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  1. buddha
    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.
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    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.
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    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?
  4. buddha
    cue the juiced ball crowd.
  5. 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.
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    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.
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    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?
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    then why are they actively trying to shorten games?
  9. 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.
  10. buddha
    the fans came back to the nba after a lockout??? no way!!!!
  11. buddha
    especially night games in april. freezing out there.
  12. buddha
    george halas is on the list. again, this is just lazy clickbait. as to the big buck, fontes had the best players and came up short again and again, usually due to fontes' poor decisions. this just highlights how poor the lions upper management was at identifying coaching talent.
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    people are still wearing them outside. and in their cars by themselves.
  14. buddha
    my grocery store had a sign requiring masks so i wore one. as soon as i dont have to, i wont. they still require one on the cta.
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    potsy clark won an nfl championship. buddy parker won TWO nfl championships and lost another title game. come on.
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    i doubt they lose much for long. again, this is a temporary labor situation. people get emotional and start talking about the damage to the game and that fans wont come back, yadda yadda yadda. tjat's clickbait anf sports radio call in topics. the fans have always come back. there are much larger issues with the game itself and the pace of play that are more problematic to continue the game's popularity. management is trying to tweak that. to me, that is the more important aspect of these negotiations, not the money. the money will eventually work itself out. the fact that the players have any say on that is ridiculous, and that's what's holding up meaningful changes being made. they use it as a bargaining chip to get a few more scheckles out of the owners.
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    understood. i dont think the us will move into ukraine under any circumstances, so i dont think we have to worry about it.
  18. buddha
    a temporary workstoppage will not affect baseball's fandom. what is affecting baseball's fandom is that the game has become very slow in an age where people dont have that much attention span anymore. as soon as there are baseball games to go to outside in the summer when its warm, there will be tons of fans in the seats. just like there has been after every work stoppage. the nhl cancelled a whole damn season and fans came back and the league expanded multiple times! people dont drop sports because of labor disputes.
  19. buddha
    why would nato moving against ukraine cause china to move against taiwan? because the us would be too occupied in europe to fight?
  20. buddha
    its not an "anti-lions agenda", its just laziness and shoddy work, i.e.: "journalism for click bait."
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    And I think people are silly for criticizing it. so here we are.
  22. buddha
    true. not just dictatorships. ask LBJ.
  23. buddha
    great win.
  24. buddha
    you should look into those examples more and you'll often find competing interests behind the scenes that are influencing those you perceive to be 100% in charge.
  25. buddha
    well, that's what lee said. also, i guess i just dont see what the big deal is over what manfred said. every side spins pr in a public negotiation. so what?
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