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Anyone who listens to Felgie is a mystery to me. That show blows.

I thought he was the Curly Haired Boyfriend?

Will you be telling people to stop who say the players should just keep quiet?

Yup, cutting salaries and using Manfred as a mouthpiece is keeping quiet. Sure.... You’re just not listening.

Sox cut pay to all employees making over 50k. Damn those players making the billionaire owners do that!!!!

Pitchers : Matthew Gorst (RHP), Alex Demchak (LHP), Dylan Thompson (RHP), Robbie Baker (RHP), Chris Machamer (RHP), Connor Berry (RHP), Eddie Jimenez (RHP), Kelvin Sanchez (LHP), Zach Schneider (RHP), and Mason Duke (RHP) Catchers: Joe DeCarlo, Samuel Miranda, and Breiner Licona Infielders: Nick Lovullo, Juremi Profar, Korby Batesole, Andre Colon, and Nilo Rijo Outfielders: Edgar Corcino, Keith Curcio, Trenton Kemp, and Marino Campana Don't worry, all the multimillionaires listed here can handle it!

@byJulianMack Red Sox release 22 minor league players Consider this to be a statement from the owners.

I'm holding out for the umbrella and the VHS box set.

The employees don't need to share a loss when the owners don't give the employees profit sharing when there is a surplus.

IDK, but it seems like you are spending more time criticizing the players than the owners.

"As I'm reading this, all I can hear is waaaaa, waaaaa, waaaaa!"

The ones complaining are standing up for those who don't have a voice. If I was a minimum salary guy, I'd be very reluctant to stand up right now and rock the boat. The players who make more money have the ability to do so. Why is David Price reaching into his pocket to pay MiLB guys? Why not the owners?

"There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't play basketball." - Norman Dale, Hoosiers

And yet you're siding with the owners who are whining that they are not going to make enough money this year. The owners who are contracting MiLB. I believe the players care far more about "the game" and its future than the owners do.

The vast majority of players don't make millions of dollars. The average MLB career is 1.5 years.

Would you like to tell me how if everyone in 1918 wore masks that the Spanish Flu would not have been so bad? It seems like you also have a substantial disregard for history.

Yes, the world is the same as it was 130 years ago. Baseball is consumed the exact same way. There is no difference between 1890 baseball and 2020 baseball.

I like following former Sox MiLBer Jeremy Barfield: I shouldn’t be surprised the @Athletics are being cheapskates. I had to BUY my first TEAM-ISSUED equipment bag. Gets better. They tried to take it back at the end of Instructional League! “Ted Mart” waited til I was on the field to go in my locker & grab it. I still got the bag 12 years later! f***ers wrote VAN on it to make it look like it belonged to the @vancanadians. Good thing I keep my receipts! Thanks for the memories @Athletics A's trainer responds with: @DontcallmeWhity @vancanadians and @Athletics We haven’t had that policy in over 6yrs. And, TedMart doesn’t work for the A’s anymore. But I do remember bringing you down a bunch of food and snacks when you were in the DR. That seemed kinda nice. Barfield responded with: I was forced to go to Dominican Instructional League for 3 weeks & was paid a grand total of $21.37. The fact that you had to bring muscle milk from the states to supplement my diet (thanks again btw) proves my point. Bunk beds & s*** food for 400 pesos per week. Not nice. Just a reminder that not every ballplayer right now is enjoying a 100M contract.

That was 130 years ago.

It's fun watching the reruns of the 2003 WS on the Marlins channel, but I want some live baseball. Even an intrasquad spring training scrimmage. Something...

Good. They were still ownership though. I root for the players, not the owners. Sullivan then further earned the wrath of Red Sox Nation after the 1978 season when he allowed legendary pitcher Luis Tiant to leave for the Yankees as a free agent and, as he had done with Jenkins, Carbo and the others, dumped a clubhouse dissident, lefty pitcher Bill Lee, in a giveaway trade—in this case, to the Montreal Expos. In 1979, he raised eyebrows when he selected his son Marc Sullivan, who was not considered to have early-round talent, in the second round of baseball's amateur draft; the younger Sullivan would bat a paltry .186 in parts of five major league seasons.[10] In December 1980, Sullivan faced the imminent free agency of Rick Burleson, Carlton Fisk and Fred Lynn—Boston's starting shortstop, catcher and center fielder, and the "up the middle" core of the ball club. The three players, represented by agent Jeremy Kapstein, had been embroiled in a contract dispute with the team in 1976, the first year of free agency, and hard feelings still lingered between them and owners Sullivan and Mrs. Yawkey. Sullivan was able to trade Burleson for value (young third baseman Carney Lansford and relief pitcher Mark Clear), but then failed to mail contract offers to Lynn and Fisk by MLB's mandated deadline, triggering binding arbitration and unintentionally speeding their free agency. Sullivan was forced to accept fifty cents on the dollar for Lynn in a trade to the California Angels, who then signed him to a multi-year contract, and then lost Fisk outright when the arbitrator declared him a free agent.[11] Fisk then played the rest of his Baseball Hall of Fame career as a member of the Chicago White Sox, retiring in 1993.

I grew up wanting to be Jim Rice or Dwight Evans, not Lou Gorman or Haywood Sullivan.

I love baseball. I miss not having NESN. I just want it back in any capacity, even a reduced schedule or weird playoff structure. I think it would be good for the national psyche and great for the game overall. If the first major professional sporting event is a football game, it'll be another nail in the coffin for MLB.

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

And he's getting a ton of s*** online from entitled fans saying "you play a kids game" which is the dumbest argument of all time. They play a kids game that millions of people watch and spend a ton of money on. It's entertainment. Nobody calls for television actors to be paid less. Nobody calls for musicians to be paid less. It's no different. The players are much more like you and me. The owners are not.