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“They get paid millions to play a kids game” (while we obsessively watch them for 450+ hours a year).

No.

You know the answer to that. People are already pushing back about the bare minimum of social distancing. We’re almost back to the “let me talk to your manager” stage.

Worrying about paying ballplayers when Bezos is about to become a trillionaire...

You don't even want baseball back though?

Not prorated, he's out at revenue share.

^^^ Player gets his salary reduced to 25% while playing 50% of a season, can't see his family and can have his career ended on one play. If the compromise is some players opt out of playing this year, the owners will lap it up as they'll get the same revenue with a reduced payroll cost.

@redsoxstats Last year at this time the Sox had won 11 of 13, outscoring opponents 100-37, had gone from 8.5 back to 3.0 back. That night Sale struck out 17 over 7 innings, Workman gave up the lead in the 8th, Brasier lost it in the 11th. The season imploded from there.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1994-04-23-9404230561-story.html California starter Chuck Finley walked Hatcher to open the seventh, he moved to second on a wild pitch and went to third on an infield out. With Naehring at the plate, Hatcher started thinking about making the dash for the plate. "I wasn't going to go with Timmy up, especially after they threw over to third," Hatcher said. "After Timmy struck out, with Mo hitting, I was going to give him a couple of pitches to hit. But Finley wasn't watching me. "Even when it got to 3-and-1, [Finley] still hadn't looked at me." Finley disputed that, saying he saw Hatcher out of the corner of his eye. But it was a weak defense. Hatcher took an aggressive lead and never stopped. "I was in the dugout, looking right down the third-base line," Harris said. "There was Hatch and then the next thing I knew, he was three-quarters of the way to home." Vaughn had no idea what Hatcher had in mind. "He didn't give me any kind of sign," Vaughn said. "The first I knew what he was doing was when I saw this big blue head coming at me. I wanted to stay in the batter's box, not to create any interference, but to distract the catcher." Hatcher said, "I didn't want to tip it off. When I came down the line and made eye contact with Mo, his eyes got real big and I just prayed to God he wouldn't swing." Finley's pitch was outside for ball four. Seeing that, Hatcher slid toward the middle of the plate and just beat the tag by catcher Greg Myers. "That's a gutsy play with a lefthander at the plate and it's an especially gutsy play with Mo Vaughn at the plate," manager Butch Hobson said. What really happened was a fight broke out in the stands behind 1b. Finley lost his concentration and looked away from the batter and into the stands to see the commotion. Hatcher bolted the second Finley's head looked away from the plate. My guess is that Finley didn't want to look like a dumbass for being more concerned with the fans than Mo Vaughn at home plate and hatcher on 3b. I was on the 3b line so I saw both the fight and Finley stare off into the stands.

I went to a Red Sox game instead. Billy Hatcher stole home.

https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1260918683184050177 ^^^ Good baseball content

Snell later sent a text message to the Tampa Bay Times and said that he realizes his comments came off as greedy, but that “I mean, honestly, it’s just scary to risk my life to get COVID-19 as well as not knowing and spreading it to others . . . . I just want everyone to be healthy and get back to our normal lives ’cause I know I miss mine!” He added, “I’m just saying, it doesn’t make sense for me to lose all of that money and then go play. And then be on lockdown, not around my family, not around the people I love, and getting paid way the hell less — and then the risk of injury runs every time I step on the field.” I agree with him 100%.

The players don't want revenue sharing at all because they believe that pushes them closer to a cap.

Why do you hate the players so much? Also, who cares about senior prom?

Sharing revenue isn't the same as a 50% cut. The players already agreed to a 50% cut.

Game balls and slushies are way cooler than a trophy at the end of the year.

Per MLB: Undrafted free agents will have their bonuses capped at $20,000. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlbs-2020-draft-changes-will-have-long-term-ramifications-most-of-them-will-be-bad-for-baseball/

They also lose the allocated money towards that 2nd round pick, which isn't great. Fact is, we don't really know how teams will approach the draft and what their plans are for moving forward with a reduced MiLB system.

The trophies aren't for the kids, they're for the parents.

How is it a shell of how it should be played? The schedules have changed over the course of time and it never really ruined baseball. Was baseball prior to interleague play not real baseball? Is having NL teams use the DH not real baseball? I just want to know which part of the changes are frustrating for you.

Doubtful.

https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2020/05/13/mlb-has-not-yet-submitted-health-and-safety-revenue-sharing-plan-to-players/ Owners have not yet submitted the entire plan to players. That’s according to Ken Rosenthal’s report in The Athletic today which says that MLB “soon plans to present the union with an 80-page document outlining potential health and safety protocols for the COVID-19 pandemic, sources said.”

I agree. I don't see an NL team reaching for JD when they don't know if they'll need a DH in 2021.

Yup.

My guess: Workman is traded. They shop JD and Eovaldi but get no takers.