buddha

sigh, were going to end up picking 7th, arent we?

miles bridges is gonna cost us a lot of money if we want to sign him.

the owners have a really good system that guarantees them a lot of profits. i can see why they dont want to change it substantially. the problem for me is that owners want to institute necessary changes in the pace of play and the players wont agree to it without getting more money. i wonder what the dymanic behind the scenes within the ownership group is? the big owners surely want to pay less revenue sharing and less tax, but the small owners want more revenue sharing and dont give a damn about the tax. small owners probably dont want arbitration messed with at all, and probably dont want to increase minimum salaries. how do the players - who obviously side with big spending big markets - split them from the small owners and get enough middle market owners to embrace a more moderate position? an international draft? give up some of the salary increases for first three years in exchange for a higher luxury tax ceiling?

when you have no defense, it makes it hard on the goalies. (not that the goalies have been good, they havent.)

teal battle

no.

well....they didnt give up.

hronek gives it away and its 10-7.

9-7. boo.

lucas raymond! 8-7!!!!!!

8-6 as dekyser gets lost and leaves bertuzzi to have to cover for his slow ass.

7-6!!!

7-5!

we have one defenseman who can play defense. 7-4. comeback is on.

how did they look? looks like cade and bagley might have something.

gettin'worked...unsurprisingly

biden's approval rating now at a trumpian 39%

heck man, you can go back to the beginnings of human history for that type of warfare. the only difference is mechanization making it less "personal." i dont have to cut your eyes out and make you walk back to your village before i rape your children and sell them into slavery (typical mongol practices back in the day), now i can just drop some bombs from a plane. or drone! even easier to kill you and your family (an american favorite) the history of what human beings have done to each other in war is brutal. humans are horrible creatures to each other.

evan mobley wins rookie of the year? next year he's on the lakers. cade cunningham develops into a star next year? the year afrer he's on the celtics. chet holmgren looks promising? signs straight away with the lakers. thats what europe is like. smaller clubs have almost no chance.

and youre talking about a scenario where a few nba guys decide they want to play on the same team so they end up in LA for the clips or lakers or philly or brooklyn or phoenix. there is only one team in germany that the best players go to, two (and a half) teams in spain, one in italy, one in france, and maybe four in england. thats it. and thats with hundreds of teams in every country, you have maybe 8 or 9 who get all the best players and they usually win the league every year. bayern have won 9 straight bundesligas. juve have won 9 of the last 10 scudettos. psg have won 7 of the last 9 ligue un titles. either barca or real have won 34 of the last 40 la liga titles. the english premier league has existed since 1992 and has been won by one of the top 4 big money clubs every year but two (and the first time by blackburn back before the billionaire money started). if you want the red sox, yankees and dodgers winning every year, look to europe.

much different system. most of the clubs in europe survive by developing players and selling them bigger clubs. there is no trading of players for other players (very rarely) like there is here. players over there are developed and then sold on for profits. the equivalent would be getting one or two years of mize and then selling him to the dodgers for $80 million. then using that money to get a bunch of kids from venezuela for pennies in order to sell them on in a few years too. the money is much less for most teams in europe and there isnt the income guarantee that there is here because there is no salary cap. half the teams in europe are near broke! its a totally different ballgame.

no reason for china to do that. and they didnt.

and all this talk of european soccer, im not sure any of you would really like that system here. everyone loves the idea of relegation and teams actually losing something when they lose, but european soccer is VERY top heavy. the same handful of teams win every year. and the only way to break into that club is to be bought by a multi-billionaire who just throws money at the team and buys the best managers and players. is that really what you want? people complain about the yankees but the yankees havent won anything in years. real madrid and barcelona and occasionally atletico win EVERY YEAR. everyone else is playing for third most seasons (covid upset that a bit, but madrid are still winning the league). that's what you get in a more free market system where there is no cap on salaries and players can go where they want. the tigers would simply become a feeder club for the yankees, red sox, and dodgers. unless jeff bezos or elon musk was a secret tigers' fan and wanted to buy them.

socialism would be if the government came in and ran major league baseball. you know, for the good of the fans.

good. cause it doesnt surprise me either. in fact, i wonder if this ever really happened, or if it did, it was because we knew what china would do so we did it just to release the information and make them look bad. i assume that's why we did it.