Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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For the second time this year training for the 2020 Major League Baseball season began today when players reported to their respective 30 teams. Commissioner Bob Manfred on June 22 made a conference call with all major league owners and has decided to schedule a 60-game season that will have “opening day” July 23 or 24 and will end Sept. 27, covering 66 or 67 days. The shortened-season format will have teams playing 10 games against each of their four division foes and four ga...
KAZ’S KORNER I was amazed last Wednesday when I saw an article previewing the Belmont Stakes running Saturday without any fans, Wait a minute!! The Belmont Stakes in normally the final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown, following the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, The key word is “normally”. Since the coronavirus pandemic nothing has been normal, especially in sports which has been shut down just like everything else. So instead of the three Triple Crown races being r...
KAZ’S KORNER It doesn’t matter what the decision about starting the 2020 Major League Baseball season looks like, most fans and probably many players and coaches won’t consider it a legitimate season due to the shortened number of games, the empty stadiums and the con- tinued hassle about the money. The owners and the union both agreed players would receive full prorated salaries for the number of games that could be played. And with empty stadiums, the money story won’t...
I had the privilege of being at Texas A&M’s Blue Bell Park in mid February and watching the best college pitcher in tomorrow’s major league draft beat Army early this spring. Left-hander Asa Lacy, who incidentally was born just north of Blue Bell Park, is considered the top pitcher in this year’s draft by DraftSite.com and is expected to be chosen by the Miami Marlins as the No. 3 overall player in the first round. I heard rumors that he was the best pitcher in the natio...
The current uncertainty about the future of the COVID-19 debacle and of the start of the 2020 major league baseball season has been dominating the sports pages and airwaves for the last three months as we enter June with some progress to this situation. With the 2020 MLB draft set for next week many high school and college prospects are having second thoughts of wanting to be in this draft. High school phenoms are agreeing to attend the college that’s been hot on their t...
Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association met last weekend and hammered out a deal to start the 2020 season in July-but with many, many stipulations like abiding by MLB's 67-page health-and safety protocol in an attempt to return amid the coronavirus pandemic. An article seen on the ESPN website states that over the next four to six weeks, or however long MLB and its union remain committed to making a 2020 season happen, they will be forced to reckon with the same...
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made a last-ditch effort to save the 2020 MLB season early this week by presenting a blueprint during a conference call Monday with the league's 30 owners, according to an article that appeared in Monday's edition of the Houston Chronicle. A return to play proposal would be given to the Players Association as early as yesterday, despite the situation still being characterized as extremely fluid, with several hurdles to overcome....
Here it is May already and not much has changed as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic that made its ugly presence known a couple of months ago. Many states and cities in the United States optimistically relaxed some of their stringent rules—perhaps prematurely—while the world’s athletes sit and wonder when they will be doing their thing again without any hazard to their health. The National Football League just concluded its annual draft of the nation’s top collegiate footba...
