By Mike Johnson on 2021-02-01 10:40:00
Should that happen, the current WWE Thunderdome location in
St.
Petersburg, Florida, Tropicana Field, could be available to the company for some additional time. The original belief was that WWE would have to exit this April as The Tampa Bay Rays are scheduled to play their home opener against the New York Yankees on Friday 4/9, the same weekend at Wrestlemania 37.
The proposal from MLB would see their 2021 season instead start at the end of April, which would give WWE at least several more weeks in theory.
Thanks to our old friend Chuck Carroll for sending that along!
ESPN reports that Major League Baseball is currently having talks with the the Major League Baseball Players Association about pushing back the start date of spring training. This means that the 2021 season for MLB wouldn’t begin until the end of April.
This would be a bit of good news for WWE, as it was believed they would have to exit the venue prior to Wrestlemania. WWE is currently using Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Tampa Bay Rays are scheduled to have their first home game against the New York Yankees there on April 9, the same weekend as Wrestlemania. So WWE would have to clear out the Thunderdome prior to that unless the schedule changes.
Monday, February 01, 2021
In December 2019, Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball Players Association, and Sony Interactive Entertainment/San Diego Studio announced that they had entered a multi-year extension for
MLB The Show. Included in the announcement was the revelation that Sony will be developing the title for multiple platforms going forward, and although no further details were revealed, both Microsoft and Nintendo hinted that
MLB The Show will now appear on their respective platforms as well.
It looks like this news will be made official soon, if a leak by known and reliable insider anerdydad is anything to go by. Over on Instagram, anerdydad shared PlayStation 5 and Xbox covers for
January 29, 2021
More than 10 years ago, my first piece of published baseball writing appeared on the Community Blog at FanGraphs. It was on Adam Wainwright’s curveball. About five years later, I joined FanGraphs as a part-time contributor. I read the offer email in line at Costco of all places. A few years after that, I joined the staff full-time. For nearly six years, I’ve written almost every day, doing work I love focused on a sport I care deeply about. It is a privilege to work at FanGraphs, and while I’m not tired of the work, I’m moving on. I’m leaving the site to join the Major League Baseball Players Association as their Senior Analyst for Economics and Collective Bargaining.
Henry Louis Aaron Fund established to honor Hank Aaron s legacy
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
Published article
ATLANTA - Hank Aaron was laid to rest on Wednesday, but his legacy will continue thanks to the formation of The Henry Louis Aaron Fund, which will live inside the Atlanta Braves Foundation.
On Wednesday, it was announced the fund was seeded with $1 million with an additional half-million dollars being contributed by the Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association. We want to continue Hank’s amazing work in growing diversity within baseball now and in the years to come, said Terry McGuirk, Atlanta Braves Chairman. I believe this seed money is just the beginning for this growing fund and I’m certain other companies and organizations who have worked with Hank over the years will join us and add to this call to action to develop talent and increase the diversity on the field and in the front offices across the league.