Andy
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Everything posted by Andy
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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.
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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.
