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Question for those w/ experience in labor negotiations: my understanding is that when a side is negotiating in good faith, it does not suddenly throw in wild proposals (in its favor of course) out of the blue. So what's up with MLB's recent proposal to eliminate the number of minor leaguers? Wouldn't this be like the Union coming in and suddenly proposing, oh, a 100-game season with two weeks vacation in July and 40 acres for each player? Or is this just one of the annoying tactics that is ordinarily used during negotiations?
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If they do that, owners will probably go full Doc Rivers and sign away all the excess, unspent cash to their sons.
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Ha! Excellent point! The first step is for us all to admit we have a problem.
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Welcome! To me, even the better sports owners are jackasses and jock-sniffers. Among the problems is that sports-ownership is (for some, not all) as much a 'hobby' as a business (although I suppose a lot of other businesses are similar). Owners are less concerned with the bottom line than with proving what a bunch of bad-asses they are. They get off on scr*wing over players in the same way they enjoy extorting public funds for, say, new stadiums etc. (I don't know [or particularly care] whether that opinion is rational or well-founded; but I do suspect there is nothing sports owners will ever do to change it.)
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My 'participation fee' is $0, and I probably watch half the games the RS play. How anyone can support the billionaire bosses over the ones we watch perform is beyond me, but you know what you're about more than I do.
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ANOTHER good point!
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Excellent point!
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I'm sure we've all had people close to us do that. It's taken me years to accept (or try) that when someone does that, they are likely in such a place that there is no way even for someone who loves them dearly to 'reach' them. (rip Eloise).
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But then again, doesn't 'normal position' have something of a different meaning in these days of constant shifts? (I've never understood why, in basic shift, they don't simply move 3b to short rf, leaving everyone else in their usual position. Is that ever done? Or is the change in ball angle and spin too much for most 3b?
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Wow. Late 40s. Various rumors about cause of death but all speculation. I can't remember: was he associated with PEDs? or is it just the name that makes me think that? (Never mind: I see even the ESPN article, which I hadn't seen, answers this question.)
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Renfroe's play right up there with Manny's catch, high-fiving the fan, and doubling up the runner at first. (And who was the guy--good hitter, horrible glove--who over-ran the ball in left, reached back, and caught it bare-handed with his throwing hand?)
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or if he hadn't held the damn ball!
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What good is a mediator going to do? If MLB were arguing in good faith (and if history is any indication, they NEVER have done that), they would start by opening the books. As for your notion that "the players will be blamed", why not just say "I myself will blame the players." Then explain in detail why you would.
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That would be the one.
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I don't get it either. All this brings back to me is memories of The Pop-Up and the 13 or 14 consecutive post-season losses following the Mookie debacle. Please, George, talk about the rabbits.
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I doubt he used the phrase "victim of the rule." All you lose then is the time it takes to interview.
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If this were true (i.e., an either/or personal 'choice' where you chose the 'uber-rich' OR the 'poor'), then half (?) the mythical people you cite or imagine to exist are pieces of sh*t.
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I remember exactly where I was when I heard Kennedy had been shot, and also when I heard the call of Nava's g.s.
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I remember Smolz, Nipper, and of course Wake. No others, even though the radio has been on almost constantly for RS games in my house since '72 (at least during the summer) and well before!
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Yeah, one of several, as I recall, brought in as if to relive the apparent magic of getting rid of Nomar. Orlando to Renteria to Lugo ...
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There are certain posters who have apparently been brought up in a self-created culture of grievance, and have been deluded into thinking that a sign of sensitivity and depth of soul is feeling and rooting out 'offense'.
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But then, 'expectations' is a slippery concept. the only way to judge GMs on a quantitative basis would be by comparing results against available financial resources, no? (And that would take a few years of his tenure to determine.)
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Public figures do not have the same protections (even legal protections) for libel and slander as ordinary citizens. So if you want to be a public figure, you really need to grow a thicker skin. Whereas us poor slobs here--you know, we feel REALLY BAD when we listen to some whippersnapper give us moral lectures. It's SOOOOOO hurtful.
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You don't buy the "the hooker lied about her age" defense? (I have a feeling we're going to be hearing versions of that defense a lot in the coming weeks or months.)
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I admit, I don't think of RI much. In fact, the last time I was there was 35 years ago, when I drove down from Maine in a snowstorm, thinking, of course, I would go straight across the bridge rather than Rte 1. I failed to note that Rte 128 had been renamed '95' until I saw the signs for Providence.
