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[59/365] staring out the window
Feb. 28th, 2022 08:42 pmFebruary is bad enough even when it does bring with it the start of baseball. This year it has not!
I shouldn't still be staring out the window waiting for spring on the last day of February, goddammit!
I don't understand all the ins and outs of the lockout -- it reads like machine-translated flatpack assembly instructions (" Owners agreed to credit players with a full year of service time if they finish first or second in Rookie of the Year voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, provided the players are ranked among the top 100 prospects and don't spend the entire season on a major league roster"), or religious arguments ("the MLBPA remains concerned about playoff expansion and suggested instead an idea of a ghost win") -- but I do find some of the accompanying details weird to the point of religious:
I shouldn't still be staring out the window waiting for spring on the last day of February, goddammit!
I don't understand all the ins and outs of the lockout -- it reads like machine-translated flatpack assembly instructions (" Owners agreed to credit players with a full year of service time if they finish first or second in Rookie of the Year voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, provided the players are ranked among the top 100 prospects and don't spend the entire season on a major league roster"), or religious arguments ("the MLBPA remains concerned about playoff expansion and suggested instead an idea of a ghost win") -- but I do find some of the accompanying details weird to the point of religious:
The player profile images on team websites have been scrubbed — as have all mentions of the players — and team social media accounts and websites will not discuss active players.It's like baseball doesn't...exist, for now, it's caught in some unholy limbo.