MLB 2014 season thread

Sure. But you can move it up three years to be on the 40-man immediately.

 

Yeah, their agents can just wave their magic wands and make it happen.

 

Many players have gotten such deals.

 

You cited the rule change. Name the "many" since then.

More importantly, those players had to give something up to protect them from a flawed rule that just adds to the economic imbalance in MLB.

 

The players you are griping about not being able to be called up got their deals under the old CBA.

 

And Russell Wilson is going to play this season for less than a million dollars because the Seahawks couldn't even reopen his contract if they wanted to.

It makes me weep.

 

Is RickStain an anagram for Sisyphus? Because, dude ...

 

Never said the NFL system was perfect, either. Just better than the one used by MLB.

 

Baseball Trivia & Statistics FB page:



Gehrig, Cronin, Dickey, DiMaggio, Gehringer, Foxx and Greenberg.

 

What is the American League starting lineup for the All-Star game from either 1936, 37, or 38?

 

Probably not, since three of them are first basemen. But it's probably from an all-star game.

EDIT: Looks like the same photo shoot from here, so it must be the 1937 ASG:

http://goldinauctions.com/1937-american-league-all-stars-signed-photo-with-j-lot136.aspx

 

Joe D, with McCarthy, and Joe Gallagher, my Dad's uncle: