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The relatively smooth forum software update here contrasts with that at yahoo's fantasy baseball, where ill-fated, unnecessary user-interface changes over the past month have made that game inoperable for many. Yahoo waited until people had signed up for the baseball season before unleashing untested mods they've been unwilling or unable to fix. It feels as if they are trying to kill off their game, which is sad to see.
 
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The relatively smooth forum software update here contrasts with that at yahoo's fantasy baseball, where ill-fated, unnecessary user-interface changes over the past month have made that game inoperable for many. Yahoo waited until people had signed up for the baseball season before unleashing untested mods they've been unwilling or unable to fix. It feels as if they are trying to kill off their game, which is sad to see.
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What kind of changes has Yahoo Fantasy Baseball done that has messed up the user interface? I've been doing Yahoo Fantasy Baseball since 2001 and it looks mostly the same as it did in the previous couple of years in my league.
 
You're lucky. A "Select an edition" box is overlaying and obscuring game content, and cannot be removed. Pending Roster changes are no longer displayed above the roster and cannot be accessed except by turning off style sheets. A non-functional, redundant Position column has been added. Essential data has been shifted so far to the right that excessive horizontal scrolling is needed to read it. There's more. Reports about this to yahoo go ignored. I'd guess new and not very skilled people are handling the UI this year. Such mods should have been tested and finished before people committed to the game for the season.
 
There was a 2 hour delay at the Dodgers vs. Diamondbacks game last night at Chase Field in Phoenix. The problem? A fairly large beehive behind home plate built into the top of the protective netting. The Diamondbacks won the game in extra innings 4-3.

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Coincidentally, the section marker on the stairwell, section 315, was the same section I sat in for three World Series games last October/November. You can see my viewpoint from the World Series by visiting my profile and viewing my profile banner picture.
 
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And they let the beekeeper throw out the first pitch! Very cool. I can't determine which is more strange at Chase this year: the beehive or the rained-out exhibition game in a desert stadium with a retractable roof :).
 
It's a good thing the White Sox have only won 6 games so far this year or the Astros would be alone in the cellar in the AL.
 
aja8888 said:
It's a good thing the White Sox have only won 6 games so far this year or the Astros would be alone in the cellar in the AL.
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Well, maybe resorting to old habits can turn it around for the Astros. Caught cheating again. The guy who threw the now highly suspect ‘no hitter’. ‘Stickiest glove’ the umpire has ever felt.
 
I woke up today only to find that Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth are no longer tops in MLB batting average and slugging percentage.

The MLB announced on Wednesday that it has incorporated the statistics of more than 2,300 Negro Leagues players from 1920 to 1948 into its records, which are now available in a newly integrated online database.

“Today’s announcement is the first major step that makes the achievements of the players of the Negro Leagues available to fans via the official historical record,” the MLB said in a statement.

It follows nearly four years of research and a move the league made in December 2020. That year saw both the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues and nationwide protests against racial injustice.

The MLB said at the time that it was “correcting a longtime oversight” by officially elevating the Negro Leagues to Major League status and including their stats in its history books.

“All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game’s finest players, innovations and triumphs against the backdrop of injustice,” MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred said at the time.
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easysurfer said:
I woke up today only to find that Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth are no longer tops in MLB batting average and slugging percentage.
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But the Babe set his records the good old fashion way. The only thing he took was Beer and Hotdogs.
 
easysurfer said:
I woke up today only to find that Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth are no longer tops in MLB batting average and slugging percentage.



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The players in the Negro leagues deserve full recognition of what they accomplished, but altering decades and decades of established records is wrong. Who hasn't wondered what Satchel Paige would have done in MLB had he been able to pitch in the league? Or how many home runs Josh Gibson would have hit? It's natural to wonder about the "what if" scenarios that come up in these discussions.

But...what if Josh Gibson had to face Walter Johnson, Carl Hubbell, Dizzy Dean, Lefty Gomez, etc., on a daily basis? Would he have hit as many HRs? How would Satchel Paige have fared playing against Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Hand Greenburg, Joe DiMaggio, etc.

Also, the Negro Leagues records are not as extensive or as accurate as MLB records.
 
Most excellent!
My mom was a big baseball fan and my sister surprised her by signing her up as an ambassador volunteer for the 2001 All Star game in Seattle.
Her all time high was meeting Buck O'Neil there and spending some time with him. She was volunteering from a wheelchair pushed by us sibs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_O'Neil
Mom would have been thrilled by this news. My late sister set it all up, and she too would have been thrilled to hear it.
 
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