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  1. mvp 78
    Effective 2022, each team will be making at least 100M just from tv revenue (each team will get 60 from the league and whatever else they can make on their own). For smaller market teams to say they need to pull back, it just really makes the whole situation seem ridiculous.
  2. mvp 78
    @SPChrisHatfield So I'm told today that a date for fan access at Fenway South has not yet been determined, but fans can pay for tours of JetBlue Park. If you're down there in the near term, don't expect the usual open access to the back fields.
  3. mvp 78
    The guy who paid Justin Upton 100M, Pujols 240M, Vernon Wells 86M, CJ Wilson 78M and Josh Hamilton 125M shouldn't tell other people how to spend their money.
  4. mvp 78
    @ByJamesWagner Per ⁦@EvanDrellich ⁩these owners — Bob Castellini (Reds), Chris Ilitch (Tigers), Ken Kendrick (Diamondbacks) & Arte Moreno (Angels) — objected to raising the luxury tax threshold to $220M, which was ultimately proposed to & rejected by players.
  5. mvp 78
    I don't think the owners are going to just "meet in the middle." That's my worry about this be protracted.
  6. mvp 78
    @MikeSilvermanBB No proposals exchanged during roughly 90-minute informal meeting in NYC between 2 MLB & 2 MLBPA negotiators. Still finalizing plans on when and where next round of talks will take place.
  7. mvp 78
    Maybe 4 times? As part of the 2006 CBA, the owners paid $12M out of luxury tax funds towards the players due to the 2002-3 suspicion of collusion.
  8. mvp 78
    Independent leagues don't count.
  9. mvp 78
    https://blogs.fangraphs.com/just-how-far-apart-are-the-league-and-the-mlbpa/ Update on the differences between the final MLB/MBLPA offers.
  10. mvp 78
    It's not enjoyable content.
  11. mvp 78
    One of the Patreon tiers would be "OR and MS will only be allowed 1 post each on TalkSox per day."
  12. mvp 78
    Both of you.
  13. mvp 78
    I think that's the key. For me, I fell in love with the game back in the 80's. AL only played the NL in the AS Game and WS. I could love the Sox, but follow NL teams since it wasn't likely the Sox would ever match up against them. I liked following NL players like Eric Davis, Ozzie, Gwynn and Raines. I was psyched when the Nasty Boys beat the hated A's in 1990. The brand of baseball was more "put the ball in play to manufacture runs." Aside from 1987, the long ball was still under 1 per game (24 of the past 28 seasons have been above 1 per game, it had never been that high prior to 1987).
  14. mvp 78
    I was only asking because some fans still think of the early 2000's as the glory days. What was it about the 1970's that altered course for the game? FA? Too many teams? I wasn't old enough then to have an opinion. I think some could point to the 1980's and say "well that's when team's went relief pitcher happy and saves exploded." The 1990's had the work stoppage and the farcical HR chase with two roided up dudes. Early 2000's had long games with more runs being scored than ever, an even worse HR chase, plus Congressional hearings and the advent of PED testing. The 2010's is when analytics really took a hold and you started to see pitchers being pulled early and shifts. The 2020's had the pandemic shortened season, swing path, HR boom, meddling with baseballs and now a lockout. This is looking like the worst decade so far.
  15. mvp 78
    @Travis_Sawchik MLB attendance declines following work stoppages that cost games: 1972 (-3.7%) 1981 (-6.8%) 1995 (-20%!) Per-game attendance didn't recover the pre-strike average until 2006.
  16. mvp 78
    My question is, when was the tipping point for you? Did something happen that turned you off from the game? The only way analytics has changed the game noticeably is with shifting. Were you ok with the game prior to the shifting? Maybe the better question is what year was the last "good year" for baseball?
  17. mvp 78
    Mazz won't start bashing the Sox during a game. He's going to be "carrying the water" 100%.
  18. mvp 78
    This isn't true.
  19. mvp 78
    He has a very unpleasant voice. I'm also not so sure he'll be as critical on NESN as he is on the radio.
  20. mvp 78
    O'Brien is definitely a AAAA broadcaster, a dollar store Orsillo.
  21. mvp 78
    This news is honestly worse than the lockout. WTF? 1. Annoying voice. 2. Annoying personality. 3. Is overrated as a baseball guy. If he's on, I'm putting the away team's feed on.
  22. mvp 78
    I'm not sure they can legally start a scab league since they've locked the players out. I believe they could only have scabs if there was a strike.
  23. mvp 78
    This comes from the top. The vast majority of owners don't understand what it means to be a fan. They'll sit in their luxury boxes and never have to even come into contact with the common rabble. Who cares who wins? It's all about the investment!
  24. mvp 78
    Yeah, I'm not sure why the vaunted "level headed" John Henry isn't putting a stop to this nonsense, unless he's ok with it.
  25. mvp 78
    He takes the bullets for small market owners. He's doing exactly what they want.
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