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Really like his delivery and follow through. Nice clean and straight towards the hitter.

I agree. They owners made the mistake of agreeing to the previous deal too early. If they want to change it now, they need to give up more to the players.

exactly. That's why the owners plan makes sense in a vacuum.

I dont think there will be a cap on the number of players a team can have in their system. They'll let the ones who want more AZL/GCL teams have them. They just wont require every team to 5 MiLB affiliates.

It should come down to what the revenues will be. The sport is losing roughly 1/3 of the revenues with no fans. The next will be how much revenue are they losing from the media contracts. Are they going to get only 1/2 the revenue from these contracts? It will be interesting as to how much revenue loss there is, that's why the owners pushing for the revenue sharing makes sense. However, they agreed to that compromise way too soon thinking it would be a good deal early.

Seniors are granted an extra year so they do have an option this year if they aren't drafted. They may be a year older but it wont make much difference since no one is getting developmental time this year. The only issue will be if the coach has the scholarship money for them.

Yes, there was already an agreement. If the owners want to change it, they need to negotiate it.

I'm not sure if that's necessarily true. Maybe for the casual fan. However, being a baseball and white Sox fan I go to watch the team. Not the owners not the specific players. But the team I've always gone regardless of the owner or the players.

Very true. Which is why I believe they will play this year. However the entire discussion was about the MLB business model not necessarily this year.

Most do. Its fairly rare that they don't. Of course these aren't typical circumstances.

His defense of his actions does make sense though.

yep. We have a totally different view of business. Which is fine. If everyone agreed on everything Life would be boring. Disagreement is fun. Of course they also start wars.........?

Somewhat. That is risk from one point of view. The important aspect of the player is they have absolutely no risk, where the owner (home owner) still has some risk. There are factors which can lower the value/profit of the home owner.

Right so the owners have risk, they can lose money or have little profit. The players have none, their money is guaranteed, unless they strike.

In the level of minutia, no businesses are exactly the same, so you are correct. However, the principle of who laid out the risk to start/buy the business thus the risk vs. the employees who have little to no risk it's similar. Especially in baseball where the players have guaranteed contracts they assume zero risk. Owning a franchise is less risk, but still more than a player where profit is absolutely guaranteed.

Could be, its just that they do front a great deal of capital to buy them. The Ricketts paid close to a billion in cash, loans etc. It's now catching up to them and they are pulling back some. That's still more risk than any players has, which is none.

Don't see how. The same principles apply to all businesses. The owners took all the risk in investing capital to own the company. The players in this case have absolutely no risk with guaranteed contracts.

It's a business.

Same principle applies.

I usually do. The owners take the risk of laying out the capital to start the business. The employees, typically, have little risk other than losing their jobs. It's not to say they don't have rights, they just don't have much risk. In this particular case though, they had an agreement to pro-rate the salaries and should stick to it.

It's how business has always run. They are in the business to make money. They take the risk and they reap the rewards.

I love guns, germs and steel. Excellent theories.

No kidding. Good deal for them. It may be a precursor to a floor/ceiling cap in the next CBA.

I think so. With the CBA coming up, they are starting the process and precedents here.

I read the first part and thought "double headers for all" it will be some fun days watching. Then I finished the sentence and thought "well I still like it." ?