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  1. Andy
    As long as prorated pay (players) and expanded playoffs (owners) are included, I would assume each side will make sure the deal will get done.
  2. Andy
    You have to look at the comparisons. NFL's union, for instance, has been arguing against more than 16 games for years, and then the owners offered to spend, like, a fraction of a half a percent more on player salaries in exchange for a 17th game (which will inevitably become demands for an 18th game in a few years), and the union folded like a cheap suit. The MLBPA screwed up the last CBA, but at least they're not folding.
  3. Andy
    This came up with the Zeke Elliott thing the other day, but apparently it's only a HIPAA violation if they're getting the info directly from physicians. If, say, an agent tells someone their client has COVID, it's not a HIPAA violation, although certainly still ethically dubious. It's still a HIPAA violation if it's not released by the patient. HIPAA doesn't apply only to physicians. Standard 'sportswriter not lawyer' caveats apply, but this is what I read.
  4. Andy
    This came up with the Zeke Elliott thing the other day, but apparently it's only a HIPAA violation if they're getting the info directly from physicians. If, say, an agent tells someone their client has COVID, it's not a HIPAA violation, although certainly still ethically dubious.
  5. Andy
    Rizzo just RT'd this.
  6. Andy
    Stooge Rob Manfred must be real horsefeathering confident that the average fan is dumb enough to blame the players for this. He must've been spending time in Bleacher Nation comments section. Hell, even The Athletic comments sections, which by definition would include some more discerning fans, are showing an alarming amount of pro-owner or at least both-sides comments.
  7. Andy
    https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29315408/mlb-commissioner-rob-manfred-now-less-confident-2020-season Stooge Rob Manfred must be real horsefeathering confident that the average fan is dumb enough to blame the players for this.
  8. Andy
    Only player to hit 60+ in three seasons at the time, did Bonds end up doing it too? He didn't, Sammy remains alone. My favorite footnote to that fact is that the only time he actually led MLB in home runs was 2000, when he hit 50.
  9. Andy
    We have an out. We can just assume Dexter Fowler is the reason anyone in that clubhouse is a good guy regardless of whether it's actually true.
  10. Andy
    Players reject offer and basically tell owners "since you guys aren't even pretending to really negotiate, just tell us where to go and when and we'll just play".
  11. Andy
    I'll rephrase: what are the owners' STATED reasons? That they’ll lose too much money and it isn’t feasible to do 100% proration for 70+ games. Some, apparently, would lose less money by simply not playing then doing 70+ at 100% proration. They’re basically putting short term cash ahead of long term equity and thinking very shortsighted. I think they also know they have the ace in the hole that Manfred can mandate a 48 or 50 game played season at 100% proration and guys have to play/MLBPA has no input. So they’re trying to stick to that payout as the max payout for the 60-70+ game schedule since they know they can fall back on that. Which will be great for the MLB/MLBPA relationship with a CBA negotiation coming up. I've said before in this thread, but I just can't wrap my head around why these allegedly smart people are being so damn stupid.
  12. Andy
    Another new offer from the owners. 72 games at 70 percent pro rata, 80 if the postseason is completed. Seems to be some movement in the players' direction.
  13. Andy
    If the owners would drop this ridiculous 'we have to cut even more if the playoffs don't end up happening', I think this would actually be close to a fair compromise.
  14. Andy
    I've always completely expected to see a post-2021 fire sale anyway, no matter what BS Ricketts said about consistent contention.
  15. Andy
    They tested Tuesday then had group workouts Wednesday before they found out the results of the test. What kind of stupid ass protocol was that? CFB fans joked about the possibility of some team intentionally infecting themselves so they'd be immune during football season. I'm not saying that happened here, but it's interesting.
  16. Andy
    I'm completely expecting us to get a top 2 pick now that we're in a draft that's universally thought of as inferior to the last few.
  17. Andy
    They'd be getting a 50/50 split of the fake numbers the owners crap out to make it look like they somehow lose money every single year while their franchise values double every decade or less. That's a good point, although the current revenue split that is estimated are based off those same numbers. I think in this case the owners beat them to the punch on messaging though. If there is no season the players are likely getting the most blame, and that has less to do with the facts and more to do with how simple the owners pitch sounds. I agree the players will take much of the public blame if there is no season. Unfortunately I don't know what can be done about that. I hope the players do get a deal done, as long as it's something resembling fair. I'm not going to get to go to a baseball game this year anyway, so I'd rather there be no season than the players get screwed (or screw themselves) again.
  18. Andy
    They'd be getting a 50/50 split of the fake numbers the owners crap out to make it look like they somehow lose money every single year while their franchise values double every decade or less.
  19. Andy
    I actually am with the owners in just one very specific respect - I don't see the draw in trying to cram in 114 games and extending the regular season another month past when it usually ends. Hopefully it lands in the 75-80 range with the full prorated salaries.
  20. Andy
    I saw this pointed out on Twitter and didn’t realize it. The majority of the league, 70%+, makes under $5 mil. This new proposal comes close to the ~50% pro-rated plan for guys in that group and they might actually have won some of those players over with this. Or at least have that group, which is a majority, thinking they’re close. The guys making $2 mil or less are especially close to the pro-rated amount. So maybe this was smart and they have a good chunk of player support or players thinking they’re in the ballpark. The owners will always win the public sentiment too if it’s the $20+ mil player saying they want more and the guys making less are cool with the idea. They’re also potentially dividing the players on this if the majority or a lot of the $5 mil or less players are good to go and the $10+ mil guys, which are a minority, are pushing back. It was fairly shrewd (if soulless, but whatever) of the owners to structure their proposal like this, but as I saw pointed out earlier, the players have to return the advance they received if there's a season. For the lower-paid guys, if you take their share of that advance out of what they're going to make under this plan, they really don't make that much at all.
  21. Andy
    For people who are purported to be so smart, it's incomprehensible that MLB owners don't realize the damage they're doing to their sport.
  22. Andy
    2005 was still 480p, wasn't it? i always wonder how today's stuff will look decades from now. we're already getting diminishing returns from resolution,so i wonder what kind of technology will advance the way home displays look.i guess hdr on sports would be a good start. There was the odd HD broadcast before that, but yeah, SD was standard at that point. The reason it doesn't look good is the upconversion, most likely.
  23. Andy
    that was my first year watching sports (pretty much spurred by the jordan comeback) and i was so horsefeathering mad about that. between the nick anderson play and then that, i HATED the magic as much as I've hated any of my teams' rivals since. i imagine the satisfaction i felt at that sweep the next year is the closest thing I have to what people felt about beating detroit in 91. I'm late to this because I was waiting until I saw the episodes to read this thread, but I remember being absolutely irate, like in tears irate, at the end of Game 1 of that series (I was 8), to the degree my own parents were angry at my temper tantrum. And I completely agree about the following year's sweep.
  24. Andy

    NFL Offseason

    Andy replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports

    It's self-parody that 30+ white billionaire Trumpers trust themselves so little to give minority coaching candidates a chance that they would propose draft-pick affirmative action to fix it instead of just, you know, giving minority coaching candidates a chance.
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