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As Major League Baseball continues full steam ahead towards their goal of playing baseball in the middle of a global COVID-19 pandemic, the Toronto Blue Jays are scrambling to decide where they will play their home games after being kicked out of their nest days before the season is set to begin. The reason for…
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Just when I think 2020 can’t get any crazier, someone ups the ante and takes us further through the proverbial looking glass. Or, as the Cheshire Cat would say, “When the day becomes the night and the sky becomes the sea, When the clock strikes heavy and there’s no time for tea. And in our…
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The other day I was reading a story about how grocery stores were no longer going to be able to give out change to customers due to a national coin shortage. Yes, that’s right, not only can the richest nation in the world not get their act together regarding corralling a deadly virus, it seems…
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A week after celebrating their 88th birthday, the Washington Redskins are the ones giving out gifts by announcing that they ended their battle to maintain a nick name that a growing portion of society could no longer support. While Native American groups had long called for the name of the franchise to be changed in…
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Baseball fans are being asked to swallow a lot of changes this year as Major League Baseball (MLB) plows forward with their plans for a 2020 season like an out of control conductor-less freight train being chased by Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. Changes being introduced as part of the guidelines to play ball in…
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After delaying the start of their four-team summer league by a week, the Sugar Land Skeeters, of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB), remain committed to welcoming fans to the Ballpark and kicking off the league on July 10, 2020. It should be noted that the COVID-19 virus spike that led to the one-week…
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As the summer of COVID-19 and social change rolls on with no end in sight, there are renewed calls for professional sports teams to take a hard look at nicknames that are deemed offensive to Native American populations. Team names like Braves, Chiefs, Indians and Redskins have long been considered offensive to some Native Americans.…
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Oh, say can you see what day it is? Days have held little meaning during the global COVID-19 pandemic where cases of infection in America rise like a purple mountain majesty above the fruited plains. One day can just roll into the next like a mighty wave crashing on a sandy shore. Tomorrow will be…
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A couple of weeks ago, the Sugar Land Skeeters, of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB), announced their intention to form a four-team professional baseball league at Constellation Field, beginning July 3 and running through Aug. 23. On June 30, the team announced that they were delaying the start of the league by a…
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Fresh off of earning a World Series ring with the Washington Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman, has said, thanks, but no thanks, to the idea of playing baseball during the 2020 MLB season of COVID-19 induced uncertainty. In making his announcement Zimmerman said, “After a great deal of thought and given my family circumstances – three young…
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