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  1. buddha
    oh no casimir, he's pure evil for not wearing a hairshirt and crying at the INJUSTICE that he has caused all of us. he is hitler.
  2. buddha
    rob manfred didnt allow them to counter because he is evil. EVIL!
  3. buddha
    rob manfred is not allowed to smile because he is an evil chariacture of a person. how dare he smile when isaac paredes barely has enough money to eat?
  4. buddha
    agree to a cap with a floor and you get a % of revenues. like other sports do it. but if they do that they will give up 10 year 360 million contracts that 1% of their membership gets so they wont do it.
  5. buddha
    me too, and they tried some stuff there too. but the real driver is the time between pitches. keep em in the box and make them throw within 15 seconds and the game speeds up dramatically. the average time in the 70s was 2 hr 30 mins. the average games now are well over 3 hours.
  6. buddha
    i didnt know our old friend martin mayhew is back as the gm for the artists formerly known as the washington redskins. also, washington tried to trade a first and third for stafford last year? huh, i dont remember reading that either.
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    "took a risk" and inherited dad's money...
  9. buddha
    what we need to do is get rid of gambling and fantasy baseball and return the game to its purity! only people who love baseball and are willing to sit through 4 hour games need apply for tickets. that will definitely solve baseball's problems.
  10. buddha
    22 racketeering counts.
  11. buddha
    the most powerful politician in illinois was just indicted on federal racketeering charges, continuing the long tradition of corrupt illinois politicians going to prison. if it cant be the governor, than gosh darn it, make it the head of the illinois house of representatives and the state's democratic party for the last 30 years. have fun behind bars mike madigan, ya crook.
  12. buddha
    he was asked about iraq. and iraq is part of a larger criticism about us policy after the fall of the soviet union. i dont think its the fault of the united states, but i also dont think its a glory mission forced on russia by one dude who is crazy (which appears to be the standard narrative). i think there are strategic reasons why russia has done what it did. some of those reasons may have been because of the actions of the west in nato. as to your last point, i dont think he says its not ukraine's "right" to do what it thinks is best but that there are consequences for those decisions, and when you live next to russia and you have the historical ties between the two areas, you should be careful about poking the bear. i think where he would most differ with most americans is our idea of ourselves as defenders of liberal democracies and spreaders of democracy. he sees that as flim flam. i dont. i think its an important part of how we see ourselves and how some others see us (but not as many as we think). let's see what russia negotiates with ukraine. he thinks they will want regime change in ukraine and will keep donbass as independent (controlled by russia of course), but that they have no interest in taking over and occupying the whole country. we'll see if he's right.
  13. buddha
    its a very local sport. i'd watch the chargers play the jets on a tuesday afternoon, but i wouldnt think about watching a baseball game i dont have a rooting interest in (dont care about anything but watching the tigers win, the cubs play, and the white sox lose).
  14. buddha
    a lot of differing opinions on him. some say he's too slow and the reason he is making so many contested catches is because he cant get open against college corners because he's so slow. but he still makes the catches... so is he a slower, bigger kenny golladay? or is he the mike williams the lions picked too high in round one?
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    https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine submitted for your consideration, not because i agree with all of it. and i dont "blame" the us for the crisis in ukraine, but its actions are part of a bigger strategic issue russia has.
  16. buddha
    the more and more draft stuff i read and listen to, the less i want to take a qb. i'm reverting back to my original stance of waiting until next year.
  17. buddha
    they reduced the time between innings for advertisements a few years ago. why would they do that if it were all about immediate cash all the time? the nfl did the same thing. this has zero to do with gamblers. they still need to make the product better if they want people to watch it. gamblers will find ways to bet no matter whether there is 15 seconds between pitches or 17 seconds between pitches. look, i dont "trust" things that mlb says just like i dont "trust" things anyone says that are just PR moves, and they ARE concerned first and foremost with the money. THEYRE A BUSINESS! OF COURSE THE ARE! but one of the things about a moneymaking business is presenting a product people will buy. if people are stopping buying your product, then you try to fix it. every sport has done this except baseball (largely because management and ownership cannot get along for all sorts of reasons). i applaud them for finally trying something, now lets see if they will actually force the players to do it?
  18. buddha
    cue the juiced ball crowd.
  19. buddha
    the roadblock against speeding up the game are the managers and the players, not the league itself. managers are figuring out ways to maximoze their pitcher's effectiveness, which means more pitching changes every game. long ago, baseball teams figured out that the most efficient way to score runs is to take pitches, tire out the pitchers, walk, and then hit home runs. that leads to long long games. but THE biggest reason games take longet is the time between pitches. and that is 100% on the players, and the umpires' unwlingness to force them to pitch faster. the league is trying to combat this with a pitch clock (which is one of the changes they presented to the union). dont throw a pitch in 15 seconds, its a ball. enforce the rules and the game will go faster.
  20. buddha
    they proposed three changes to the union. they brought theo epstein in to try multiple changes in the minors and now they are trying to implement those in the pros.
  21. buddha
    why do you say they've "noticed the revenue possibility with gambling relatively recently"? gambling was illegal outside of nevada and reservations until relatively recently. since the supreme court effectively allowed everyone to legalize it ALL the sports have formed partnerships with gambling facilities (as all sports all over the world have done since time immemorial.) its not like they never noticed this until recently, its that they werent legally allowed to do it until recently. and i dont see how that put anything on the back burner. they tried multiple things to speed the game up in the last two years in the minors and then proposed three of those changes in this collective bargaining session. how is that putting it on the back burner? they have to bargain that stuff with the players, i guess. that seems weird to me, but maybe its in their agreement? that said, theyre trying to do it, im not sure why you think that puts it on the back burner?
  22. buddha
    then why are they actively trying to shorten games?
  23. buddha
    i'm saying that's the most important issue to the game itself, in my opinion. the most important issue in the negotiations to the owners and players is money. its always money.
  24. buddha
    the fans came back to the nba after a lockout??? no way!!!!
  25. buddha
    especially night games in april. freezing out there.
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