This week on the Daly Dose, the NBA Finals are complete, and the Milwaukee Bucks are the champions after shutting down the Phoenix Suns in six games! We break down how the Bucks were able to win their first title since 1971!
We also take a look at some of the top sports news stories from the past week! MLB had a very scary story take place over the weekend, and we discussed some of the reactions from around the league.
Plus Richard Sherman had a very rough week, the NFL is making some changes that might not be that popular with all of their fans, a new rivalry could be starting in NCAA football, and the Big 12 keeps encouraging fans to taunt the University of Texas!
Then with NFL training camps opening soon, we take a look back at the Top 5 NFL injuries that took place prior to the season in training camp!
There is a lack of respect when it comes to Major League Baseball. A lack of respect from the young fans, who don’t find it exciting enough to watch. There is a lack of respect from the diehard fans, who have lost their interest in the game due to the new rule changes. Most importantly, there is a lack of respect from the players themselves, who have been outspoken, even mocked, the direction the game is headed, and the only people to blame is the MLB front office.
The MLB’s latest headline is its crackdown on pitchers doctoring baseballs with foreign substances. Beginning June 21st pitchers will now be inspected after every inning, or after coming out of the bullpen for substances by umpires who will check their hat and glove.
This is a rule change that needed to happen. However, the way the MLB implemented the rule, and the backlash from pitchers around the league has created chaos around the league.
Oakland Athletics pitcher Sergio Romo walked off the mound in Wednesday’s game against the Texas Rangers and before he got to the dugout, he was stopped by an umpire for an inspection. Romo, who had just given up a run that inning, was visibly not pleased with the new requirement. He proceeded to throw his hat, belt, and glove onto the turf, then pulled his pants down in mockery to the new rule umpires must now enforce. Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer pulled a similar stunt in his start on Wednesday by undoing his belt to prove he was clean.
Tampa Bay Rays’ pitcher Tyler Glasnow and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer have particularly been outspoken against the rule change.
“I just threw 80 something innings & you just told me I can’t use anything. I have to change everything. I truly believe 100% that’s why I got hurt. I’m frustrated MLB doesn’t understand. You can’t just tell us to use nothing. It’s crazy,” said Glasnow in a postgame interview.
Bauer also reflects these views.
“They didn’t get a whole lot of this right,” said Bauer in an interview with Sportsnet LA.
To implement a rule that will change the way the sport is played three months into the season is rash and unprofessional from a league that is supposed to represent ‘Americas Pastime’. The league did not even need to wait until next season to implement this rule. The All-Star break, or even another set date a month or two down the line to give pitchers the opportunity to adjust would have sufficed. Instead, they felt the pressure and made a rushed and vague rule to throw into the game.
In the same interview with Sportsnet LA, Bauer demonstrated the sticky results of a mix of sweat and rosin by holding his hand in the air while a ball stuck to it. If a player is sweatier in one inning than another, causing the ball to stick more when mixed with the legal substance of rosin, how is an umpire going to determine if it was sweat or another substance?
“Umpires haven’t been trained to know what is sticky and what isn’t. And like, if I can hold a ball like this obviously it’s illegal right, except it’s not,” said Bauer, “It’s a mess.”
The mess the MLB is currently in is a case of history repeating itself. In the early 2000s the MLB was infamously tarnished by the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) which led to an increase in home runs. Players like Barry Bonds who began their careers lean ended up becoming a massive hulk of a player at the turn of the century. With home runs on the rise and players becoming unnaturally large unnaturally fast, it was obvious something wasn’t right. When the scandal finally broke on the amount of PED users within the MLB, the league became forever linked to cheating. It’s biggest athletes, like Bonds, who had been linked to PED’s lost all respect they had gained through their career.
The same signs had been there when it came to pitchers doctoring the ball. It is inexcusable for the MLB to claim more pitchers had been cheating than expected when the statistics had been there for it all along. The MLB sent a memo to all 30 teams at the beginning of the season announcing it would be tracking spin rates closely to crack down on cheating this year. Why did they start monitoring closely this year? These stats have been available for years. In the Statcast era of baseball there is a number for every aspect of the game. When players such as Gerrit Cole, Brandon Woodruff, and Tyler Glasnow along with many other pitchers had managed to drastically increase the spin rates on their pitches around the same time of each other, it should have caught the MLB’s attention. Yet the MLB ignored it, like a high schooler putting off a paper, and much like a high schooler, rushed something together and turned in at the last minute.
The NBA experienced something similar in its 2021 season. Its players had found a loophole in the rules and had exploited it. Players began to lurch forward unnaturally after a jump shot to draw contact from the defender thus causing a foul on the defense. It had created a lot of controversy around the league and with its fans. However, after the season, the NBA announced it was going to revise the rules in the offseason in a way to prohibit the unnatural movements of players during a jump shot. The NBA gave itself time to figure out their new rules and train their referees on how to call them.
It’s time the MLB took a page out of its fellow sports leagues book, because a player pulling his pants down is not a good look.
This week on the Daly Dose YouTube video, we are celebrating the 6th year anniversary of the Daly Dose Sports Podcast!
We reflect on a number of the subjects that we have talked about, we remember some of the guests that have visited, and we look back on some of the sports fans that are not always happy with what we say on the show!
We also recall some of the picks that we have gotten right, and a few predictions that we missed!
This week on the Daly Dose, we are celebrating the five year anniversary of the Daly Dose Sports Podcast! How have we managed to last this long? We have no idea.
Then we jump into some of the biggest stories this week in sports, the College Football Playoff is set, the Washington Nationals get some good news…but bad news may be coming, the New England Patriots are back to their old tricks, and we have a new heavyweight champion in boxing!
We take a look at a few coaches in the NFL and college football that could be feeling a very hot seat, and could be getting some bad news very soon.
Then, we reflect back on the Top 5 things that we have learned over the past five years of doing the Daly Dose!
This week on the Daly Dose, one university if making some odd news with their college football program, and the NBA is looking at major changes to their schedule…if they are allowed to do so.
The, we take a look at all of the things in sports that we have to be thankful for over the past year! From MLB to the NFL, college football and basketball, and even the NHL and NASCAR, we have so many things to be thankful for as sports fans!
Finally, we remember some past Thanksgivings, as we countdown the Top 5 most memorable NFL moments from Thanksgiving day games!
This week on the Daly Dose, Thursday is Halloween, and we discuss some of the scariest players in sports history!
The World Series is heading for a Game 7 tonight after the Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros last night in Game 6. This series has been so some unpredictable, including one failed attempt to make baseball interesting.
Plus, the NCAA relents, and says athletes can now make money off of their likeness! We have one very important question for this situation!
Then, we take a look at the top teams in the NBA, college football, and the NBA, and discuss what each of them should be afraid of as their seasons continue!
Finally, we countdown the Top 5 2019 Daly Dose Halloween costume ideas for sports fans!
This week on the Daly Dose, we remember Jackie Robinson, discuss whether or not the Los Angeles Chargers could be moving again, and both the new NBA season and the 2019 World Series are now under way!
One college basketball team has already made history before the season even starts, and our Daly Dose I-team has found the cause of former college football coach Mark Richt’s heart attack!
Then we pivot around the world of sports, looking at both some flattering and unflattering snapshots in MLB, the NBA, NCAA Football, and the NFL! MLB loves to show their home runs, but the postseason always seems to change their focus. The NBA could have a serious fan base problem. College football still has 10 undefeated teams, but we explain why that’s no reason for concern. The, we examine the terrible NFL officiating, and are the New England Patriots not as good as advertised because of their soft schedule? We review these scenarios and more!
Finally, with the Wisconsin Badgers getting beat last weekend after being favored by 30.5 points, we countdown the Top 5 college football upsets of all time by Las Vegas point spread!
This week on the Daly Dose, the NBA says they are going to crack down on tampering, but we aren’t sure their consequences are that unforgiving. The Kansas Jayhawks basketball program may be in big trouble, but it probably won’t affect them this season. The New England Patriots cut troubled wide receiver Antonio Brown, and he now says he is going back to school. We were able to run down a transcript of the classes he is going to be taking.
Then we take a quick look at the Major League Baseball playoffs that are going to be starting soon, and preview some early possible matchups.
College football and the NFL seasons are rolling along, and we take a look at some winners and losers from this past weekend!
Finally, with Antonio Brown taking a break from the NFL, we remember five other players that threw their careers away way too soon!
This week on the Daly Dose, we wish Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban a very happy birthday, and discuss the sports innovation he has contributed that we all still feel the effects today. Plus, the NFC Championship controversy is somehow still dragging on!
Then, as we are in the heat of the summer, we take a look at the longest sports championship droughts going today. Which teams from MLB, NHL, NBA, and the NFL have been waiting the longest for the ultimate ending to the season?
Finally, our Daly Dose Top 5 reveals which current pro sports players have played the most games without ever winning that ultimate championship ring!
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