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  1. NYCTK
    We have competitive baseball. Owners need to increase their revenue sharing which is solely an ownership battle, and then players do need to agree to greater luxury tax penalties. A Salary Cap is not needed for this.
  2. NYCTK
    In what way are the players responsible for the lack of agreement between owners for better revenue sharing? That's 100% an owner issue In what way are the players responsible for the Pirates and Marlins refusing to spend money? That is 100% an owner issue In what way are the Dodgers willingness to spend $500 million on player expenditures the fault of the people getting the money? The lack of agreement is 100% an owner issue And of course, in what way are players responsible for rising beer and dog costs? That is, again, 100% an owner issue Everything fans don't like about baseball is 100% because of owners.
  3. NYCTK
    It's a pretty important part of the conversation though, considering the owners are using it as a piece of the propaganda to sell it to fans. But, yeah, a soft floor added to the already existing soft cap (with greater penalties) is all that's necessary. The owners can figure out their revenue sharing and the players should just sit back and let them figure it out.
  4. NYCTK
    So a soft floor, like the players proposed, would penalize them. There is no reason to think a hard cap and floor is necessary to increase parity (of which there already is plenty).
  5. NYCTK
    The owners are 100% of the reason there is disparity in market competitiveness, and the players should just sit back and let the owners fight it out. But that requires the fans to recognize this is 100% an owner problem, with nothing to do with the players.
  6. NYCTK
    We can have socialism in MLB when we have publicly owned teams and universal healthcare, and not a moment before.
  7. NYCTK
    We haven't seen all the details but there's nothing really in it to help the average player. I see it resulting in a lot of inflated 1-2 year deals for the middle tier free agents with no effect on the team controlled players. The players offer doubled rookie salaries. The owners offer doesn't do anything for them, at least at first glance. This is putting it mildly. The players flatly reject the owners offer. And they're right to do so. Especially with the owners cute wording of their offer, which more honestly presents a payroll cap of $225 Million and a floor of $150 Million. I've been saying for a year or more now, there will be no salary cap, and I am still certain of that. The first cap offer is a joke, and the owners are going to be fighting dirty by propagandizing the fans. But at the end of the day, the owners are greedy greedy snakes and they will blink when it comes time to actually start cutting into their revenue. It's still DOA. That was the players proposal, not the owners. Yes, and also to try to start the propaganda battle to get the fans behind them as well. This is why this showdown was ALWAYS going to be owner versus owner more than owner versus player. Any drastic changes we see will be on the owner side, with very little impact on the players. Players are stupid, but not that stupid. The owners don't care about the lowest paid players and this offer doesn't help them. And the players union reps are voted on by the players, including those 75% that are under team control and currently under suppressed earnings.
  8. NYCTK
    Worth reminding everyone that isn't a payroll floor and ceiling. That includes player benefits which are around $20 million. The owners proposed a salary cap of $225 and floor of $150 million. The players will reject a hard cap anyways, but the owners offer is presented in a way to propagandize the fans into backing them. Never trust a billionaire.
  9. NYCTK
    I'm glad you spoke up to tell everyone the Should =/= Out To, or something. Great contribution.
  10. NYCTK
    And worth noting his wOBA is 50 points higher than his xwOBA, meaning he's finding holes that his hitting profile doesn't suggest will continue to find. Still too early to write him off, but he STILL profiles as a bad fielding infielder with a below average bat.
  11. NYCTK
    Correct. Trade or...resigning. Which is why the feasibility of signing him was mentioned. The barrier is not the money, but Ryan's willingness. You wanna say I derail? You're the one that jumped it to say Should =/= out to, or something. I still don't even know what you were trying to say with that comment. He said "Large-market teams can afford it, which is why they're basically the only ones who make such deals." which is both not true and is the impetus of the conversation of payroll. You want to get mad at someone? Start there instead of the person replying to that comment.
  12. NYCTK
    My comment was in response to Nick feeling uncomfortable spending money on Ryan. In reality, that's the cowering abused dog response. The Twins could easily afford to pay Ryan. And I'm someone that thinks it's actually better to trade him cause I don't think he'd even sign an extension offer.
  13. NYCTK
    Well then your reply to me is just bad. We are in agreement yet here you are complaining about me saying the Pohlads are cheap instead of at the billionaire cheapskates.
  14. NYCTK
    Well, the Twins are one of the few that are regularly spending significantly under what their market size would suggest is feasible. So they're pretty unique in their cheapness.
  15. NYCTK
    Considering what he said isn't even true, no.
  16. NYCTK
    Well then we're not talking about market size at all. We're talking about organizational competence. The Twin Cities aren't a small market team just because the Pohlads are terrible business people, and St Lous, a smaller market than the Twin Cites, isn't a big market because they pull in more revenue.
  17. NYCTK
    Should = ought to be I'm cool with the Twins payroll this year, because it was a rebuild year. But if they were actually trying to win, fans shouldn't be satisfied with anything less that a $195 million payroll. And anyone that cries poor on behalf of the owners is a schmuck.
  18. NYCTK
    If you're not considering St Louis a small or mid market team than you don't actually care about small or mid markets, and instead just want cheap greedy owners to be able to cry poor.
  19. NYCTK
    St Louis and Kansas City are both significantly smaller markets and have won the World Series in that time. St. Louis twice. And that of course ignores teams like Detroit, Colorado, Tampa, Cleveland, and Arizona that have won pennants in that time as well. So...your thesis is not only wrong, it's very wrong.
  20. NYCTK
    He's second to last in the league in DRS at SS. So...are you talking about today? This article is extreme hyperbole, I'm surprised it didn't mention that his dad was a coach. Brooks Lee deserves playing time, will have to move off SS eventually, and still profiles as a utility infielder on a decent team.
  21. NYCTK
    Man, Reagan really did a number on your generation. You know the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars? A billion dollars. So many fans have deluded themselves into thinking the players are fat cats and the real problem. Let's take, for example, Matt Wallner. He's had 3.9 mil in career earnings and a decent career. 10% to his agent, 50% taxes, he's earned about $1.75 mil after taxes over the course of his in progress 7 year career, $250,000 a year post taxes, on average. A nice amount, and JUST enough that good money management would allow him a comfortable life post baseball career. Meanwhile Tom Pohald paid 7.25 million, in cash, for his home. Which he then turned around and sold for a $3 million profit. Because the rich elites are all playing with fake money they continue to steal from the masses. Every price increase is caused by the owners, not the players. The players asking for their fair share of the revenue is not greed, and anyone suggesting so is a fool that's been successfully propagandized to for decades.
  22. NYCTK
    You're never sure about the decision to sign a big money contract. I am fine either way. I am not convinced they even want to, so I wanted them to trade him last offseason. But we gotta stop acting as though $30 million dollars AAV or $150 M total is some crazy contract out of reach for the Twins. The median payroll is something like $200 million. That is where the Twins SHOULD be, minimum, if they were trying to contend. If you're resigning Ryan, that's what you're committing to. So, no, that money is not a concern at all.
  23. NYCTK
    Don't disagree. 5 years 150 million is the conversation. If the Twins aren't anywhere near that then the conversation is over.
  24. NYCTK
    The Mets haven't won a world series in my lifetime... Optimism is all fine and dandy, but it's no basis on which to build a baseball team.
  25. NYCTK
    This issue with that is Walker just turned 24. There was every reason to think he might turn it around. Royce is now in his second season of the "peak" years of a position player. There's no real reason to believe he's going to improve further. He is who he is.
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