Andy
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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.
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Yeah, I legitimately can't believe JD stayed. Hopefully that Twitter theory about customer feedback is accurate. Boog is Boog, rock-solid, and I'm glad he's sticking around too.
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I find myself very amused by the choice to put the logo on the smokestack.
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I would imagine that it would be in addition to, not instead of. As always, the Ricketts timing is impeccable. Correct, this is an attempt to suck in people who don't want to pay for all of cable but would still like to pay a sizable fraction of that for basically one sports team. The only market for this would be within the Cubs' blackout zone as MLB.TV, as of now, barely costs any more than Marquee as proposed would by itself.
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Guess what 32 idiots who own NFL team did this offseason...
Andy replied to Derwood's topic in Other Sports
Dolphins hired Mike McDaniel, who I had never heard of until nuDeadspin ran an article trashing the idea of hiring him because he was "another white guy" even though he is biracial and has been quite open about it -
It's pretty damn sickening. We all know this stuff happens everywhere but for whatever reason seeing it play out so obviously in real time makes it even more infuriating. The MLBPA rejected mediation, as they should have.
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Absolutely no one at Auburn would care about this if they had been able to stop Bryce Young's final drive 2 months ago.
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Certainly 1 is at least true in part. Evan Drellich tweeted yesterday that MLB did not make any kind of counter-offer yesterday even though they said earlier this week that they would.
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Given that a 14 team playoff was and is on the table I can categorically state that 12 is not the worst. It's not good by any means but it's not the worst.
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Guess what 32 idiots who own NFL team did this offseason...
Andy replied to Derwood's topic in Other Sports
Like 3 minutes later reports started pouring in that they picked the Rams OC, but I'm sure that was just a coincidence -
There's some Matt Rhule smoke out there. That would probably be the safest move. (I actually still like Rhule, or at least want to like him, but that would also kinda solve a problem for my pro team.) Beyond him it's a big question mark.
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Joe Schad reporting it was Brady, not Watson, that Ross was trying to arrange a meeting with, so another swing and a miss for me
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was dusty really fired/let go from the giants or did his contract expire and they didn't re-sign him? feel like those are two different things. He was technically not renewed, although it seems reasonable to assume he'd have stayed in SF if they'd wanted him to.
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It has to be Watson, it's been heavily reported that the Dolphins ownership wanted him and Flores wanted no part of it. Ownership also wanted Tua when others wanted Justin Herbert.
