Finally, it looks like we will have some semblance of a Major League Baseball season in 2020. Baseball for 2020 was halted by a Chinese oriented deadly virus that is traveling the world and killing massive amounts of innocent people. In March baseball was shut down as was most of America. As most of America regains its footing and is starting to recover, so is baseball.
The MLB owners and the MLBPA (players association) yesterday have agreed to play a partial 2020 season commencing around July 23-24. A second spring training will open July 1st, and each team will get in shape in their own home ballparks all across the nation. There is tentatively a 60 game season that will be played. There is always a probability what I post here may be amended by the owners, players, and baseball commissioner. Each division will play 40 games in their own division. That would make for 40 games, 10 with each rival in their division. Each team would also play 4 games against each team in their opposite division for 20 games making for the total of a 60 game season. The divisions will play each other geographically limiting travel. East vs east, central vs central, and west vs west. The regular season will end the last week of September. As of now each division winner and two wild cards in each league will make the playoffs. That is the same as the 162 game season. The inferior AAAA national league will use the designated hitter for their games for the first time in baseball history. The American League has used the designated hitter since April 6, 1973 when Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees became the league's first ever designated hitter. Also extra inning games will be started with a runner on second base which makes a mockery of the game and is a sham that demeans the game of baseball. Not all changes are bad, however this change is bad.
The playoffs will conclude the season as usual hopefully ending in October. In the end as it always has and hopefully always will the best players and best teams will reach the playoffs and then advance to the final series, the world's greatest sports event the WORLD SERIES.
The season without question will be shorter and different. Look at it this way, every one of the sixty games becomes far more important and losing streaks will eliminate teams fast, while a big winning streak can carry a team right into the playoffs. The players will need to get their heads fully into the season from the first game on. The fun part is the WIN METHOD becomes even more important. The players who produce when it matters most and do it the most often will lead their team through the season and into the playoffs. Hopefully all goes well healthwise and the season can be completed.
No matter what, happens and as always, LETS GO YANKEES!
PS....thank you all, WIN METHOD fans from all over the world for your unwavering support, your comments, and for being the most intelligent baseball fans in the world. The ignorance of the stat frauds doesn't exist here. They have no game. They are losers who love losing players.
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«Oldest ‹Older 2801 – 2949 of 2949I have to believe the Yankees feel reasonably sure the pitching staff will come around, with either of the recovering veterans and either of the young arms filling the spots to an above and beyond season. Lets go Yankees.
The Yankees have signed left handed reliever Justin Wilson. Fills a need in the pen.
Pitchers and catchers in camp, and full squad (everyone) team workouts start on the 22nd. with first spring season game on the 28th.
I am looking for another great season from the Yankees. Playoffs for sure, the playoffs, and hopefully a World Series title.
Frozen wind mills, and snow covered solar panels are killing people right now in America. President Trump left office allowing for America to be a self independent energy nation. Number one in the world as an energy independent nation. Don't need no bird killing wind mills when there is wind and they are spinning. Don't need no solar panels when the sun doesn't shine for a week. The ignorant and corrupt joe-bama/commie administration has curtailed America's energy independence. In just three weeks, American consumer prices have sky rocketed for fuel for their cars, and fuel for their homes. Biggest issue is Americans are dying because of what this administration is doing. America is going down and the trend must be stopped.
If everything comes together for the Yankees this season, it will be fun to see how good they can be. The one thing I keep coming back to is having the meatball catching. I hope I'm wrong and he contributes big time, I just doubt it very much.
There will a lot of good players battling for a 40 man spot, a roster spot, and playing time this spring and season.
Spring training baseball camps are open. Baseball is on the horizon.
RUSH LIMBAUGH has died. America has lost one of the greatest of Gods gifts to mankind.
God bless Rush Limbaugh. So sorry WIN METHOD. Love ya,
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-dead-memorable-moments
Rush is gone, the world is worse off than ever.
Rush Limbaugh has died. We must take back our country from the democrat liberal scum. And we must do it no matter whatever it takes. WHATEVER!!!
Rush was one of a kind. He can never we equaled. God will now have his greatest ally.
RIP Rush Limbaugh.
America's greatest voice for freedom and liberty is gone. Love you Rush.
No more great radio voice, No more Rush Limbaugh.
RIP Rush. You are already missed.
Rush will live forever in the memory of great people, he will be demeaned by the losers.
Rush Limbaugh has passed away. Rush would want us to support Trump more than ever.
Rush Limbaugh is headed to heaven. America is headed to hell unless we fight for it.
RUSH LIMBAUGH --- RIP 🙌
We have lost the greatest one, no more Rush, America has lost a gem.
A sad day for all who listened to Rush daily. Someone needs to try to fill the void as best they can. God bless Rush Limbaugh.
Just heard the worst possible news. God bless Rush Limbaugh.
Rush, you will missed more than you can ever imagined.
Rush Limbaugh "talent on loan from God", RIP.
We mourn Rush, we now fight harder to save our country. That is the least we can do for Rush.
Life is not fair. We lose Rush. Rush was too young to be no more. We all must keep Rush alive in our memories.
Rush Limbaugh. I love you and I miss you.
God bless Rush Limbaugh.
There are likely many people on the left overjoyed today. God will forgive you, but I won't, I will fight to destroy you.
Shalom Rush. Love you and what you stand for.
RIP Rush.
Rush Limbaugh will live in the memory of all great Americans. Can't say the same for the scum on the left. The left must be destroyed.
RIP MahaRushie.
Rush will be missed by good people all over the world. Rush was the voice of conservatism and good people.
I feel I must express this now...there are not a million lives on the left, any million lives, worth the life of Rush Limbaugh. May all of you are happy with the death of Rush Limbaugh _________________.
Today America lost a giant. Rush Limbaugh was a very special one of a kind. The best kind.
All hail Rush Limbaugh.
Rush look down on us from your place in heaven and guide us in making America great again.
Love you Rush. Miss you already.
Rush..RIP
Rush will live in great American hearts forever.
Rush Rush Rush.
Rush was the greatest. Listened to him religiously. The voice of conservatism and America.
My condolences to Rush Limbaugh's wife and his family. RIP Rush, who are the greatest.
The loss of Rush Limbaugh is the greatest political commentary, radio industry, and entertainment loss in American history.
El Rushbo, dittos from a ditto head. Rest in peace oh great one.
Thanks for all you have done Rush. You leave a gigantic void that will be impossible to fill.
Rush was a voice of the common man. A voice of optimism, reality, and intelligence, bar none.
Rush Limbaugh, I hope I get to meet you in heaven some day. I would be blessed.
I am so sad that I will never hear Rush's voice on the radio again.
I will do everything I can going forward to make sure Rush Limbaugh's life will be a dagger in the heart of every left wing radical socialist democrat bag of scum. RUSH LIMBAUGH will live forever.
I listened to Rush every chance I could. A very great man that did more than anyone for America.
👍☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝👍RUSH LIMBAUGH ----- the best of the best. WIN METHOD!!!
Rush Limbaugh's birthday should be a national holiday.
There are very few men or women in his era that reached the stature, prominence, and influence
of Rush Limbaugh. Anyone who does not like nor accept Rush's beliefs is an utter fool and a disgrace as a human being.
What I disliked most from people who expressed negativity about Rush, was when I asked them if they ever listened to him and they said no they haven't. That to me meant they listened to the lies told about Rush from the fake media and the democrat scum.
Rush is the man. Thank you for the best 32 years of my life.
Let's cancel the cancel culture. Rush Limbaugh's name must resound and be remembered forever.
Rush Limbaugh, may you rest in peace.
Rush Limbaugh was special, in a grand way. Rush is a great loss for the sane among us.
Rush rules. Talent on loan from God. RIP.
Rush forever.
No more Rush to listen to anymore. No more Rush to lift my spirits.
Take down the bird killing wind turbines. They are garbage, built by garbage, supported by garbage, the democrat garbage.
Rush Limbaugh, the LEGEND of his time. God, Rush is returning what you lent him. Thank you.
When I debate the left, I do so with one half of my brain tied behind my back, to make it fair.--Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh has passed away, but his words, beliefs, and philosophy will live forever to haunt the radical left wing socialists of the democrat party for the rest of their lives.
RUSH LIMBAUGH lives in our hearts. That is more important than anything.
RIP Rush Limbaugh.
MEGA dittos RUSH.
Rush Limbaugh, you were the greatest. Rest in peace. The good American people will spread your word.
Rush is in heaven sitting at the right hand of God.
You are the best Rush. Your words saved me, encouraged me, and made me the success I am now.
Thank you and may God bless you. For sure there aren't many democrats in heaven.
Rush Limbaugh's memory will live forever.
Special memories of RUSH today at noon.
One of my favorite Rush words of wisdom, "never listen to anyone who tells you that you can't achieve something."
Rush Limbaugh, truly one of a kind, the best kind. I love you Rush
Yes, mega dittos to Rush. A life well lived and a man well respected. Rush, Medal of Freedom recipient honor from the greatest President, Donald Trump, in American history.
I am going to post this here now because I think Rush would get a laugh at these truths in hypocrisy from the demented democrats.....
1.-Prayers are good when coming from a democrat, but should be met with derision when
coming from a republican.
2.-Declaring a state of emergency and mobilizing the national guard is to be admired when
performed by a democrat, but frowned upon and denigrated when coming from a republican.
3.-Going on vacation during a crisis is fine when done by a democrat, but dereliction of
duty when done by a Republican.
4.-A vote along party lines is doing the right when done by the democrats, but partisan
politics when done by the republicans.
I can hear you laughing Rush.
My wife and I bought our kids a set of the Rush Revere books and we read each book with them. It was great family time and it taught the kids real American history in a fun way. Rush was a fantastic human being and has done so much for more people than is known. His deeds will become known sooner or later.
bigbadwolf, great post. We needed that, I laughed along with Rush and everyone who is reading it.
Rush ruled radio for over 30 years. Rash has met his maker and returned all the talent God loaned him while he was here.
Mega dittos to Rush Limbaugh who thou Art in heaven.
Your in good hands Rush. And you will be missed.
Joe Biden will be little match for the "incredible arrogance" of the Chinese government. They're going to push Biden around. "They're going to do things which are dangerous, because we're going to have to push back. Under President Trump, the Chinese didn't try this because they were afraid of him. So what I'm concerned about is the state of mind of China ... This is dangerous.
Biden wrong person, wrong place, wrong time. What also could be added, anyplace, anytime.
First spring training game in 10 days.
The democrats are absence any moral or intellectual integrity.
My opinion of what is a big reason for the American decline besides the democrats. Social media is the problem. I really could not care less what people write on their social media profiles. I chalk it up to the current stupidity of humanity. There are now multiple generations of people who think this medium has some value that exceeds the obvious downside and deleterious effect of it.
Gordon Chang, Biden is little match almost anyone alive.
The education system is just as much as fault for the decline in America. The kids are being programmed to think one way by the liberal run institutions and districts. Private school or home schooling is about the only way to get around the liberal indoctrination. The bigger issue is so many parents have already been indoctrinated and do not know any better.
Full pitcher and catcher workouts are in full swing already. Lets go Yankees.
This is the week that God called due a loan, a talent he placed into a man named Rush Hudson Limbaugh III. And Rush has left this stage, but he has not left us.
"Talent on loan from God"
First spring training game in nine days.
Trump isn't going away. And when he drops the hammer, those under it better watch out.
I wonder just how many lives Rush Limbaugh touched for the better? How many millions? Mine for one.
Depending on all the variables that go into the makeup of a starting five rotation, you may see Domingo German become a high value reliever this season.
Rush Limbaugh was to radio broadcasting as the combination of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter were to baseball.
Mickey Littlebear, likely more than we will ever know. Rush was a great man, proven by the fact so many on the sick demented left hated him. It has always been a very good way to judge people. As someone how they feel/felt about someone you thought was wonderful of great and if the person you ask feels much differently, then it is likely best you don't want to have anything to do with them.
Mark Stein hosted the three hour Rush Limbaugh show today and he played segments from Rush's 32 year show and some from when Rush started as a DJ in radio before he found his niche as the greatest radio talent the world has even known. Some great stuff from the past, I loved it.
With Boone naming Clint Frazier as starting left fielder, we will all have to see how Frazier handles the good news. Will he excel without the pressure of not knowing what his role would be? Will he have a great spring to solidify the decision? Will he have a rotten spring and maybe forcing Boone to rethink his decision? Who knows, but we will find out.
The Yankees and Brett Gardner have agreed to terms for 2021. 4 million.
Gardner is a nice utility outfielder to have in the fold. Get another chance to help win it all this year.
Rather have Gardner than some of the other bodies out there who were in the similar situation he was in.
James "Bo Snerdley" Golden, producer and friend of Rush Limbaugh. Google him and find out what kind of man Rush really was. Not the lies from the fake media.
This from Gary MEATBALL Sanchez. We can only hope it is true. My personal opinion, I do not believe Gary has the wherewithal to accomplish the\/ \/ \/ below.
When the Yankees informed Gary Sánchez that he would sit in favor of Kyle Higashioka late last year, the catcher replied that the only way for him to escape his season-long slump would be to keep swinging.
So once the postseason ended, that is exactly what Sánchez did in Tampa FL. With hitting coaches Marcus Thames and P.J. Pilittere, as well as in the Dominican Winter League. As a result, Sánchez has made a few mechanical tweaks that he believes will restore his swing to its full potential.
“It’s a little early right now to really give you a true answer, but I definitely feel good with the adjustments I’ve made,” Sánchez said through an interpreter. “I think they’re going to be key. They’re going to make a difference. I feel great and I definitely think this year is going to be different.”
Sánchez said that the coaches stressed keeping his weight back, placing more pressure on his right leg to let the pitch travel further, then striking the ball with a compact swing. The batting-practice homers littering a grassy area beyond the left-field wall of a practice field suggest that Sánchez is applying those suggestions well.
NJYANKEE, I can only root for Sanchez to succeed. I'll believe it when I see it.
Sanchez could be a difference maker. Could be is the maybe.
For all you great America first patriots out there, Rush Limbaugh's wife Kathryn will be doing his show at noon tomorrow. Tune in.
I don't see how Sanchez can't improve. There is no way he can do worse than what has done recently and still be on any major league team. Contributing to the team winning is more important than individual stats. This something every player and every stat fraud should learn. Just look at the stat fraud poster boy Mike Trout and you will see all you need to know about individual stats and not helping your team win.
The Rush Limbaugh I knew.
The man who picked me up at an airport too many years ago to recall the date asked if I had ever heard of a guy named Rush Limbaugh. When I said I had not, he turned on the car radio and said, “listen.” After 15 minutes I was hooked.
Limbaugh, who died of lung cancer on Wednesday at age 70, spoke my values. He didn’t tell people what or how to think, as his detractors often charged, but reflected what many conservative Americans already believed. He often used humor and satire to drive home his points and he was so good at it that he attracted a huge audience. More than 600 radio stations carried his three-hour program.
He was loved by millions who had never met him. When I finally met him, I was surprised at his humility. Don’t laugh. He was an entertainer, as well as a commentator, and he understood that to hold the attention of an audience one must do both. In person he was not who you heard on the radio.
Several years ago, Rush invited me to dine at his Florida home. He sheepishly asked if I drank wine, perhaps thinking because I am perceived as “religious” I might not. I responded, “I know someone who turned water into wine so, yes, I’ll have a glass.” He laughed and we were off and running as friends.
I once introduced Rush at a function in Washington. I said, “Larry King is credited with saving AM radio, but Rush Limbaugh made it worth listening to again.
As his wife Kathryn noted in her on-air announcement of his passing, Rush was a generous man. He raised millions of dollars for wounded soldiers, their widows and police officers who died while doing their duty. He often held radio-thons for leukemia research and donated unknown amounts of money to other causes.
At his wedding to Kathryn in 2010, he built up suspense by hinting, but never saying, who the special entertainment would be. After the ceremony, the invited guests walked to the hotel theater. A curtain emblazoned with question marks surrounded the stage. Rush announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, Elton John.”
In the middle of a 45-minute set of his greatest hits, John stopped and said his liberal friends asked him why he would play for Limbaugh, whom many of them hated (though probably few listened to him, as was usually the case). He said something about the importance of friendships and invited Rush and Kathryn to London to visit he and his partner. I don’t think that happened, but it was a kind gesture.
Until the end he expressed a positive and optimistic spirit. In recent weeks he did something I had not heard him do before. He spoke about his faith and mentioned that it was in Jesus Christ. Not only did it thrill fellow believers like me, but it brought a torrent of calls and messages to his show from people he had never met who said they were praying for him. On air he was clearly touched.
I never heard him complain about his illness. He always spoke of being blessed beyond any dream of success he might have foreseen.
Life, and his radio slot will go on. Such things always do. But no one has the talent Rush had, no one.
His loss is a loss to the conservative movement and to the country, but his ideas will continue, because as he liked to joke about himself, he was always “99.9% right.”
On his website is posted a tribute that includes these words: “The Greatest of All Time.” With apologies to Muhammad Ali, that is an accurate epitaph. Rest in peace, dear friend.
Steve(winstheonlystat) and Cal Thomas.
Thank you both, great posts from each of you on two very different topics.
Trout is over-rated. Rush was the greatest of all time. End of story.
Full team workouts tomorrow for Yankees. First spring game in seven days.
Deb F, I'll be listening. Have listened to Rush's show since the beginning.
Six days until first spring training game.
It is time to strip the meat from the bone.
Somebody had to be first. Clarke Schmidt will be shut down from throwing for at least three weeks after being diagnosed with a common extensor strain near his right elbow.
Five days until first spring training game.
Schmidt's injury will likely insure he has no chance of going north with the Yankees, but will start 2021 season in AAA.
Everything may come up roses for Schmidt despite this early setback. He won't get a chance to prove himself in spring training what with being shut down for several weeks. When he starts up his training he knows he will be going to AAA. He can proceed without pressure, then produce at AAA and be ready when called upon. Let the other guys fight among themselves.
Schmidt's early injury could be a wakeup call for other players to take it easy at first and build slowly but surely. Nonetheless someone will be next the injury.
Trump to speak at CPAC Sunday 2/28 @ 3:40PM.
Four days until first spring training game.
Opening day Yankee rotation as of now?.....Cole, Kluber, Taillon, Montgomery, (Garcia or German). Then add Louie Louie in June. Maybe a surprise from someone else?
Yankeefan2, There is also Deivi, Schmidt, King. Take one step more and there are two or three more blooming and growing.
Domingo German today has issued a public apology for his domestic abuse incident back in 2019 and being suspended by MLG for 81 games. Hope all goes well for him in the future.
Three days until first spring training game.
This is what obama said about paying of his fellow terrotist Iran buddies, """No, no. We'll bring 'em cash on pallets. We'll bring you cash.""" That's not negotiation. That's paying off terrorists.
The democrats have put the guy back in charge who negotiated the deal --- barrack HUSSEIN obama. We now have an America and American people hating terrorist sympathizer and enabler running our country.
Half a week into spring training and only one guy, Clarke Schmidt, down with injury. 👨
Best news out of Yankee camp today, NO INJURIES!!
Two days until first spring training game. Michael King has been named Yankee starter.
WIN METHOD, thought you might enjoy this. nyyforum moderator comment remembering you.
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Re: 2021 Spring Training Thread
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Steve(winstheonlystat), I bet WIN METHOD will get a laugh. There are at minimum, double digits of posters here that were banned by the frauds, fakes, and phonies over there. They are a dying forum with few posters posting baloney about garbage they make up.
Me too, banned by nyy.
I was also banned by them. If you expressed an opinion that the clique didn't like, you were attacked and then banned.
Yankee opening training game Sunday at 1PM at home in Tampa against Blue Jays.
One day left until first Yankee spring training game. Tomorrow, 1PM, in Tampa, against Blue Jays. We are getting closer. Lets go Yankees.
More than half of Yankee spring training games will be televised.
Yankees host a three game weekend series against the Rays. No Yankee pitcher named for Friday game, but Monty and Cole are slated for Saturday and Sunday.
The incompetence of MLB umpires is astounding. Replays and the strike zone box show repeatedly how many calls are missed.
Lets go Yankees.
Next up for the Yankees is a four game series with the Oakland A's. Thurs, Fri, Sat, and Sun, in Oakland.
The listed Yankee starters are Taillon, Cole, Cortes, and Montgomery. The bullpen will be fully rested and ready to go.
The Yankees are hanging on by the skin of their teeth.
Yankees win 6-3 and sweep the sux. Sweet.
Swwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.. Yankees win 6-3 in a very strange game.
The Yankees have taken control of their own destiny after winning the weekend in Boston. Good time for off day tomorrow. On to Toronto for three games and need to win the series. No let ups and no let downs.
Tough nail biting win again. Two tough series to end the season coming up next. Win them both and we should be fine. Lets go Yankees.
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