RatkoVarda

the salary cap (that's what the luxury tax is) is preventing the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers and a few other big spending teams from being the usual spending ice breakers, constantly breaking new ground with total payroll and AAV for contracts. MLBPA wants that again, because they think that high spending teams drag everyone forward. at lest that what I think they think. unclear if they can go back to that situation again, as teams have certainly gotten smarter about long deals for verternas and for the middle class. the core problem is young players and the middle class are not sharing in the financial growth of the league.

no reason for MLB to change things. They are getting a larger and larger share of a larger and larger pie. Passan's article the other day outlines everything perfectly: MLB got a cap, which they have been hardening by rule and practice over the last 10 years. They got it without giving back anything at all, including no salary floor and no guaranteed revenue split, which would have required teams to open their books. MLB is negotiating 9 figure deals with Apple and Peacock for streaming rights. The Pirates makes a profit as ownership has seem its investment increase more than 10 fold. This "dying" sport is awash in so many guaranteed revenue streams, it is almost impossible not to turn a profit.

MLB is trying to get players to pay for undercoating they did not order

Health is the risk factor. Soto's pre-FA money could be over $90M if he stays healthy. $100M is possible. 19 - .57 20 - .23 21 - 8.5 22 - 16.5? MLBTR 23 - 28? 24 - 40? 25 - FA

Keith Law's Top 20 list for The Athletic is interesting. Bergner 15 Flores 17 EDLR 18 Alfonso 19 No Olsen, or Faedo.

Matthew Stafford has more Super Bowls rings than Connor Cook.

Stafford is a depressing reminder that they had what everyone if after - a franchise QB - and all they managed to do is lose 3 road playoff games with him. edit also, Lions could have had Aaron Donald and AShawn Robinson and Matt Stafford on their team.

Just comes down to money; if the Tigers offer 10/341, he is the starting SS.

this is interesting https://www.espn.com/blog/detroit-lions/post/_/id/38266/that-was-a-big-deal-the-oral-history-of-the-detroit-lions-1992-playoff-win-over-the-dallas-cowboys

new GOP debate rules: 1. All debates at Trump properties; minimum $100M in rent for the week 2. Biden wears a Let's Go Brandon hat 3. Dems can choose any moderator from this list: Eric, Ivanka, Don Jr, The Fat One, Tucker, Hannity, Ingraham 4. Biden not allowed to drink water with one hand 5. Audience questions only from big, strong guys with tears in their eyes, who ask Trump "Sir" questions

I don't have the insights to question ZIPS calculus, but they are predicting Franklin Perez to be more valuable than Funkhouser Zac Houston to be more valuable than Wentz and Turnbull to pitch 98 innings. So why should I pay attention to that?

Big Bernie 2016 energy here. "If I cannot have everything I want now, I am going to hurt politically the only people who can give me what I want later." 100% stupid. Biden went BBB first; voting rights second. You can argue that he should have flipped that, but Sinema and Machin are still in the Seante either way.

you know they were royally pissed off, because they provided a very long, very detailed explanation about why they were not pissed off.

Dems in disarray as all income groups' finances improve and millions of Americans are lifted out of poverty.

not sure why they bothered to include Perez at all; he has missed almost 4 straight years Hill seems to be a spot starter; would that not make him at least more than an HM? or at least better than Richan or Montero? otherwise not a bad list

Lots to unpack here; really high on Tork and Greene. Kreidler's monster year only moves him from 40 to 40+ prospect. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/detroit-tigers-top-34-prospects-2022/

so Gym Jordan said Trump tried to deploy 10K National Guard, but Pelosi stopped him. Pelosi and Barbaro Garbey both have the same amount of control of the DCNG - none. It is amazing to me that there is literally ZERO fallout from telling such an obviously stupid lie. But I guess if you trigger a bunch of libtards, you have done a day's work.

We have many social influencers in Congress these days. They don't introduce actual legislation. They introduce resolutions about how great the US is, or how bad some Americans are, and why you need to hate them. Some of these people don't have a legislative director on staff at all. Not needed. But they do have multiple communication staff who can help get their story out from papers to tiktok People want this; they don't want a bunch of dorks debating policy about 32 v. 38 % marginal tax rates; the public wants professional wrestling. We're doomed as a country.

so in recent years, they usually have 2 teams in DSL and 2 in FCL; there are 2 DSL managers listed above, but only one FSL manager. I wonder if they are going with just one FCL team in 2022. ?

Cyber Ninjas conned the rubes, cashed out the millions in donations, stashed it in the Caribbean, nothing is left but the shell. Really, just a perfect con. AZ Republic newspaper asked for $1K sanctions a day for not turning over docs; judge said no, make it $50K a day, starting tomorrow. Ninja attorney wants out as he has not been paid, judge said nope. Board of Election released 90 page doc showing these idiots did not know their ass from their elbow.

There is literally no amount of sh|t that Ted Cruz would decline to eat, if he thought it would help him be president.

the party of personal responsibility

yeah, she drove him to the insurrection. very manly.

2Gs are proud of what they did 1/6