Yoshinobu Yamamoto to...the Dodgers? Really? Again?

[Michael Busch Light]

8 minutes ago, Stratos said:

I don't know the exact solution but the disparity between payroll between the richest and small market teams seems to be increasing and it isn't good for competitiveness and the sport in general.  They need to do something next CBA.

Total spending isn't the issue, it's the distribution.

The cats out of the bag.  It's too bad that there wasn't a salary cap/floor put in place during the 94 strike.  I get that the players wouldn't have liked it, but it would have been better for the sport.  Look at how fun free agency is for NBA/NFL and then there is the boredom of baseball now that we are littered with Ivy league cowards running teams.  It may be smart, but it's not fun.

[mul21]

5 minutes ago, Jfoley89 said:

We get it.  You hate people with money and success.  It's literally the only thing you've posted about since I've been here.  

Well that's one way to interpret that.

[Jfoley89]

5 minutes ago, mul21 said:

Well that's one way to interpret that.

My apologies.  That was unfair to you.  I just fired a guy that worked 3 days, bought 200 dollars worth of weed, and then cried he couldn't pay his rent, and stole 2000 dollars worth of equipment because all employers are rich and evil.  I'm still a little bitter.

[Tryptamine]

9 minutes ago, Jfoley89 said:

The death of the RSN is about the only thing I can think of to resolve this. I couldn't care less how much players earn, and it matters little to me if they get more or less, but getting all the teams spending within 50-100 million of each other would be great.  The NBA model is a solid way of how to do it. 

You mean the NBA where star players funnel themselves onto a handful of teams and the rest of the league sucks?

[Jfoley89]

1 minute ago, Tryptamine said:

You mean the NBA where star players funnel themselves onto a handful of teams and the rest of the league sucks?

I was thinking more guaranteed contracts and where the players still make good money and have their health protected instead of the NFL where they're disposable unless they're a QB or a WR. However, the rest sucks, so something in between? 

[ToolDRT]

 

[imb]

5 hours ago, Jfoley89 said:

My apologies.  That was unfair to you.  I just fired a guy that worked 3 days, bought 200 dollars worth of weed, and then cried he couldn't pay his rent, and stole 2000 dollars worth of equipment because all employers are rich and evil.  I'm still a little bitter.

new amber alert just dropped

 

[Rex Buckingham]

Friendly reminder: There is not a single MLB team who wouldn't make a crazy profit even running a $250M payroll every year

[Hairyducked Idiot]

On 12/22/2023 at 10:33 AM, Jfoley89 said:

My apologies.  That was unfair to you.  I just fired a guy that worked 3 days, bought 200 dollars worth of weed, and then cried he couldn't pay his rent, and stole 2000 dollars worth of equipment because all employers are rich and evil.  I'm still a little bitter.

I wish he had gotten more.

[Tryptamine]

Just now, Hairyducked Idiot said:

I wish he had gotten more.

........

[Ding Dong Johnson]

14 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

I wish he had gotten more.

Weed?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

1 hour ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

Weed?

I wish I had more.

[Jfoley89]

1 hour ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

I wish he had gotten more.

Might have calmed down his neurotics. Last I saw he was on Facebook begging for work for Christmas again

[Jfoley89]

2 minutes ago, Hairyducked Idiot said:

I wish I had more.

Michigan is the win for that.  Dirt cheap and legal

[soccer10k]

On 12/22/2023 at 8:44 AM, Transmogrified Tiger said:

I don't, because the player has to agree to it.  Teams are not that stratified that they can risk being the one to bring up the idea of massive deferrals without potentially alienating that player.  Players have lawyers and agents and accountants too, so it's not like they don't know what's being offered and what that means in practical purposes.  Maybe you see a few more teams try to do smaller deferrals, but that's been a pattern with certain ownership groups before(e.g. the Nats), and the LT savings if you aren't doing Ohtani scale deferrals are very, very small

Also Ohtani is pretty unique in terms of how much money he makes from endorsements. So he can take $2M per year in salary from the Dodgers because he’s getting paid superstar money in endorsements.