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Maintaining the AL/NL divide...I really like that. But 7 out of 15 teams in baseball is just too many. It’s supposed to be hard to make the postseason in baseball. 10 of 30 is perfect for MLB. If 32 teams happens someday, 12 is acceptable. 14 out of 30 where an under .500 team may win a championship? No, hell no. A compromise in a theoretical season like this, 6 from each league would be ok.

So it sounds like 12 or 13 games against the Twins, Indians, Royals, and Tigers and 6 games vs Cubs, Brewers, Reds, Pirates, and Cardinals. Probably would lose the DH for 15 games. I hate the 7 playoff teams. Can’t stand it. Really dumb. Hopefully they can come to an agreement this week.

If they’re only playing 9 teams, not sure what “seven teams from each league” means. If it’s going to be weird, then just have the top teams from each 10-team region be seeded 1-3, the second place teams be seeded 4-6, and then have the next 4 best records seeded 7-10. Then treat 7 thru 10 like wildcard teams and keep the playoff format the same other than you could possibly play any team from any region in any round.

First time seeing the double pitching rubber. The pitchers seem to love it. Very consistent footing. They should consider bringing that to MLB.

If they’re going without fans all season, then it’s not out of the question to have a full neutral site postseason in domes- Miami, Arlington, Phoenix? In that case, a regular season in home parks could go until Wednesday, October 14, and Game 7 of the World Series would be Wednesday, November 18. So they could play a pretty good amount of games for 3 months if they can get to training by around June 20.

A quick game today 8/6/05, Buehrle vs 42-yr-old Jamie Moyer. Moyer finished his career in 2012. Buehrle turns 42 next March. Sunday and Monday are vs the Yankees. Monday’s game is the 4 hr inning off Randy Johnson. This was when the lead on the Indians was slipping away.

Hermanson/Cotts/Politte, and then later on Jenks, are tough to pass up. Roberto Hernandez wasn’t exactly having a great season in 94.

Eh, I think they could. More importantly, it’s just the calendar. If they can’t get to a 3-4 week training period starting in early July, then it’s probably the time to call it a lost year.

It’s always going to be an Asterisk season, no matter what they do. If they can play something that’s 3-4 months including the postseason-in major league parks, then I think it’s worth it.

Brian Gorman, although West was on the crew. Hawk went off on West when Buehrle threw the glove down in Cleveland.

Yes he did. Some other stuff going on in this game in Baltimore...Palmeiro got suspended...he would come back after serving his whopping 10-day suspension, but played his last game at the end of August...Sox traded for Geoff Blum the day before.

No game today. Thursday they show 8/1/05. Buehrle gets ejected in the 6th, which breaks his streak of at least 6 innings. This would have been his 50th straight start going 6+. He went 6+ the next 10 starts (averaged 7).

Today’s game was finishing off a four game sweep of the Indians after the break. It didn’t seem huge at the time, but then the Indians got hot...real hot. The Sox came home, lost 2 of 3 to the Tigers, and Frank Thomas never played for the Sox again.

Today’s game is a Sweaty Freddy win against the Indians. They would need those. Also that night in baseball, Rafael Palmeiro got his 3000th hit, and would seemingly be on his way to Cooperstown. Weeks later, MLB would announce his steroid suspension and his career was over.

Been enjoying watching these games. The game was so much better 15 years ago. Today's game is Bobby Jenks debut. Frank homers. JD plays 1st base. Podsednik beats out Jeter in an all star vote.

Cora only got suspended for 2020. Biggest cheater in the whole thing.

Six playoff teams in a shortened season makes some sense, but that’s the line for me. Seven in any season is a bad idea.

Agree this is probably just a way to keep the baseball conversation going, which is fine. It’s a good way to stay optimistic until it’s too late to play in 2020. Hopefully the situation is a lot better by June and they can start gearing up for a shortened season. If it ends up being 60-80 games, so be it.

I’d rather see them swap facilities, move one team to the other league (Rockies in AL for one year), make Florida AL and Arizona NL for 16/14, no divisions, balanced (or close to balanced) short season, top 6 in each league make the postseason, and with any luck, have the postseason played in the real home parks in October.

The final Opening Day of Comiskey Park, April 9, 1990

Game cancelled

Game on in Scottsdale. 3:30-3:40 start time (Chicago time) Radar still looks like garbage

https://mobile.twitter.com/CST_soxvan/status/1237806212965470208 EE sore right hip

Doubt they play today in Scottsdale. Next game would be Friday vs Cubs. Edit: Van Schouwen tweeting they’ll decide in the next 45 min if they’ll play, but will be delayed if they do.

They’re all going to the minor league side. Players on the 40-man get optioned. The others are reassigned. Could see a few more cuts after today’s game- the catcher Perez, Vaughn, Sheets, and Luis Gonzalez.