A.L. Playoffs , im rooting for our division rivals - you ?

[mrtwinsfan]

4 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

Classey     looking for redemption, 

Still  Looking,  wow

[Aggies7]

Wonder if we’ll get as many clase/duran comparisons next season on the GDTs

[tony&rodney]

Hoping for Cleveland to come back.

Torres and Stanton have been better than expected, even if we know they are experienced veterans.

[Dave Borton]

1 hour ago, tony&rodney said:

Hoping for Cleveland to come back....

You, I, and no one in the MLB office.

[Parfigliano]

19 minutes ago, Dave Borton said:

You, I, and no one in the MLB office.

TV people probably pretty happy with NYY series win too.

[mrtwinsfan]

How in the  ??   do you let Stanton  with 1st open  beat Bibee again ??  every hit he has has been a home run ,   he is 8-for 40  career against guardians in cleveland IN PLAYOFFS  and all 8  went BYE -BYE

[Parfigliano]

46 minutes ago, mrtwinsfan said:

How in the  ??   do you let Stanton  with 1st open  beat Bibee again ??  every hit he has has been a home run ,   he is 8-for 40  career against guardians in cleveland IN PLAYOFFS  and all 8  went BYE -BYE

Should hit him

[Aggies7]

Clase on again to see the heart of the order 

[Aggies7]

Sheesh he is throwing gas

[Parfigliano]

Last 5 CLE guys k

[Vanimal46]

Just tuning in after Georgia sealed the win against Texas 

[Parfigliano]

No error posted...WTF

[Parfigliano]

F.  F. F.

[Vanimal46]

Big time players make big time plays. Soto crushed that ball 

[Aggies7]

Son of a 

[Aggies7]

Shortstop just had to take an out and maybe they get out of it 

[Aggies7]

Barf

[The Great Hambino]

Now I get to wait and see which NL team I'll be holding my nose to root for in the World Series

[Parfigliano]

Just now, The Great Hambino said:

Now I get to wait and see which NL team I'll be holding my nose to root for in the World Series

METS

[Parfigliano]

13 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

Son of a 

Comfort yourself in knowing 13 hrs to VIKES

[tony&rodney]

MLB has had strikes before but the fact that the Yankees can roll out Soto, Judge, and Stanton with salaries that eclipse numerous entire teams (including Cleveland) signifies a chasm that means a prolonged strike after the current CBA expires. 

Cleveland gave it all they had, and I admire how the Yankees manage to bring rookies and DFA'ed players along, but the financial gap between teams is growing once again. 

I understand that people were frustrated or angry with the Twins ownership but baseball is careening towards a crisis with its imbalance among how funds are distributed. Rozelle identified that without other teams to play there is no league and that success must include significant sharing of resources.

I thoroughly enjoyed the games in Cleveland and hope there is an interesting World Series. The glean of the series cannot erase the fundamental imbalance in MLB. Without a salary cap and floor, the game will continue to decline in interest across the country. Yes, I will still be all baseball but the rise of the WNBA and other sports with competitive and balanced competitions will win favor with the population. 

Kudus to Soto, Judge, and Stanton for their performances .... and to the Guardians for giving every last ounce.

[Vanimal46]

10 hours ago, tony&rodney said:

Without a salary cap and floor, the game will continue to decline in interest across the country

I’ve gone back and forth on this, and at the end of the day it doesn’t solve the real problem MLB has. Which is owners that don’t care about winning a World Series title. That’s well over 50% of them in baseball. 

[Vanimal46]

Having a cap ceiling just anchors down the teams who can spend more but aren't able to because of the ceiling.

The teams who can't spend as much just take on cap dumps (or injured players who won't play anyways but eat up cap space).

And to top it off, because you have a ceiling, players/agents are smart enough to know where the money is. Getting $10m from Minnesota for instance would be like getting $8m in Tampa once you factor in state income taxes (numbers aren't exact, I'm just using an example). So if you have a hard cap, you're just helping out the teams with little to no state income taxes because they're now at a big advantage by not having to pay guys as much which allows them to sign more higher quality players to fit under the hard cap. It's the reason the majority of winners in the NHL the last decade are from teams with little to no state taxes.

[Eris]

10 hours ago, tony&rodney said:

…signifies a chasm that means a prolonged strike after the current CBA expires. 

The MLBPA will not strike over this imbalance. This is exactly what the players association wants—a few rich teams to drive up salaries. 

[The Great Hambino]

12 hours ago, tony&rodney said:

Without a salary cap and floor, the game will continue to decline in interest across the country. 

And the floor has to be an actual functioning floor, not the pathetic $100MM the owners proposed in the last round of CBA talks.  That only affects a handful of teams, so what they were effectively offering was a cap with no floor.  That's a nonstarter for the players, as it should be.  Real revenue sharing has to come hand in hand with a real salary floor that actually disincentivizes teams from just pocketing their revenue sharing dollars.  The owners can't have one without the other.

With the widening revenue gap between the teams that have their own RSN and the teams that have to figure out how to make DTC work, I think the next CBA battle between those two groups of teams as much as between players and owners.  The owners will have to get on the same page to effectively battle the players, which will be ... interesting

Edited October 20, 2024 by The Great Hambino
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[tony&rodney]

7 minutes ago, Eris said:

The MLBPA will not strike over this imbalance. This is exactly what the players association wants—a few rich teams to drive up salaries. 

If the numbers are real, which none of us really knows, the owners of half the teams may vote to lock out the players. The number of teams bringing down their salaries below the average seems to be on the increase. This postseason has to some extent highlighted the disparity between the haves and have nots. Oh well, I guess this topic is pretty worthless anyways. It's just big business.