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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant's Rant: 10-29-20 Two viruses pollute Major League Baseball. Turner and Sabermetrics.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

So, for all the world to see, a confirmed Coronavirus case named Justin Turner intentionally goes out on the field to celebrate a World Series victory hugging and kissing after being pulled from the game for a positive test.  We all watched and nobody stopped it.  Horrible look for MLB.  Horrible look for  the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nearly as bad are the moves by the Tampa Bay Rays for their apparent reliance on what appeared to be analytics vs common sense and solid coaching in decisions made that likely cost them the game.  Oh boy am I fired up.  This is a huge black eye on the sport for so many reasons.  Let me explain... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's time for Grant's Grant.

0:05.0

Hi good everybody, it's time for Grant's,

0:08.0

and today we put a wrap on the MLB season.

0:12.0

It did not end very well.

0:13.0

Tuesday night at Arlington, a bad look for Major League Baseball.

0:16.0

On the field during a game, on the field, after the game.

0:20.0

We start with the latter.

0:22.0

I don't know what Justin Turner is doing on the field. I don't know what he's thinking. I mean I know euphoria plays into it I get the fact that you want to celebrate but you were just removed in the eighth inning because of a positive coronavirus test.

0:35.8

And you're out there without a mask on,

0:38.4

kissing your wife, taking a picture next to the manager,

0:42.2

a cancer survivor, and I can go on and on.

0:45.0

Rob Manford's got some explaining to do here.

0:48.0

That's number one. Number two, you're going to hear a lot more about this story in the coming days and weeks, but that's just awful.

0:54.4

There's no other way around it. That is a real bad look for Major League Baseball.

1:00.3

Of course, I don't think he would have been on the field celebrating.

1:03.0

The Dodgers wouldn't have been celebrating if the Rays had a manager that knew what the hell he was doing.

1:08.0

That is absolutely inexcusable of Kevin Cash to take out Blake Snell in the sixth inning.

1:14.0

And I got a Pat Arod on the back here because he said it perfectly afterwards.

1:18.0

Saber Metrics is killing baseball.

1:21.0

Saber Metrics, analytics, call it whatever the hell you want. It's bad for

1:25.0

baseball and it continues to hurt the sport. Exhibit A, cash, going out and

1:30.3

taking a pitcher who had just given up a hit who had been mowing down the Dodgers

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