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  1. NYCTK
    Mostly because current hitters are so much better (and the strike zone tightened up) that he'd have to labor so much more to get through those same starts.
  2. NYCTK
    Only baseball fans could ever think that current talent doesn't come close to talent from 50 years ago. Propose that about any other sport and everyone will laugh at you. Take the NBA, I'm sure Bob McAdoo was a good player, but put him in the league in 2025 and we'd all laugh at how outmatched he was. Same goes with Fran Tarkenton. But baseball fans will convince themselves that Jim Palmer would still be the best pitcher in the sport if he were teleported to 2025.
  3. NYCTK
    I'm more so saying, objectively, the players are better. As an opinion, I just think this game is better in addition. Part of that is the fact that the ballparks are better too, which is again objectively true.
  4. NYCTK
    Are games less interesting? Depends on what you're looking for but like you mentioned, the game used to be played on glorified painted concrete. And for everyone lamenting how MLB is dying, attendance is about 2x as high in 2025 than it was in 1975 too. I'll take 2025 MLB over 1975 MLB every day of the week.
  5. NYCTK
    Well, those people are just wrong.
  6. NYCTK
    I think I'd rather see him in the bullpen.
  7. NYCTK
    It's less that. It's the same reason no TV show will ever rival the ratings of MASH ever again. Or why the singular blockbuster of 2025 is no longer as culturally relevant as Gone With The Wind or Star Wars. It's not that TV is worse, or movies are worse, and definitely isn't that baseball is worse. There's a constant stream of entertainment into anyone's brain at a moment's notice. The players today are better than those of yesteryear, but baseball, and sports, no longer has a monopoly on attention. Mr Beast is more popular with kids than Bobby Witt Jr, even though Witt is better than most of the stars you looked up to as a kid.
  8. NYCTK
    I think he just has terrible instincts or is completely unable to slow down the game. Explains why he's such a terrible fielder as well. Too bad, with two good tools he could have been a valuable player.
  9. NYCTK
    In the last 10 years, 8 different teams have won the World Series.
  10. NYCTK
    First, there's never been a billion dollar contract in baseball. But regardless, why? Why are you against a player getting paid what they're worth? Ownership propaganda is already working. It's just this:
  11. NYCTK
    Well, this is why a smart GM trades them because there really isn't a difference between 72 and 58. Striving for mediocity is why the Twins have been such a massive disappointment and Twins fans should ask for more.
  12. NYCTK
    What good is a playoff game 1 starter on a 72 win team next year?
  13. NYCTK
    You take the Dodgers, and I get the other 11 playoff contenders. Then we'll see who's smart! Ridiculous argument man.
  14. NYCTK
    What this tells me is you have no evidence to even suggest that the league is struggling outside of the fact that the Twins suck. B-b-but there's no parity! (please ignore the best team in baseball) I ask everyone, if MLB is struggling so much like the doomsday prophets here wanna claim, how did the Pohlads allegedly receive around $400 Million for 20% of their ownership of the Minnesota Twins?
  15. NYCTK
    My foot is decidedly not in my mouth, but I think you should check your own: That implies 60% owners and 40% players, 100% of the time. I don't believe that's actually true. This reddit post breaks down why this Salary/Revenue comparison between leagues doesn't quite work apples to apples. I see flaws in the analysis, but the takeaway is...there are a lot of factors in play and at worst it's hard to argue that MLB players are receiving less of the revenue than NFL players, for example. There is literally no reason for MLBPA to give in to ownership requests for a salary cap. None at all.
  16. NYCTK
    Give me evidence that isn't completely emotionally based that the sport is struggling. Or, as I was responding to, "on life support".
  17. NYCTK
    I feel like you really, really miss the point. I admit I put zero thought into who was in each of those games, but mostly because it's irrelevant. No one's talking about the NBA being on life support because that would be ridiculous. Even though I find the sport unwatchable because of how it's a glorified 3 point contest. But if MLB is able to outdraw, or even comparably draw, eyes to it's product, how can anyone claim it's on life support? And that's just one point I used to paint this existential threat to MLB as overblown. I'm headed to the ballpark here shortly with about 42,000 of my closest friends to see a 22 year old phenom make his MLB debut. Some guy just yelled out of his truck "Lets Go Mets" at me. You'll have to excuse me if I'm not buying the narrative that MLB is on life support because the Pohlads only received $400 Million by selling off some of their investment property instead of $500 Million.
  18. NYCTK
    Why do a bunch of baseball fans think the game is on life support? Viewership has changed and the NFL is a way more dominant king than ever, but the sport of baseball is still very healthy. It will never recover it's cultural height in the 1920s-1970s, but attendance is strong, and last year's World Series was seen by more than the NBA Finals. Seems like nothing more than ownership propaganda that you're spreading.
  19. NYCTK
    Completely independent of my Mets fandom. I'll ALWAYS be in favor of labor, never with the owners trying to exploit labor. Anyone cheering for a salary cap should just skip a step and buy a "Pohald $$" jersey.
  20. NYCTK
    Remember, any potential labor stoppage is the OWNERS fault, not the players. A bunch of idiots forgot this back in 1994.
  21. NYCTK
    Who cares? It's literally true though? I understand you don't like this fact. But that doesn't mean it's any less true.
  22. NYCTK
    Just because you're unable to connect the dots doesn't make it any less true. Oh. So we don't care that they've built a perennial contender? Seems like you're cheering for them to fail so that you can point and say "see, they aren't ACTUALLY good because they have a small payroll".
  23. NYCTK
    This is why I call you a duped fan spreading propaganda for the owners. You might be completely unaware but all the major leagues target a small minority in revenue sharing ~49%, although if I'm not mistaken, due to the unique nature of signup bonuses, et al, this figure in MLB is more like 55%. So...40% is, frankly, a terrible target that would only be sought by ownership reps.
  24. NYCTK
    Do you think the Twins aren't competing because of their market size? Are the Brewers not competing because of their market size? Terrible argument. To the trash with it.
  25. NYCTK
    There already exists regulations in place that do this. In order to hire a mid-high tier reliever in the offseason, the Twins would have to pay about $10M to that player. The Dodgers or Mets, due their luxury tax situation would have to pay about $20M in order to acquire that same player, the player getting $10M and another $10M going to the rest of the players through the funding of their programs and remaining totals going to the rest of the league. If a salary cap existed, there's friction league wide in those salaries, and that pitcher now might only get $7.5M. So, tell me again, why are we trying to save the billionaires money?
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