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I think canceling the season is the worst case scenario. It'll have huge ramifications on the 2021 season and into the future.

Its a nice try, but you have clearly never been to a bar in Wisconsin.

The owners are the ones who want to renegotiate. The players just want what they already agreed to. Jerry Reinsdorf should listen to Jerry Reinsdorf.

Pritzker says Chicago on pace to move to phase 3 by 5/29. Here is the run down article on that if you are curious: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cb-pritzker-plan-reopen-illinois-20200506-erfvitdovffmzd7ativx4hj57q-htmlstory.html

Yeah I have zero sympathy for people upset about wearing a mask in public spaces and businesses. We've abided by no shirt, no shoes, no service forever. This is a change but it is tiny and goes a long way to allowing us to get back to semi-normal.

The long lasting change in my view of our society after this is we are a very selfish, entitled, society.

The idea that wearing a mask is a political statement shows what a hot mess we have become. Now we are inventing things to be offended over.

Some of yall just give up waaayy too easily.

Could Draymond do enough to contain shaq to allow the superior offensive lineup to stay on the floor for a good chunk of the game? Yes.

There really isn't though. All three publications are guessing based on history of taking college guys.

To quote Jerry Reinsdorf in the Last Dance: As soon as you sign this, I don’t want to hear from you again.

I’ve been giving myself a razor cut for the last 20 years. I never thought it would save my life. Seriously, I can’t imagine a barber/hairdresser being safe. It would have to be treated like a hospital. N95 masks and face shields, full sanitation after every customer, no one in waiting rooms at all, only 2 people in the whole room, as little talking as possible, tests every 3 days? You’d have no way of knowing if your hairdresser was infected 2 days beforehand, they’d show no symptoms but they’d infect everyone who care in without that amount of gear, and unless they were trained like a doctor for cleanliness what are the odds they wouldn’t pick it up if they had a contagious patient? Do they have a full cleaning crew to come in after each patient? Yeah, I can’t figure out any way to make that work with the most recent results.

That’s fine, as long as his wife/family are still supportive when he hits FA at 32 rather than 31...and ends up earning $30+ million less for his career. Not to mention lost future endorsement opportunities if he’s one of the few holding out at home. That kind of move doesn’t play well no matter how you spin it to the average American sports fan or consumer.

How bout making masks available that are a.) easily acquirable and disposable and that are readily available? Masks were hoarded just like everything else. Also nobody has explained to me how to keep a mask clean before you put it on in a restaurant, church, etc. You put it in a briefcast, germs. Put it on your car seat, dust and germs. Put it on your table at home waiting to wear it, germs. We need masks you can buy in disposble groups of 50 for a reasonable price if we have to wear masks.

I'm not certain we pissed away two months. Just because the Grand Ol Party wasn't behind it I can't believe private and university researchers waited for Trump to ask for help. I believe turning it into a political football for voters caused a horrible lack in preparation and I can't find the word I'm looking for. We just sucked at all the precautions. I believe it is our selfish and entitled ways. And it's my personal bias but the GOP has consistently been in favor of people dying as long as they are born. Pro-Life seems to end at the birth canal.

Already got my haircut lined up!

I am in general very pro player. I think the players positioning is getting better, the first "no salary cap!" positioning was idiotic. Players have a harder time since any one of hundreds can break off and say something dumb, while owners know from years not to speak ever. But, I think it's harder this time to just take the "owners signed the agreement in march, can't negotiate!". Clearly things are way worse than I think many anticipated when everything canceled. The loss of revenue you are talking about is not something that happens without everyone feeling it, though it could very well be short term. It is an outlier, and I think the way to bridge that while allowing positive or negative changes is a year of revenue sharing (though matched to typical % of players salaries +1/2%) Yeah, the owners are billionaires, but here's a good illustration of the reality in action. Bu-whah!? You are [redacted: millionaire] OWNER! You can't just keep paying your employees! You are ignoring rent!? Just pay with your millions! edit: well apologies to Patty Light here, I figured he had more than a cup of coffee. Soooo...not a millionaire What do you think will happen in FA next offseason if players "win" this? A lot of the problem is manfred sucks. You can see silver in the NBA meeting with players constantly, making sure they have a voice. Manfred just tries to plop his shit on everyone and make them feel like a zero sum game rather than something the league needs to get through with everyone as close to whole as possible.

Seniors are granted an extra year so they do have an option this year if they aren't drafted. They may be a year older but it wont make much difference since no one is getting developmental time this year. The only issue will be if the coach has the scholarship money for them.

well no such luck with keeping consistently good news. 22.5k tests 3300 positives 14% Still overall nice trend with lots of more tests online but really hope we can start openign more places to allow quarantining away from family.

1 on 1? Probably not. The question would be how much help defense they would need, and where they could send help from. As Shaq obviously could handle the triangle offense and its spacing and passing, he would also be perfectly fine with finding the open shooter if they doubled him. Again you just saw a clip of a much taller and bigger David Robinson who was a Defensive Player of the Year, and a 8 time member of the all-NBA defensive team in the era when defense and strength ruled, just get abused by Shaq.

I think I'm in the camp of hoping one of that tier of college pitchers falls to 11. Reading Law's chat today though sure makes it sound like teams want to take the "certain" assets (college arms/bats) though.

I think they'd probably take Detmers or Meyer if they fell to them. I'd be pretty surprised if they took a college hitter though.

I trust your scoops of who the Sox actually like more than just guessing they could want a college catcher.

And if they renegotiated based on expecting one thing like playing all the games in one place and that isn't possible, don't renegotiate, just cancel the season.

The whole grocery store workers are sacrificing so the players should sacrifice too thing only makes sense if their pay cuts were going to those workers and not under Jerry’s diving board.

I think lots of juniors will sign for $20K. They could go back and still technically be juniors but they lose lots of leverage being 1 year older. It's a 20 round draft next year but they could fill the 20 rounds without those juniors so they're competing to get selected again next year. Some guys may decide to just take the $20K and get into an organization if presented with that opportunity.

Clearly Lakers Shaq was a bum, overweight and dragged them down

I believe the owners have an obligation to their sport to safeguard the long term success of their league. Most owners are associated with the teams for a much longer time frame than players and their vision should match that tenure. In context the sacrifices that were made during the war years didn't destroy the sport and any sacrifices made during the Quarantimes won't either. I believe it could be argued that playing would provide a psychological boost to the nation. I believe it could also send a message that other restrictions are unnecessary and increase pressure to return to "normal".

I'm clicking pause at this point. We now have intelligent, educated, probably not blinded by partisanship people calling for easing back the restrictions. I'm at least going to listen.

Juniors lose all leverage though. When they are seniors they can't go back to school. At least the HS kids have college options. You might get some juniors for 20k, you aren't getting ANY HS kids for that.

Could say the same about non-seniors in college, with an extra year of eligibility especially, I don't see many signing for $20K tops, same with HSers as you said Whole format is a mess, but look forward to adding talent Just out of curiosity, when was the last time we signed a HSer for $20,000? Ever? I remember a few years ago we signed HSers for like $50K I assume the whole UDFA process will realistically be a lot of senior sign guys that typically go in rounds 5-10 to keep the Cap on bonuses down, but really don't know what to expect

or there's very little new info out, and so there is a herd mentality. Sorry not buying at all the "sox need a catcher in their system" logic, and then backing into "sox always draft college". There's little new info on players, there's no "tracking where the scouts are", so we are left with heuristics like that.

For those that didn't look closely, that was David Robinson that got destroyed in that clip.

If I could just imagine the success that comes with retiring to your daughter's basement. Nice job Jerry.

That idea is probably worthy of its own thread. Trading draft picks not allowed, presumably because MLB is afraid the smart, rich teams would take advantage of all the others.

Not sure you could pick a player I’d want less than Bailey.

Battlegrounds Biden Trump Spread Wisconsin 46.0 43.3 Biden +2.7 Pennsylvania 48.3 41.8 Biden +6.5 North Carolina 46.7 47.0 Trump +0.3 Florida 46.5 43.3 Biden +3.2 Georgia 47-46 Biden +1 Texas 43-43 https://www.yahoo.com/news/cnn-buries-own-poll-results-011348264.html Only after all of this stuff did we learn that CNN has a new poll out, under the headline, “CNN Poll: Biden tops Trump nationwide, but battlegrounds tilt Trump.” Polls are expensive, news organizations tend to hype them breathlessly to generate headlines in rival media outlets, Wednesday was (obviously) a slow news day, and politics is one of CNN’s core topics. Yet CNN seemed oddly unenthused about its own poll. And the story to which the homepage linked doesn’t mention that Trump had never scored higher in a CNN poll. True, there are lots of noisy data in the piece, most of which cut against Trump. But on the other hand the single most surprising and hence most newsworthy detail of the poll was that Trump holds a seven-point lead over Biden in the battleground states. The CNN story doesn’t even tell us what that figure is — seven points seems like a pretty big number — and downplays its own finding by noting, “Given the small sample size in that subset of voters, it is difficult to determine with certainty whether the movement is significant or a fluke of random sampling.” The headline of a different CNN news story about the same poll carries the headline, “CNN Poll: Negative ratings for government handling of coronavirus persist” over a picture of Trump looking downcast. This story, unlike the other one, mentions (but not till the fourth paragraph) that Trump’s approval rating of 45 percent “now matches his high point in CNN polling dating back to the start of his term.” Btw, Realclearpolitics.com average/aggregate numbers on a rolling basis, they had Michigan in the Biden column and actually added NC. An uphill battle if Trump’s fighting for his political survival in FL, NC and even GA, but still 5 1/2 months left to go. At the rate things are going, Biden can coast while sheltering at home up until September, and will have an appreciable bounce from his VP pick as well in August. But Trump will use that financial advantage to hammer him the next 3 1/2 months unless Bloomberg fulfills his promise. See below... https://theintercept.com/2020/04/10/bloomberg-hawkfish-biden-campaign/

Fat and slow.

He's really taking a chance. I heard him today say college should definitely be in session, maybe have teachers over 60 take a few months off. If colleges open and it's a disaster, Trump won't be able to escape the consequences. I bet if COVID runs amok he withdraws from the race. If covid is controlled he'll probably win again.

[Shrugs]

Don't let Jerksticks see this. No way 50% of population hasn't gotten it!

Bailey from Callis as well. https://www.mlb.com/news/2020-mlb-mock-draft-jim-callis-picks-1st-round

https://giphy.com/gifs/devin-hester-XYjl3MoWXmgJq

He's a consistent performer in the SEC. Teams like that.

My girlfriend hasn't gotten her butthole bleached in months now. I'm starting shift towards team greg with his haircut business. This is unbearable.