Friday, May 1, 2020

'Rona-Free Hot Links, Vol. 20

*MLB.com listed Jose Altuve as having the best batting eye on the Astros.

*Verlander is increasingly optimistic there will be a 2020 MLB season.

*Bill Gladstone, owner of the Astros' affiliate in the NYPL, the Tri-City ValleyCats, passed away from COVID-19 complications.

*James Click joined AT&T SportsNet Comcast Houston Southwest for an interview.



*The Astros featured prominently in Jayson Stark's "What We Could Have Learned From April" column.

*The MLBPA rejected MLB's plan for the 2020 Draft.



*Liz Roscher has your KBO primer, whose season starts on Monday.

*FanGraphs' Dan Szymborski: How shortened seasons affect projections.

*Toronto Star: A.J. Hinch helped John Gibbons land an interview with the Astros in January.

*SI: Meet the massage therapist with five World Series rings. Bald Yankees fans with gold chains and track suits are already throwing Molotov Cocktails through his windows yelling "Twenty-Two Short! [Clap clap clapclapclap]"

*The day that Dock Ellis decided to hit every Cincinnati Red he faced.

*Inside the investigation that took down Pete Rose.

*The English Football League wants to finish the season rather than JUST PROMOTE LEEDS TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE.



*Do you like sports, the South, and delicious gas station food? This is the newsletter for you.

*Lovecraft Country, eh?

*Kent State, and the war that never ended.

*Blue Bell done screwed up.

*A deep-dive into Face/Off, the best, most absurd action film ever made.

*Slow TV: Lake Louise to Jasper, Alberta: