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No one should have any economic sympathy for *anyone* who owns a major league baseball team (or an any other pro sports team FTM) but IMO at least, it doesn't particular advance the argument to harp on the assets of any particular ownership because that isn't what makes the situation what it is. The Dodgers and Yankees aren't able to spend more money because their ownership groups are richer or theoretically able or willing to invest more, they can spend more because the team has more revenue. If Ilitch owned the Dodgers he'd probably be spending what the Dodgers spend now and if the Dodger's ownership group owned the Tigers they'd probably be spending more or less what the Tigers spend now. Or conversely if Ilitch still owned the Tigers but the Tigers were the team from LA, the Tigers would be spending what the the Dodgers do. There simply are not 30 markets in the US where you can generate the kind of revenue that LA and NYC generate. Every other sports org recognizes that and makes a serious effort to normalize revenues across the league. As long as baseball doesn't, there is no ownership group that will ever be able to rescue the Pirates or Marlins, Detroit etc., from their revenue disadvantage.

Plus, by breaking the government they can restore the services people demand. Of course the restored services will be privatized, be more expensive due to profit, have higher fraud because the contracts will be structured on service delivery numbers, and pay the workers delivering the services less. It's Russia in the 90's. Hopefully, we won't get even more Germany in the 30's to go with it.

On the plus side, we’ve played the world champs two hard games in a row. We are hitting the ball ok, drawing walks and generally pitching well. Just getting beat by HRs

If you kill then before they die of cancer then there will be no cancer deaths.

Tork’s OPS+ craters by more than 700 points. Suck.

Base running is important and played LARGE in these two losses. But it's correctable. I am more encouraged than disappointed. Long season.

Probably when there was a lot less of him. I'm thinking he has subtracted by addition.

Flaherty is pitching a really good game.

Commercials are syncing perfectly btw. MLB.com has too many employees in marketing and not enough technicians.

Me too. I get to take in a local minor league hockey game tonight in Virginia. Blue Ridge Bobcats vs. Carolina Thunderbirds. At the end of two, Cats 4, Birds 2. In the beer line just now, I started a conversation with a guy wearing the English D, from Dearborn, and then the lady behind us joined in. She was from Lansing. What are the odds three people in the beer line at a hockey game in rural VA, would all be from Michigan?

counter point to the counter point: the NFL Football has been eating baseball'slunch for decades. Is it because there is so much parity almost all fans have recent memories of championships/near championships and rebuilds are 2 or 3 seasons instead of 8 or 9? Is parity the reason? I don't know - but it's the first argument to make.

Being 7/6 is what makes us exceptional.

Scary stuff. Extreme right and left are both equally bad and often lead straight to each other. How the Republican war on empathy turned America into a playground for sociopaths | Opinion

I may try to get to the game tomorrow. Haven't been to a game in a few years

IDK, if you bring the highest spending teams "back to the pack" then that is going to lower the cost of FA's and a team like Detroit would have that much higher chance of having landed Bregman for example, who certainly would have made us more competitive. Which is why the MLBPA is just as responsible for the competitive mess the league is in. The players won't do anything that might limit the top end biggest contracts. But the reality is that more players would share in more of the revenue if 10 players got 50M instead of 1 getting 500M. The MLBPA has never seen it that way though so there is an effective alliance between ownership in the union in a system that sucks.

Maybe the Pirates and Marlins owners should sell their teams if they can't compete. If you have no chance of ever making a post-season with 12 teams, then you are a big part of the problem.

All fans care about is the possibility of a championship. And with one team hoarding all the quality players, the possibility of the Pirates or Marlins winning a championship are real close to 0%. Fans will stay away in droves.

On the other hand, aren't the Dodgers actually doing it right by putting to foot all the way down on the pedal to put together the best team possible? How many other teams, almost all of whom are run by billionaires, are doing that? Opening Day payroll: Team 2024 2025 Increase Dodgers 221 321 $100 Orioles 94 150 $56 Padres 154 197 $43 Phillies 236 278 $42 Tigers 95 131 $36 Angels 159 192 $33 Red Sox 162 184 $22 Twins 119 137 $18 Diamondbacks 157 174 $17 Reds 88 103 $15 Mets 302 315 $13 Jays 222 233 $11 Mariners 129 138 $9 Royals 105 113 $8 Athletics 48 55 $7 Nationals 95 100 $5 Pirates 72 75 $3 Brewers 94 94 $0 Guardians 86 82 ($4) Rays 88 73 ($15) Rangers 222 206 ($16) Yankees 294 272 ($22) Rockies 134 112 ($22) Braves 225 202 ($23) Giants 189 158 ($31) Cubs 216 184 ($32) Astros 237 204 ($33) Marlins 84 47 ($37) Cardinals 164 122 ($42) White Sox 118 59 ($59) All 30 Teams 6633 6736 $103

My estimate is 1/3 support him strongly, 1/3 hate him. 1/3 don't know what's going on.

Spitting on that thang is a pretty good description of what they've spent the last 10 weeks doing.

If he doesn't stumble around 3rd he's safe, not really a case of Cora being over aggressive.

It happens. We had another player who was once a great young athlete but could hardly put one foot in front of the other without tripping in the OF by the time he was 26. yes, it was

"ChatGPT, generate a video of Margot out by three inches"

it would be gravy if Dingler hit a little this season.

Why even have replay when the ump calls the opposite of what it shows.

MARGOT ROBBIE!

i'd watch 100 gambling commercials in a row kf it meant i didnt have to watch another ad for blood sucking amnulance chasing piece of ****s like fieger and bernstein.

Oh, you beat me to it.

If you mean 50/50 in the 2020s … mmmmaybe …

@chasfh the radio overlay has gotten (in my opinion) watchably close to the video. maybe about a second and a half ahead of the video.

He's joining ohtani in the 50/50 club ain't he?

Hey, I can hurt myself doing ordinary stuff, but I’m 73 years old.

If Gleyber goes on the DL, then Keith to 2B, Tork at first and bring JHM up

I’m not sure why we even bother to play the games.

Way to go Dingler against a tough pitcher.

Such an odd phenomenon that only attractive women want to be sideline reporters.

Keep me posted, I like Jason but I love Dan D.

What a big time dunk in a big situation.

Michigan State/Ole Miss is a dog fight and a really fun game to watch. Back and forth scoring, big time 3's, a highlight reel dunk.

My girlfriend assures me size does not matter. I can't think of one meme coin that has rug pulled and been prosecuted. The Paul brothers have done it multiple times and if we dig deep enough, they are probably behind her meme coin since she is on their podcast network. I agree, she probably didn't have a clue what was going on.

almost weirder than two GS was that a Pitcher was on base two consecutive times.

Wow. That is a pretty shocking pardon. Ah, his lawyer is a guy named Brad Bondi. Trump Pardons Nikola Founder Trevor Milton

Here is how I used to make money with the lottery. A local speakeasy I used to frequent had two lottery machines (Ohio) where you could buy all sorts of tickets, including Keno. Beside the two machines (which could also check for winning tickets by reading the bar code) was a trash can. Or, you might say, the pot of gold. I would grab a handful of tickets when I was there and scan the ticket (losing ticket) into my Ohio Lottery phone app. Each ticket was 5 points for the most part. You could scan 1200 points a month. I used two phones so I could double up. Once I got to 10,000 points I would redeem them for a $100 gas card. So about every 4 months I got a hundred bucks in free gas. Some thought I was nuts for diving in the trash but I could care less. Free money is a good thing. 🙂

My wife got her car right after the election too. Couch****er is a homonculous creation of Peter Thiel. No...

The last Tiger to do it was JD Martinez in 2017 (2 HR, 4 walks). https://stathead.com/baseball/player-batting-game-finder.cgi?request=1&timeframe=seasons&ccomp[1]=gt&cval[1]=1&cstat[1]=b_hr&ccomp[2]=gt&cval[2]=4&cstat[2]=b_bb&team_id=DET

The FanGraphs staff is giving the slight edge to the Tigers to win the AL Central: Even though the projected standing on the site have the Tigers two games behind the Twins. https://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=Standings

The pitching staff is so strong and deep that, if they stay healthy for the most part, we'll be a top five staff in all of baseball. So, that by itself is going to make the early going interesting. I'd be satisfied taking one of three in LA.