Correction from yesterday: 'Da Meat Hook not fit, not ready - MLB

Yesterday
I linked an article in which Dmitri Young mentioned that he was fit,
ready and eager to play. Today reader Wooden U. Lykteneau points me to
a blog post which suggests otherwise.

First, he’s not fit.

Second, he’s probably not ready:

In a brief conversation, Dmitri says he’s been healthy and ready to
go since April, but his bat during this game proved maybe otherwise. In
three plate appearances–Young couldn’t get around on any fastball from
Bowie’s Japanese Import Ryohei Tanaka nor from BaySox Reliever Jim
Hoey’s tosses–striking out twice . . . As always-Dmitri Young was nice
as could be to Washington’s Fan on hand today. Just not sure if he
really is in playing shape.

I presume he’s still eager.

OK, so I guess he may not have much of a future as a player. But I’m
not discouraged. In fact, I’m now even more behind the idea I had
yesterday about making him a bench coach. Maybe even for the Nats. I’m
totally serious here. To my knowledge, there isn’t a player in baseball
that doesn’t like Dmitri Young, so you can’t tell me that he wouldn’t
bring some lightness to the Nats’ often uptight clubhouse. Maybe he
could even straighten out Elijah Dukes. I mean, sure, Young has never
been a model citizen himself, but (a) he figured out long ago out to
make his outsized and unorthodox personality conform close enough to
baseball’s conservative social structure so as not to get him run out
of the game; and (b) it’s not like Dukes is going to listen to a model
citizen anyway.

Dmitri Young: bench coach, part-time hitting instructor, commissioner of lightness. I like the sound of that.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — The Nevada Senate adjourned Thursday without voting on a financing bill for a proposed $1.5 billion Las Vegas Strip stadium for the Oakland Athletics, extending the special legislative session into the next week amid negotiations over whether to contribute $380 million in public funding to the project.

The measure can still be amended by lawmakers, and if it passes the Senate it would still need approval from the Assembly before going to the desk of Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, who has expressed support for it. Both the state Senate and Assembly are adjourned until Monday.

In a hearing that began Wednesday and stretched into the early morning hours Thursday, lawmakers peppered tourism officials and a representative from a firm partnering with the ball club with questions about the feasibility and benefits of financing such a deal.

Public funds for the stadium would mainly come from $180 million in transferable tax credits and $120 million in county bonds. Backers have pledged that the creation of a special tax district around the proposed stadium would generate enough money to pay off those bonds and interest. The plan would not directly raise taxes.

The A’s would not owe property taxes for the publicly owned stadium. Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, would also contribute $25 million in credit toward infrastructure costs.

A’s representatives and some tourism officials say a deal would further grow Las Vegas’ developing sports scene and act as an economic engine, but a growing chorus of economists and some lawmakers warn that the project would bring minimal benefits for the hefty public price tag.