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I'm just here for the baseball.
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Originally posted by chancellor View PostOnwers reject players 114 game played offer, no counter-offer planned. Will potentially unilaterally implement 50 (or some other smallish number) game season, with pro-rata pay.
Gonna be interesting.
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Originally posted by Judge Jude View Postif we're debating whether less time in close proximity is better than more time in close proximity, then I don't know what to say.I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...
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Originally posted by heyelander View PostI think this is the year to ban shifts... having all those defensive players on the same side of the infield is a health risk in the making!
finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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mlbtraderumors.com
5:21pm: Two team executives, Reds president of baseball operations Dick Williams and Brewers president of baseball ops David Stearns, expressed optimism Wednesday that the owners and players will hammer something out. Williams told Jim Day of Fox Sports Ohio that “both sides want to play,” interestingly adding that he believes an agreement’s “very close” (via C. Trent Rosecrans of The Athletic). Stearns said, “I firmly believe we are going to have baseball this season” (per Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).
3:43pm: The two sides are seeing eye to eye on expanded playoffs and the universal DH, Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweets. They’re also “close to agreeing on the all-important health protocols,” Heyman writes, but season length could still stand in the way of a deal.finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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Originally posted by cavebird View PostI am pretty sure that any unilateral implementation would not be allowed (or quickly rejected by the arbiter) as there is a CBA and they are not following it. Maybe the owners are just using this as a pre-run for the next CBA negotiations and want a two-year strike first? I can't see any other reason for this silliness.I'm just here for the baseball.
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Originally posted by chancellor View PostHmmm...interesting. I'd think the owners would have significant latitude due to the severity of the COVID-19 Force Majeure event. But I've never read the CBA, so I could well be wrong.
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Well, any doubts I had from our earlier conversation relative to owner financial ignorance and poor fiscal management have been erased by none other than Cubs owner Tom Ricketts:
Here’s something I hope baseball fans understand," Ricketts told ESPN. "Most baseball owners don't take money out of their team. They raise all the revenue they can from tickets and media rights, and they take out their expenses, and they give all the money left to their GM to spend.
The league itself does not make a lot of cash. I think there is a perception that we hoard cash and we take money out and it's all sitting in a pile we've collected over the years. Well, it isn't. Because no one anticipated a pandemic. No one expects to have to draw down on the reserves from the past.I'm just here for the baseball.
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I'm just here for the baseball.If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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MLB is using an excuse of a potential 2nd wave of the virus to curb the number of games and stop play by Oct 31, but how does that explain the NFL & college football going full swing by then?
Meanwhile, the NBA Board of Governors just approved the 22-team restart for July 31.
Also, all MLB announcers have been told they will have to call road games from their home stadium or studio.
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Originally posted by chancellor View PostAnd the food, I guess.If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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