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  1. TheLeviathan
    Speaking as a regular contributor, I think this move is way overdue. The poster in question has continued to ignore counterpoints presented to his argument, he has regurgitated the same posts Ad nauseam, and he isn't facilitating any actual discussion. Perhaps worst of all...he presents hypotheticals as facts and demeans other posters' contributions as less than his due to his supposed line of work. Contributors like @Vanimal46and @Nick Nelsonhave asked great questions to challenge his viewpoints and been met with silence other than the same regurgitated views. This is the definition of trolling. I for one am glad the rope finally ran out. These threads might be interesting again.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Baseball has been dying before the 3 outcomes. This march to the sport's irrelevancy predates it. But the larger error you make here is equating "making more money" with "well run franchise". The Red Sox have been, at times, an absolute ****-show of decision making in the last decade, Yankees too, but that hasn't stopped them from making bank on their media deals. The Angels should be renamed Mike Trout and the Sunk Costs, but that hasn't impacted their revenues. In MLB, the revenue disparities have significantly less to do with the acumen of the management team than the geographic location than any other major sport. And it ain't even close.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I think those are all good points. It's a bit of a chicken/egg problem.....are you having trouble getting enough people to play baseball because no one cares? Or does no one care because it's hard to get enough people together to play? For me, I lean towards the former. Especially in an era where all sorts of kids are huge football fans and basketball fans without actively playing the game.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Kids still play 500, FWIW.
  5. TheLeviathan
    That is one of the most unintentionally hilarious things I've seen in a long time.
  6. TheLeviathan
    I guess I don't have any problem letting these near-ready pitchers show us what they have. I don't think you HAVE to trade for an ace, nor do I think you shouldn't trade for one because of protecting young, controllable assets. I tend to think a smart combination of both strategies is the real path forward and consistently successful franchises show that. (The Cardinals are a rough approximation of the Twins and use both strategies quite effectively) Absent other options to help the rotation I'm not interested in Montas right now. I'd prefer we had taken short term, high upside FA swings but I think it's completely possible this team could invest innings in young guys this year and watch them grow into something formidable in the near future. I'm not sure we'd get enough out of Montas in trade or in two years contributions to warrant a move now. Another ace? Sure, I'd always listen. Baseball's youth movement also means teams can rise up quickly if they can bring up the right young guys and turn a franchise around. No reason these young arms can't do that. And when they do? Absolutely consider trading prospects for more help.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I think this one was even better! Helluva post.
  8. TheLeviathan
    100% this. The problems with baseball won't be fixed by the proposals of either side, but they start with ownership greed and the way that greed has manifested in shared revenues, broadcasting, and game pricing. Players have absolutely zero voice on those issues and they are the drivers of baseball's demise. Helluva post.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I support workers being paid more in all industries. However, I'm not typically a fan of unions and the way they go about things. So this is not some pro-union, anti-owners thing. It's abundantly clear who the villain is this time. I don't support pretty much anything the players want except one overarching idea: the owners don't get to do this. They are the villains. They are crying poor while soaking taxpayers for stadiums. They are crying poor while their investments double and triple in value. They are crying poor when they profit 100M in a pandemic with attendance issues. They chose this path. They chose this outcome. They chose to lie. They don't get to stop baseball, cancel games, and cry poor. That's all BS. Sit at the table and negotiate in good faith and pay fairly. The owners have interest in doing neither but so long as they won't even attempt to behave fairly? Screw 'em. They are the villains.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Sorry I forgot to put the links in period those from the Chad Graff article that came out yesterday.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Mike Zimmer had Keenum and Cousins and went out of his way to bad mouth both of them but loves Bridgewater and Bradford. We waited way too long to fire this dude.
  12. TheLeviathan
    How many kids are playing the sport probably isn't the best metric. Participation in sports across the board is down. What matters is eyeballs and kids are not paying any attention to baseball. Playing Madden and 2k? Hell yes. Fantasy football? For sure. Pickup basketball? Yup. Following them on twitter? Yup. Kids don't give a damn about the MLB. They'll play the game a little bit, but it's not a passion. Plus, basketball and football can be played year round and baseball can't. Couple that with MLB choosing money over availability and the athletes choosing stodgy BS rules over fun and you have a recipe for a sport that averages appealing to white guys in their 60s. That demo is not where you want to be as an average.
  13. TheLeviathan
    I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the strategy (really at all, it's what they should do) as much as wondering how many players can go without a paycheck this year and how that might start to fracture the MLBPA. I know one area you and I agree strongly on this is the players focusing on top-end salaries rather than raising the bottom/middle. It's those guys that might start to struggle with not having game checks for an entire season. In strikes the union tends to be well prepared to weather the storm. I wonder how prepared they are if that's what the future holds.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Kinda Devil's Advocate.....if they reverse all their concessions that is a signal that the season would be all but lost IMO. Do we think the players are ready for that considering they'd be playing ball games but for the lockout initiated by the owners?
  15. TheLeviathan
    Jokes on you....they won't even have any to piss off!
  16. TheLeviathan
    The Romney wing of conservatism has to be losing their mind about how they went from the stodgy party of morals who protected rich people to the bat-**** crazy, amoral dickbags who protect rich people.
  17. TheLeviathan
    And even more surprisingly....Russia is losing. Ukraine is handing them their ass and gloating about it on social media. It all feels like a powder keg. Worse yet, I'm not sure there is anything we can do about it. (Biden and Trump I think rightly push Europe on this one.)
  18. TheLeviathan
    If nothing else, I'm personally rooting for this kid. He seems so damn likable and the skill-set is so appetizing. I hope he's able to have a full, successful year this year.
  19. TheLeviathan
    I think he's our 2 hole hitting, gold glove LF for a long time. The Berrios move stings right now, but I think this guy is a stud.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Frankly, owners shouldn't get those real estate perks either. They soak tax payers for massive benefits that only further enrich them. Their entire scheme is crying poor while they bloat their bank accounts. And I'm generally anti-union, I find them corrupt and crappy in their own right. (Broadly speaking) But I'm not going to pity a bunch of lying billionaires and play interference for their BS either.
  21. TheLeviathan
    The independent, impartial third party was a public relations ploy you just lapped up. Those people exist to help sides who are actibely negotiating work through impasses. I don't care what side you're on, there is no sane definition of "actively negotiating" to describe the MLB situation.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Well...this is some **** huh?
  23. TheLeviathan
    Offering mediation that was bound to be rejected is not a serious offer. It had about as much value as offering them a unicorn.
  24. TheLeviathan
    I like Aikman, he's one of the few whose willing to be negative/critical. Romo is insightful but he's barely different than Collinsworth or Gruden. Those guys sound like they've been paid to talk about how everyone is the best and everything is amazing. I appreciate that Aikman is willing to be a skeptic and do so with sound, insightful reasoning.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Well, if that happens for 20 consecutive years maybe their compensation might approach "fair". So....sure! The owners are not entitled to cave to every demand, but they've set the stage for intractable negotiations. The fact, then, that the negotiations have had zero traction is on them.
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