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Good things come to those who wait. At least to those who wait it out.<\/p>\n
MLB on Friday night was forced to show the Dodgers-Yankees to the nation\u2019s two largest TV markets on both YES and L.A.\u2019s cable network, as well as on a previously exclusive paywalled streaming service, because Rob Manfred and Associates bit off more Apple TV+ than it could chew, let alone was willing to swallow.<\/p>\n
Thus, the biggest matchup of the season to date, Ohtani vs. Judge for starters, was seen simultaneously on three separate domestic networks, all producing their own telecasts. Otherwise MLB would have allowed a huge audience to again be fractionalized by its own just-show-me-the-dough greed.<\/p>\n
Friday was similar to how \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d avoided Congressional subpoena by allowing the competing teams to be seen on local over-the-air channels in addition to ESPN. For now.<\/p>\n
Then there was the MLB-asked-for-it calamity two years ago when the Yanks were bolted to Apple TV+ with Aaron Judge already having hit 61 home runs.<\/p>\n
And that likely made this past Friday \u2014 with multiple radio stations, including Japanese, plus three U.S. TV networks \u2014 the busiest broadcast night in the history of all Yankee Stadiums.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m terrible at math. I\u2019m not allowed to keep the scorecard in golf because I\u2019ve difficulty carrying the 1. My grade in my high school math final was unprecedented: \u201cSee Me!!!\u201d circled in red ink.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019ve been reduced to a two-plus-two guy, the kind of problem I can handle. Thus:<\/p>\n
Friday, as per a rare lesson learned, MLB did not want to again suffer the ignominy of having an anticipated must-watch appearing only to a minimized audience.<\/p>\n
So Apple\u2019s $85 million per deal with MLB would need to be \u201cadjusted\u201d or MLB would have been reduced to explaining \u2014 or ignoring \u2014 why two of its biggest-market teams were reduced to a boutique viewership.<\/p>\n
This three-telecasts decision, I\u2019m told, was reached weeks ago \u2014 perhaps was also inspired in some part by the NFL\u2019s absurd, money-talks decision to place January\u2019s Dolphins-Chiefs playoff game in prime time and only on NBC\u2019s Peacock pay streaming channel.<\/p>\n
That Roger Goodell-certified decision cost the NFL at least 15 million viewers, and it cost attendees toes as the night was so cold amputations followed.<\/p>\n
But as \u201cHacksaw\u201d Goodell boasts, \u201cIt\u2019s all about our fans\u201d \u2014 even those who now must use canes to remain devoted in-house out-of-pocket Chiefs patrons.<\/p>\n
So, at least for one night, what was prematurely and exclusively sold by MLB for those who\u2019d \u201ccut the cable cord\u201d and were able and willing to purchase Apple TV+ was seen by many, many more.<\/p>\n
Imagine! A greater-good decision from a sport in self-assigned popular decline.<\/p>\n
Brings to mind the tale told about Mark Koenig, an allegedly disagreeable infielder who played for the 1927 Yankees.<\/p>\n
Koenig, legend holds, was known to hold sportswriters in contempt until softening to become friendlier just before he retired. It was thus written of him, \u201cHe was saying hello when it was time to say goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throwing harder puts pitchers on shelf longer<\/p>\n
One doesn\u2019t know whether to place an emergency phone call to the Hospital for No Longer Special Surgery or to the Humane Society.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s something sickly wrong \u2014 as in physically disabling \u2014 with baseball that continues to be untreated and certainly uncured as it spreads.<\/p>\n
Last Saturday, The Post\u2019s \u201cSports Shorts\u201d box included three items about MLB pitchers:<\/p>\n
The Orioles\u2019 John Means and Tyler Wells will miss the rest of the season to undergo surgery to treat \u201celbow problems,\u201d and the Blue Jays\u2019 Alek Manoah will be on the injured list with \u201ca sprained elbow.\u201d<\/p>\n
The day before we learned that Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt will be out for up to two months with a lat strain, but ace Gerrit Cole is rehabbing well after being lost since spring training with an elbow injury.<\/p>\n
It was reported as good news that Cole\u2019s fastball hit 97 mph in a rehab session.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, the Astros lost pitchers Cristian Javier and Jose Urquidy \u201cto season-ending elbow surgery,\u201d joining several other elbow and shoulder-disabled Houston pitchers.<\/p>\n
And on and on. And then on and on.<\/p>\n
The need-for-speed, now as requisite as baseball\u2019s game-wrecking addiction to math-centric analytics, have reduced starting pitchers to delicate five-inning, multimillion dollar lab rats.<\/p>\n
Just throw as hard as you can for five innings every five games \u2014 use your arm like a slingshot \u2014 then head for postgame treatment that now often includes MRI exams followed by speed dials to Triple-A. Maybe we\u2019ll see you again in a month, a year, never or at an Old-Timer\u2019s Game.<\/p>\n
Everyone sees it, everyone knows it, yet nothing is done about it as media, managers and GMs marvel at 98-102 mph velocities and total strikeouts as if there\u2019s no other way to measure a starting pitcher\u2019s ability to produce an out.<\/p>\n
Meantime, transient relievers are treated with analytics-blinded unintended extra care, assigned to produce just three outs, be they on six pitches or 26. Let the next relievers then the \u201ccloser of the week\u201d win or lose the game.<\/p>\n
See? Says so right here on my dugout laptop! How he pitched Tuesday is how he\u2019ll pitch Thursday. Failproof!<\/p>\n
As Ron Darling, who threw 37 complete games, several years ago said while witnessing MLB losing its collective mind and appeal: \u201cThey pay millions to starters then ask relievers to win the games.\u201d<\/p>\n
This worsening epidemic of arms gone bad is not going to be cured on a wish. It\u2019s not a head cold to be beaten by a good night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n
But this is MLB, which legislates remedies such as automatic intentional walks and enlarged bases. So don\u2019t just do something, stand there!<\/p>\n
Holy cow! What a single!<\/p>\n
Wednesday after the Nationals Jesse Winker singled against the Mets, he was seen on SNY standing on first and immodestly gyrating his hips at his dugout teammates\u2019 urging.<\/p>\n
Did it matter that the Nats were losing, 2-0. Or that Winker next would be thrown out trying to steal? Or that the Nats lost, 9-1?<\/p>\n
Nah. After all, he\u2019d hit a single!<\/p>\n
Given that these new Nike-issue \u201cCity Connect\u201d uniforms were revealed on Rob Manfred\u2019s watch, he should be compelled to wear one around town. I\u2019d put him in those Padres\u2019 clown suits, those with one pink sleeve, the other one lime green.<\/p>\n
Or was Emmett Kelly (Google it or ask your old man) from San Diego?<\/p>\n
How does Disney\u2019s ESPN allow Pat McAfee to apologize on the air for being an uncouth lout on the air when he was hired because he\u2019s an uncouth lout on the air?<\/p>\n
Or didn\u2019t ESPN see this coming?<\/p>\n
Now that I know that it\u2019s not just me \u2014 lots of emails from readers who have had difficulty hearing what the ABC\/ESPN NBA trio of Mike Breen, Doris Burke and JJ Redick said from courtside during the playoffs \u2014 do I bother to again ask that it be fixed?<\/p>\n
Oh, well, you know the old lament, \u201cWait till next year!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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