Bellhorn04
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I don't disagree, but we're a little late in the game to be asking for more than what they're already not agreeing to. If the players felt so strongly about the minimum salary being too low, maybe they should have tried harder the last couple of CBA's, when it increased by jacksquat. At least the owners are agreeing to somewhat of a bump now.
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Great, just ask for stuff you're not going to get. You're not going to get a 50% increase in anything from one agreement to the next. The players probably should have fought harder for these raises in previous negotiations. But they didn't.
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moon, nobody ever messes up 2 + 2 = 4. But you calculated 2 - 1 = 2. That's just about as bad.
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I don't know Denny, they started making sweeping epics like Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia around 1960. I think the real killer now is you have to sit through a half hour of commercials and trailers before a movie.
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On the minimum salary thing: Owners proposed Year 1 615 K Year 2 650 K Year 3 725 K Players asking 775 K for all 3 years.
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Dreadful math.
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They used to play the Super Bowl in the afternoon too... It's kind of a trend I've noticed to keep making things later on the calendar and on the clock...
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Yes, but the reason they've abolished WS day games is that prime time games = more money.
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The players have already said OK to 12, so that much is a done deal.
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"Were" a baseball tradition. Like day games in the World Series.
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No argument. The owners' proposal does actually contain some respectable increases to minimum salaries. Much more so than in previous CBA's.
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And I don't get the appeal of DH's when one of the big complaints is that games are too long...
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More potential for being effed up by the day. The 15 minute negotiation meetings are not providing much reason for optimism.
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OK, that would be a gain of about $1 million per player. It's a lot of money for the ones who never make it to arbitration years and go on to sell insurance or whatever. But no, I'm not sold that in the big picture that it's the giant difference maker you're suggesting.
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This season is already just about guaranteed to be an effed up one. Aside from the late start of spring training, there are still a pile of unsigned players.
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I don't think the richer owners have changed their ways all that much. The Red Sox went into tax purgatory in 2018-2019. And the 2021 Dodgers went ballistic!
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Only a select few get the mega deals, but most players have the free agency payday dream. For some that might mean a $15 million deal instead of a $10 million deal, but for them it would be a big difference. By comparison bumping the minimum wage from $550 K to $750 K is not as much of a difference.
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Just having some fun, man. It's been pretty dry here lately. Where in the heck is Kimmi, anyway? She must be disgusted with the lockout.
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And there's only one explanation. Owners are still making piles of money even with all the albatross contracts. And most of them try to please their fans to some degree to keep those dollars rolling in. The bottom line is that the fans foot the bill for all of it!
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Why not just go the full distance and re-allocate revenues so that every team has the same amount of money? Then everything would be nice and fair!
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None. They're not going to agree to any "standard rates" like that. Free agency is all about being an auction. We're talking about a capitalistic enterprise here.
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Under that scheme, how are teams going to outbid each other for the elite free agents?
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I think they have passed on other players because of Cole's deal, sure. But it's all up to them how they divide their budget pie.
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Isn't that "protecting the owners from themselves"? Nobody put a gun to the Yankees' heads to force them to pay Cole $36 mill * 9.
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Meanwhile I'm still stunned by the Rangers' fresh investment of half a billion in Seager and Semien. How can the owners argue plausibly about fiscal conservatism after that?
