MLB Master Thread

[meme]

Biggest issue is probably triggering the radar. Guess it’s similar to the security camera shaila, although in this case it may not be as simple as it’s more deliberate.

[Yehuda57]

(I'm spitballing here.)

That's illegal

[jj1000]

All drabbanan? (I'm spitballing here.)

Double Oy!

[skyguy918]

Guess most ball parks have a natural Eiruv? Potential Karfif issue?

They would be considered hukaf ldira

Maybe real parks, but I can't imagine that's been true for all the places he's had to play on a travel team to date.

I mean, everything you do is tracked on the scoreboard, radar, etc.
How is it not a psik reisha?

The scoreboard isn't tracking you, the operator is. Radar might be a different story.

[NTorch]

All drabbanan? (I'm spitballing here.)

That's illegal

Only if it is tofe'ach al menas l'hatfiach

[UKinNYS]

seems the shailos are not being asked now for first time
https://www.jta.org/2021/04/23/sports/this-sabbath-observant-baseball-phenom-has-his-eyes-on-a-major-league-career-can-it-be-done

[NTorch]

seems the shailos are not being asked now for first time
https://www.jta.org/2021/04/23/sports/this-sabbath-observant-baseball-phenom-has-his-eyes-on-a-major-league-career-can-it-be-done

I'm hoping that Kligman gets drafted too, but he is not ranked as highly as Steinmetz.

[Yehuda57]

https://twitter.com/EliLebowicz/status/1414727373078122498

Best of the bunch, IMHO

[TimT]

https://twitter.com/aimhumor/status/1414718788835098629

[UKinNYS]

frum twitter out of control today
https://twitter.com/DebraK36/status/1414722659955445762
https://twitter.com/VaadHaBadchanim/status/1414696682936324102

[ari3]

seems the shailos are not being asked now for first time
https://www.jta.org/2021/04/23/sports/this-sabbath-observant-baseball-phenom-has-his-eyes-on-a-major-league-career-can-it-be-done

Seems they have different Rabbi's because Kligman won't play on Shabbos but Steinmetz would.

Maybe they argue if פסיק רישא on a גרמא is אסור or if its עובדין דחול.

[Ergel]

Seems they have different Rabbi's because Kligman won't play on Shabbos but Steinmetz would.

Maybe they argue if פסיק רישא on a גרמא is אסור or if its עובדין דחול.

Or he's not asking his Rabbi this question

[aygart]

Seems they have different Rabbi's because Kligman won't play on Shabbos but Steinmetz would.

Maybe they argue if פסיק רישא on a גרמא is אסור or if its עובדין דחול.

I guess we can forget about קידוש ה' from this in the immediate future and need to be more worried about חילול השם

[Lurker]

https://twitter.com/simmy_cohen/status/1414689163207655428

[aygart]

https://twitter.com/simmy_cohen/status/1414689163207655428

sorry, but no. Chilul hashem is chilul hashem. What will happen when those who celebrate this or others try to explain to their employer how orthodox jews can't just walk to their jobs on shabbos?

[Lurker]

sorry, but no. Chilul hashem is chilul hashem. What will happen when those who celebrate this or others try to explain to their employer how orthodox jews can't just walk to their jobs on shabbos?

The same way I've had to explain to people why I don't eat in certain places or do certain things even though other people who are Orthodox (or consider themselves Orthodox) eat or do those things. The same way we all have to explain any differences between hashkafos to others. Since when is public judgment of someone else's orthodoxy what we're about?

[Afrages6]

sorry, but no. Chilul hashem is chilul hashem. What will happen when those who celebrate this or others try to explain to their employer how orthodox jews can't just walk to their jobs on shabbos?

Totally agree. People who claim to be shomer Shabbos and aren’t present a big problem for the orthodox community

[Ergel]

The same way I've had to explain to people why I don't eat in certain places or do certain things even though other people who are Orthodox (or consider themselves Orthodox) eat or do those things. The same way we all have to explain any differences between hashkafos to others. Since when is public judgment of someone else's orthodoxy what we're about?

I agree that he shouldn't be attacked. But he also shouldn't be celebrated.

[Lurker]

Totally agree. People who claim to be shomer Shabbos and aren’t present a big problem for the orthodox community

Did Ivanka Trump mess up anyone's life? Joe Lieberman? Any other public figure you can point to whose level of orthodoxy has presented  big problem for the orthodox community?

[herb]