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ESPN uses ZIPS to explore how good Mike Trout would be if he played in the KBO. His numbers might not be quite that good if Max Scherzer also went to the KBO. It looks like helmet butlering will probably be prohibited in 2020. In keeping with today’s Mike Trout themed links, we have a Chicken Pot Pie recipe from Jessica Trout.
Baseball In General
MLB has made 67 pages of proposed medical protocols for the union to mull over. This is the MLB Trade Rumors Article, which contains links for the detailed description published by the Athletic$$. Here is another article about the medical protocols from Fangraphs that contains some additional details. Fangraphs also has a detailed analysis of the baseball owners’ contention that they will lose four billion dollars by playing to empty stadiums. Blake Snell wants to get paid all his money or he just won’t play, or so he says. Governor Newsom now says sports could return to California by the first week of June. Former manager Art Howe had a coronavirus scare but he has been released from the hospital and is improving. For the kids, here is a baby Rally Monkey coloring page.
Sports Related, But Very Weird!
A South Korean soccer team has been accused of putting sex dolls in the stands to mimic a home crowd. I like that they put masks on them and distributed them six feet apart from one another.
I’m surprised that Arte isn’t looking at the empty stands and thinking, “45,050 empty billboard spaces to fill.” = ) Offers less controversies than South Korean sex dolls, unless the dolls themselves are the advert.
Missed out on bringing back Bartolo Colon again.
What’s the problem?
Not like we as a pitching dirt poor team can afford to dismiss him.
Well, he’s about 47 years old and hasn’t made a major league roster in a couple of years. He’s got Lincecum catastrophe written all over him.
If the shoe fits
That’s what we said two years ago about him too. Nobody’s asking him to be Gerritt Cole and if he can be better than the 3 useless guys Eppy got us on those one yr deals then he’s a good quick flyer. Back at the old place they have a piece on the Angels taking a college pitcher Max Meyer at Univ of Minn at #10 pick……..LMFAO!!! They have no clue about Billy Eppler or Arte Moreno’s MO!
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I remember when they first put carpool lanes on the Santa Monica Freeway in the 70s a guy dressed up three inflatable girlfriends in office work outfits and drove in the carpool lanes to work. This worked until a CHP got a close look at the strangely immobile passengers. Made the LA Times.
At least those South Korean sex dolls are practicing the Safe Six.