Jeff Passan on DOD’s removal of Jackie Robinson story: ‘It felt like they told on themselves’
"I thought we all agreed that Jackie Robinson's an American hero."
"I thought we all agreed that Jackie Robinson's an American hero."
The Pentagon declined to say whether the article was taken down deliberately or mistakenly.
"If a luxury tax threshold is impeding them, that says more about where they are than it does the luxury tax itself."
Fan @wunnaworld trolled his Yankees-loving cousin by including a Jeff Passan Soto-to-the-Mets tweet with a wrapped Jeter shirt.
"It is an exceptional overpay."
"I am thankful for reporters who don’t make up stories."
"A litmus test for how big Major League Baseball's national audience actually can get."
"Howie Rose’s call last night got me thinking about how cool it would be to have a thread with all the great baseball radio calls."
Passan could make the shift over to being an NBA insider at ESPN in light of Adrian Wojnarowski's departure.
"It's a shame how difficult it is for consumers to access a product. And when that product is literally everything you have, what does that say about the way you're treating the fan?"
"Shame on you MLB, all the owners, the Athletics and most of all John Fisher and Rob Manfred."
"John Fisher didn't have to move this team. MLB and its owners didn't need to be complicit in it. This was a choice. A wrong one. History will sneer."
"He didn't want to have to...take your phone with you to the urinal and hold it in one hand while you take care of your business in the other."
The shows will also have the opportunity to cut in for at-bats by Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani in their pursuit of history.
"If everything falls right, this has a chance to be a sustained run for the White Sox."
Rich Passan was a Cleveland sports journalist with a long and colorful career.
"You just had this echo chamber of Ángel Hernández awfulness that...wound up being part of his undoing."
Jeff Passan suggests adopting automated strike zones and challenge system to address umpire inconsistencies, like those by Ángel Hernández.
Do all MLB national insiders look alike? The answer is yes according to The Today Show mistaking Jeff Passan for Tom Verducci.
"lisa was right" indeed.
"It can’t be good for Ohtani to be at the center of a negotiation infused with paranoia and joylessness."
"There are typos, and then there are typos. And then there was that."