Andy
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Everything posted by Andy
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We'll try to fix him
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This would be an excellent decision if KB never wants to win a meaningful game ever again. Didn't we literally just end a lockout led by cheapskate weasels like the Rockies' owner with no intention of competing?
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According to the master seed list, Notre Dame was the last team in. (Apparently they were bumped to the 11 line because of a perfect storm of bracketing weirdness - they played IU, they played SMC, who's the 5 opposite that other play in game, and IU is obviously in Rutgers' conference so that was out.) I have negative confidence in them at the moment - anyone who puts in even a modicum of effort to get a good shot against them can do it very easily. But in is better than out.
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Someone check to make sure Jed isn't still receiving 17-year-old complaints about "Why can't we hit soft-tossing lefties"
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I agree with this take. There's little difference in variance anyway, so go all in with it. I will concede that it's nice that the higher seed gets all 3 home games, even if that's really just a result of needing to avoid travel days to cram the games in.
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That's done. Joe Davis does a really nice job as Fox's #2 baseball guy, I'm sure he'll just get bumped up. The NFL spot is the interesting one.
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Wonder if he'd do Sunday Night Baseball too. At least in the NFL offseason.
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That's kinda how it has to work given the power dynamics, right? One favorable interpretation for the players is that they learned from the owners and started opening cracks in the system that can be expanded, the same way that the way the CBT operates now is far from what it was initially marketed. The bonus pool for pre-arb is a big thing there, and it'll be easier to continue to reform pre-FA comp with that mechanism to be added to/adjusted than it was in November. Service time levers are the other in that vein, though they are more modest in their current benefit. When you layer that on top of significant increases to minimum salary, the CBT, and closing some player unfriendly loopholes(option limits, draft/tanking reforms), I think they can be reasonably happy with the outcome, even if the net result isn't as much as our hopes and dreams given the last 2 CBAs. Yeah, the owners didn't get to the power side of the arrangement just through the last CBA, they got there through several of them. The players took a step back in the right direction this time and they'll just have to keep it up in 2026.
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Compensation is axed for the 2022-23 offseason pending the agreement on an international draft, the deadline for which is later this summer. If they don't come to an agreement the qualifying offer would stay.
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The NHL shootout actually serves a purpose. Shrinking the average length of the already-uncommon extra-inning game by four minutes did not.
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i watched so many non-cubs extra inning games that i wouldn't have. it's instant action/strategy, and 17 inning slogs are overrated. There is just something magical about the possibility of that 17 inning game. By no means do I want to stay up until 2am every night watching extra innings marathons, but I want to know that it "might" happen. I like the unknown of going to the ballpark and expecting a 3 hour game but understanding that we might end up being there for 5+ hours instead. That could all just be me, but I enjoy the unpredictability and the chance to see something crazy/historic on any given day. The two most fun/dramatic games beginning to end that I've ever been to were 13 innings (Soriano walk-off slam) and 12 innings (Brian Matusz game). I don't think that's a coincidence.
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I do not understand the mindset of anyone that believes anything was added with the fake runner at 2nd. If anything it sucked drama out of the game by lessening the impact of the original run scoring. Who cares if you give up the fake run, you get your own fake runner to match. Conversely, if you score your fake runner in the top of the inning, well, you still have to stop the other team from scoring their fake runner in response. There was no drama. It was boring as horsefeathers, frankly. The one Javy won on a walk-off was cool, I guess, but that was only because he clowned Amir Garrett afterwards.
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The shift won't be banned this year. Part of the agreement is that after this season, MLB has 45 days to push through any rule changes it desires for the next year, which is thought to include shifts and a pitch clock, but those wouldn't kick in until '23.
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Five.
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Yeah, it needs to be ratified. Talk is it may happen tonight. It will be soon, anyway.
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It seemed like they had landed on 12 based on recent reporting, but no confirmation. Opening Day is April 7, so I'm assuming they will restore the week they said they were cancelling the other day and the other games will get made up when they can. Off days and doubleheaders will both be utilized, I think I saw somewhere.
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Stroman already recruiting
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Runner-on-second is gone too
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This might be a bigger deal to me than the agreement itself. Thank God.
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If a few Mets players are mad because they think Steve Cohen will spend a lot of money and that's why they should reject the CBT numbers, they should definitely rethink that. Cohen is a MLB owner. He would not have been permitted into the club if anyone else had even the slightest doubt he likes his money more than winning.
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I don't mind that they did that, but I also didn't mind making pitchers throw the ball. It was fun to hear them get booed for their cowardice, have the tension build for the next batter, and always have the however-slight chance that something could go haywire on one of the pitches. But of all the desperate attempts to help pace of play, that's the only one that's actually worked, so I'm fine with it.
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I hate shift bans, but I think the board is pretty well split 50/50. Yeah, I feel like if anything there's a slightly favorable view toward some sort of shift limitations, but as someone who's on your side of hating it I might just be mentally cataloging all the positive views as a defense mechanism.
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Guess what 32 idiots who own NFL team did this offseason...
Andy replied to Derwood's topic in Other Sports
Rumblings that Wentz isn't mentally tough as QBs go and didn't take coaching well. I have no idea to what extent any of that is true, but reportedly when he found out he was on shaky ground with the team he tried to talk to the owner about it and the owner blew him off, so safe to say he wasn't well-liked. -
I'm backing the players regardless of what they want to fight about, but I do think an international draft is a weird hill to die on when the practical difference between that and the already-existing tight restrictions on spending in that area is not much. I think a lot of this is still on the owners for constantly being untrustworthy and now we have a situation where the players basically just want to say no and have things on their terms as a result, even though the two sides are moving closer on most issues. Now I'm just getting more sad than anything else.
