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[yourmusicmuse]

Happy Holidays! Here's some more Hadestown memes as my gift for the fandom <33

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Maundy Thursday

Christians mark Maundy Thursday, which commemorates the Last Supper, every year on the Thursday before Easter, March 28.  It’s also know as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, and the Thursday of Mysteries in various traditions.

Maundy refers to the foot-washing Jesus provided the apostles prior to the Last Supper. Christians around the world, especially Catholics, mark the day with a special mass and prayers.

The word “Maundy” itself comes from an Anglo-French word derived from the Latin “mandatum,” which means “commandment.”

Maundy Thursday timeline

2019

Honoring Notre Dame

UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced bells will ring at cathedrals across England on Maundy Thursday. It's a show of support for France following the devastating Notre Dame fire.

1979

The Chrism

The Book of Common Prayer was published in Britain calling for the Chrism Mass to be consecrated by Anglican Bishops.

1945

The bombing of Manila

Maundy Thursday in the Philippines commemorates the seven churches that were destroyed when Manila was bombed in 1945.

1822

Maundy coins

In the United Kingdom, the Church of England created Maundy Coins, handed to parishioners to mark Maundy Thursday. The coins replaced the real currency that was previously given to parishioners as charity.

How to Observe Maundy Thursday

Go to church: Christian churches celebrate with a special mass and prayers. Even if you're not a Christian or a believer, you can learn a lot about one of the more important days on the Christian calendar by visiting a local Christian church.

Learn the story: Holy Wednesday and Maundy Thursday represent the beginning of the transformational story of the death and resurrection of Jesus. We're all better off if we deepen our understanding of the faith traditions of others. Pick up a book or watch a documentary that highlights the importance of Maundy Thursday within Christianity.

Spend the day being humble: Maundy Thursday is a great opportunity to remind ourselves of the importance of humility. Regardless of your own faith traditions, use Maundy Thursday to check yourself throughout the day for signs that you could always use a bit more humility in your life.

Maundy Thursday Around The World

Czech Republic and Slovakia: Maundy Thursday in local parlance translates to Green Thursday, when meals are prepared primarily from fresh, green vegetables.

Kerala State, India: Unleavened Pehasa bread is made in homes and consumed with coconut milk.

Sweden: Maundy Thursday is connected to old folklore as the day of the witches. Similar to Halloween, children dress up as witches and go door-to-door collecting coins or candy.

Bulgaria: Bulgarians color Easter eggs and clean their houses in preparation for what they call Crucifixion Friday.

Luxembourg: Church bells fall silent on Maundy Thursday until Easter, marking a symbolic migration to Rome for confession.

Why Maundy Thursday is Important

Strong traditions: Holy Week is one of the more important celebrations on the Christian Calendar, and Maundy Thursday is a key day of the week. Christian traditions from around the globe, from Armenia to Africa to Germany, mark the day with special masses and prayers.

It celebrates humility: The washing of the disciples' feet by Jesus was intended to be a sign of humility. Jesus was humbling himself before his own servants as a last gesture before knowing he was to be crucified. Masses on this day now highlight the importance of humility in the Christian faith.

It ties Christian denominations together: Christian faiths celebrate Maundy Thursday throughout the world. Part of its tradition, which carries into Good Friday, is for observers to visit 14 different Christian churches, one for each station of the cross. It unifies the Christian church regardless of region or country.

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[thewordisbond]

Krohme - 'TwentyFour: Season 1' [Album review]

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Krohme - 'TwentyFour: Season 1' [Album review]

Prolific VA producer Krohme is back with his latest project TWENTYFOUR: Season 1. The 8 track body of work continues Krohme’s prolific releases as he teams up with rappers Saga, John Apocalypse, Mike Tek, Indigo Phoenyx, Sankofa, Empuls, Wild Pigeon, King Chase and CM Lugo. The entire project is pr

[esonetwork]

White Zombie | Episode 387

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White Zombie | Episode 387

Jim looks at a 1932 Bela Lugosi Horror Classic from Halperin Productions – “White Zombie,” Starring Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorne, Robert W. Frazier, John Harron, Brandon Hurst, George Burr Macannan and Clarence Muse. A Haitian plantation owner sets hi sights on a young woman and has her turned into zombie to have her to himself. Find out more about this first zombie film on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

[clivemwilliams]

Spain 2023

8/7/23

What an amazing day! Set off from Lugo after breakfast for 1 hour drive to Santiago de Compostela - one of the great pilgrimage sites in the world and the 3rd most revered Christian site after Jerusalem and the Vatican in Rome. The cathedral itself was truly spectacular with a dazzling golden altar and huge decorated columns rising high to the ceiling. It is reputed to be the burial place of St James and catholics queue for ages just to be able to touch the base of his statue’s cloak. As Methodists we didn’t see the point.

It was also fascinating to see many of the pilgrims that had walked from various places to the cathedral - we had passed hundreds in the car on the way. Most do one of the shorter walks - still over 100kms- but some do the whole journey from the Pyrenees, over 800 kms. I can confirm that 2785 pilgrims arrived today!!

After the visit, which was free by the way, we enjoyed lunch in one of the many restaurants surrounding the cathedral and then strolled around the narrow streets enjoying the ambiance and an ice cream!

I know that Christine and John enjoyed their visit here and I’d thoroughly recommend it to anyone else!

[angelloverde]

"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 26 August

The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Sander's Lament

TM Juke & The Jack Baker Trio Feat. Kathrin DeBoer - Rolling Stone To Landslide

Ray Lugos L.e.s Express - If It Ain't True

Danny Massure - Busted

John Beltran - Sensual Healing

Chocolate Milk - Time Machine

George Duke - Capricorn

James Brown - Coldblooded (Undubbed Version)

Guts Feat. Leron Thomas - Roses

Nostalgia 77 - Quiet Dawn (Bonobo Remix)

LTJ Xperience - Beggar Groove

Lord Echo - Thinking Of You

Sabrina Malheiros - Estacao Verao (Kenny Dope Remix)

Trio Ternura - A Gira (Mr Mendel Edit)

Micheal Kiwanuka - Cold Little Heart

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)

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Episode Twenty-Two: The Westfield Watcher Photodump

Image 1: 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey Image 2: The Broaddus Family Image 3: John Woods Image 4: Detective Lugo & journalist Reeves Wiedeman - excerpts from Reeves’ article on TheCut.com were read during the episode Image 5: Map of the neighborhood Image 6: Excerpts from court documents Image 7: Boo Radley, Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters Image 8: The Watcher with Keanu Reeves & John Snow aka one of “the watchers on the wall” Image 9: Jamie Kennedy gets murdered in Scream 2

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Latinx singers of classical music: a list so incomplete as to be positively embarrassing

What I wrote in the previous post in this series applies here as well:

Some of these artists are up-and-comers; some of their careers were at their height in the 1970s, when I first began paying attention; a few go back further than that.

Although in this case it’s more than a few — which, along with the fact I kept finding more and more younger artists, is why I decided to end my research and post this now.

I’ve included many of the younger ones solely on the basis of reputation, without having heard them. Not all are or were A-listers, but they are all people who sing or sang Western classical music for a living, or taught others to do so, or a combination of the two.

Assembling this list has required me to consider some questions of inclusion. Do the children of European immigrants who, in some cases, didn’t even bother to give their children Latinate names belong here? Undoubtedly many people will say no; I disagree. (I have drawn the line, however, at Spanish or Portuguese artists who decamped to their countries’ former colonies.)

Fedora Alemán (1912-2018), soprano, Venezuela Elaine Alvarez, soprano, USA Marcelo Álvarez, tenor, Argentina Fanny Anitúa (1887-1968), contralto, Mexico Francisco Araiza, tenor, Mexico Iván Ayón-Rivas, tenor, Peru Aldo Baldin (1945-1994), tenor, Brazil René Barbera, tenor, USA Vanessa Becerra, soprano, USA Ricardo Bernal, tenor, Mexico Jessica Bogado Corvalán, soprano, Paraguay Javier Camarena, tenor, Mexico Teresa Castillo, soprano, USA Ian Castro, tenor, USA Arturo Chacón-Cruz, tenor, Mexico Mario Chang, tenor, Guatemala Claudia Chapa, mezzo-soprano, Mexico Luis Chapa, tenor, Mexico Lisa Chavez, mezzo-soprano, USA José Coca Loza, bass, Bolivia Eliane Coelho, soprano, Brazil John J. Concepcion, tenor, USA Natacha Cóndor, mezzo-soprano, Ecuador Paul Corona, bass, USA Gloria Criscione Pineda, soprano, Paraguay Gilda Cruz-Romo, soprano, Mexico José Cura, tenor, Argentina Alfredo Daza, baritone, Mexico César Delgado, tenor, Mexico Juan José de León, tenor, USA Fernando de la Mora, tenor, Mexico Justino Díaz, bass-baritone, Puerto Rico Gabriella Di Laccio, soprano, Brazil Nahuel di Pierro, bass, Argentina Oralia Dominguez (1925-2013), contralto, Mexico Rubén Domínguez (1935-2015), tenor, Venezuela Cecilia Duarte, mezzo-soprano, Mexico Gabriella Enríquez, soprano, USA Consuelo Escobar (1887-1967), soprano, Mexico Franco Fagioli, counter-tenor, Argentina Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano, Argentina Juan Diego Flórez, tenor, Peru Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, soprano, Chile Karen Gardeazabal, soprano, Mexico Ricardo Garcia, tenor, USA Raúl Giménez, tenor, Argentina Adriana González, soprano, Guatemala Joshua Guerrero, tenor, USA Carlos Guichandut (1914-1990), tenor, Argentina Levi Hernandez, baritone, USA Ramón Iriarte, baritone, Venezuela Edgar Jaramillo, tenor, USA Maria Katzarava, soprano, Mexico Yunuet Laguna, soprano, Mexico Valeriano Lanchas, bass, Colombia José Lemos, counter-tenor, Brazil Laura León, soprano, Cuba Isobel Leonard, mezzo-soprano, USA Luis Lima, tenor, Argentina Cecilia Violetta López, soprano, USA Zulimar López-Hernández, soprano, Puerto Rico Ricardo Lugo, bass, Puerto Rico Sergio Mandujano, tenor, USA José Mongelós, tenor, Paraguay Larisa Martínez, soprano, Puerto Rico Julio Mascaro, tenor, Guatemala José Mojica (1895-1974), tenor, Mexico Albert Montañez, counter-tenor, Colombia Maria José Morales, soprano, Guatemala Rafael Moras, tenor, USA Octavio Moreno, baritone, Mexico Adelaida Negri (1943-2019), soprano, Argentina Salvador Novoa (1937-2021), tenor, Mexico Richard Ollarsaba, bass-baritone, USA Lisette Oropesa, soprano, USA Jehú Otero, tenor, Puerto Rico Beatriz Parra Durango, soprano, Ecuador Miguel Pedroza, bass-baritone, Venezuela Ángela Peralta (1846-1883), soprano, Mexico Ailyn Pérez, soprano, USA Natalie Pérez, mezzo-soprano, Argentina Rodrigo Porras Garulo, tenor, Mexico Marcello Puente, tenor, Argentina Gustavo Quaresma Ramos, tenor, Brazil Rayén Quitral (1916-1979), soprano, Chile Ernesto Ramirez, tenor, Mexico Gabriella Reyes, soprano, USA Iván Ayón Rivas, tenor, Peru Ricardo José Rivera, baritone, Puerto Rico Gaston Rivero, tenor, Uruguay Mario Rojas, tenor, Mexico Manuel Salazar (1887-1950), tenor, Costa Rica Zoraida Salazar, soprano, Colombia Renato Sassola (1927-2013), tenor, Argentina Bidú Sayão (1902-1999), soprano, Brazil Erwin Schrott, bass-baritone, Uruguay Rosita Serrano (1912-1997), soprano, Chile Nadine Sierra, soprano, USA Efraín Solís, bass-baritone, USA José Sosa Esquivel (1923-1968), tenor, Mexico Paolo Szot, baritone, Brazil Ricardo Tamura, tenor, Brazil Jonathan Tetelman, tenor, Chile Camila Titinger, soprano, Brazil Matthew Treviño, bass, USA Eduardo Valdes, tenor, Puerto Rico Ramón Vargas, tenor, Mexico Héctor Vásquez, baritone, USA Vanessa Vasquez, soprano, USA Hugo Vera, tenor, USA Denis Vélez, soprano, Mexico Fabián Veloz, baritone, Argentina Elena Villalón, soprano, USA Verónica Villarroel, soprano, Chile Rolando Villazón, tenor, Mexico Ramon Vinay (1911-1996), tenor, Chile Ariana Wehr, soprano, Brazil Renato Zanelli, tenor, Chile

[goalhofer]

2024 Kansas City Royals Players By Nationality

American: 25 (Nick Anderson, Jake Brentz, Kris Bubic, Adam Frazier, Garrett Hampson, Kyle Isbel, Nick Loftin, Jacob Lugo, Jordan Lyles, Alec Marsh, Michael Massey, James McArthur, M.S. Melendez; Jr., Vinnie Pasquantino, Salvador Pérez, Cole Ragans, Dustin Renfroe, Matt Sauer, John Schreiber, Brady Singer, Will Smith, Chris Stratton, Josh Taylor, Nelson Velázquez, Michael Wacha & Bobby Witt; Jr.) Venezuelan: 5 (Freddy Fermín, Maikel García, Carlos Hernández, Salvador Pérez & Ángel Zerpa) Cuban: 1 (Dairon Blanco) Puerto Rican: 1 (Nelson Velázquez)

[rockinnews]

Tangerine Flavour presenta su gira 2024

Después de presentar cuatro adelantos, más algunas sorpresitas más, de lo que será su nuevo disco, los chicos de Tangerine Flavour se lanzan de nuevo a la carretera con una gira intensa en la cual recorrerán buena parte de nuestra geografía en apenas tres meses. Y es que no lo pueden evitar, Tangerine Flavour son animales de directo y de carretera. Después de dos enormes giras en 2023, pensábamos que no podrían repetir tal hazaña, pues mira por donde, no solo la han igualado, sino que la han superado.

Más de 25 fechas para presentar ¨Space Cowboy¨, lo que será su tercer disco, pero también para repasar los temas de sus anteriores trabajos. El Space Cowboy Tour 2024 visitará lugares que la banda no había visitado como Puerto de Santa Maria (donde se ha grabado este nuevo trabajo) o Tafalla, volverá a ciudades de muy buen recuerdo para Tangerine Flavour como Murcia, Logroño o Lugo y tendrá una fecha estelar como la del 19 de abril en la sala El Sol de Madrid, en la que será la presentación oficial del disco en la capital. En esta nueva serie de conciertos la banda madrileña tendrá la suerte de contar en varios de los shows de artistas con un talento enorme, como son Abi Gale o Javi Tejero. A esta lista faltan por añadir las citas veraniegas en festivales, las cuales serán desveladas en breve. Para que nadie se quede sin poder asistir a los conciertos, las entradas de toda la gira de Tangerine Flavour están a la venta en el siguiente enlace.

Este nuevo movimiento de shows en directo de Tangerine Flavour sirve para dar continuidad a la primera gira que la banda hizo por Estados Unidos, en la cual tocaron en lugares tan míticos como Austin, Memphis o Nashville. Estos conciertos sirvieron como para que la banda juzgara como sonaban en directo algunas de las canciones que aparecerán en este nuevo disco, que por cierto estará disponible el 16 de febrero en todas las plataformas. 

¿Qué conocemos de Space Cowboy?, pues de momento han salido a la luz cuatro singles que han supuesto y golpe de autoridad por parte de Tangerine Flavour. En ellos se han salido de sus lugares de seguridad y han propuesto canciones con ritmos nuevos y atrevidos. El resultado, pues a la vista está, ¨Rainha do Sul¨, ¨Por la puerta de Atrás¨, ¨Outlaw City¨y ¨Five Tears of Dust¨, canciones con las que la banda ha conseguido un salto cualitativo de calidad, lo que ha supuesto un aumento en su masa social de oyentes. Todo esto hace que los nuevos directos sean aún más atractivos, y para que no os perdáis ni uno solo de sus conciertos, os dejamos aquí cada una de las fechas ya confirmadas.

HOMENAJE A ELTON JOHN (SANTIAGO ALCANDA) – SALA GALILEO GALILEI 

01 MAR – ESTEPONA – LOUIE LOUIE LIVE

02 MAR – MARBELLA – HARD ROCK HOTEL (tarde)

02 MAR – MÁLAGA – ZZ PUB (noche)

08 MAR – AGUADULCE – HEARTBREAK

09 MAR – GRANADA – PLAYMOBIL CLUB

15 MAR – PUERTO DE SANTA MARÍA – MILWAUKEE

16 MAR – LAS CABEZAS DE SAN JUAN – COSMO’S FACTORY

22 MAR – TRES CANTOS – SOJO 3.14

23 MAR – TOLEDO – LA DIVERGENTE

29 MAR – ZARAGOZA – SALA CREEDENCE

30 MAR – BARCELONA – SALA SLOW

05 ABR – LOGROÑO – STEREO ROCK & ROLL BAR

13 ABR – TAFALLA – SALA INFORMAL

19 ABR – MADRID – SALA EL SOL

20 ABR – FACMA FEST (ÁVILA) – MÁS MÚSICA

26 ABR – DAIMIEL – SINDICAL ESPACIO 13

27 ABR – MURCIA – SALA REVOLVER

01 MAY – O BARCO DE VALDEORRAS – CAFÉ TEATRO BAJO 5

02 MAY – LUGO – CLUB CLAVICÉMBALO

[bookclub4m]

Episode 188 - Transportation and Transit Non-Fiction

All aboard! This episode we’re discussing the non-fiction genre of Transportation and Transit! We talk trains, buses, bicycles, spaceships, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

The Art of the Locomotive by Ken Boyd

Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik

Ghost Train (four part podcast by Denver Public Radio)

Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden

Transit Maps of the World: Expanded and Updated Edition of the World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr.

Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada’s Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds by Elizabeth Howell

Links between two cities: historic bridges between Ottawa and Hull by Lucien Brault. 

Other Media We Mentioned

The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways by Mike Ashley

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Orient Express by Graham Greene

Maiden Railways by Asumiko Nakamura

Heaven's Design Team, Vol. 1 by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, and Tarako

For 2 Weeks, Switzerland Has A Rail Replacement Helicopter

Vancouver's Expo Line 1990 vs 2020

Mini Metro

Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig

There’s a documentary movie!

Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig

How To F#€k Up An Airport (five part podcast by Radio Spaetkauf)

Some YouTube channels and videos about trains and transport things:

CityNerd

Not Just Bikes

Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere)

Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is) (See the building Anna and Matthew used to live in!)

RMTransit

The Tim Traveller

This New LA Metro Station Should be PACKED - Here’s Why It’s Not

Denver’s Transit System is Problematic

Freight Trains: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

Links, Articles, and Things

Note to self: Make “derail” joke about conversation going off topic.

Train_Station-Katowice_Poland.wav by jgrzinich

Rail replacement bus service (Wikipedia)

Slow television (Wikipedia)

“It was popularised in the 2000s by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), beginning with the broadcast of a 7-hour train journey in 2009.”

Fort Collins Trolley

‘I am done’: Amid rider woes, is Ottawa’s transit system a victim of its own success?

Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow

12 Transit/Automotive/Planes/Trains/Boats books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay

Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka

Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance by Adonia E. Lugo

Making a Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker by Joe Martin with Alan Hoover

Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City by Biju Mathew

Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car by Woodrow Phoenix

Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It by Ganesh Sitaraman

Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin

Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor 

The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain by Dukesang Wong, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 6th just in time for Valentine's day we’ll be discussing the genre of Humorous/Funny Romance!

Then on Tuesday, February 20th we’ll be talking about our reading resolutions for 2024! (2024? That can’t be right. That’s definitely the future.)

[rabbitcruiser]

According to one historian’s account, Jesus Christ’s Last Supper was held on April 1, 33.

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Limiting MLB Draft to 20 Rounds Trades Magic for Efficiency

On Sunday in Seattle, for the fourth year in a row — enough for a full class of college prospects — Major League Baseball will hold a streamlined version of its amateur draft. From an event with unlimited rounds to one with 50 rounds, then 40, and now just 20, the draft is exclusive and efficient, in keeping with baseball’s restructured minor league system.But efficiency has a cost: the countless long-shot careers that may never be realized. Dozens of current major leaguers turned pro after being drafted in rounds that no longer exist. They are grateful for their timing.“Twenty rounds doesn’t seem like quite enough,” said Kevin Kiermaier, the center fielder of the Toronto Blue Jays who was picked in the 31st round by the Tampa Bay Rays in 2010. “I mean, if it was like that now, then I would have never had an opportunity.”Kiermaier, 33, is perhaps the best modern example of the talent that once bubbled far below the surface of the draft. Chosen 941st overall from a community college in Illinois, he has won three Gold Gloves, played in the World Series and earned more than $60 million in an 11-year career.Four players who made the All-Star team last summer — David Bednar, Nestor Cortes, Ty France and Joe Mantiply — were also chosen after the 20th round. So were two members of the Houston Astros’ World Series-clinching lineup last fall (Chas McCormick and Martín Maldonado) and several other longtime major leaguers, like Jesse Chavez, Seth Lugo, Kevin Pillar and Rowdy Tellez.Two Hall of Famers (Mike Piazza and John Smoltz) were drafted in extinct rounds, as were several others with a case for Cooperstown, like Mark Buehrle, Keith Hernandez, Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada. Many low-drafted players could have stayed amateurs and tried to improve their draft position the next year — but their careers, of course, would have then unfolded differently.“Cutting the numbers down, you’re going to have to create other opportunities for those kinds of players that would have been drafted to come into the game,” said Omar Minaya, a former general manager and longtime scout who now advises the Yankees. “Players do develop late sometimes, so it’s good that M.L.B. is doing things to put those infrastructures in place.”Starting with the 2021 season, teams have been limited to 180 players under club control — there was no limit before — and four domestic farm teams, plus one or two “complex teams” that operate from the spring training base. Short-season Class A teams were eliminated, partly because of the calendar; in 2021, the league shifted the date of the draft from June to July, to coincide with the All-Star Game and raise its profile.Some teams that were cut are now part of M.L.B.’s predraft league, created for scouts to get one last look at prospects before making their picks. Other teams have joined so-called partner leagues — the American Association, the Atlantic League, the Frontier League and the Pioneer League — partially funded by M.L.B. but independent of any specific franchise.Undrafted players, in theory, can join one of those teams in hopes of attracting interest from M.L.B. But removing them from the draft acknowledges the staggering odds against them.“When a player signs a professional contract, you want that player to have some chance of one day becoming a major league player,” said Morgan Sword, M.L.B.’s executive vice president for baseball operations. “That’s why players become minor league players, because they want to one day become major league players. And we did have a lot of players in the system who had — what’s the right way to say it? — almost no chance of ever reaching the major leagues.”Then again, to paraphrase Jim Carrey in “Dumb and Dumber,” there is a huge difference between almost no chance and no chance. A draft selection — whatever the round — certifies that a major league franchise sees something in a player, and often that is all the player wants.“It was definitely nice to know that they picked me for a reason, and I could get to go show it off and play my game,” said Zach McKinstry, the Detroit Tigers’ regular leadoff hitter, who was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 33rd round in 2016. “I got an opportunity right when I signed. I spent three days in Arizona and then they sent me to low A and I played on a championship team that year.”McKinstry, who played at Central Michigan University, was a backup before a teammate’s injury gave him a chance to elbow his way to the Dodgers. He was keenly aware that most minor leaguers — especially when the draft lasted 40 rounds or more — were needed only so the better prospects had somewhere to play.“There’s a lot of injustice in the game, real or imagined, so there would be a lot of negative thoughts in those scrums in the outfield during batting practice,” said Bob Scanlan, a San Diego Padres broadcaster who pitched nine seasons in the majors after signing as a 25th-round pick in 1984. “There was a lot of talk like: ‘You know you don’t mean anything to this organization. You’re just here as a filler piece. Why are you even working your tail off?’”Scanlan was 17 when he signed with Philadelphia, turning down U.C.L.A. for the allure of the quality coaching he would get in pro ball. In recent decades, though, college programs have become more sophisticated, with advanced facilities and instruction that offered an appealing alternative to the dusty outposts that once made up the low minors.“The development time is less and less with the caps on the total number of players, so the guys you would pick late are probably going to go to college,” said Matt Arnold, the Milwaukee Brewers’ general manager. “Signing and then going to Helena, or wherever, is going to be less appealing than a really nice A.C.C. or SEC school — and even those second-tier programs have a lot of things they can sell.”Sword said the costs of improvements across the minor leagues — in ballparks, travel, nutrition and salaries — far outweigh the savings from eliminating so many draft picks; “it’s probably nine figures per year leaguewide,” he said. Sword added that in 2021, more than 200 players jumped from partner leagues to the affiliated minors.“The paths for those types of guys to the big leagues exist just as they always have,” he said. “It’s just that the path is different than it once was.”Even so, it stands to reason that with half as many draft picks as there were just four years ago, hundreds more players from each class are now giving up their baseball dreams for more realistic careers. Arnold, who grew up in Bakersfield, Calif., rooting for a since-departed Class A team, wonders about the impact of losing so many acolytes for the sport.“A lot of those guys, even if you were a 35th rounder from the middle of nowhere, you go home and you start an academy, and now you’re a hero,” Arnold said. “You’re a guy that played pro ball, and you bring it back home. And maybe he wasn’t great, but he carries the game with him as a steward in a way that I think we’ll miss.”The guys who make it, perhaps, will have to preach a little louder. Kiermaier, for one, embraces the role.“I look back at how everything evolved for me, and I’m so thankful for my journey,” he said. “I’ll never forget that I was a 31st rounder. I’m proud of that. That number means a lot to me.” Source link Read the full article

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