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  1. As soon as owners do this, I will support them whole-heartedly. While we're just making up fairytale scenarios, I'd also like to be able to fly. That sounds fun.
  2. Sure, the owners that are pushing hard to preserve tanking, want less revenue sharing, would love to go back to indentured servitude of players, want to expand the postseason to include 50% of teams, while also implementing a hard cap have the sport's best interests at heart. You go ahead and keep believing that nonsense. Unlike your fetishization of the owners' motivations, I hold no pretenses that the MLBPA has the sport's best interests in mind, I simply realize they're not the biggest villains right now. You claim to want baseball back yet you're actively cheering on the side that locked out the players, then didn't negotiate for 45 days, then ran right to their own artificial deadline by making incremental moves of less than half a percentage point in a year when inflation is nearly 5%, all while demanding a really bad postseason plan that would devalue the regular season so they could put an additional $150m+ in their pockets. If the owners were even half as benevolent as you seem to believe, they'd offer a 50/50 split with revenue in trade for a hard cap and floor, just like other sports do. Except owners won't do that because the players would agree to it before they finished the sentence. Tell me again how you're such a baseball fan and on the side of light again, please.
  3. This is exactly how I feel and far more politely stated than I care to state. Well said.
  4. Why are you such an obvious shill for billionaires who don’t love the sport you seem to love? I would rebut most of what you typed but why bother? It only validates the gross nature of your opinion.
  5. This is such a garbage take, Chief, and you should be embarrassed for it. Have you looked at what the owners have done for the past 2+ years through Covid and these "negotiations"? They've been straight-up union-busters, nothing more. As the MLBPA caved through concession after concession, the owners did things like raise the CBT by less than inflation and then asked for expanded playoffs in return. Yours is the worst of worst takes. If you want the sport to be better, crushing the union is not the way to get there. The players have their own issues, of which I've complained about ad nauseam, but right now the owners are the biggest problem in the sport and it's not close. They're so busy protesting and protecting their $80m payrolls and the lack of competition that they can't even see the fans that stopped caring ten years ago. And now you want even more fans to stop caring so those multi-billionaires can make a few million more. Huzzah and cheers for that.
  6. I am so pleasantly surprised that the two sides are closing in on a deal. I thought the chance of that happening was close to zero.

  7. Great job staying up late through these negotiations, Ted. I couldn't hack it anymore after 11pm or so.
  8. Yep, Larnach "graduated" out of prospect status with 301 plate appearances in 2021.
  9. Thanks for keeping me up to date on this. What browser and operating system are you using? And are you trying to watch them from the forums or the video page? Is the page background white or black?
  10. No problem, thanks for asking and prompting me to finally put a disclaimer on the video page explaining that this can be a problem if any user can't see our video content.
  11. It was so much worse than that. Guzman literally started his swing after the ball hit the glove. It was maybe 2000-ish so finding video is probably impossible.
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  13. Oh man, the errors. Guzman was an athletic fielder with good range but he was so sloppy in the field.
  14. To this day, the worst single baseball swing I've ever seen in MLB was from Cristian Guzman. He was caught unprepared for a fastball and about half a second after the catcher's glove popped, Guzman started the most pathetic swing you will ever see from a professional hitter. Everyone just kind of stopped and stared for a moment. It was super awkward.
  15. Shortly after this photo was taken, Minneapolis city council banning me from wearing those jeans within city limits due to "it not being fair to everyone else".
  16. I'm so excited that in just a few days, pitchers and catchers will not report.

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  18. Calendar year of the article. I pulled data from Jan 1-Dec 31 for each year and grabbed the top five.
  19. He didn't only fail to pan out, he pitched just 26 innings in the majors. Ouch.
  20. Except Rose wasn't banned for cheating, he was banned for gambling on baseball, which is explicitly against baseball rules and is probably the number one NO-NO in the entire sport. And even then, had he been able to keep his mouth shut for even a second, he'd still probably be in the hall.
  21. No matter whether they cheated or not, I believe Clemens and Bonds should also be in. They were simply too good at baseball to not be enshrined, especially given some of the questionable morality of many others in the Hall. *shrugs* But hey, the upside in so many falling off the ballot this year is that it likely paves a smoother path for Mauer to gobble up votes when he's eligible in two years.
  22. So this lockout thing is pretty rad and not at all boring, amirite?

    1. wsnydes

      wsnydes

      Is this sarcasm?  I don't understand sarcasm.

      /s

    2. wsnydes

      wsnydes

      Seriously though, this abyss is rather brutal. 

  23. This prompted me to finish the series (finally). For some reason, I stalled out with all of 2.5 episodes remaining for some dumb reason. I wasn't really sold on the writer episodes until I saw them tied into a bow, at which point I appreciated that story arc a lot more.
  24. If I’m comparing two players, yeah, I’m gonna evaluate whether the Green Monster gave one player an advantage the other didn’t have. If we don’t make an attempt to factor in individual advantages and disadvantages, there’s little point in comparing players at all.
  25. Carew was better and I don’t think it’s a close contest. Puckett was barely above average as a hitter outside the Metrodome. Put Rod on that turf and he hits .400. Hell, he damned near hit .400 *without* turf.
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