Harold's Leg Lift

Those damn greedy players are at it again.

This is good. Happ is a smart and thoughtfull dude.

I liked Cannon a lot last year when he was a draft elig soph. He's another guy that can move himself into the back of the 1st round conversation.

Expanded playoffs is the players only bargaining chip and they're using it the same way the owners used the universal DH. Both sides want it or understand that's it's inevitable but the other side wants it more. They're using the 12 game playoffs to get other things they want for this cba (higher min, arb, higher cbt) and save the 14 team playoff for the next cba. No reason to give up your biggest and pretty much only bargaining chip all at once. I hope they hold out as long as it takes to get it.

Must be a good day for piss bombs as Fabian gets in on the fun.

Good lord that was a freakin piss bomb. That dude sure is easy to dream on.

I wonder if Reinsdorf recognizes the irony in this newfound position.

Three words I never thought I would say. Go Bernie Go!

Think of the minor leagues as a boot camp or war of attrition. Teams don't want minor leaguers to get comfortable because then they won't work hard to get to the next level. Move up or move out. Now I think it's gone a bit too far especially with regards to nutrition but you can talk to big leaguers and they will tell you they loved it because it forced them to get better and get better fast. The players who do the complaining are the ones who never made it.

Eugene made a thread about it. He's the absolute best follow on twitter regarding this process. He understands and explains all the ploys and dirty tricks Manfred utilizes as part of his negotiation style.

I tried to keep the natural rivals together. Get it.

Anti-trust of course. How can you share revenue when the owners don't have to opentheir books,

That's a low bar to clear.

Anyone who says Rob Manfred is just a mouthpiece for the owners doen't know who Rob Manfred is and what he's done during his 35 + years working for MLB.

I've been messing around with some radical realignment. I think most teams would love it but the teams that hate it would really hate it (shut it Pittsburgh!). I would LOVE to see something like this happen. They can name the leagues and divisions whatever they want. AL East NYY NYM Bos Philly Pitt NL SE Wash Balt Atl TB Mia AL Cent WS Cubs Mil Minn Det NL Cent Tor Clev Cincy St Lou KC AL SW Tex Hou Colo AZ SD NL West Sea SF Oak LAD LAA

What you didn't find a guy relentlessly pushing an incredibly bizarre and uninformed agenda entertaining?

Dodgers?

I think it's safe to say that's what Hahn is banking on.

They're most likely going to have to. This shit is going to move fast especially the reliever market.

I think the first move they make will be signing a reliever. If they can't get Tepera done a guy like Mychal Givins could happen.

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My guy can pick the hell out of it and he's off to a nice start with the bat too.

It looks like DeLauter got things back on track. Fairleigh Dickinson pitching is good for what ails you.

1:08 before he started talking about basketball. I would've lost that bet.

Ha. Yeah he looks like your typical bad body slugger. Kids got some Pete Incaviglia in him.