Sammy Sofa
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Odds that Jake is the one that says he'd rather stay home? His heart's just not into it without his little seal friend.
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https://deadspin.com/reports-mlbpa-starting-plans-to-host-spring-training-f-1822822588
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Then slap some spoiler tags on that thing, you galoot.
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Use this instead, you local oaf:
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Wrigley Renovations and Related Wrigleyville Stuff
Sammy Sofa replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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This is some...interesting math. Just depends how much weight you put into raw ERA... About as much as raw milk.
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Man, you could say the most hurtful thing in the world so long as you always follow it up with a Van Hammersly gif.
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MORE LIKE SPEW BARFICK.
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This is some...interesting math.
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So don't go to the games. The hell kind of response is this? Where I was saying that you or I could or should do anything? WE don't do anything; the players try by calling it out, trying to renegotiate, and, if all else fails, going on strike.
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"Good value for a team" right now is hugely hinged on shorting players via their decreasing share of the game's profits. Yeah, we are talking about millionaires vs. billionaires, but it's also still employees vs. owners, too. The flashy, appealing explanation is that this all because teams simply want to be able to spend for the FA bonanza next year, but ultimately that's just window dressing for a larger disparity that's been getting worse and festering for over a decade now. It would be one thing if this was an evolving system of spending that also reflected things like more teams actually spending money across the board instead of dumping quite so much into a relative few, or things like ticket prices holding steady or maybe even decreasing or being discounted, but none of this is happening. The bottom line is that this shift simply reflects the teams being able to pocket more money while generally paying players less (and charging us more).
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It's only a matter of time before we get someone saying something, like, "yes, but just look at how little they spent for all of that WAR. JUST LOOK AT IT. Surely it's the right thing to do because it's so smart. Now, please excuse me while I go buy some more jacked up tickets."
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"Man, these guys really ngotiated a bad deal. Welp, owners 4 life it is, then."
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That's how they win.
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Never side with management.
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Well, one of the problems is that some of these teams are technically just in a perpetual "rebuild" because of how little they spend. I'm just not sure why adding more incentives to not spending via draft picks/pool would change anything in that regard, especially since this is almost always a choice not to spend as opposed to an actual financial limitation.
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Wouldn't that just be more incentive to tank/spend less?
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Contact Year Jake was...fine. This does not seem like a sound theory.
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I mean, he supposedly signed all of Lester, Heyward, Zobrist and Lackey without having the biggest offer on the market so that might be why he thinks he can do it again. (That's assuming he is offering a significantly smaller offer than competitors.) I'm not saying that it's the wrong approach; I'm just fed up with this garbage offseason.
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I mean, there's a not a time where they could pull that where they WOULDN'T take hell.
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The current agreement goes through 2021. And I think you're underestimating the players realizing how much they've given up over the last decade+, and the corner they've boxed themselves into. They're not going to just shrug their shoulders and figure that's that because Bryce Harper made more money than god. By 2021, all of this season's offseason will be forgotten by most. I'll bet that you'll see teams spend in advance of the next negotiation. A stoppage could easily occur before 2021; most analysis right now has been pointing out how the relationship between the union and owners is horrendous, and has been for a while (this offeseason is really more of capper), so the general consensus is that there are going to have to be some pretty significant changes between now and 2021. Simply spending more for a couple offseasons isn't going to get the union to roll over.
