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And now the Bears just traded Mack. This is going to be a crazy/fun weekend of sports.

This thread is about to blow up. HELL. YES.

What percentage of the 1200 need to vote yes?

The pre-arb gap is down to $125M. So will the players now counter with an offer that starts at $60M and increases by $5M per year?

So the MLB wants $200M over five years for pre-arb, and the players want $375. Split the difference, and you are at $287.5M. Start it at $50M in year one, and increase by $5M each year (50+55+60+65+70 = 300). That would lean a little more toward the players in terms of total dollars, but it would be much closer to what the MLB wants for an initial amount.

Because if they offer that a month ago, there’s no way the Union takes it knowing they still have time to make the offer better for them. And at that point, the “meet in the middle” number is much higher. There’s just no way either side would be motivated to give any ground to other side until they absolutely have to.

Exactly. I guarantee everyone here would have gone apeshit if we didn't acquire an impact bullpen piece at the deadline. Hell, everyone was already complaining about Hahn not making any moves right before we made this move.

Ok, so they should just say, "Hey MLB, we really don't want an international draft. But if you raise the pre-arb pool to $55/$60 million, then you can keep the international draft." (Yes, I do realize it's not that simple)

I think you are still confusing bonuses with salaries.

I just feel like the WC1 is better than the third division winner a lot of the time and just happen to play in the same division as the top division winner. It would also completely eliminate travel from those first series and speed up the process (which then means one less day the top two division winners have to sit and wait).

Yeah, I would let division winner 3 and WC1 play all three games at home.

I would guess the top two division winners get a bye. Third best division winner plays WC3, and WC1 plays WC2 (probably a 3 game series).

I actually wasn’t referring to the footing on dirt/grass at all. I just found it humorous that you thought a baseball was easier to control when it’s wet from rain. It seemed ridiculous to me, so I was comparing it to something else that would sound ridiculous.

What do those signs say that janitors put up after mopping the floor? Do they say "Cautious: Slippery when wet"? Or do they say "Cautious: Very difficult to control your footing once this floor completely dries"?

Probably similar to what it took to get Lance Lynn.

I totally agree with this premise, but it gets tricky with the way schedules are created. Should a division-winning Oakland team that is 87-75 get to choose their opponent over a 96-66 Tampa team that got second place in the East?

If the third division winner is given some sort of an advantage for their series against the 6 seed (home field throughout, ghost win, etc.), do you think the 4 seed (1 WC) would get the same advantage over the 5 seed (2 WC)?

@southsider2k5, thanks for all the updates. Much appreciated.

"Match 31"??? Does Jesse Rogers have @Kyyle23 writing Tweets for him now? @poppysox, make sure you jump on Twitter and call him out. Inexcusable error.

You shuold be emabrrassed. Even my 5 year old son konws that the word "play" has an L in it. This was much wosre than a seplling error. It was...a TYPO!! You mihgt as well never psot on these boards agian.

A starting pitcher is what interests me the most. It would have to come via trade, right?

Conforto makes too much sense, similar to how Grandal made too much sense a couple years ago.

I’m 38. Discovered this place during the winter meetings at the start of the rebuild. I wasn’t on Twitter and still remember refreshing constantly as the Sale trade broke.

He knows that. He was trying to say that it’s not true that the Sox don’t have a lefty in the rotation, because they have Keuchel.

Does this make it more likely that we trade for Gavin Lux? @Harold's Leg Lift