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If we are willing to sign Castellanos, why not just get Bryant who is better defensively and more versatile? makes no sense

I’d rather have Castellanos in RF than a Vaughn / Sheets, but no idea why you’d prioritize him over Conforto.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if this pissed off Jerry so much he decided to increase the payroll significantly

So far I have spent my spring training money on a family outing to Hadestown, and am working on spending the summer baseball money on a trip to NYC, and probably Hamilton.

What's sad for me is I haven't checked this thread in a few days, I've seen how many pages it is, and I just don't have the energy for all of this. We all go so much shit going on in our lives...while I think the owners come out looking far worse in this, I've gotten to a point where I just don't have the energy to care. You guys don't want to play baseball? Fine, I'm sure I'll find something else to do with my time. Which I don't want, I love baseball, and I'll be excited when it comes back....but I just can't get that emotionally invested at this point, fire isn't there.

You mean they of the 72nd largest city and 21st largest metro area?

Oh look, the players are starting a fund to take care of stadium staff screwed over by the lockout, while the owners are squabbling with labor over minuscule costs like meal money. But the players are the greedy ones and ownership deserves all of the spoils because of "risk"...

What I don't understand is if it's such a shitty business to be in, and people are lined up to pay you billions of dollars for your team, why aren't you selling?

Those damn greedy players are at it again.

Here it is. I apologize for making assumptions.

Fucking including meal money. ? Talk about nickel and diming.

Union Buster is full of shit. These boot lickers have no shame.

Sign Conforto, sign Tepera, trade Kimbrel for whatever clears his salary, sign a 2B, bring back sleeveless jersey as an alternate.

Say no to shitty defenders, Rick.

for sure

I'm going to be bitter and angry until income inequality, racism/xenophobia and public corruption are addressed. The system is cannibalizing itself. Human suffering hurts my soul. Anyway, I'm done talking about this here. Back to baseball.

It is most definitely real. I live about an hour north of Kzoo. A buddy of mine sent this story to me earlier today. Pure gold.

I wouldn’t complain because his bat is so good, but this would essentially be adding another guy who should be a DH to a team that already has way too guys who should be DH’s.

Just went through all the free agents again. Couple thoughts: - I can't believe Billy McKinnie is only 27. - Man Tauchmann had a horrible, horrible year last year. Crazy after he was traded how much better we were with Brian Goodwin. - Wild how Albert Almora went from a pretty consistently high 17% k rate guy to 31% krate but didn't improve in power or anything. - What's left is like a rick hahn jubilee of powerful corner outfield types. I imagine his reaction to this market is like if someone logged on late to their fantasy draft and can't believe there are still all the defense and kickers left.

That's exactly why we need to start using it here to describe people like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Brin, Musk, Gates et al. The same corruption is happening here. All of the individual parts of the $6T Build Back Better bill polled nationally at 58% or higher, but that did not get passed. The only way to explain that is gross public corruption. It was incredibly popular. BTW, it's this kind of public corruption here in the US(and other places in the West) that emboldens asshole dictators like Putin and Xi. If we're going to talk the talk about democracy and human rights, we have to walk the walk. Also nobody cares about refugees and imperialist wars when it's brown people being killed and displaced. Some are "ok" and some aren't.

Just an FYI on what MLB meal money is and how petty the owners are who want to add it to the CBT. It's $30 a day. 2 Coronas at a Sox game.

I'm not ageist by any means but it becomes increasingly frustrated when you're told by your parents, I had bought my own home by this age and had X amount of kids at this age. Failing to realize that things are absolutely not the same as it use to be. I think being intentionally obtuse about the issues that plague the world today, along with enormous pride/ego are what's causing people to feel a certain way about older leaders. They never fucking listen!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2021/09/04/this-best-selling-router-includes-an-alarming-security-surprise/?sh=51d40a146ce3 They (TP-link) are also known to steal intellectual property.

Not sure if this is real but ?

Yes, it's a real shame the owners locked out the players and are negatively impacted so many people with their unrestrained greed.

It's a PR battle they are losing. We still have all the businesses that surround stadiums that are impacted. The reason teams receive such massive tax breaks and incentives.

Yeah we were totally setting up a fund, so weird that we hadn't told you guys right...

I would bet most owners had businesses prior to buying into the legal monopoly.

Good PR.

Trash

$1 million to purchase publicity in their favor, smart move.

Oh dang, the MLBPA Is on it.

I can't imagine being this bitter. If I truly thought that, I would be out the door, and have been.

We don't need you doom posting man, we all understand labor disagreements and bargaining enough

I’m waiting for the apology

So realistically, the number wasn't even what they said it was if they are bulking it up by hiding other things in it. Crooks.

Same here. She only goes from mid-May to August. This includes Bears games.

He might live in Cleveland.

At this point, I am not even going to think about transactions until we have a fucking game to watch. Pretty disgusted rn tbh.

RIP Luis Robert's legs. And who are you spending money on to play 2B if you aren’t upgrading RF?