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  1. Longgone
    Lotteries stink. They don't work and somebody always gets screwed.
  2. Longgone
    It seems, in labor negotiations, it never appears close until up against the perceived deadline. Baseball, both sides, have a bad habit of negotiating in the press, but you can't tell anything from that.
  3. Longgone
    No, it's not. Look at what happened to Schoop, Mazara and Reyes who were delayed in the spring. They need all of it to get the timing down and for pitchers to build up arm strength. It's not just a matter of getting in shape, it's getting major league game ready.
  4. Longgone
    No, no one gets serious until they perceive it's the last minute. It's human nature.
  5. Longgone
    There's very little truth in these statements. Why you would want to pooh pooh a pandemic that has killed over 825,000 Americans, and is still killing over 1,200 per day, has hospitalised millions and left them with long term health issues, all despite worldwide mitigation efforts and the miraculous arrival of the vaccines, is beyond me. I get it, you're sick of it, we're all sick of it, but calling it, " a common cold", and distorting statistics to minimize it's impact is just odious.
  6. Longgone
    Easy there, big fella!
  7. Longgone
    Length and AAV, they've not been top of the market players. 10/300+ seems inconceivable for them.
  8. Longgone
    Not their style.
  9. Longgone
    It's not by popularity, it's the player most checked out on Baseball Reference in that state.
  10. Longgone
    The players want younger players paid more, they’ll increase starting salaries and maybe tie them to an index, maybe earlier arbitration. No one is proposing eliminating the luxury tax, players want higher ceilings and no penalties for exceeding, owners want lower, they’ll meet in the middle. Players want earlier free agency, probably get it for older players. Both sides have proposed “anti tanking “ measures. I don’t believe anyone seriously wants a floor. Nothing revolutionary here.
  11. Longgone
    Nah, they’ll settle, the differences aren’t that extreme.
  12. Longgone
    Ahh, it will end up at the last minute like most labor negotiations, with the owners making some concessions, and the players acting like they conceded because they didn't get everything they demanded.
  13. Longgone
    It's a nice, upscale residence.
  14. Longgone
    *bull residence
  15. Longgone
    Everyone is trying to win. It's just like poker, sometimes you fold on a lousy opportunity to win now, for a better opportunity later.
  16. Longgone
    And sometimes it's prudent to rebuild, sometimes things are cyclical, sometimes it makes no sense to expend resources now, while simultaneously trading current assets for future ones. The goal is to build a future championship team, not a current mediocre one.
  17. Longgone
    I believe tanking, which is deliberately trying to lose, rarely, if ever, happens. I believe there are teams, who are not competitive at present, that trade present assets for future assets, and don't see the sense in wasting financial resources in this weakened state just to rise to mediocre, while they try to accumulate a young base to build around. I can see where this bothers fans, however, whether you like it or not, whether it is successful or not, it is a legitimate strategy and it should be a teams prerogative how to build their club, and there should be no artificial incentives or penalties installed to manipulate teams into doing something other than what they feel is in their best long term interests, especially when the issue is more perception than reality. All teams want to win. How they do that should be up to each individual team. When players speak of tanking, they simply mean they want teams to spend more money, which is understandable.
  18. Longgone
    This is just as shallow, biased and lopsided an opinion as the one you are venting about.
  19. Longgone
    The players have consistently been adamantly opposed to ay type of hard cap, and the owners seem well beyond proposing one at this point. I don't see that being an issue for this negotiation.
  20. Longgone
    I'm still stuck in Brampton after kayaking over from Whitefish Point last year.
  21. Longgone
    Unfortunately, none of them are covered by the agreement.
  22. Longgone
    You can have an inferior party for the minor league portion.
  23. Longgone
    I'm not advocating for either side. Merely stating the situation that exists that makes this negotiation a bit difficult. The players have lots of demands and few concessions to give, The owners have meager demands, and no incentive to make concessions. That makes these negotiations tricky and puts the onus for movement on the players. Those are just facts.
  24. Longgone
    Nothingburger
  25. Longgone
    Players will never agree to a hard cap in any form, and I'm not suggesting any type of floor or minimum.
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