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  1. jad
    Certainly in my 'business' this was the case.
  2. jad
    Is a voting member defined as one with a MLB contract? (even if they were sent down). Obviously we don't know what goes on in Union meetings, but di you know of a case where those players have actually exercised the power that they theoretically have? (From the looks of things, they don't e.g., what you pointed out as the startling difference between average and mean salaries).
  3. jad
    Yeah, it just seems impossible as long as top players have the power. How do young players get that leverage, since so many of them, say, are in the minors. Do they have any say in Players Union? Could pre-arb players even form a significant bloc? I assume part of the thinking is that fans come SPECIFICALLY to see well-paid players. I.e., some of those LAD fans show up not bec. Ohtani is the best player in the world, but rather because he's the most highly paid player in the world? So everyone has a stake in paying him like that? (No one, besides the player, has a stake in raising the minimum.)
  4. jad
    Do you think the problem is exacerbated in sports, where 'union reps' aren't blue-collar guys who 'came up through the ranks' but celebrity/stars (e.g., as when Chris Paul was heading the NBA union). When super-max players lead the union, super-max contracts are the primary focus? I assume rookies have even less leverage than young workers have in ordinary businesses.
  5. jad
    Yes, and the Yankees ruined baseball in the 20s! I mean who ever talks about that era? Then ruined it again in the 50s and 60s. No one watched baseball for years after that. And the Lakers? Celtics? Don't get me started. They made Bb unwatchable: Bird vs. Magic? Who wants to see that s***. As for those sold-out Dodger Stadium games? Those 50,000+ fans are obviously fools and don't know anything about sports. I'm amazed the league doesn't throw them out so baseball can go back to the way it was when ... well, when ... I forget when.
  6. jad
    Don't be ridiculous! That would never happen. Instead, they would simply waive him or perhaps, yes, trade him, but only to the Dodgers, and for no more than a prospect and perhaps a player under indictment.
  7. jad
    Ha ha! And when you finally find yourself in this situation, (as many of us have), hanging on to every nickel of that so you can (what? pile it on your own gravestone?) suddenly seems perfectly rational. (More rational, say, than thinking that the franchise that got the best players, put out the best product, attracted the most fans, paid its employees the most, won the most is somehow "ruining" the sport,)
  8. jad
    I know there are situations where you can record 4 outs in an inning (it involves a base-running appeal). And I THINK, but I'm not sure, that a player in that situation MIGHT get credit for put-outs. (I'm to lazy to construct the scenario--but if anyone can do it, I'd be grateful.). Even if this happened in your local beer league, your record crumbles!
  9. jad
    anyone who did not experience the Dick Stuart years (or was it year?) has NO grounds for talking about bad fielding. (I can't remember, but was Don Buddin still at SS when Stuart came over? What a combination!)
  10. jad
    The problem of not understanding irony?
  11. jad
    How about going with the amateur/NCAA model? Then there would be no salary or movement restrictions at all.
  12. jad
    Ah. Don't know anything about him except what I see on MLB stats (What do the RS owe him? not 10 of his 40million contracct, right? Still baffled. Bernadino was reliable and cheap. Someone is going to have to pitch those innings ... did they just become 10x as expensive?). Is the thinking that Bernadino wasn't worth a roster spot?
  13. jad
    Don't understand whythey got rid of Bernadino. Now you're going to have to waste a lot of time and effort finding someone to take care of all those innings.
  14. jad
    So the sports execs making millions hooking up with gamblers apparently realize the only way to prove how morally pure they are is by scapegoating some no-account employees. Half-a-million bail for (I forget which one). And of course, like all of you, I am SHOCKED and OUTRAGED that sports leagues hooking up with gamblers could ever have led to such dastardly deeds as this.
  15. jad
    This is why I absolutely DESPISE this management. All that idiotic chest-thumping (NO WAY WE GIVE YOU 8 million, you chump. Here's 7.8 million! Take it or leave it!) for no reason. (Similar b.s. with Devers--bad-mouthing him out the door, just as they did Francona years ago). Look, as a boss, you may like a deal, you may hate it. But you at least PRETEND to be happy and supportive of those who work for you. Treating employees like enemies may be good for your testosterone levels, but it's not going to make anyone want to work for you.
  16. jad
    Team option, I think. (What was the point of bidding him down $250?? Just a show of power? Anyone know? Why not just say "Great to have you with us! We're lucky to get you at that price!" and start off on the right foot?)
  17. jad
    You didn't watch? Well damn I guess you showed THEM!
  18. jad
    Of course. You can have a great series on the high school level. But you won't see Mookie, or Shohei, or Yamamota. Btw, I aagree entirely about the stress of watching--I knew by the third inning there was NO WAY I wanted to go through that. I went to sleep. LAD was no worse off by virtue of me sleeping through it, but I was MUCH better off.
  19. jad
    It's easy to operate at a 'loss' when the value of your team is increasing at astonishing rates every year.
  20. jad
    I kinda think Kike would have had it; seemed he had a bead on it. Can you imagine the feeling if the collision had knocked the ball loose?
  21. jad
    You mean by showcasing the best players and winning the most games , by selling out a 50,000+ stadium, and selling more gear than any other team? By bringing in the best international players along with their millions of fans? and generating more revenue than any other team? And providing two of the greatest performances in baseball history by players in a World Series? You need to put down whatever you're smoking and buy season tix to the Marlins.
  22. jad
    Alas, I will take that bet at whatever odds you want.
  23. jad
    Exactly. How do small market teams like those in NY, Phily, Boston, Chicago, Miami, and Houston manage to compete at all?
  24. jad
    Well, except for the game-saving hit in game 6. There's that.
  25. jad
    Amazing series! I thoiught Ohtani was teh best pitcher I'd seen until I saw Yamamoto= Love teh Dodgers, since I lived so long in LA, and saw real close what happens when you move from a cheap-aass owner who cares only about profits (McCourt--when I got to LA, the common phtrase was "it's ONLY the Dodgers') to a group that cares about winning and its fans. (Also, of course, because I like to see great RS players play, and this is often a good place to find them!)
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