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Post by chiyankee on Mar 10, 2022 19:27:05 GMT -5
What??????
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 10, 2022 19:41:15 GMT -5
Good news everywhere, except the expanded playoff teams. But. we're going to see a full season, common sense rules!!! It looks like the players got much of what they wanted. I would like to know why the Yankees, Mets, Astros and Cardinals voted to reject the agreement, unless their players just feel more loyalty to the Executive Board. That strikes me as a very rare split between the Board and the players. I hate the playoff expansion. It's moving dangerously close to the other professional leagues in undermining the regular season. Twelve out of 30 for baseball, compared to 14 out of 32 for the NFL, 16 out of 30 for the NBA, and 16 out of 32 for the NHL. There is just that much less incentive to spend more to obtain star players. If a team can get in with 83 wins -- as the Reds would have last year under this formula (it would have been the Jays in the AL) -- why go all out? Just have enough talent to have the proverbial puncher's chance in the post-season. We already know now that the Yankees, barring a disaster, will make the post-season whether or not they sign any of the big-name free agents out there. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 10, 2022 19:47:04 GMT -5
Anything to dilute the game. Yeah, let's subtract games against Boston and Toronto and Tampa Bay so we can match up against the Pirates and Diamondbacks and Marlins. Manfred's mission is to destroy baseball. |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 10, 2022 19:47:50 GMT -5
This post did not age well. I know where I'll not be getting investment advice. The man has worked for the state since he was a fetus at a very paltry salary. He lives three inches from his employment site so he won’t have to drive to work. Stays away from the chicks so they don’t spend his money. Even if he just bought US savings bonds forty years ago he’s a millionaire many times over. The best investment is frugality… Russ invested his savings in Strat-O-Matic stock, thinking video games in the 1980s were a fad that would go away once the novelty wore off. |
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Post by inger on Mar 10, 2022 19:54:02 GMT -5
The man has worked for the state since he was a fetus at a very paltry salary. He lives three inches from his employment site so he won’t have to drive to work. Stays away from the chicks so they don’t spend his money. Even if he just bought US savings bonds forty years ago he’s a millionaire many times over. The best investment is frugality… Russ invested his savings in Strat-O-Matic stock, thinking video games in the 1980s were a fad that would go away once the novelty wore off. Russ’s father, Noetsi Bitsy Spider, refused to invest in television for same reason. It was faddish… |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 10, 2022 19:57:14 GMT -5
The man has worked for the state since he was a fetus at a very paltry salary. He lives three inches from his employment site so he won’t have to drive to work. Stays away from the chicks so they don’t spend his money. Even if he just bought US savings bonds forty years ago he’s a millionaire many times over. The best investment is frugality… Russ invested his savings in Strat-O-Matic stock, thinking video games in the 1980s were a fad that would go away once the novelty wore off.  |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 10, 2022 20:04:48 GMT -5
It looks like the players got much of what they wanted. I would like to know why the Yankees, Mets, Astros and Cardinals voted to reject the agreement, unless their players just feel more loyalty to the Executive Board. That strikes me as a very rare split between the Board and the players. I hate the playoff expansion. It's moving dangerously close to the other professional leagues in undermining the regular season. Twelve out of 30 for baseball, compared to 14 out of 32 for the NFL, 16 out of 30 for the NBA, and 16 out of 32 for the NHL. There is just that much less incentive to spend more to obtain star players. If a team can get in with 83 wins -- as the Reds would have last year under this formula (it would have been the Jays in the AL) -- why go all out? Just have enough talent to have the proverbial puncher's chance in the post-season. We already know now that the Yankees, barring a disaster, will make the post-season whether or not they sign any of the big-name free agents out there. Though the players got some concessions, I think the owners won again. The increases to minimum salary and the luxury cap don't keep up with revenue. Nothing structurally changed in the system where players don't get market value until after year six. Also, there's nothing to curb tanking or service time manipulation. Oh well, I won't be crying for the players. At least baseball is back. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 10, 2022 20:28:01 GMT -5
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 10, 2022 21:04:28 GMT -5
Probably the best news of the day:
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Post by kaybli on Mar 10, 2022 21:05:43 GMT -5
My boy Nightengale is on a roll!
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 10, 2022 21:39:52 GMT -5
My boy Nightengale is on a roll!
He’s like The Onion of sports reporting. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 10, 2022 21:45:04 GMT -5
My boy Nightengale is on a roll!
He’s like The Onion of sports reporting. I can somewhat respect that's he's mocked and wrong so often yet he just carries on like nothing ever happened.  |
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Post by inger on Mar 10, 2022 22:06:30 GMT -5
He’s like The Onion of sports reporting. I can somewhat respect that's he's mocked and wrong so often yet he just carries on like nothing ever happened. 😂 |
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Post by noetsi on Mar 10, 2022 22:17:17 GMT -5
I claim full credit for this. I said multi times there would be no deal and I am never right  Wacky that there was absolutely no signs of progress and then there was a deal. One change is that MLB can get rid of the shift easier now apparently. |
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Post by noetsi on Mar 10, 2022 22:21:47 GMT -5
It looks like the players got much of what they wanted. I would like to know why the Yankees, Mets, Astros and Cardinals voted to reject the agreement, unless their players just feel more loyalty to the Executive Board. That strikes me as a very rare split between the Board and the players. I hate the playoff expansion. It's moving dangerously close to the other professional leagues in undermining the regular season. Twelve out of 30 for baseball, compared to 14 out of 32 for the NFL, 16 out of 30 for the NBA, and 16 out of 32 for the NHL. There is just that much less incentive to spend more to obtain star players. If a team can get in with 83 wins -- as the Reds would have last year under this formula (it would have been the Jays in the AL) -- why go all out? Just have enough talent to have the proverbial puncher's chance in the post-season. We already know now that the Yankees, barring a disaster, will make the post-season whether or not they sign any of the big-name free agents out there. I think the play offs will generate more fan interest and baseball desperately needs this. Teams that invest a lot are going to be teams who's owner wants to win a WS. That has always been true. |
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