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  1. Longgone
    It's like having a classic muscle car, running on five cylinders, and wanting a fancy new chrome gas cap.
  2. Longgone
    Well, it would be hard to be worse and slower, so he's got that going for him.
  3. Longgone
    I think we can take him at his word. His priorities are to add young talent and the prospect pipeline, and build up the medical, training, scouting and developmental systems. He'll add free agents on a very judicious basis.
  4. Longgone
    It is. You claim you would like relegation because it would limit playoff teams. It wouldn't necessarily. You could have more or less playoff teams, relegation is no factor in that. Also, you claim there would be more fan interest with relegation. Maybe so, maybe there would be less. Maybe you kill some franchises.
  5. Longgone
    That's a non sequitur
  6. Longgone
    You would still have dynasties, but based on talent and acumen, pure competition, not disproportionate resource advantages.
  7. Longgone
    You can limit the number of playoff teams without relegation, it adds nothing. I see no correlation.
  8. Longgone
    Minimally
  9. Longgone
    That seems like a lot of machinations, when all they need to do is share media revenue.
  10. Longgone
    I'm not sold on Haase as a regular catcher, I think his best role is as a utility guy.
  11. Longgone
    Relegation, to me, smacks of the mentality that the best way to manage is through fear and punishment, and I've just never subscribed to that, that is that worst way to manage any system.
  12. Longgone
    Injuries have taken the shine off of Feliciano's skills. If he can recover those, he's a very promising pickup.
  13. Longgone
    That is the problem, but it's not the mythical one I was addressing, however, relegation would address neither.
  14. Longgone
    It's an assumed solution to a mythical problem.
  15. Longgone
    I'm not sure where this angst comes from. MLB has a problem with parity, the other leagues don't. It's hard to argue that players aren't well compensated. If you think too many teams qualify for the playoffs, just state that, without conflating it with irrelevant issues like relegation.
  16. Longgone
    Lol! They just need to share revenues equitably.
  17. Longgone
    The NFL, NBA, NHL all have a system that allows all clubs to compete on a level field, MLB still has an inequitable system that they have not fixed.
  18. Longgone
    Leagues; the NFL, MLB, NBA, are single entities competing for the entertainment dollar. Teams are franchises of such entities. The overall health of the entity is dependent on each team having similar opportunity to be competitive, not a system like relegation, where there are a few perennial haves, and a lot of struggling have nots with basically no chance.
  19. Longgone
    Do you follow European sports? You dont want that. It may sound good, but it isn't, in practice.
  20. Longgone
    Both Boyd and Lorenzen can be very solid major league starters, if they're healthy, but that's a big if. On the other hand, every pitcher alive is a health risk.
  21. Longgone
    It's Mrs. Harris fault.
  22. Longgone
    Sure, but how many franchises can just buy a competitive team? First you have to build a competitive core and talent stream. You don't put the cart before the horse.
  23. Longgone
    Might be a hell of an outfielder or 1b, also he's young, third is still a possibility, but he'll have to keep the weight down. He was 250 in the fall league, which led to some stiffness around the bag.
  24. Longgone
    I wouldn't put any faith in the report that the Tigers offered a lower contract. If they'd wanted to keep Candelario, they would have made it happen.
  25. Longgone
    Hey, they've made it fun, interesting and exciting, they compete.
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