For One Thing Dodgers are cleaning house

In the world of sports at the end of the season is all about who’s getting Trading or Chopped?

Dodgers Cleaning House, will it help?

No matter what the sport, at the end of every individual sport season everyone associated with that sport ends up not knowing if they will keep their job.

This is especially true when there was a high expectation for a team ‘to go all the way’ and for whatever reason they don’t.

This was true with the Los Angeles Lakers last season when not only was Paul Gasol traded to the Bull, but even their coach Mike D’Antoni was replaced by Byron Scott.

www.NBA.com/lakers

Now it’s the MLB’s turn. There are many baseball teams that were expected to a whole all better than what they actually did. It didn’t seem to matter how much money the owners of the teams spend on players, they did not live up to huge price tags.

So, who will get the axe? Who will be sent back to AAA baseball and who will get traded? No one knows for sure, but the rumors are flying all over the sports world.

The Dodgers have already made the news with the hiring of a new GM, Andrew Friedman, and the former GM of the Tampa Bay Rays. What happen to Colletti, you ask? Well the owners actually kept Colletti as a senior advisor.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/14/how-dodgers-swiping-the-rays-gm-shakes-up-baseball-world/

http://m.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article/98487820/andrew-friedman-named-dodgers-president-of-baseball-operations-colletti-becomes-advisor

But I don’t think the Dodgers are done with cleaning house, high priced players that don’t earn their pay will need to either be traded or somehow, someway show the Dodger owners that they are worth the investment.
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However, it just isn’t the Dodgers, how about the Los Angeles Angels, the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Socks, the Atlanta Braves, and all teams that on paper should be playing in the World Series.

www.MLB.com

This year the Oakland Raiders did not even wait until the end of their season to try and change from a losing season by firing their coach Dennis Allen, after only 5 weeks into their season. Then the owner hires Tony Sparano as their interim coach.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/10/07/raiders-return-to-work-under-new-coach/

But there is still the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the New York Jets, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the St. Louis Rams, each and every one of these teams have a losing season so far this year! Their owners are already looking at how to get their
‘product’ producing and become winning teams. New Managers, coaches, quarterbacks, whatever it will take.

www.NFL.com

Then you have the owner of the Washington Redskins. They have already replaced their coach, traded their under-producing players and there are still facing a losing season.

http://www.nfl.com/teams/profile?team=WAS

What it comes down to is no matter how good you are in you particular sport, have a bad year and you could end of being traded or become a ‘free agent’

It sometimes doesn’t even matter that you played you very best and the term as a whole wasn’t having a good year, in the eyes of the owner, someone will take the
Fall, to become the scapegoat so to speak.

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A lot of noise is being made by baseball team owners, the fans, the players and even the sports announcer regarding the increase in ‘bad calls’ by the officials or Umpire

It’s a baseball classic problem and always has been.

Why do you think ‘Kill the Umpire’ was a favorite saying way back when, before it became ‘politely incorrect’.
We have come to accept them as such. As fans, we holler and boo the umpires whenever it happens to our team and when our player and manager get throw out of the game for protesting the call, we cheer them on.

Team managers and players hint at the bad calls when questioned, but know better than to actually discuss it with the media do to possible fines and suspension by the MLB. So, nothing has really changed it’s just a baseball classic

It is a part of baseball and has been part of the game for the 160+ years that baseball has been professional played.

 
Umpires have always had the last word that is until recently. With Social Media comes a more intense scrutinizing of their actions. This has led to many of their so called ‘blow calls’ being questioned and why the call for change!

April 8 –The Rays played the Rangers
http://mlb.si.com/2013/04/09/marty-foster-rays-rangers-ben-zobrist-joe-nathan/

April 28 – The Rays as a team, could not be kept quiet after another supposedly bad call.
http://www.raysindex.com/2013/04/several-rays-call-umpire-a-liar-after-confrontation-with-david-price-video.html

And let’s not forgot the May 5, 2013 Nationals, when the Umpires used Bryce Harper as an example of their authority over the game of baseball.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1630997-bryce-harpers-absurd-ejection-exposes-new-age-of-diva-umpires

The May 8, 2013 game of Cleveland vs Oakland, the umpires, even with the use of ‘instance replay’ still managed to blow a call.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/oakland-athletics-home-run-umps-blown-replay_n_3241721.html

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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/another-day-another-goof-umps-allow-rule-breaking-071259841.html

On May 10 – there was fallout from the Angel vs Astro game for the umpires NOT knowing the rules of the game. Major League Baseball announced it had suspended crew chief Fieldin Culbreth for two games and fined umpires Adrian Johnson, Brian O’Nora and Bill Welke for missing a rule so basic and ingrained in the game that even kids knew it.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/crew-chief-suspension-appropriately-ends-bad-couple-days-for-mlb-umpires-232120200.html

Then we have the possible of ‘the revenge of the umpires’ when Umpire Angel Hernandez was suspected to have let a botched call stand as an objection to the use of instance replay on May 10.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/peter-gammons-suspects-umpire-angel-hernandez-let-botched-180002584.html

The list goes on and on it seems that not a day goes by without another ‘bad call making the headlines. There is arguments on all sides, Umpires, MLB, and Team Owners that something must be done. Do Umpires need to pay more, but does more money equal smarter umpires? Do we need instance re-play extended for more than to double check if a home run is indeed a home run? Do Umpires need more education?

Maybe, but even with all the above, it still might not be enough. As our technology gets better and better, sports announcer, fans at home watching their HD TV sets and with the use of slow motion and zoom capabilities, Umpires will always be the underdogs and will sometimes get the play wrong.

As I am writing this blog and trying to wrap it up, there was yet another ‘blow call’ by an umpire in the Brewer vs Phillies game. The Brewers won with the help of the bad call with Brewers’ Jean Segura credited for tag despite dropping ball in critical ninth inning blown call.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/brewers-jean-segura-credited-tag-despite-dropping-ball-083834547.html

It appears that this is not going away anytime soon!

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