Andy
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Sounds like the international draft is receiving major pushback from the PA and they still want the CBT thresholds higher. Not sure we'll see a deal here.
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I'd be one win and out again. Truffle's end-of-year photo calendar alone is more than I contribute to this board so he'd justifiably smash me in round 2.
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Kinda depressing how many names on that list aren't here anymore. Hell, Jon has been gone forever and he was a #1 seed.
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The fact that I won a round even though my most known quality at that point was "posting about basically every Notre Dame sports game" retroactively seems impossible.
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I agree with this. It's still a pretty bad deal for the PA given what they hoped to accomplish, but it's getting much less bad and I'm sure a lot of the union is itching to play ball now that the deal is getting at least in the neighborhood of reasonable. I'm not a fan of an international draft, but given the limits on IFA spending in place as it is, I'm not sure it's a huge difference from what we currently have.
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We'll see how many Cubs games even end up on that service. MLB did the YouTube-exclusive thing too, and no Cubs games were ever played on it. I'm sure it'll happen at some point but I'd be surprised if it's close to a regular occurrence for the biggest-market clubs.
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But the losses in 2020...they were Biblical!!!
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This sucks butt. Expanding to 12 also sucked butt. If they can get a better deal as a result, fine, I guess. But it still sucks butt.
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I'm surprised to see this as I feel like there's as much quality stuff there day to day as ever. Between their national MLB and CFB coverage, which I think both are top-notch, and the beat guys for my teams all churning out solid content consistently, I enjoy the heck out of that site. I probably end up reading 3-5 pieces per day on there most weekdays.
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MLBPA announced a $1M fund for displaced stadium workers. Jesse Rogers said a fund is also in the works from the league's side. So at least the most-screwed people are going to get some help.
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The Cubs probably would've kept Bryant down a couple weeks longer if not for the fact that every other third baseman on the team was getting injured. I suspect they knew the optics were bad and hoped to make it look a bit less obvious what they were doing.
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Yeah, the 2 series is transparently in case the union folds. They aren't acting like they have the intention of folding, nor should they. They already made more compromises than they frankly should have. They should hold firm now. For once, it seems like public opinion isn't almost entirely pro-owner.
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If they'd just move a little closer to the players on those stupid-ass luxury tax thresholds, I'd probably say fine, the players got what they're going to get, let's make a deal and play ball. But those thresholds are too low and they need to go up.
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Right on cue Olney said this morning that the 14 team playoff is the big bargaining chip left. It's totally happening in exchange for insanely modest gains. The players are gonna take a bath on this deal, again. Sigh.
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Sounds like when he came onboard he was promised the ability to buy into a bigger stake, and that has yet to happen. Though I'm sure the lockout is not helping matters. Somewhat related to the lockout negotiations, his $25M ownership stake is apparently worth close to $45M now, just 5 years later. It's too bad baseball isn't profitable or that would be pretty great ROI.
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I mean it sounds like the players have already caved significantly and the owners are not budging at all or at least not bridging the gap in any meaningful way. Yep, the players basically already caved. It'd be nice if they stuck to what's left of their guns - if the owners don't horsefeathering care if I watch baseball, then I'm not going to care either - but I'm guessing they will eventually bend over. Hope I'm wrong.
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I had already canceled mine in an unrelated reason. Glad I did.
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It's hilarious and completely on brand for it to be a former Marlins executive, of all teams, to go WELL ACTUALLY on publicly reported info showing the opposite of what he claims
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Bonus pools was such a stupid idea (except of course for the owners' wallets). Rebuilding teams didn't necessarily have to tank when you could just throw some money around and buy out some college-bound draft prospects, and it was still pretty cheap as talent acquisition goes.
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Something something catastrophe - Manfred What a bunch of horsefeathering assholes. If I thought people would actually see the light and view the owners as the bloodsucking scum they are, I'd actually want the season to be canceled.
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That sucks ass. No other way to put it.
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It seems like the players are basically "horsefeathers you"-ing the owners with their latest offer, which consisted of conceding only most two-plus service time players getting arbitration instead of all of them but bumping up the pre-arb bonus pool in exchange (and the two sides were already very far apart on the size of said bonus pool). Can't remotely blame them, of course, but it definitely means Opening Day is not happening as scheduled.
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Valieva completely imploded in the long program and fell off the medal stand, so there will be a medal ceremony after all. Might be the all-time 'ball don't lie' moment, although it feels icky having it come at the apparent expense of the mental well-being of a 15-year-old, whether she was aware she was cheating or not.
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I really hope he agreed to scale back on national commitments when signing the extension. I like Boog but I don't like having a PBP guy that misses ~40 games a year. Did he miss that many? My recollection was that he pretty much only missed Sunday afternoon games. Maybe he took a whole weekend off once or twice.
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That's pretty wild commentary from Lipinski and Weir, who generally traffic in trying to find the most creative words possible to praise pretty much every skater they see. (Weir apparently did not say a single word during the actual performance.) I like that they're not pulling punches about this.
