This week the Kansas high school sports authorities allowed an increase in the number of baseball and softball games per season from 20 to 26 starting this spring. This will put Kansas equal to Missouri but considerably behind Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Colorado. This is a boon to large suburban schools which are losing players toContinue reading “More softball and hardball”
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A’s last stand
I don’t follow baseball much, but the Oakland Athletics saga has piqued my interest lately. Their final homestead begins Friday. They will play next year as a lame duck team before moving to Las Vegas in 2025. The WuFlu was not kind to Oakland. The last three seasons post WuFlu have seen 2.2 million peopleContinue reading “A’s last stand”
Happy Turd Day
Tomorrow is September 1, the day major league baseball teams can call up additional players from the 40 man roster to the majors. These players were called turds as in “turd, carry my bags.” “turd, go shag some flies.” because they were considered lower than rookies. It was a great deal for the turds becauseContinue reading “Happy Turd Day”
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