any assertion that Callaway’s actions, when made public by The Athletic last month, caught team executives or MLB by surprise.

“I laughed out loud when I saw the quote (in The Athletic’s original report) that said it was the worst-kept secret in baseball, because it was,” said one Indians employee. “It was the worst-kept secret in the organization.”
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Francona: "Nobody's ever deliberately covered up for anybody, I can tell you that."

Biggest takeaway from his brief talk....chew on it as you will.
 
Did he get hit in the dick?
 
Obscured By Clouds said:
Buxton is so fragile, he broke a tooth eating steak.

www.cbssports.com

Twins' Byron Buxton cracks tooth eating steak in latest weird injury of 2021 MLB spring training

Buxton joins Brendan McKay of the Tampa Bay Rays and Spencer Torkelson of the Detroit Tigers as players who have had to deal with injuries coming from strange reasons
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I once cracked a tooth eating "BBQ chicken flatbread pizza" at Canal Park while watching a Ducks game...

On the other hand, every time I read about these "freak" injuries I immediately wonder "What really happened?"

Injured washing your pickup truck, or rolled your motorcycle?
Cut your hand opening a CD package? (Hit by broken glass in a barroom scuffle?)
Pulled a muscle during a bad dream about spiders? (Fight with an angry husband?)
Badly lacerated your pitching hand while repairing a drone? (The judges will accept that.)
 
CATS44 said:
I did some research. What I found is staggering, so much that I checked it three times. Even now I find it difficult to digest.

From 2017 thru 2019...three entire seasons...the Mets had the second highest team BA on the road in MLB. That in itself is hard to believe.

But at home the Mets were ranked 29th.

.235 at home. .259 on the road.

They hit 334 HR on the road and 470 doubles.

At home it was 302 and 361.

More surprises while comparing the Indians splits...

On the road the Tribe ranked sixth in BA at .255....10th at home at .259.

342 HR and 468 doubles on the road, compared to 309 and 448 at home.

A couple thoughts....

1) While most decried our popgun offense, it wasnt.

2) God bless anyone who has to bat half the time in Citi Field.

3) Amed Rosario should be in our lineup every freaking day.

Its been noted before that his road slash line is 306/334/457/791. His home slash line is 225/266/341/697. On the road he has hit a few more homers and twice as many doubles. In 2019 he had a decent year overall, but on the road his OPS was. 832. Last year he had a lousy year,, but his home OPS was. 781, not too shabby..

IMO his road numbers are much closer to the reality than his overall career numbers. If there is anybody who should benefit from a change of scenery, its ARosa...and the Tribe should take advantage.
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let's put him in the ritz downtown
 
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