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Ding, ding, ding!

I've got a baseball card where the player position is listed as pinch runner. Anyone remember who?

And that changes the current situation how? Placing blame does nothing to help the team. You can kick, scream and yell about what they've done or didn't do. This changes nothing about what tye best path to success is going forward. Blame who you want, then figure out how to go forward to improve the team. Posting my favorite paraphrased quote again. Those who live in the past suffer depression. Those who live in the future suffer anxiety. Only those who love in the present are truly in the right frame of mind.

When you have significant more resources you can cover mistakes and have more resources throughout the organization

Maybe some but there is no way you can convince me that they could compete with LA or NY. The disparity might be less but not significantly.

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True. Let's see how the rest if the team goes with so much dedicated to one player.

Correct, it's the disparity. There are many teams in the bottom. Few at the top.

No its not. While the revenue is increasing you can't honestly think that teams like kc are on equal footing with LA. Revenue isn't the question. It's the disparity between the teams that is the issue. If all teams shared equally like the nfl, you would have a point.

Sure, because the white sox revenues are the same as the dodgers.

As you said earlier, we'll see. I do think the owners are more unified this time.

Sorry. I'm not saying the floor or cap will happen, the MLB union is far too strong. I'm saying there will be a prolonged strike/lockout.

Why lie about it? I think they will get in trouble with the union and probably the MLB if they come out and say it. No team will just say "we suck and we are going to trade any talented players to purposely make our team worse " As you said we all know and they know it but they can't just say it.

It never needs one but it will happen. The two sides won't give and I think the owners are set on it this time.

That quote from JR i would agree with. He just shouldn't have said it. I can see people staying mad at that one. He can't come out and say we are trying to suck but he also doesn't have to purposely try to build it up either. Being a sports fan you are always being lied to about the possibility for the teams. Even good teams have the "great culture and every player is in the best shape of their lives stories." It's just easier to deal with when they are good.

Of course either way sucks. It means the team is bad. What would you rather they say, "we know we are bad and have no talent. Thus we are purposely going to get rid of any player with talent to try to rebuild the team and we are going to lose a ton of games." I think that would get them in trouble with the union and probably MLB.

This is why there is going to be a prolonged lockout/strike. Even the new ownership who fans thought was going to be a savior from the cheap owners want the cap/floor to happen. MLB is the only sport that doesn't have one.

I agree with different people having different preferences. The reaction is going to be the same either way except for the people offended by the lies. But again, what do people expect then to say?

I don't think enough people understand this. Many on here are saying that the Sox lied to them about the team. Which is true but would the reaction been any different if they were honest? If they came out and said we are purposely going to tear the team down and lose, people would have reacted the same way. JR is cheap and doesn't have a clue how to run an organization. Very few teams are going to say they are purposely going to lose. But fans know when it's happening. We'll just need to see how this version turns out.

Antwaan Randle-El assistant head coach and wr coach. Comes over from Detroit. Thornton HS grad. Worked with him in high school. Good guy. Good coach.

If they agree to a floor and cap they will have to share all books. It's the only way to determine the true nimbers.

Nope.

I wonder if they are putting him on the same program they used with Crochet since he is coming off surgery. This would explain a longer rehab process.

Not likely, the osteophytes would have been removed through arthroscopy going straight into the joint. They wouldn't see outside the joint. Unless the osteophytes were really big and they needed to do an open procedure. This is unlikely but they would see the UCL in this case.

Medicine is not linear nor a hard science as much as we try to make it. There is a reason they call it the practice of medicine. He is not the only one this has happened to nor will he be the last.