MLB Apologizes to Yankees

I confess I'm a bit taken aback by this article, but in a good way. I always thought RandBalls Stu only wrote satire. Who knew that he could also do quality investigative work and report the truth? I'm impressed.

I'm flabbergasted! 😵 

Reminds me of how much Matt Lawton laughed in an interview when talking about what the strike zone looks like playing against the Yankees versus what it was when he played for the Yankees. Funny stuff Stu. 

Seems that Rocco must have gotten a directive from Manfred that Buxton, Polanco and Taylor needed to sit on Wednesday.   And to be sure to leave Maeda in the game long enough to get properly hammered. 
 

“Yessir.  Sorry to disrespect the Yankees by questioning German a week ago Saturday.   I’ll be sure to sell my team down the river on Wednesday.”

Excellent satire! With the Twins having a chance to sweep the hated Yankees Rocco decides to give Buxton and Polanco a day off. The only surprise is that he didn’t sit Correa too. Baldelli has worked out a schedule in advance to rest players, which makes some sense given the long season. But when you have a chance to sweep the Yankees for once in two decades, it is time to rethink that strategy. Why sit someone who is crushing the ball? 

On 4/27/2023 at 9:05 PM, DocBauer said:

I talked to a UPS driver at work today who is a baseball fan, who is close friends with a driver for Fed Ex, who let it be known that a truck with engine problems resulted in a too late delivery of "Yankee/Judge balls" that were supposed to be used in the recent series. 

Further rumor has it that the "ball boy" has an uncle who is a Yankee fan and has a few debts to take care of and said balls were supposed to be passed on to Twins pitchers to help better balance the series, and it's outcome.

It's unclear if any umpires were from the NY area, or directly involved.

But then again, it's all heresay.

Well my Amazon Delivery driver told me that a Grub Hub Delivery driver told her that the MLB Scheduler in charge of Umpires was fired. Turns out no one on the umpire crew was from New York!! Instead they scheduled 

Chad Whitson, Dublin Ohio
Bill Miller, Valejpo, California
Rob Drake, Pennsylvania, Indiana
Roberto Ortiz, Cagua, Puerto Rico

The scheduler blamed it on Rob Drake saying “If he’s claiming to be from two different states, I assumed he was New York Mafia”