Good morning, all. I hope your Tuesday is a terrific one!
It appears NBC is back in the baseball business. Numerous reports indicate MLB is about to cut a deal with the network that regularly carried baseball from the late 1940s to 1989, when the venerable Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola called the games.
I remember the days of Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek at the mic for the Saturday afternoon Game of the Week. Now it appears NBC is back in. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Some other thoughts crossing my mind, while pondering how the Yankees can clean up against the tomato can teams:
Sixty-five years ago the Yankees played six games in just over 48 hours. That is correct; three doubleheaders against two opponents in 49 1/2 hours. It all started on Friday night, Aug. 26, 1960, when the Yankees swept the Cleveland Indians a doubleheader. The first game, which started at 6 p.m., went 11 innings and the Yankees won it, 7-6, on a Yogi Berra walk-off home run, except they didn’t call them walk-off home runs back then. The second game did not end until after 1:00 Saturday morning, but here is the link, if you want to listen to it. The two teams returned for a Saturday afternoon twin bill, which New York also swept. The next day, the Yankees hosted the Detroit Tigers in a Sunday afternoon doubleheader and split. The second game ended just after 7 p.m. In total, nearly 150,000 fans poured through the Yankee Stadium gates in that period. Six games in just over 48 hours? The MLBPA would never allow that today, and for that matter neither would the owners.
Now that the Cleveland Browns have traded QB Kenny Pickett to the LV Raiders, it would seem the door is wide open for Shedeur Sanders. Cutdown day is today.
NFL owners are meeting today to discuss the league’s selling of NFL TV to ESPN. In return the league gets a 10 percent stake in the Bristol, CT-based network.
Here we go again. It seems YouTube TV and FOX are at loggerheads as the college football season swings into full gear. The standoff could impact the FOX games on YT. This bull spit always happens.
You can’t make this up. A guy from Tennessee is under arrest for allegedly using the names of retired or dead baseball players to collect money on phony claims involving class action suits. His name? Babe Ruth.
Yes, that was former UConn and Hartford Yard Goats pitcher P.J. Poulin pitching for Washington against the Yankees last night.
If you picked up the newspaper on the morning of Aug. 26, 1967 here’s how the American League standings looked:
That was some race, wasn’t it? And New England was baseball crazed as the Red Sox were in the thick of it, before clinching the pennant on the last day of the season.
That is going to do it for today’s newsletter. As always thank you for subscribing and have a tremendous day.
DAN
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