Leaderboard

The MLBPA must really love the owners going out to the press and accusing them (dishonestly) of bad faith. I'm sure that really helps when they sit down.

MLB needs to penalize any team whose announcers sing the Nationwide Jingle.....The Madness needs to end before it begins again.....and Yes I will die on that hill.

You think MLB owners realize how much the public is against them right now? How much things have changed and fans are not as ignorant as they once were? Are they that disconnected from reality? Or do they just not care? I mean I know we arent in the rooms but...seriously.

What about the owners and their almost non-existent proposals?

JFC, they have made two proposals in six months and this is the crap they pull?

Dear MLB, where you go next is putting a legit deal on the table that meets the players in the middle. Enough of this petty bullshit refusal to budge in the slightest. You have had all winter to figure out what compromises needed to be made in order to hammer out an agreement but here you are, pretending like you are all out of ideas before you have even tried. It is insulting as a fan to watch. Get your shit together and work out a deal. We want baseball already.

For the obvious reason that they both badly need innings. Kopech needs to throw 120+ innings this year. I suspect they'll use Crochet similarly to how they used Kopech last year and get him up around 70+ (assuming full season). If we play a 60 game season, neither are getting those totals. I don't worry too much about Kopech. He's going to an elite SP. Not sure Crochet ever makes it into the rotation tho.

It’s not the only factor, but one factor in this happening is actual rising discontent in Russia. Imperial wars are often a counter to that - but wars aren’t cheap, they take an economic toll to run. Russia has very few solid industries, most notably natural gas. They have money saved up from that, but their ability to hold this territory will depend on their population being willing to support it and then having the money to do it. The kind of sanctions that could be imposed by a unified west could,, over time, break this regime now that they’ve committed to the costs of war. But…the west would have to stay United and leave that gas in Russia.

I'm 76 and as traditional as can be but I am open to some things like a going to conferences with geographical divisions, I'd like a shorter season while adding to teams in the playoffs. I'm for the universal DH. I'd like expansion with 2 more teams for a total of 32 with 2 conferences made up with 2 divisions of 8 in each conference.

My radical ideas: 1. Force umpires to announce certain calls over the PA (such as after replays). 2. Also encourage umpires to announce over the PA the exact reason (with direct quotes, if needed) why a player / manager / coach / staff member was ejected. Also, in the "crazy marketing gimmick" category, make umpires wear body cams. Along with (2) above, have umpires release body cam footage of each ejection.

My radical ideas: Eliminate the AL/NL. Move to purely geographic divisions. Have 5x6 or 6x5, either can work. Reduce the season to 51 3-day series over 26 weeks. Teams get a day off every week. Every team plays 6 scheduled Saturday doubleheaders per year, for a total of 150 games. Batter may not step out of batter's box during a plate appearance. First violation is a warning and each successive violation is a strike. Third foul ball after reaching two strikes is a strikeout. No more 5-minute plate appearances.

I don't see Stiever or Lambert as strong backend depth, as seen by Mike Wright getting more burn in the majors. Stiever has not been effective since 2019, Lambert looked like a good bullpen piece in 2020 ST before another injury. McClure and Bilous are bullpen plays. Bilous walks way too many guys. More interested in Emilio Vargas as backend depth than either.

This was a facebook post by Ron Kittle about Juice

UEFA pulling the Champions League game from St. Petersburg. If UEFA really wanted to give Russia a big FU, they'd move the game to the US.

I mean they're billionaires. That should answer your question.

Just give DeRozan the MVP.

Derozan came up huge again at the end. Such a big shot as time was running out to put the Bulls back in the lead for good (after they kind of choked during the final 3 minutes). Nice win.

Damn ?

Projection is a hell of a drug.

Joe gets it.

This is starting to feel like 60 games or nothing like 2020. It's also starting to feel like the owners endgame is 60 game seasons with 16 playoff teams.

Players proving themselves to be absolute jokes, nothing but ridiculous “proposals”. Fuck them

You know they are now accepting gifts of real estate if you are so inclined, southsider. You'd probably get a nice vacation voucher for your effort.

I can deal with anything but Kars for Kids.

BTW I think data is going to kill the starting pitcher. It supports pulling your SP after the 1st time through the order. All pitchers aren't going to like this as it will devalue them like it did running backs in the NFL. The data supports the double opener theory, where you have 2 guys pitch 2-3 innings each, and then go to the high leverage, one inning relievers after that.

My radical ideas: 1. Eliminate leagues. Best 8 teams get in the playoffs. 2. increase the regular season to 174 games. Each team plays all other teams on a home and home, 3 game series (math=29x2x3) 3. Unlimited roster size. If an owner wants to put all offense, all defense, and change pitchers every batter in the whole game, be my guest. They must pay the league minimum though for all players on the roster. 4. Salary floor. All teams have to spend a certain amount on players 5. Eliminate the domestic draft, make it like International free agency. You get a certain amount of money to spend on talent each year. Choose wisely. There could be a formula based solely on records over 3, 5 and 10 years. Small market teams get no favors. 6. Eliminate the competitive balance tax. Anyone can spend as much on MLB talent as they want. Instead, institute a tax on teams that win fewer than 75 games for 5 years straight, and a tax on teams that lose 100 games in a given season. 7. Players are eligible for salary arbitration following their first full season in MLB. 8. The commissioner needs to force owners that are non-competitive for a certain period of time to sell their teams. No more 22 year playoff droughts.

I heard Putin is a genius. Bully. This all sickens me but it is not our neighborhood. Possibly Putin is having some mental health/ aging issues and he is clearly reckless. Did I hear Putin has some US media allies? I hope not. We should have a unified front.

I also think a shortened season would ruin Kopech and Crochets chances of ever becoming a starting pitcher (in our uniform).

Bmags has gone over the edge everyone. He is already mock drafting, we need to get him help

PFF just added an awesome draft tool. It's nice to get the pre-made trades from PFN, but this felt more creative. Also had ADPs based on everyone using it which is AWESOME pff.com/mock I traded back with bears second and fifth round pick to get Colts 48th and 80th overall picks. Drafted jalen pitre, jalen tolbert, leo chenal and luke fortner

Basically this is my exact sentiment.

I'm not saying I want to see them miss games at all. I'm just saying that with the way that things are going, and the level of mistrust (and apparent preparation by the union to hunker down in the long run while providing some form of payment to the players from the Rainy Day fund) is at a point where the players' association isn't afraid to keep going past a deadline that they think isn't real.

I think right now the players caving is then accepting the owners’ current offer. So, getting like 2%.

I would think I'm more radical, but I see some of the suggestions and I realize I'm not that radical. However, I like most of the suggestions I've read. What I'd like to see: - Universal DH - A more balanced schedule (I know I'm in the minority, but 76 games against their own division is too much) - Limit pick off moves (maybe more than 3 in an at-bat equals a ball) - More scheduled double headers - Expanded playoffs - Salary floor (tanking has got to be stopped - too much meaningless baseball down the stretch) And more ways to speed up the game. As someone else mentioned, keep the batters in the box during an at-bat.

Bunch of jagoffs.

I do not / did not. Still doesn't change my response to your characterization of no player being underpaid.

Maybe he's one of those guys who pitches better fat.

Some forum members simply think that no matter how much the players make...they should get more. Jerry makes tons of money so he is a greedy owner, etc. For all we know he might give every dime he makes to White Sox Charities. I would fully support raising the minimum wage along the line that is currently being offered by the owners. However, I look at our major league payroll and don't see anyone being underpaid IMO. I just want this to be over and start the fun. If the owners want to pay the players demands...fine. If not...fine. I am very tired of rich guys arguing about money.

Just 67 years young. Makes me sad.

Chris Getz looks the exact same, just not in uniform lol

First off - nothing -but prayers and best wishes to you and your girlfriend. I don't have any direct experience but had a friend of a friend who had experienced it and after doing dialysis for a few years (older individual - so not sure how much age may or may not impact ability to recover), but eventually was able to get a kidney transplant from someone who was a match (which was life changing experience for them - as despite the long road - they eventually were able to get to a much more normal state vs. the daily treatments which were pretty tough on them (both in terms of going through them, but also in terms of how it impacted ability to travel, etc). The individual I am referring to's condition I believe was related ultimately a complication from their diabetes. That said - I would ask those questions to the doctor (I am sure you have) but in case you haven't those are good things to know and to really understand all the things that you can be doing to help. I know diet was a critical piece in the equation for the person I mentioned (but even as tightly they managed it - their body still didn't recovery - as early on they were trying to get them back without going on dialysis but that didn't happen).