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    I hope the D’backs or Rockies just catch a heater for 40 or so games and the the Dodgers don’t win the division and lose as a WC team first round
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    George Ofman is still reporting horsefeathers? I havent thought about him in awhile. I think he’s broken some news in recent offseasons/general MLB news. Nothing major but he seems to get stuff right once in awhile.
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    Settle on 66 and be done with it, idiots
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    But if they shorten the season, will they put an asterisk next to single-season counting records like home runs? I guess? Also could be a way to rebrand/remarket a bit. Could start a whole new leaderboard on the ~140 game season and would have new record chases every year for awhile and maybe that drives some extra interest and views. It’s not going to happen though because that’s a lot of games to cut and there will be less TV revenue (even though some is made up with more playoffs). I think 162+16 game playoff is too much and also makes the 162 not all that meaningful and you’ll get less people watching if half the teams get in the playoffs anyways. Shortening to 130-140 makes sense if they’re gonna go that route, imo.
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    Targeting a bunch of average stuff and velo pitchers for all those years in the draft may have something to do with it
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    The only way I’d like a 16 team playoff would be if they reduced the regular season to ~140 games. I’d still prefer they’d just leave it as is though, other than maybe make the DS best of 7 and maybe shave ~5 games off the regular season. I’m all for the DH though and would prefer relocation to expansion but expansion makes owners more money so they’re gonna do that.
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    Oh, I've found mlb.tv to be completely reasonable when it comes to subscription issues. Did I say reasonable? I mean horrible. Totally horsefeathering horrible. I’ve had nothing but good experiences with them. I’ve had 2 billing issues, once they double charged me to the same card and once they double charged, charging two separate cards for a full season of MLBTV that were both linked to the account and both times I was able to call and get a real person and got a refund within a few days. Both instances happened probably between 2010-2016.
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    Still seems like this last offer pretty much closed the gap. They’re basically down to adding 4-10 more games.
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    Probably the small market teams Yeah, it's probably the small market owners, with maybe a few of the especially crotchety ones (e.g. Lerner or Reinsdorf) who are offended that the players grew a backbone. We call him PTR for a reason. As horsefeathers as he and his family are the Cubs will still make money this season and so that's gonna override anything else. Idk if we can be sure the Cubs will make money this year, not that I care, a season like this is a risk you take as an owner to lose money in a business that is essentially a money printer in all other years. I could see the Angels/More o being a team that doesn’t want to play, they were very cheap with pay reductions/layoffs and were rumored to be the team looking to punt the draft.
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    ~1/3 just not wanting to play, under any circumstances, is absolutely insane. Don’t own a horsefeathering team then.
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    He has some Rich Harden vibes with his delivery/motions and build
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    Didn’t need all the self righteous, sanctimonious broadcasters/media old guys involved, would’ve liked to have heard from more players. Also didn’t need to hear from the horsefeathering grounds keeper multiple times, or about how Cardinals fans judge fly balls better and the other nonsense. They completely glossed over Kerry Wood and Sammy carrying a very average Cubs team to a playoff birth and just not as much Sammy/Cubs stuff as I expected. Also the screen cuts with modern day crowd shots but showing 98 highlights was, ummm, odd and cheap. Watching this really did make me miss baseball though.
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    That was a horsefeathering horrible documentary. Other than for nostalgia purposes of seeing the highlights and going back to that summer there was nothing to like.
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    Law’s write up on Little sounds like like tall Justin Wilson as a high end outcome
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    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. So what happens if they can’t come to an agreement, Manfred mandates the 50 game season and the players just say “eff off, we’re not playing”? Beyond just there not being a season, of course. No idea, just knows he has that power. Maybe if he enacts the 50 games and guys don’t play they don’t get paid or get service time for the year?
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    I haven’t seen with a 100% certainty but it seems implied/hinted at enough that spring training 2.0 is most likely happening at home parks since the games will be played there. There might be regional scrimmages (like Cubs vs White Sox) but think it’s largely going to be the 30+ dudes on each team just training and ramping up together. I think the ST 2.0 in Arizona/Florida went out the window when they decided not to do a bubble and also realized this wasn’t going to be a 1-2 week thing and most guys left ST sites and went home, so there’s no real advantage to have guys fly in from all over to AZ/FL for 2-3 weeks then back to a home park/city.
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    There's no beyond. That's it. 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.
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    They aren’t sending thousands there. Spring Training 2.0 would be in home parks and inter-squad stuff it sounds like and when games start they’re in home parks.
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    Manfred is just gonna use that power he has to make them play a 48 or 50 game season.
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    What about Bobby Crosby (who had plenty of hype) before he fell off or Orlando Cabrera with more K but more power?
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    1.Howard- Nick Ahmed/Marcus Semien/Elvis Andrus 2. Carraway- Felipe Vazquez (forgot about the federal crimes)/left handed Seth Lugo 3. Nwogu- Puig/Avi Garcia/Franmil/Grichuk 4. Little- Justin Wilson/Jake Diekman 5. Moreno- Wacha/Roark/Porcello/Fiers/Anibal Sanchez/poor mans Nola
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