Sammy Sofa
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Personally, I would not be surprised to see a labor stoppage at some point between now and then. The who thing is hugely, hugely in favor of the teams/owners, and the players have little leverage outside of going on strike.
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When are they due for a new contract? I think you overestimate single offseason impacts. 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.
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We'll just have to disagree, Tim. The crux of this is the MLBPA realizing how badly veteran players are relatively screwed now. Granted, a good part of them is them screwing over younger players with their previous negotiations, but that's still coming home to roost and isn't going away. You're going to have enough players griping who aren't the lucky few older players still getting big deals (or signed at all).
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Yeah, but that's a boring kind of baller that I don't enjoy as much vicariously. It's also much more prone to some lame team swooping in with a deal because they're desperate/stupid enough to do so. Just to use your hypothetical, just give him the horsefeathering 4/100 instead of 4/90. -
These two things are very, very closely related. Obviously, but there's still going to be a ton of discontent next offseason. Yeah, the big names will be signed sooner and for more money, but that's not going to fix the situation, especially in regards to stuff like the decreasing players' share becoming more and more of a thing everyone is aware of, or how badly players are getting screwed by rookie deals and FA being put off for so long. This is gonna get ugly.
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Along those lines: Theo Epstein is a hero and a genius, but man, he drives me bonkers sometimes. Maybe they have put an amazing offer out there and Darvish would just prefer somewhere else ad is waiting to see if those ideal locations can compete, but part of me can't help but buy these rumors/theories of Theo and co. trying to maximize contract efficiency and see it as trying to be too horsefeathering cute. Obviously, Darvish isn't going to make or break what is a really good team, but just go all in and bolster this [expletive] starting rotation already. Be a horsefeathering baller and crush dreams, dammit.
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Why? The spending next offseason is going to be largely relegated to a relative few FA; what's getting the players mad this year aren't that guys like Jake and Darvish and Cobb are still out there; it's that dozens of others are weirdly still hanging around without a home, too. A handful of guys getting monster contracts isn't going to do much to alleviate that if next offseason there's still a huge number of normally signed guys aren't being signed. It's pretty silly at this point to think that isn't going to come to a head pretty soon. Harper and Machado and (maybe) Kersahw and co. making bank isn't going to help much.
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Man, look at Tim posting with David's account.
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OH MY GOD; IT'S BOURJOS! (You must be another Handsome Boy Graduate)
Sammy Sofa replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I got it wrong and had to fix it, but well done, sir. -
OH MY GOD; IT'S BOURJOS! (You must be another Handsome Boy Graduate)
Sammy Sofa replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Petition to change thread title to, "You likea da Bourjos?" or "Look at This Face (OH MY GOD; IT'S BOURJOS!)" -
Damn. Can't help but feel bad for the guy.
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Look at that Marvel synergy I pulled off there WITHOUT EVEN TRYING.
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http://www.mtv.com/crop-images/2014/05/19/THIS-MIGHT-NOT-BE-THE-BEST-IDEA.gif
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NOT COOL, DUDES.
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Well, there are some super racist versions, but it's a lot older than that and its origins were mostly just in nonsense words. There's a great Alec Guinness movie called Kind Hearts and Coronets where a character just casually drops the racist version of it, and it's crazy. That's obviously hardly the only time that happened in a movie, but I remember doing a double take when I saw it on TCM a few years ago.
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The main reason I want it to happen is because Darvish is a really good pitcher and because the baseball team I like could use a guy like that.
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Man, Towers' death is so sad; it's pretty rare for thyroid cancer to end up being fatal.
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The real outrage this offseason is the Brewers' diabolical plan to trap good players in their web of mediocrity.
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NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
Sammy Sofa replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
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YU'RE TEARING US APART!
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Jesus, they better not funk this up just because they won't give him a 5th year.
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Why would gloating be an option? History. Native Americans have been depicted or seen as the menacing Other or enemy basically since we got here, so the idea that using them as mascots was somehow a compliment is just so....white. It's, like, "well, we basically annihilated these indigenous peoples, but naming our sports teams after them is a nice olive branch. We're cool, right?" It doesn't require someone actively sitting there thinking, "THIS'll show 'em" for it to be the kind of fucked up, rubbing people's face in it-thing that seems ingrained in white America when it comes to minorities. Bottom line, this is based out of the idea of Native Americans being seen as a terrifying, dangerous enemy. It's not a compliment or sign of respect.
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I don't even understand the infatuation with Native American sports team names to begin with. Gloating? Supposedly respecting a worthy enemy? It's so weird.
