Free of charge for the discerning reader.\u00a0Happy birthday to Lynn McGlothen and a host of others, plus more baseball stories.<\/p>\n
Today in baseball history:<\/p>\n
1978\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Oakland Athletics<\/a>\u00a0owner\u00a0Charley Finley<\/a>\u00a0cancels the deal that would have sent the team to\u00a0Denver, Colorado<\/a>, under the sponsorship of oil magnate Marvin Davis. Objecting to some of the details, Finley decides to call off negotiations.<\/p>\n 2011\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cubs<\/a>\u00a0P\u00a0Carlos Silva<\/a>\u00a0fails in his bid to become the team\u2019s fifth starter, but says he will refuse an assignment to the minor leagues and makes disparaging remarks about pitching coach\u00a0Mark Riggins<\/a>. This pushes the Cubs to\u00a0release<\/a>\u00a0him and swallow $8.5 million for the two years remaining on his contract, while the\u00a0Seattle Mariners<\/a>, who traded Silva to the Cubs before the\u00a02010<\/a>\u00a0season, are on the hook for another $5.5 million. Silva has a 10.90 ERA in\u00a0spring training<\/a>\u00a0after a terrible second half last year, and made headlines earlier for getting into a fight in the\u00a0dugout<\/a>\u00a0with 3B\u00a0Aramis Ramirez<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2020: In the\u00a0Season Opener<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0BCB\u2019s The Show 2020 sim<\/a>, we made our own history as the\u00a0Brewers<\/a>\u00a0beat the Cubs. Yu Darvish walked his way into trouble and couldn\u2019t get out of it, exiting in favor of\u00a0Alec Mills<\/a>\u00a0in the fourth. Milwaukee starter\u00a0Brandon Woodruff<\/a>\u00a0looked hittable but that turned out to be mostly theoretical as the Cubs rode solo home runs by\u00a0Ian Happ<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Javier Baez<\/a>\u00a0and an RBI single by\u00a0Kris Bryant<\/a>\u00a0to defeat. The outcome was in doubt until the final strike, but in the end\u00a0Josh Hader<\/a>\u00a0closed the door on any comeback hopes.<\/p>\n Cubs Birthdays:\u00a0George Magoon<\/a>,\u00a0Bill Collins<\/a>,\u00a0Johnny Gill<\/a>,\u00a0Walter Stephenson<\/a>,\u00a0Newt Kimball<\/a>,\u00a0Wes Covington<\/a>,\u00a0Lynn McGlothen<\/a>*,\u00a0Vic Harris<\/a>,\u00a0Dick Ruthven<\/a>,\u00a0Drew Hall<\/a>,\u00a0Jaime Navarro<\/a>,\u00a0Junior Lake<\/a>,\u00a0Eric Stout<\/a>. Also notable:\u00a0Miller Huggins<\/a>\u00a0HOF.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Today in History:<\/p>\n 196 BC\u00a0\u2013 Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.<\/p>\n 1513\u00a0\u2013 Spaniard Juan Ponce de Le\u00f3n and his expedition first sight Florida.<\/p>\n 1790\u00a0\u2013 The modern shoelace with an aglet patented in England by Harvey Kennedy.<\/p>\n 1915\u00a0\u2013 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid.<\/p>\n 1964\u00a0\u2013 The Great Alaska Earthquake (9.2 magnitude) and resulting tsunami kill 139 people in the largest US earthquake and second largest ever recorded.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free of charge for the discerning reader.\u00a0Happy birthday to Lynn McGlothen and a host of others, plus more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2399],"tags":[44141,58670,5,48,127,136,61959,138,24,82842,4245,50,167,161,53,82844,21434,15228,82843,36,1329,1109,82845,402,38775,19,843,60,4,505,63,25,65,396,1536],"class_list":["post-646392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-alec-mills","tag-aramis-ramirez","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brewers","tag-brooklyn-robins","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-daily-news","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-colorado","tag-cubs","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-eric-stout","tag-exhibition-game","tag-florida-marlins","tag-gary-matthews","tag-ian-happ","tag-javier-baez","tag-josh-hader","tag-junior-lake","tag-kris-bryant","tag-lynn-mcglothen","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-national-league","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-white-sox","tag-yu-darvish"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}