#Rob Manfred

[roycelewis]

[thatwasuzi]

Baseball is not meant to be played fast.

Baseball is not meant to be played fast. Its a summer sport. "The Boys of Summer" It sucks to watch on TV sometimes, frankly, its better on the radio anyways.

Baseball, for me, exists where the heat and time mix to make it oppressive at times. Sure, it has its moments of action forever, but baseball as a game should always be a carefully wound spring waiting to be let loose. There's amazing tension in baseball.

I think back to the typical imagery in baseball movies. It's always slow motion. A hand punching the glove, giving you time to watch the little bits of dust and dirt dance in the air. Its no other sounds than an deep exhale and the soft crushing sound of leather squeezing into the wood of a bat. It's cleats dragging through the dirt, readying, waiting for the pitch.

It's baseball and nostalgia and a want to wax romantic about the sport; however all sports, not just baseball, teach us lessons. They tell us stories. It takes time to tell the story.

The story's been the same for millennia, ever since the first games of chance and skill were every played, the first race run. It is a ritual deeply set within the human mind on a primal level. Sport's teach us defeat and victory, unlikely heroes and old favorites. The tell us of surprising upsets and outright domination. They show us collapse and retaliation, grit, pain, exhilaration, teamwork and selfishness alike. But ultimately, the story and lesson sports teach us is hope.

Maybe I've seen "Angels in the Outfield" too many times as a kid. But please consider it. Keep baseball slow. Keep winding the spring. Let hope weave its way into the game. Give the fans of all ages the ability to have that moment of sheer faith and held breath. Please, keep baseball slow. The commercial time you can sell isn't worth your soul.

[transpondster]

Lo-res MLB Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred gets a bouquet of boos in a pixelated video

[gogonzojournal]

New MLB Rules are Working, but MLB Must End Blackouts

On the latest #Minnesota @FoulPlaybyplay episode, we discuss whether the new MLB rules are working and how MLB is squandering an opportunity by not ending blackout restrictions. We also preview the @mnwild and @Timberwolves playoff draws. 

We discuss whether the new MLB rules are working and how MLB is squandering an opportunity by not ending blackout restrictions and preview the Minnesota Wild’s and Minnesota Timberwolves’ playoff draws. Listen here. Watch here. New MLB Rules Working? The Twins and Marlins played a 1-0 game in less than two hours Games are running a full 30 minutes shorter than last year Two hours into an MLB…

[robby-bobby-tommy]

Continuation of this post with some new ideas. I'd really want to see OG Phoenix, Maya and Edgeworth to meet this reversed people they long new. Because it would be so hilarious to have MVK be our assistant.

Like imagine Phoenix trying to defend Franziska in Reversed DL-6 and hitting the dead end. Phoenix reaches for the court record, but it isn't where it was last. He turns to Maya, who was unusually quiet for quite some time. But it isn't Maya anymore, it's MVK's ghost, that she channeled. And he took the court record to examine the case for himself. He explains to Phoenix that he suddenly awoken in these strange clothes, in the middle of the court case with a crumbled paper in his hands. There was simply "I'm Maya Fey, channeling you to help Phoenix to win the trial. Your daughter is the defendant, crazy, right? Anyway, we're stuck, please help." So he helped himself to the court record to at least understand what's happening.

Now in this AU MVK is a good person, but still a jerk at times. Like, if Phoenix gets something wrong Manfred would be at his limit.

Phoenix: "And the real culprit is.... Franziska von Karma! "

Judge: *shocked*

MVK: Sorry, I guess the defence is an absolute buffoon who humiliates both himself and this court. Allow him to think again, though.

...

Phoenix: The victim in DL-6 incident was killed... With the glass shard!

Phoenix: (why do I feel that my temple burning..?)

...

Phoenix: This is the proof that Ms von Karma wasn't there during the crime!

Phoenix: (if the looks could kill, we'll have a trial with me as the victim.......)

...

But the other times he helps very much. Despite staying stoic ans unfazed, MVK tries his best to protect his daughter and find the truth. And when prosecution (OG Edgeworth) or witness (Gregory) tries to push defence around, he usually helps with his mere presence. When Judge tries to end the trial MVK does smt similar to his OG counterpart and literally stops him mis sentence.

[djalideriva]

I should have known something was wrong when Varric wasn't all up in everybody's business.

[muntzerism-diggerism]

ALL MY BASEBALL STREAMS WENT DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME

[zibanejad]

[matthewliberatore]

mlb should honor the aagpbl by making the players wear skirts pls and thank you

[yourdrugisafartbreaker]

(I have ranted about this to others both online and offline, and having followed the recent MLB uniform debacle as much as I can due to having baseball as basically the closest thing I have to a special interest, I feel it is my civic duty to stitch on my addition to this post.)

To those without any extra context and want more, and I mean like, a metric fuckton more:

MLB originally hired Nike to do it. Nike called up Fanatics and was like, “Hey, yeah, can you do it instead?” The deal Nike and Fanatics worked out is that Fanatics gets to do the uniforms for the players and Fanatics can slap the Nike logo on it for the sake of branding.

Here is an list of issues and grievances fans (and players too!) have had since Spring Training (MLB’s preseason) started:

• ⁠One ply see through pants, as the post shows. The problem is obvious with this one, underwear (and genitalia) sightings galore.

• ⁠The MLB logo on the back of the jersey was moved down below the usual collar stripe. This forces a name rework due to lack of space.

• ⁠The name on the back of the jersey has been butchered repeatedly with inconsistent sizes, text curving that is absolutely egregious in some cases, and improper alignment with the center and especially when compared to the number. Like, come on, this issue seems like the easiest thing to avoid.

• ⁠ Speaking of the number on the back of the jersey, it was formerly embroidered, now it is heat pressed. Fanatics, you understand there are some MLB teams playing outside in places like Arizona in July? That shit’s gonna melt!

• ⁠Oh, you thought we were done talking about the one ply pants? Nope, because there aren’t even enough of the fuckers being given to the players! This has led to three things: 1. Players can’t customize the pants as much anymore to fit their big dumper. (Rip Cal “Big Dumper” Raleigh. No, that is his actual nickname, Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners has made people bring Big Dumper signs to games and commentators talk about the nickname.) 2. Away teams usually wear gray road uniforms. There are some teams with different Spring Training jerseys, but for the majority of teams wearing road grays, the resulting gray jersey and white pants combo looks horrible. 3. Some teams are literally telling players just to use their old jerseys, a mix of the shortage and just “This shit sucks m8” being why. (For players starting on a new team this season, they do not have this option.)

• ⁠Probably the most egregious thing about this has been MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s hyping up of the uniforms before they were shipped out to players. Nike and Fanatics were also hyping the uniforms up when they were starting to get revealed and shipped out, saying they were sleek, designed for great athletic performance and what have you. After many complaints over multiple issues with the jerseys once they were finally shipped out, Rob Manfred essentially said, “What new uniforms? The uniforms haven’t changed.” (This is to be expected from Rob Manfred though, as he was made MLB Commissioner due to being Bud Selig’s lawyer, Bud Selig being the previous MLB Commissioner who used to be the worst and most hated MLB Commissioner for a multitude of reasons. I say used to because Rob Manfred has taken up that mantle after dealing horribly with these horrible uniform mistakes, actively letting notorious greedy owner John Fisher try and move the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas while having no real concrete plans about what the fuck is going to happen while at the same time they were tanking the team to be cheap as hell and telling Oakland they were going to stay and working with the Oakland mayor on a grand development of a new stadium and the area around it, and letting off the Houston Astros with a smack on the wrist after 2020 reports detailing multiple seasons of cheating in which the team won their first World Series with Rob Manfred infamously calling the World Series trophy “just a hunk of metal.”)

• ⁠At the very least, a meme spawned out of this situation. The Fanatics Support account on Twitter replied to a fan about an off-center jersey name on a Seattle Mariners jersey with the comment, “Hey there, it looks like we dropped the ball on this one. Send me a DM so I can learn more about this! -Kyle” Except, it wasn’t a fan with a uniform. It was a screenshot of a post from Michael Chavis’ Instagram, and if you don’t know who Michael Chavis is, that is an actual new player for the Seattle Mariners. In response, fans (mostly on the r/baseball subreddit) have started using the comment in quotes from Kyle as a small copypasta, particularly in response to uniform error posts.

• ⁠By the way, did you know that the uniforms now have sponsor patches on the arms of them now, and almost all of them are shit?

I fucking hate this. Why is the MLB actively trying to make me not like baseball?

If you haven't heard about the enshittification of baseball uniforms

Okay so they're manufactured by Fanatics now, and it's not uncommon for fan replica jerseys to suck, but now the players themselves are wearing uniforms that are just as cheap. So cheap they look like bootlegs. They're flimsy and stuff that used to be actually stitched on is now just a patch or graphic

All that is bad. But there's. There's a bigger problem, with the new MLB uniforms. See if you can spot it!

[skoulsons]

“…golden at-bat rule, where a team could choose one at-bat in every game to use its best hitter regardless of where they are in the lineup”

so. you’re taking away what makes baseball, baseball

[starboundsingularities]

good lird they did not make a gimmick blog about a real life murder

#someone fucking DIED but whatever who gives a shit it's funny i guess

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🥚 eggvidenced Follow

honestly with how suspicious and confusing everything on the dl-6 case was i wouldn't be surprised if it came out that it was that prosecutor guy tbh

🌟 rockliker270 Follow

date posted: june 23, 2010

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⚖️ courtofpublicopinions Follow

🌟 rockliker270 Follow

ok hear me out. what abt winston payne though

🧊 just--ice Follow

okay now they're just making lawyers up

#also didn't mvk die or something?

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🔥 triedbyfire Follow

why the fuck are you people still posting about the gavinners as if theyre not copaganda. didn't the guitarist get convicted of murder

🎸 guiltiest-lovers837 Follow

so fucking tired of this "um um didn't daryan get convicted of murder" YEAH AND HE'S LITERALLY NOT IN THE FUCKING BAND ANYMORE. dipshit

🔥 triedbyfire Follow

are you gonna address the copaganda thing or

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🌻 attorneybout Follow

he's so. 😳

📂 trialanderror Follow

why is he defending

📂 trialanderror Follow

OP WHY IS HE DEFENDING???

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🦈 giantlakemonsters Follow

i just wanna hear about another gourdy sighting thats all

🥜 liberdeez Follow

op. i'm so sorry op. gourdy isn't real you have to let her go. they had a whole trial about it.

🔐 wrightorwrong Follow

hi!! so this isn't actually the case as while gourdy was briefly mentioned in a trial, said trial had nothing to do with whether or not gourdy was "real" per se as much as. well. murder, actually. while gourdy WAS found out to be an inflatable steel samurai this was not brought up in the case at all as the veracity of gourdy wasn't really as relevant as the fact that the witness was looking for gourdy rather than at the murder she claimed to have seen. plus this was also a relatively small part of a MUCH larger trial which for those interested not only solved the dl-6 case but ALSO marked the end of prosecutor von karma's ~40 year long record and the court records are really a fascinating read through!!

🦀 mad_libz_87 Follow

net 0 information post

#thanks again lawblr

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🍒 cherriescoola Follow

btw i was at the park the other day and klavier gavin (of gavinners fame) was there and obv there was a huge crowd but this guy was there with him and at some point he (the other guy) waved to the crowd and someone still screamed like it was klavier??? who was that guy ive never seen him before in my life

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🩸 has-dl6-been-solved-yet Follow

December 28, 2016

YES!!!

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🪙 tellerlikeitis Follow

guys help i'm a bank teller and this guy just introduced himself as robin banks what do i do

🔪 violencekilling Follow

you gotta let him rob you that's the law

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👻 ghostesswiththemostest Follow

look if i ever get convicted of murder im just hiring the lawyer with the coolest sounding name

💼 courtofwaw Follow

bestie if you already got convicted it is Too Late

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📋 lawandwhoreder Follow

guys i know it's real fun to think people just can predict whatever but if you look at the earliest reblogs of that post that "guessed" the true killer in the dl-6 case it was actually a post about how they didn't want to go to the store. clearly edited

#stg nobody bothers to factcheck anything anymore

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🐺 lawnewolf Follow

i am NOT homophobic or whatever the fuck you guys are saying now i just think its weird to write fanfiction about realass people?? go touch grass ffs

🌈 lawsbian Follow

the fun police (this guy) putting me in yaoi court but the lawyers (phoenix witrght and miles edgeworth) just keep trying to make out (real court is like this too btw)

🐺 lawnewolf Follow

YOU HAVE SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU.

#look idc what your enemies to lovers fic bullshit says #they're straight. and more importantly REAL PEOPLE. #there's TENSION because they are in COURT and there are LIVES on the LINE. #not because they wanna fuck. god.

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🔮 inhighspirits Follow

why dont they just ask the spirit mediums to ask the victims who killed them this law shit is easy

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💞 lawveyourself Follow

seriously i cant believe they gave this guy a law degree

💞 lawveyourself Follow

what do you mean evidence fraud

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🎧 instrumentalillness Follow

fuck you *unguilties your love*

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🎀 copiicat Follow

perjury isnt illegal btw in fact if youre one of tge witnesses youre legally required to lie on the stand. thats why everyone does it. trust me

[life-love-and-sports]

Baseball isn’t meant to be rushed. Baseball is meant to be savored. Play clocks and shot clocks work in other sports because those sports have a clock that counts down until the end of the game. Baseball was different, baseball never had any clocks, until now…

[cleoselene]

someone said the new pants will do for MLB what Taylor Swift did for NFL looooool

this is how we grow the sport

[wilwheaton]

What is the Golden At-Bat? It’s an idea that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred floated in a podcast interview last month, which would allow a team to choose one at-bat in every game and send its best hitter to the plate — even if he was already in the lineup and it wasn’t his turn to bat.There’s a word in Yiddish to describe an idea this bad — ferkakta. As in “this is the most ferkakta idea ever proposed for baseball, and it needs to die a quick and immediate death.”

MLB’s ‘Golden At-Bat’ idea would alter baseball for the worse

This is one of, if not the single WORST ideas I’ve seen come out of Manfred’s office.

[theonion]

Issuing a rule change they claimed was necessary to bring the game into the 21st century, Major League Baseball officials announced Wednesday they would add a clock to speed up Joe Davis’ commentary. “Adding a 30-second clock to cut down on Joe’s long, rambling commentary is, frankly, a long overdue improvement that will help streamline the broadcast,” said MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, who revealed that millions of fans had requested the new clock, having grown tired of the Fox Sports announcer’s slow and increasingly irrelevant analysis. Full Story