🌞 Good morning #fediverse! This is GBH News bringing you the world from #Boston. It is 71F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi. Air quality is moderate with an AQI of 59.
The #RedSox beat the Braves last night. The team is a season-best 8 games over .500. #mlb
Mass. Auditor DiZoglio is asking for the state attorney general's support in auditing the state's legislature.
There is a severe storm risk today in New England. Stay safe & dry, folks.
Watching the All Star game and thinking about the reality that MLB within the next decade is likely going to add two expansion teams. When this happens they'll likely go to 8 divisions. I imagine this means 3 games against every team in the other league except 6 against the 'rivalry team'. Nine games against their own division, 7 games against the teams in the other three divisions within the same league. I'd like this more balanced schedule. #mlb#baseball#allstargame
Major League Baseball worked in collaboration with Nike over six years to redesign team’s uniforms that are debuting on opening day today.
The result? See-through pants, tiny player names and numbers and off-center team logos. Good job everyone!
Many of the players are rightfully unhappy and some teams have rebelled and are wearing last year’s uniforms as they take the field today. WaPo gift link - https://wapo.st/3TVZHsr
The Dodgers are replacing the Julio Urías bobblehead promotion for the night of September 21 with a giveaway of select premium bobbleheads to the first 30,000 fans in attendance. https://www.rawchili.com/3054955/
Most #stadiums are somewhere between burdens and disasters for their communities. They soak up subsidies, overwhelm neighborhoods, increase traffic and parking … and are ugly to boot. So it’s worth celebrating the exception, which is Oracle Park in S.F. It is a benefit to its neighborhood, was built without subsidies … and recently was named as one of the city’s “architecture icons.” Why not expect this of all stadiums? https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/san-francisco-iconic-buildings/#MLB#NBA#NFL
Game 5 of the World Series peaked at 11.481 million viewers. This was undoubtedly the most watched game of the entire series. As it stands, the average viewership for this series was 9.107 million viewers. This was the lowest World Series since 2020 (Rays & Dodgers), which averaged 9.762 million viewers over 6 games.
“In our sun-down perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing ‘base,’ a certain game of ball…. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms…. The game of ball is glorious.”
Baseball's all-time leaders lists have changed overnight with the integration of the Negro Leagues into Major League Baseball statistics. Josh Gibson is now officially one of the greatest players of all time, beating Ty Cobb for career batting average and Babe Ruth for slugging percentage and OPS. His great grandson, Sean Gibson, hopes that the MVP award will be renamed in his honor. The trophy was previously named after Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's first commissioner, who played a key role in keeping baseball segregated. “How ironic would it be for Josh Gibson to replace the man who denied more than 2,300 men the opportunity to play baseball in the major leagues,’’ Sean Gibson told USA Today.
Just wanted to say welcome to all the new #Twitter refugees. Wanted to throw out a shameless plug for all the sports lovers, I created a handful of bots that post scores as they go final. Give them a follow (and give this a retoot, I wouldn’t be mad)
To the surprise of precisely no one, the racists are out in full force to refute the inclusion of #NegroLeagues statistics in the #MLB cannon.
Not shocking to see them doing it, but it's still disappointing, you know? You're right, racists, Babe Ruth did hit 714 HRs. And Ty Cobb did have a career BA of .366. Those are both amazing numbers.
But they never had to hit off a healthy, in-his-prime Satchel Paige, you know?