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Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 12:34 pm
by brian

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 12:47 pm
by mister d
"This greedy baseball player says he won't play for less money and would rather not play for no money wow that is so greedy that he's saying if you want me to play honor my contract or else I will stay home and make $0.00 that is a lot of greed I would play this kids game for free."

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 3:44 pm
by DSafetyGuy
Staggering how many people root for the guy in the owner's box and not the players over and over again.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 6:13 pm
by HaulCitgo
Not about the individual though. If all players that that view than no season. Probably ok for some. Not so ok for others. Everyone needs to sacrifice some for the common good including the owners. Not just players vs owners but stars vs fringe players and majors vs minors. Personally I think owners should take the majority of the haircut since there are business risks and rewards but the players should be expected to foot some of the bill too. Otherwise owners should call their bluff.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 6:45 pm
by DSafetyGuy
Owners get over on players as a general rule, regardless of sport.


Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 6:50 pm
by sancarlos
DSafetyGuy wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 6:45 pm Owners get over on players as a general rule, regardless of sport.

Feck, yeah!

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 7:02 pm
by mister d
HaulCitgo wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 6:13 pm Not about the individual though. If all players that that view than no season. Probably ok for some. Not so ok for others. Everyone needs to sacrifice some for the common good including the owners. Not just players vs owners but stars vs fringe players and majors vs minors. Personally I think owners should take the majority of the haircut since there are business risks and rewards but the players should be expected to foot some of the bill too. Otherwise owners should call their bluff.
How about have the owners at all workouts and games. Right in the gym and on the field.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 8:10 pm
by HaulCitgo
They're not scared of Rona. It's about cash first, second and third.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 8:53 pm
by brian
I think Ellis/Harron is trying to say something by Bateman's love of middling 80s rock like Huey Lewis and Genesis/Phil Collins, but not quite sure what.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 8:54 pm
by brian
I know that's in the wrong thread. I don't care. I'm leaving it.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 9:05 pm
by DSafetyGuy
HaulCitgo wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 8:10 pm They're not scared of Rona. It's about cash first, second and third.
Exactly all the more reason for the players to stick it to the owners.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 10:31 pm
by mister d
HaulCitgo wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 8:10 pm They're not scared of Rona. It's about cash first, second and third.
If that's true, let them always be around. No-show is a reverse fine.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 10:34 pm
by brian
Granted I’m not a millionaire but when someone talks about willingly forgoing $3.5 million in salary I’m going start with the position of taking them at their word as to why.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 10:40 pm
by A_B
HaulCitgo wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 8:10 pm They're not scared of Rona. It's about cash first, second and third.
I dunno. People making a lot less than that without the likely savings a professional baseball player decided it was too risky to go to work. I don’t have a problem with an individual not wanting to put his family at risk. We just don’t pay to watch those people do their jobs.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 11:19 pm
by HaulCitgo
virus fears are a negotiation ploy to find the right price at which the guy will risk death of his family members. He acknowledges there is a right price. I just think his right price ought to be lower for the common good of all players, owners, fans. Owners pockets arent his concern but when you share in profits through extraordinarily high wages there is necessarily an aspect of mutual interest between employer employee.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 9:03 am
by DSafetyGuy
"Extraordinarily high wages" are pennies on the dollar (or less) compared to franchise ownership in essentially a no-risk business where local governments are happy to either directly hand the owner money or spend public money to do the owner's bidding.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 9:47 am
by mister d
He acknowledges there is a right price ... which is the price they already (re)negotiated and now they won’t take another pay hit, on top of the health risk, to mitigate losses or ensure profits.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 12:41 pm
by HaulCitgo
DSafetyGuy wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 9:03 am "Extraordinarily high wages" are pennies on the dollar (or less) compared to franchise ownership in essentially a no-risk business where local governments are happy to either directly hand the owner money or spend public money to do the owner's bidding.
Apples to oranges. You need to compare annual salary to annual profits plus some depreciated asset value gain. You may still be right but the comparison is disengenous. As for Mr. D, the point is circumstances dictate a change in the deal. Sure the players can hold out for their original deals and in theory the owners should have considered a pandemic in their negotiations but there is mutual benefit to a renegotiation. Absolute insistence on the original terms ends up with everyone getting less or zero. Can't all be about individual interests. There is a greater good that the higher wage guys should consider and is actually in their interest but it's easier to be an ass, refuse to understand the economics and hide behind Rona dangers.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 3:52 pm
by sancarlos
HaulCitgo wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 12:41 pm
DSafetyGuy wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 9:03 am "Extraordinarily high wages" are pennies on the dollar (or less) compared to franchise ownership in essentially a no-risk business where local governments are happy to either directly hand the owner money or spend public money to do the owner's bidding.
Apples to oranges. You need to compare annual salary to annual profits plus some depreciated asset value gain. You may still be right but the comparison is disengenous. As for Mr. D, the point is circumstances dictate a change in the deal. Sure the players can hold out for their original deals and in theory the owners should have considered a pandemic in their negotiations but there is mutual benefit to a renegotiation. Absolute insistence on the original terms ends up with everyone getting less or zero. Can't all be about individual interests. There is a greater good that the higher wage guys should consider and is actually in their interest but it's easier to be an ass, refuse to understand the economics and hide behind Rona dangers.
But, since going back to work entails risk for players and staff, but only benefit for owners, one could argue that the owners should take the current economic hits, rather than the players? Also, the present value of the expected increase in an owner’s franchise value should be weighted heavily in a negotiation.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:43 pm
by wlu_lax6
So no Zimmerman and No Ross for the Nats...Does that make the team better?

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:46 pm
by brian
I know there's scheduling issues with 15 teams in each league, but why play any interleague games at all with a 60-game schedule? Can't even use the excuse of "it sells tickets" if there's empty stadiums. The people running MLB are idiots.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:55 pm
by Steve of phpBB
brian wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:46 pm I know there's scheduling issues with 15 teams in each league, but why play any interleague games at all with a 60-game schedule? Can't even use the excuse of "it sells tickets" if there's empty stadiums. The people running MLB are idiots.
It draws a bigger TV audience?

(I have no idea - how do the attendance and TV ratings for interleague games compare with intraleague?)

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:58 pm
by A_B
Steve of phpBB wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:55 pm
brian wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:46 pm I know there's scheduling issues with 15 teams in each league, but why play any interleague games at all with a 60-game schedule? Can't even use the excuse of "it sells tickets" if there's empty stadiums. The people running MLB are idiots.
It draws a bigger TV audience?

(I have no idea - how do the attendance and TV ratings for interleague games compare with intraleague?)

I think it has more to do with less travel. It’s easier for the Yankees to play the Mets than the dodgers. And vice verse.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:01 pm
by brian
I'll accept that I guess, but still think they could have tried to keep IL to a minimum and not literally 33 percent of the schedule.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:32 pm
by tennbengal
It’s the travel thing.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 10:08 am
by rass

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 10:11 am
by mister d
Joseph H. West
1952-2020
"He didn’t believe in his heart that all these
deaths have been from the coronavirus."

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 10:25 am
by Giff
Everyone wants to watch the Dodgers bean the Astros and MLB knows there's no guarantee the Dodgers will make the World Series.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:16 am
by A_B
Them: the perfect tweet doesn't exist


Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:50 am
by A_B
Our friend Puig has a team in Atlanta.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:16 am
by mister d
I bet Puig would annoy me a lot in real life.

Re: 2019-20 MLB Offseason

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:11 am
by Ryan
EdRomero wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2020 9:30 pm John Henry can go fuck himself. And nice of them to leak those we offered him so much money stories last week. I was ready to become a Padres fan if Betts went there. This is the Jon Lester fuck up times 1000.