Look at Ray Ray Run

Cool, I've never tuned into a baseball game for an announcer.

Been a sox fan long enough now to know that tweets like this are more than being excited for a fellow media member.

Yeah, its whatever. Certainly not as big as a major FA like these morons are implying,

DJ is awful

Merkin and Garfein saying shit like, "this is bigger than any FA and should make sox fans just as excited." Already setting it up to do the classic Jerry. Invest in everything but players.

I actually have always liked Dahl.

Jace Fry just settled with the Sox.

Taking the Twins over the white sox 2000-2020 is absolutely mad though. The twins have lost 18 playoff games in a row. Why would anyone want that? Thats insane. Sox maybe don't have a lot of division titles but they had a wire to wire dominant team who set playoff records.

But their sustained success led to a title. Its stupid to cut off the point.

The dodgers won a title so his point feels off. 1 playoff appearance would really suck. Titles are what its all about but 9 years of pointless regular season baseball for 1 year of success is easier to commit to hypothetically. I am just reminded about how much bad baseball I've had to watch In the past decade. It sucks. If the sox have a cubs kind of run I would be thrilled though. We've never made the playoffs two years In a row for God sakes.

You have a better chance of winning a title by being real good for 10 years than you do being great for 2.

This is how White Sox twitter goes: Sign every FA Trade for every star available Who cares what we give up. Just get star players for big money.

?? When keepin' it real, goes wrong...

I read a report yesterday that the front office is a disaster right now with endless infighting with no true leadership in place. Everyone is just trying to prove their worth before they're shown the door. edit: ehh, read it without the "summary" on twitter and it moreso is saying the Mets are having a hard time attracting anyone to take these jobs in the front office and are going to go into the off-season with nothing in place.

The Mets don't really even have a baseball ops team in place that they plan on being in place going forward; it would be odd for Cohen to let these guys splurge and then show them the door. I think the Mets aggressiveness - at least this off-season - is being overblown. That said, hopefully things start moving tomorrow following the tender deadline. I am not hopeful though. I still am not sold that Reinsdorf is going to spend while his friends sit on their hand and cry poor. That's just not Jerry's MO; he usually leads the charge when it comes to collusion.

Yeah, this is the point of the escrow. NBA saw most of its revenue but it did lose some. Those losses of revenue will not be factored in for the projected salary cap but should covid cause a reduction of games and revenue next year players will be compensated based on that. Baseball already did this with prorating salaries last year. Thats not the problem now in baseball. The problem is baseball owners will claim and push for smaller salaries for this year and future years because of the pandemic losses that players already subsidized with prorated salaries last year. Salaries in baseball didn't go up to match the revenue growth over the last 20 years, leading to baseball players getting smaller share of the real revenues than other sports. If you're not going to escalate salaries to match growth you cant turn around and ask them to subsidize your losses by taking salary cuts. That's comical. Baseball owners are awful

It has nothing to do with losses. The nba cap is tied to revenues. They are directly related. Thats how money is split based on their cba.

Lol People who compare owning a professional sports franchise to things like a landscaping business are literally hopeless in these communications. Is the local landscaping business subsidized by my tax dollars? Did we all help build the landscapers headquarters? So let me get this straight, they aren't required to spend when revenues have soared well beyond costs for the past 40 years but when they aren't making money hand over foot they can also use that as an excuse not to spend. That sounds like a good deal for owners. Glad you all are so sympathetic to these people lol Teams laying off workers left and right after making billions while using tax dollars to build stadiums. Amazing people support these crooks.

What does this prove exactly? Nba players and teams have revenue % split agreements for player salaries. The cap is based on prior years revenues and etc. They didn't use last year to set the cap because they thought it was artificial and not a good barometer but because the cap is based on a percentage of revenue, there has to be an escrow incase revenues don't bounce back. This is literally no where near the same thing. Their cba and salary cap are based on revenues. Baseball has no cap. Theres no requirement to meet a certain percentage on players salaries. Nba teams also don't have closed books in negotiations as mlb owners do. This is actually the nba saying we'll pay you based on where we both thought revenues would be next year pre pandemic but if the revenue is greatly affected by the pandemic the cap would be lower so salaries would have to come down. Its actually the exact opposite of the mlb who already intentionally shortened last season to deprive players of salaries. Amazing this post has 2 likes as if some point was proven.

One more thing.. you know why we don't "know" their situation financially? Because they keep their books closed intentionally so they can make these laughable claims. Owners refuse to actually prove what they claim because they can't. The onus is on them to justify their claims, not on me.

Nba teams must have just picked better business men to run their teams. Weird! They seem to be dolling out money and contracts like its nothing. Since I'm not a lawyer proving collusion in court that means it doesn't exist lol. Just like 2008... no bankers did anything wrong because none were criminally changed. Nice insight cali. Carry that absurdly wealthies water.

Yes, the poor billionaires are struggling during this pandemic and can't afford to support their businesses. They just happened to have billions.

Nonsense. Ownership colluding to suppress salaries and pay is wrong regardless of income levels. Just because you like baseball doesn't mean everyone playing the game loves it. This is a job. And the Ricketts can't cover Payroll? Then they shouldn't own a team. And the fact that anyone here actually thinks the Ricketts can't afford a payroll has fallen for one big pile or bs.

Owners are just using this as an excuse to be cheap. They don't have to do it. This constant cry of poorness will be used in CBA negotiations. Players again are being screwed by league wide ownership collusion. The Chicago cubs are floating the idea of non tendering a player who was worth 5 fWAR two years ago to "save" money. They just spent hundreds of millions building up the area around the ballpark and starting a television network and they can't afford to put a competitive product on the field? Uh yeah, ok.... Baseball doesn't have a pace of play or youth problem.... it has an ownership problem. Collectively it's the worst group of owners in pro sports. the goal is no longer to win and have fun owning a team- whose value grows exponentially year after year. It's a shame.

I can't think of a guy who settled for significantly less money than projected. I could be wrong but I believe that could hurt the arbitration market for other players?