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lol what does he need more money for. And there are people who actually buy that nonsense? That’s really the aggravating thing about this whole experience: the gaslighting that just insults our intelligence so badly, as if we’re the ones who have to defend the idea to them that all billionaires want more and more money. It’s simply bonkers.

That’s another reason against the salary cap/floors without idea: the amount of revenue generated by organizations is vastly different among one another. More than NBA basketball and certainly NFL football, MLB baseball is an intensely local sport with very little national or even regional appeal. Maybe that’s because of the everydayness of the enterprise: to be really tuned in to your team or the league, you have to follow it every day, because the landscape is always changing. Contrast this with football, which stays static and is subject to analysis (over, more likely, overanalysis) for an entire week in between games. So an NFL fan has the luxury of contemplating a lot more teams and players and the league while it is essentially in stasis. I think that might lend itself to maintaining more national profile than baseball. And, of course, the NFL pools its money to a nearly complete degree, and the Players have a lot more access to how much money is flowing through it, making them far more able to negotiate a fair share of the proceeds in a negotiation of salary caps.

I don’t think there should be salary caps or floors without the audited books of all 30 organizations being completely open to both sides. Only this will enable the possibility of a fair distribution of the money, especially in an industry whose monopoly status is protected by legal precedent. But as long as only one side—meaning Owners—has the ability to see the books, salary restrictions are always going to be favorable only to Owners. Otherwise, Players are going to be negotiating in the dark, and I don’t believe that’s fair.

I was definitely not being sarcastic. 😁

Not me. I would pick up the curly fries, get a Dixie cup of water, and book.

I see Malloy optioned when Vierling comes back. When Meadows comes back, it’s Baddoo.

Man, Arby’s must be getting their clocks cleaned this year on their Instant 3 Play promotion, where they give free curly fries to everyone who comes in the Arby’s whenever the Tiger score 3 runs. Next year they’re going to have to change it to Instant 4 Play.

A case could be made that Javy is doing as well as he is because he’s finally happy with where he’s playing. If he’s forced to move to third base, he might become unhappy, and as all of us know now, an unhappy Javy is an unproductive Javy.

😉

He might rotate there, but likely Vierling and McKinstry split time there as well.

See, this is what I think, too. How do you fire Javy Baez after the job he’s done out there?

Man, Brieske left a lot of picthes right in hitters’ happy zones, and gave up some loud outs, but technically, he got the job done, and I expect he’ll get another leverage situation in the next week or so.

And a seeing eye single. This is getting dicey.

Baez botched the awesome sliding catch there. Dag.

Great soft contact out. Not a great throw to first by Brieske there, but at least he got it there in the air and got the out.

Got away with one on Kirk there ..

I just think AJ wants to get Brieske a leverage situation here. This is as good as time as any to test him.

Well, Beau Brieske here is a choice …

I mean, Torres had to go for the double, but man, does it ever suck he’s out. I have a feeling were gonna need a run here.

Or Parker in center where he obviously belongs and Javy in right?

Don’t look now, but Javy is on track for 20+ bombs.

You almost gotta wonder whether injecting Parker into that outfield would **** things up out there? Not saying I believe that for sure—just, you almost gotta wonder.

And as it turns out we needed that Javy bomb because we gave it right back up.

Are we gonna make Bert happy or what??

Javy bomb! Crucial run late!