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Everything posted by notin
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Because home runs can equate to money…
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No kidding. The shift has been used for over 100 years. The “Williams Shift” predates Ted Williams by nearly 30 years. If you want teams to shift less, that’s up to the hitters, not the owners…
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Players were going to optimize launch angles whether or not there was a shift. What’s MLB’s next target? Banning 0-2 pitches out of the zone? Hey if the batter lays off, it’s just a waste of time and slows the pace of play…
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Banning the shift is stupid. The shift is just a situational strategy. That would be like the NFL banning nickel back packages…
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I think he means the set of owners as a whole. Get 30 new owners and there will still be some good, some bad, and some teams will benefit from the change while some suffer. But the overall net effect will be nil. Now if you replace the 1200 rostered players, the differences might be more noticeable…
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I do think there is a very big gap between John Henry and the late Carl Pohlad…
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Also I have to wonder what you consider “actual evidence” given your admitted preference for “Ancient Aliens”
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And in many states, the highest paid state employee is a division I football coach or basketball coach. But we digress…
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Or the financial wherewithal and influence to have those same laws modified for personal reasons. “Personal yacht fuel should be deductible. That’s only fair, right?”
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In court, I’d do the same. (Assuming I had any business being in a court room since I have the same amount of legal training as the average aardvark.). But on an anonymous message board with zero real world implications, I will vent my cynicism…
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They all are. And the ones who aren’t are planning on it…
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Is this suddenly news?
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No Angry Grandpa Rambling, please…
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Exactly. Now think of all of those taxes those poor owners have to cheat their way out of paying!?! Do you know how tough on them that is?
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I think you have left out that complaining one is underpaid (for any job) is an American tradition that rivals hot dogs and apple pie. The Founding Fathers would have given us that as an inalienable right, but they knew it was impossible to take away. It’s the American Way to stand with the underpaid! Come join us and be a Patriot…
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Maybe he just doesn’t know how to read calendar. We know he doesn’t know how to run a baseball league or negotiate a collective bargaining agreement. I doubt the list of things he doesn’t know how to do stops there…
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I remember an interview with Rob Manfred back when the Guardians (now Guardians) had to play some snowed out make up games in a neutral site. The question was asked “why not just start the season in the warmer cities?” And Manfred responded that April was the best month and no team wanted to give up April home games…
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Actually April is typically MLBs best month, since no one is eliminated yet. It’s why we still have the occasional snowed out game. Teams in colder climates don’t want to give up the April gates…
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And they’ve done it without stoppages since. I’m rapidly becoming seriously anti-owner. And now Cubs’ owner Tom Ricketts is looking to purchase an English football (re: soccer) team currently owned by a Russian oligarch. Apparently Ricketts is dissatisfied by the prospect of having only one team he doesn’t want to pay for…
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A new wrinkle requires a new strategy. The league shouldn’t maintain rules to accommodate a couple teams
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I guess their $8bill revenue fooled me…
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No. It’s the one several of them try repeatedly with the same deadend results year after year…
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One thing the NBA does that maybe MLB needs to consider is equalizing the money in trades. It makes Deadline Firesales (aka “we’re rebuilding!”) more difficult since you have to take money back anyway, so teams wouldn’t just dump players for no reason but to save cash, and it increases the value of expiring contracts..
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But as I pointed out, the competition is hardly balanced in the NBA. The Lakers have had multiple great runs in the past 40 years, while the Sacramento Kings haven’t had any. And the NBA does hane minor leagues - actually often called developmental leagues, but I’m not really sure how this factors into competitive balance. In fact, the NBA championship winner almost always comes from a very short list of teams, and the number of teams with no rings in the past 50 years is far greater on the NBA. Not to mention their contracts are insane compared to MLB, with several players making in excess of $40mill annually. Yet their small market teams still survive and fare better than those in MLB…
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In fact, one could (and should) argue competitive balance is far worse in the NBA, considering that from 1984 through 2018, only 9 different teams won a title. In that same stretch, 20 different teams won a World Series…
