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I realize I do not always understand the subtleties of business, but I do not understand the theory: "let's improve. And let's begin that process by getting rid of our most productive employees." This seems to me no more comprehensible that the 80s mantra which a number of us suffered through when bosses and administrators hit us with the koan-like principle: Less is more! (justifying increased work loads, lower salaries, and fewer jobs).
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Whew. Finally I disagree with you again (but only slightly). I think MLB is too concerned with having ANY playoffs to be much focused on who actually gets there. Then again, MLB adm is so screwed up, it hardly matters what they think or what nefarious plot they may have concocted.
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Mookie Betts and David Price have been traded to Dodgers
jad replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2020/08/01/dodgers-mookie-betts-does-it-coming-out-party/5561933002/?fbclid=IwAR1K38D6d1FcH8OHDtcRemTIxvI85RFSK6VftoklrmVEHz_Tp0KEcnHV318 -
Jesus Christ, you need to stop! I've been agreeing with you for months.
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... "Wow! If the RS win today, they'll be .500!" ... (What was I thinking?)
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Yeah, I think so too. And that math would then be accurate IF Mookie had signed for 370 for 4 or 5 years. (But he didn't, and the speculative calculation leaves out 8 years of Betts services).
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I don't understand the math (actually, the arithmetic) of this seeming pipe-dream. Mookie's 370 over 13 years is about 30/year. You're saying each of these three guys would sign a 13 year contract at 10/year? (Maybe they would; I hardly know who these players are). But that's the argument, correct?
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And again, they recommend the fast ball to Chavis.
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Love the Mets announcers explaining why they should throw EXACTLY the pitch that Vasquez just hit out.
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Damn! We're just 4 losses shy of a PERFECT SEASON, and it's almost August!!! Who would have predicted this??
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Grater-... and ... what's the other guy? (Gosh, remember when we were talking about Mookie, Price, Porcello? ...)
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Not sure why you're down on the NBA, which for various reasons seems to have a good chance of getting a legitimate season in. The NFL has come up with nothing (well, maybe Goodell crosses his fingers once in a while.)
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Don't forget to add the part about his dastardly and cowardly contributing money to help out the minor leaguers in the LAD system.
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Me too. Besides, I think with my Dr. Fauci-like slider, and Joe Kelly control, nothing I might throw would be hittable.
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Again, a thread on Will MLB Suspend the Season is 100% about the virus and various responses to it. It is also bound up in whether other sports, including college sports, will be able to begin their seasons. I'm happy to hear what anyone working in academia is planning to do (whatever their politics), since, being retired, I don't have to make such a decision myself. No one is 'breaking the rules' by dealing with these issues.
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That may well be. It makes no sense that he just wandered off the base like that. If so, it was a brilliant move!
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Don't they teach base-running in Middle school???
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I don't know about that. Didn't we start the "Fire Alex Cora" thread weeks before he actually began working for the RS?
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(I really didn't. I was just trying to be kind. ... Then again, I held out a small particle of hope that, given what the NBA came up with, the NFL might consider a 'bubble' format, something the NCAA of course cannot do. That shred of hope vanished as soon as they adopted the 'oh well, something will surely work out' policy.). One good thing about this pandemic (can't believe I just said that), is it will, and in some cases already has, exposed the ruinous amounts of money most athletic departments end up losing.
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Agreed, and it's incredible that anyone thought it possible. That the NCAA has its head in the sand is not surprising (that's where they leave it to rest when it's not up their butt). But I foolishly expected more from the NFL. Both seem to have adopted the strategy of "hope", which is fine ... as long as everything goes well (which it isn't and won't). I'm trying to imagine any semblance of social distancing in, say, the middle of the line.
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7/27 vs New York Metropolitans
jad replied to Thunder's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Interesting listening to Remy and Eck--each claiming they never had fun playing, due to the stress. (Wonder if the guys they cite as different--i.e., Verdugo--might feel the same way.) -
7/27 vs New York Metropolitans
jad replied to Thunder's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Wow. Just tuned in. I never thought the RS could be so bad I would be longing for April. -
Exactly how is anyone going to discuss the topic "Will MLB Suspend the Season" without mentioning Covid19 and its effects? (Probably about the only thing S75 and I will agree on.)
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One of my best friends, who is a good athlete, in great shape, spent 5 days in the ICU, three weeks in the hospital. And now, after three months, says he is almost back as far as health is concerned, but has lost so much muscle mass, he is just beginning to exercise. Does that count as "really really" sick? Or is this "just the flu"?
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Good by me. I'm afraid we're going to see a lot of players opting out. Why risk what just happened to the Marlins? (and what may have happened to ERod?)
