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  1. jad
    Aristophanes
  2. jad

    NCAA Football

    jad replied to moonslav59's topic in Other Sports

    Yeah, college football is a mess. Why not form a blue-ribbon committee, say like the one for the nfl Hall of Fame, to come up with a solution.
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    HOF

    jad posted a topic in Other Sports

    Can we just shut down the damn Hall of fame? ALL of them. And create a shrine to loser, petty, whining, moralistic reporters and other voters and their idiot supporters? A place where bonds, Pete, Manny, Roger, Shoeless Joe, A-Rod and other of the greatest athletes who ever lived can gather with Bill B. and stand in awe before them?
  4. jad
    Apparently, no one has mentioned Bobby Bonilla (for a while during Covid, wasn't he the highest paid player in the league? even though he's been retired for a decade?). Back-loaded contracts are not new.
  5. jad
    I was quoting someone, no idea who it was. I have no idea where they stand. I only know they don't spend enough.
  6. jad
    Things are pretty bad when "getting close to middle-of-the-pack-on-spending" is regarded as a positive.
  7. jad
    That's right. And I assume the reasons players agree to it is that they can beat their chests and say "I get paid 200K!" rather than "I get paid $192K." I know it seems silly--these players don't seem to care about money as much as they care about the appearance of having it. But that's no different from the businesses I've been involved in. When my company once published salaries, thinking the overpaid fat-asses would be embarrassed, they were instead proud of the wage disparity. I don't know anyone embarrassed by what they make (although I have many times woken up, checked the mirror to make sure my reflection is still there, and muttered 'I can't believe they pay me to do this.')
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    Ok. so they can shift money around to avoid the lux tax (sort of like income averaging to avoid a windfall tax on an extraordinarily good year). you're saying that lower spending teams (with no lux tax) have no reason to do this. I guess I see this. But I still don't see how this affects competitive balance. teams that pay more have an advantage over teams that pay less. And they will no matter how the shift money from one year to another.
  9. jad
    I don't see the objection to deferrals. How do they affect competitive balance? Teams front-load or back-load contracts all the time--the salary cap is based on averages so what difference does it make? Not arguing here; I just don't understand the objection.
  10. jad
    What competitive balance? You mean like in the twenties? or pre-free-agency? I'm sure owners want a cap for workers, just as they do in all businesses, as long as the cap doesn't apply to administrators. And the closer that cap is the the sum--no. of workers X minimum wage--the better they like it.
  11. jad
    Certainly in my 'business' this was the case.
  12. 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).
  13. 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.)
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    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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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,)
  18. 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!
  19. 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!)
  20. jad
    The problem of not understanding irony?
  21. jad
    How about going with the amateur/NCAA model? Then there would be no salary or movement restrictions at all.
  22. 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?
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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