Major League Baseball is now taking ideas from the Savannah Bananas.

[DrLeftover]

The Bananas are a "'(real)'" team,, they play an exhibition season against teams on their own payroll, with some outlandish stunts, music and dancing, showboat plays (for which they get points) and so on.

If you've never heard of them and their games, it is worth searching for and watching a couple of them

But it isn't baseball in any true sense of the idea of the old National Pastime.

And now, MLB is going to take cues from them? Something is really wrong in the owner's Winter Meeting....

MLB 'Golden At-Bat' explainer: Here's what we know about the potential new rule

What is the Golden At-Bat rule? How would it work? And when is the soonest we could see it in MLB? Here's everything we know so far.

www.nbcboston.com

 

[Webster]

This doesn't surprise me; Rob Manfred's always had it in for anything that dares attack the supposed integrity of America's Pastime.
Never mind the fact that baseball today is but a sad joke of what the game used to be - I mean, from moralizing over Pete Rose while turning a blind eye to others' bad actions, of all-but-encouraging 'roid usage until forced to denounce it (and don't get me started on Cooperstown's hypocrisy) to screwing over Minor League Baseball and closing dozens of minor league teams.....

 

[Dead2009]

The Pete Rose thing isnt exclusive to Manfred, though.

 

[Webster]

The Pete Rose thing isnt exclusive to Manfred, though.

I know that; my point is that baseball's leadership loves to play loose and fast with both rules and morality when it suits them, from MLB's leadership up to the hypocrites in Cooperstown. Yes, Rose gambled on baseball; so what? You think he's the only one who ever gambled on baseball?

You got players in the Hall who were outright bigots, players who likely used drugs (legal/illegal), players who 'roided up when it was legal to do so (and by rights but for Cooperstown's "Morals Clause" Bonds, McGuire and Sosa would be there as well) and its' hypocritical of them.

 

[Dead2009]

The problem is that he bet on his own team. Had he bet on other teams, he probably wouldnt have been banned.