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this thread is becoming proof we need some baseball games.

99.9% of fans dont care about either of them. millionaires and billionaires arguing.

carlos monnarez has taken up the drew sharpe mantle of being the guy who must be a contrarian and bag on all the home teams no matter what. and he said for years that stafford was a loser and the lions needed to get rid of him. monnarez is terrible.

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/chet-lemon/ Read it.

Thanks y'all for the support and the pictures of your best friends. They are definitely helping (along with my loved ones who flocked to me in support). Charlie definitely did a lot of good before he left us.

I'm so sorry about Charlie. I lost one that way in Georgia in 1994 (same day Cobain died). It was completely devastating. His name was Bongo. I honored Bongo by getting a shelter Dog named Tony. I had him for 13 years. This is Diego. He's a 16 year old Border Collie. (Pic was from March 2020). He is a very very good dog. He has problems moving around now, as well as with his eyesight and I had to build a ramp out of dirt and grass up to my front porch because he can't step on the concrete steps anymore and can't do the tile steps in the kitchen by the back door I bought a ramp with grip strips on it but he refused to step on it. The grass ramp looks dumb, but I don't care. Even though he has trouble getting around and only goes outside when I do now, he is still very good about holding his water. Most dogs I had that got older didn't make that kind of effort. When I say this, I don't mean it metaphorically...........He is literally my best friend in the truest sense of the word and I know he won't be around much longer, but he's happy and he's gotten me through a lot of tough times.

My bad, I wasn’t explicit enough. I was too worried thinking about how somebody can survive on an MLB wage whilst typing and got distracted. Let’s be clear on something here. This isn’t a typical union vs management CBA negotiation. It’s nothing at all like that. Biases regarding a situation were $25/hour jobs simply do not parallel to where top earners make $25M/year. They’re playing with silly gobs of money in the middle of an expletive pandemic with inflation at ridiculous heights. Both sides are at fault. Both sides are culpable for the delay. To blindly side with one side over the other in this matter is flat out asinine.

Paredes has been getting plate reps all winter.

Yes, Cabrera was going to be top 10 in many offensive categories until Avisail Garcia had an affair with Prince Fielder’s wife. Unfortunate.

I think it’s pretty clear by now that Baseball is not negotiating in good faith. First of all, they are hardly countering Players’ proposals at all. The CBT, which acts as a de facto salary cap and is a key force that has reduced overall player comp as a percentage of total revenues, is a clear example of this. It was $210 million in 2021. The owners previous offer was 214-214-214-216-220 over the next five seasons. The players countered with 245 to 260 over the next five years, in order to open up the ability for teams to spend to win. The owners countered yesterday with 214-214-216-218-222. If Baseball had met Players halfway they might have agreed and moved on to the next item. Instead Baseball gave mere inches and had to know it was going to be seen as the nearly nothing it was. Of course Players rejected it: it would create the same drag on player comp that it was in the last CBA. Secondly, the owners are using high-profile but low-impact changes as their proof to the fans that the players are being the obstructionists. Baseball is working toward making fans believe that the universal DH and expanded playoffs are going to end up in an economic windfall for players, when in reality such an increase would be concentrated with only a lucky few while the majority of their union base, the evolving majority of which are low-tenured minimum wagers, remain unaffected. Of course, Baseball has most of the leverage because most owners’ businesses can withstand a canceled season, since their team is such a small part of their empire, while the game is the sole source of revenue for most players. So Baseball doesn’t really have to meet Players halfway. I think most of us would like the see Players get a much fairer shake from the new CBA, but I think we’ve gotten to the point where we have to ask ourselves: would we be OK with seeing games canceled so players can be happier with their labor deal when they come back to the game? Or would we rather see games go on as scheduled, played by discontented players who felt forced to accept a suboptimal deal and continue to resent the game they play for the next several years? A lot of fans will smirk at the idea that “millionaires” could be such malcontents and end up siding with the owners on it, as planned. But this can be an ethical quandary for a conscientious fan who’d like to see the best of everything in the game accrue to all parties.

The owners might go for that, but the players goal is to get as much as possible, so that maintains the divide between them.

We need a bot that tags all Carlos-related posts as NSFW. Read at your own risk.

If we get 54 of them we could create a football team.

Nice. Let's trade down so much we get all of the even numbered picks.

I agree 100% Grant is an issue but the root of the problem is Casey. If we had a coach that knew offense, I might be able to live with Grant.

You have to understand. When Archie refers to liberals, he is talking about people that support Mitt Romney.

Baseball players are risky.

It’s amazing that two groups founded on fighting Nazis, racists, and corrupt cops became the sworn enemies of the Trumpies. Tells you all you really need to know.

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