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    This is when being in the minority politically is advantageous. When it’s a shitty situation you can just bark from the sidelines and pretend your side would have done a better job. There’s no risk or accountability.
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    The JD Martinez one is sad because it had so much. The team was still drawing well. For like 6 years Comerica park was the place to be on a Friday or Saturday. It was so magical. We still had hope that iteration could do something. I see that as the last stand for that era.
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    I’ve yet to hear any reasonable alternatives from anyone. Just like Afghanistan. The answer is “this wouldn’t have happened”. No thoughts on what should be done
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    I'm no cap expert but it sure seems like the guys in the NBA have that freedom doesn't it? I don't follow it as close as others but my impression is a guy can end up where he wants if they want him. They'll make it work somehow.
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    I think you can distinguish between Socialism and socialism. When used in the baseball context you can refer to the government approved monopoly, the sharing of assets, the protection that you won't really fail. It's not the dog eat dog cutthroat world of capitalism, "survival of the fittest", boot straps, government funded stadiums, etc, that these business guys like to fancy themselves as.
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    That Cubs game in 1998 is epic. I was there and so were a few others here. He broke Rudy York's record for HR's in a month, got a curtain call from the fans. Matt Anderson made his ML debut Nuke Laloosh style, hitting the backstop on his first warmup pitch. Tony Clark hit a bomb late in the game to take the lead.
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    I'd like to think I went "all the time" as a kid but in reality it was probably once or twice a year at most, other than a few years when I was a member of the Pepsi/Tiger Fan Club. Once I got my driver's license for the 1990 season I went to probably 7 or 8 games a year until the final 2 seasons when I got season tickets, a 21 game plan. So that's probably 100 games at the most. I estimate games at Comerica around 500.
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    I think that too.... at least I hope that. Not sure I believe it anymore. Deadlines produce creativity as anyone who's written a term paper knows.
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    There's nothing wrong with being profitable but they are a lot more profitable than they let on and pretend like they need artificial help to maintain profitability. They are the drunk at the bar blaming the bartender for serving them.
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    The thing is success in baseball has two definitions. There's business/dollars success and winning/losing. Winning and Losing is artificial in a business sense. It's just a defined metric. I've used this analogy before but it's like having two Subway franchises "compete" against each other to see who can sell the most Buffalo Chicken salad bowls. It's a competition but the goal isn't to drive the other one out of business. The owners are using the goal of one definition to set the groundwork for the other definition. They are different things. Despite a team's record the franchises very rarely "lose". Even the worst franchises in history have immense business growth.
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    oh they'll find a way to oppose her
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    The owners proposal is worse than status quo.
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    Atlanta Dodgers Nationals Red Sox Astros Cubs Royals Giants Red Sox Giants Cardinals Giants Yankees Phillies Red Sox The last 15 years produced 11 different orgs as champs, with the Red Sox and noted overs penders San Francisco Giants making up the other 4 years as 3 time champs. 6 other teams made the WS that never won a WS during that time. 6 additional teams made their LCS without advancing to the WS. I think there's competitive balance. It takes a special kind of stupid and ineptness to not have a shot at the playoffs every couple of years and CBT's won't fix that.
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    I know.... I just can't get past the "We need you guys to help us control ourselves"
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    it's why I kind of stay out of foreign policy because it is complicated
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    Bro, I went to a fundamentalist christian HS.... I've got a bingo card going.
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    When I say collusion I'm referring to it not being in the agreement but then they do it among themselves, like was done in the 80's. They don't have to go that far. Just be smart as it's claimed they have become. A smart team doesn't need a CBT to restrain their spending.
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    I see these tweets and think it's time to go offine for awhile.... I'm sitting here thinking "There won't be baseball this year" and then "Will there be anything this year?" "Are we trading a covid environment for just another thing that will stop the world in it's tracks?" If Romney had won in 2012 where would we be today?
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    Either way I'm of the opinion that he made the best decision of two or three horrible options. The emperor and generals could have prevented it by doing what they did shortly after. It was their "code" that killed all those people.
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    They seem to be pretty far apart on the CBT... my understanding is the owners are actually offering a worse deal in that regard than what expired, once you factor in the penalties. If the owners have learned their lesson and are being smarter... then why do they need it? I always viewed the NBA salary cap as not a deterrent for out of control spending but to ensure the players a certain % of revenue. Make the penalities voluntary. If the owners are so noble and good to each other they should pay it. 18 MLB owners are asking the players to make sacrifices because those 18 owners don't trust 6 other owners. The owners can do this without colluding.
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    Yep. Ingraham and Tucker got their marching orders and the internet trolls and bots follow suit.
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    It's been said that by the time Truman became President there was no way to stop the bomb.... the train was already at high speed. He also had no idea the research was going on until he became President.
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    This is where being president really sucks. No good options and when your option doesn’t stop it, neither would have the other one by the way, the critics hammer you for not picking that other one I’m not in favor of troops but I have no problem handing over as much equipment and weapons as possible.
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