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  1. Longgone
    I believe it's generally a poor strategy to operate in the middle. If you are going to rebuild, rebuild and use current assets to reload and build a future competitive core. If you have a decent core then sure. Teams need to be able to make that judgement call.
  2. Longgone
    The whole purpose of a draft is to allow the worst teams an opportunity to improve. Why convolute that principle when it likely won't impact perceived behavior?
  3. Longgone
    Again, it's a faulty assumption that a) rebuilding is bad and everyone should strive to be mediocre while rebuilding, and b) a lottery is somehow going to change perceived behavior. If I were rebuilding, and I acquired an asset that made me more competitive, I'd flip him for future assets that fit more with a projected core.
  4. Longgone
    And you believe a lottery will have a positive effect on this?
  5. Longgone
    I believe it's a fallacy that teams are incentivized by draft picks. Teams do get in situations where they need to rebuild, and so they trade veteran talent for future assets. This causes them to lose games, which as a byproduct, gives them higher draft picks, which leads to better players and winning games. You can bemoan this cycle, but it is a part of sports, and really isn't a problem. I love watching a team gather young talent and rebuild, even if they struggle for a while. A greater threat, to me, would be the loss of revenue sharing and the competitive balance tax and penalties. Without those you're back to the Yankees and Dodgers being able to buy all the top talent and create a competitive imbalance. Giving weaker teams the opportunity to rebuild and preventing too much of an economic disparity among teams regarding access to talent are two key issues. I'm all for getting younger players more money, however, without shortening free agency.
  6. Longgone
    Lotteries stink. They don't work and somebody always gets screwed.
  7. Longgone
    It seems, in labor negotiations, it never appears close until up against the perceived deadline. Baseball, both sides, have a bad habit of negotiating in the press, but you can't tell anything from that.
  8. Longgone
    No, it's not. Look at what happened to Schoop, Mazara and Reyes who were delayed in the spring. They need all of it to get the timing down and for pitchers to build up arm strength. It's not just a matter of getting in shape, it's getting major league game ready.
  9. Longgone
    No, no one gets serious until they perceive it's the last minute. It's human nature.
  10. Longgone
    There's very little truth in these statements. Why you would want to pooh pooh a pandemic that has killed over 825,000 Americans, and is still killing over 1,200 per day, has hospitalised millions and left them with long term health issues, all despite worldwide mitigation efforts and the miraculous arrival of the vaccines, is beyond me. I get it, you're sick of it, we're all sick of it, but calling it, " a common cold", and distorting statistics to minimize it's impact is just odious.
  11. Longgone
    Easy there, big fella!
  12. Longgone
    Length and AAV, they've not been top of the market players. 10/300+ seems inconceivable for them.
  13. Longgone
    Not their style.
  14. Longgone
    It's not by popularity, it's the player most checked out on Baseball Reference in that state.
  15. Longgone
    The players want younger players paid more, they’ll increase starting salaries and maybe tie them to an index, maybe earlier arbitration. No one is proposing eliminating the luxury tax, players want higher ceilings and no penalties for exceeding, owners want lower, they’ll meet in the middle. Players want earlier free agency, probably get it for older players. Both sides have proposed “anti tanking “ measures. I don’t believe anyone seriously wants a floor. Nothing revolutionary here.
  16. Longgone
    Nah, they’ll settle, the differences aren’t that extreme.
  17. Longgone
    Ahh, it will end up at the last minute like most labor negotiations, with the owners making some concessions, and the players acting like they conceded because they didn't get everything they demanded.
  18. Longgone
    It's a nice, upscale residence.
  19. Longgone
    *bull residence
  20. Longgone
    Everyone is trying to win. It's just like poker, sometimes you fold on a lousy opportunity to win now, for a better opportunity later.
  21. Longgone
    And sometimes it's prudent to rebuild, sometimes things are cyclical, sometimes it makes no sense to expend resources now, while simultaneously trading current assets for future ones. The goal is to build a future championship team, not a current mediocre one.
  22. Longgone
    I believe tanking, which is deliberately trying to lose, rarely, if ever, happens. I believe there are teams, who are not competitive at present, that trade present assets for future assets, and don't see the sense in wasting financial resources in this weakened state just to rise to mediocre, while they try to accumulate a young base to build around. I can see where this bothers fans, however, whether you like it or not, whether it is successful or not, it is a legitimate strategy and it should be a teams prerogative how to build their club, and there should be no artificial incentives or penalties installed to manipulate teams into doing something other than what they feel is in their best long term interests, especially when the issue is more perception than reality. All teams want to win. How they do that should be up to each individual team. When players speak of tanking, they simply mean they want teams to spend more money, which is understandable.
  23. Longgone
    This is just as shallow, biased and lopsided an opinion as the one you are venting about.
  24. Longgone
    The players have consistently been adamantly opposed to ay type of hard cap, and the owners seem well beyond proposing one at this point. I don't see that being an issue for this negotiation.
  25. Longgone
    I'm still stuck in Brampton after kayaking over from Whitefish Point last year.
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