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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    All of this is anecdotal and you're omitting anything that isn't convenient to your larger point, such as the fact the 2020 White Sox had a slightly higher winning percentage than the 2021 White Sox, despite the front office improving the on-field talent quite a bit between those seasons. And LaRussa's 2021 White Sox also fell flat on their faces in the postseason. You use that as ammunition against Baldelli's Twins while ignoring it about LaRussa's White Sox. What's more likely than anything you listed above is that managers just don't move the needle much unless they're really terrible at managing a clubhouse and actively sabotage the team.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    My wife is an attorney and I hear about her mediations all the time. The owners used it was a PR ploy; mediation is generally used only after serious negotiations have happened and the two sides are at an impasse and/or one side is being irrational. Having a third party come in to resolve one or two points or tell one side their demands are unreasonable can be useful but it's not where you start the process. Calling for mediation after spending two months ghosting the other side and not even having one serious, lengthy meeting to resolve differences isn't trying to resolve the situation, it's an attempt to win public relations. Mediators aren't some magic bullet, they can't force anyone to do anything, and they're generally used only after other avenues have been exhausted. From the moment the lockout started, MLB ownership has slowed down the process as much as possible. Offering a mediator was just another way to slow down the process and put the sport in risk of being delayed, which gives the owners more leverage.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Okay, so Sinclair has made significant progress. That’s good. The bad? They’re not launching with the Twins. FFS. http://amp.awfulannouncing.com/sinclair/the-rays-are-the-latest-team-to-sign-up-for-sinclairs-direct-streaming-package.html
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t think that service is going to happen. Last I read, Sinclair was running into all sorts of licensing problems and a path forward was going to be difficult. While I dislike Sinclair enormously, not launching that streaming service is a real blow to consumers.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Where have I said anything of the sort? The post you reacted to was specifically about how the owners stalled and dragged their feet and are now threatening to shorten the season. Had the owners not locked the players out and then gone radio silent for 45 days, maybe the two sides would be close enough that a deal could be reached and we’d be watching baseball.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    First, I've been quite open about how much I dislike the MLBPA's abuse of minor leaguers and how much I dislike their push for fighting against the cap instead of pushing for a salary floor. But I'm not spending a lot of time complaining about the lesser of two evils when one side is so obviously manipulating the game for their own benefit while we all sit here without baseball. If someone is punching me in the face, I'm not going to spend a lot of time complaining about the guy standing behind him, hurling insults. And you're wrong that the owners haven't proposed pay cuts. Their CBT threshold proposals were often below inflation. That's a pay cut. They proposed linking the loss of a draft pick to the CBT. That's a pay cut. I'm sure there were others, I'm just not remembering them off the top of my head.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I think it’s pretty obvious that the Stanley Cup is the best. The fact that it passes and is added on makes it transient and wonderful. My second favorite is MLB. The flags make it a trophy of legend; it doesn’t have a ball or any indicator of its origin, only flags symbolizing the players involved.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    @yeahyabetcha gave me an “incorrect” reaction to my post. Well, okay, tell me how I’m incorrect. You have the floor.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    And here’s something else to keep in mind for everyone reading: Rob Manfred is not the commissioner of baseball because he’s an avid fan or an advocate of the sport. He’s the commissioner of baseball because he made a career out of being a vehemently anti-labor attorney who could put the screws to the players. If you’re cheering on the owners right now, you’re cheering on the black hats. There may be no white hats in this fight but there are definitely black hats.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Exactly. Many of us have been complaining about these circumstances and ploys for a couple of months, don’t fall for what owners are selling right now. This is very intentional to squeeze the players and make them look bad when it’s actually the owners that are steering the ship in this situation; they instituted the lockout, they didn’t negotiate for 45 days, they’re the ones making incremental offers at the eleventh hour while simultaneously setting hard deadlines. If the season is delayed, be sure to allocate blame in the right direction and that is at MLB ownership.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing is, he’s not wrong. The players are not blameless here but his timeline is accurate. Owners very intentionally ignored the situation for as long as possible, then set a hard deadline, and now are threatening to shorten the season… all while making very few concessions and negotiating half-heartedly, at best. Remember, the players are willing to play right now. The owners locked them out. If baseball fandom wants a full season and the lockout to end, baseball fandom needs to be raking the owners over the coals, not defending them.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Hey, I’m not the data guy. I don’t care what the data says, I just make it work.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Thanks for the correction, I was recently building some prospect information and someone gave me incorrect data. I'll fix that now.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    This is about where I land on Sano as well.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Martin is already on the 40-man.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    This is an interesting point, one I hadn't really considered. The trade value on Rooker is very low but it might not be nothing, given the addition of the DH in the NL. There could be an NL team willing to give up a C- prospect in the low minors and carry Rooker on the roster as a part-time DH.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Someone just sent this my way and I thought I'd share it, there's some pretty cool stuff in there. Each Team's HR Leader Most HRs in a Season by Team Ten Longest HR of 2021 MLB Home Run Derby Winners
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    It's all positive but it either needs to speed up drastically or these negotiations should have started a month earlier than they did so everyone could have gotten their peacocking out of the way and we'd be moving on to real negotiation at this point.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, it appears both sides are finally getting serious about this as we approach the eleventh hour.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Only one team was impacted by the luxury tax because the owners are using it as a de facto salary cap and they only want to double down on that, as evidenced by their attempt to link the loss of a draft pick to going over the luxury tax threshold earlier in the negotiations (which is why I made the "concede 50 cents, ask for 60 cents back" point earlier). It's a self-fulfilling prophecy to establish a luxury threshold, all agree not to go over said threshold, then claim it doesn't need to be raised. Come on, you have to be able to see through that ploy. And I'm pretty angry at the players for so quickly backing off the two year arbitration and/or early free agency points but it's now the owners who are making these feeble offers for the arbitration pool. The players aren't doing as much as they should for younger players in my opinion, but at least they're trying to do something while the owners keep making $5m offers to be distributed across a few dozen players as some sort of "reasonable compromise".
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    If they can magically get a deal done this week - which I'm very skeptical is possible - the season will likely start on time. They have until March 3rd or so to have any hope of a regular Opening Day start.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    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?
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    The players have backed down from significant demands such as earlier free agency and universal two year arbitration, both of which affect young players and how they're paid. The compromise has already been made on the player side of things and the owners continue to make pretty insulting offers to the pool money, which is much more beneficial to ownership than two year arbitration or early free agency. Never mind that owners, until recently, have been countering most of their "compromises" with something completely outlandish that often saves them more money than the "compromise" they proposed. In essence, they've been "giving up" 50 cents in one place and then asking for 60 cents back somewhere else, all in the same proposal. That's why you get the feeling the players keep saying "not good enough"... because they're pissed off, and rightfully so. While I'm also unhappy with the players in this, the owners have not been negotiating in good faith. They're definitely the bigger problem in this situation.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I heard it phrased as "the owners are making December offers" and I think that's spot-on. This $5m increment crap needs to stop. We all know they're going to end up somewhere in the middle, sit down and hammer this ****ing thing out so everyone can move on to the next negotiating point or the season is going to start losing games.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    The 2020 Twins were 16-8 in September.
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