Day: June 29, 2018

Want to keep benches from clearing? Change rule, Jim Riggleman and Joey Votto sayWant to keep benches from clearing? Change rule, Jim Riggleman and Joey Votto say

Reds manager Jim Riggleman says there’s one way to avoid the bench-clearing brawl like they did Thursday night in the Reds game with the Milwaukee Brewers. “I wish we had the hockey rule,� Riggleman said. “With four umpires, they can stop anything that’s going to happen between two guys. Once there’s a bunch of guys, if there really is some animosity between clubs, there’s no way the umpires can stop it.� “I’d really like to see (the rule change). We would just know you’ve got to sit there and watch them if two guys really want to fight. Not much is going to happen because four umpires are going to get in there pretty quick.� Joey Votto, whose confrontation with catcher Erik Krazt, led to Thursday’s

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Report: Dan Gilbert told people he wants LeBron James to leave Cavaliers ‘because I’ll get my team back’Report: Dan Gilbert told people he wants LeBron James to leave Cavaliers ‘because I’ll get my team back’

ESPN’s Brian Windhorst said, “Dan Gilbert believes that he can build a championship team without LeBron, and I think he is looking forward to trying.� Windhorst later clarified he was making his own comment, not citing the Cavaliers owner. Because Gilbert says things like that about LeBron James. According to a couple of owners I’ve spoken to and a few executives I’ve spoken to, Dan Gilbert is known for not being particularly fond of LeBron James.

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