Balta1701

Although insurance against strikes/lockouts on private markets used to be a thing, I'm pretty sure that type of clause would actually be illegal. (Pretty sure the owners had strike insurance in 1994, and since they used that as a key thing in driving the labor dispute, people stopped offering that product as commonly. Not sure if it still exists at all).

But, one minor muscle injury and that means that group is covering a starter role for maybe half the season.

Much like OBJ that would be a provocative potential addition, but much like in Cleveland I wonder if he would simply vanish on the Bears due to the young and/or ineffective passing QB. If Fields took a big step forwards in a retooled offense that could work great.

But you’ve just listed 6 teams where it obviously matters. If they have support of an extra owner like Reinsdorf who probably won’t vote for any agreement unless the union agrees to decertify, then they have sufficient votes to block any agreement. That gives those teams a ton of leverage.

They might not have finished until a deadline, but had the owners side recognized that they were going to have to actually compromise, they could have gotten large portions of the work done previously. Adding in text to the proposal overnight on Monday and hoping the players would agree without noticing on some minor issue is the kind of thing that should have been impossible even under a deadline, not just because it’s scummy, but because all those other issues could have been worked out with agreed upon text.

The players would be thrilled by this as it would be a $15 million boost in the luxury tax.

Fox tv annual playoff contract: $500 million per year. TBS annual playoff contract: $470 million per year. ESPN pays some for wild card games but they’re included with the Sunday night Package. Also $500 million a year for that package. Ticket sales for playoff games alone everywhere but Tampa is 40,000 seats at > $100 a ticket average, for up to 50 games. Without counting ad sales or next years season tickets or food that’s easily another $200 million. Players share last year: $90 million. Which part gets called out? That 8%. Nope, no bias here.

After following the White Sox, I can totally see how an owner would say “no we don’t need to sign that extra outfielder all you have to do is get to 84 wins and we are in true playoffs”.

They would also like you to know that Rick Hahn is working really hard. Harder than anyone ever!

The owners will still often have to make rent payments and loan payments, and those will add up with no revenue.

I don’t know how serious they were but he said this publicly and specifically said “if” Conforto leaves.

If it takes 8 teams to block a deal, and a salary floor is likely to impact at least that many, this may have been discussed but the level of trade offs required to make it happen could have been too big.

Wasn’t Reinsdorf the only owner to vote against Manfred on the grounds he wouldn’t be tough enough with the Union for JR’s taste?

I still don’t understand why the owners would give a better offer next week or even in April than they would give this week.

I shared some Showalter talk a week or so ago where he said they’ve talked about adding another OF on the Mets, so yeah that seems like a plausible option. I was thinking more about proving last year was a fluke for Conforto but clearing the QO could be important too if there’s still a penalty attached.

Here’s one. Imagine this goes until June. Does that substantially increase the chances of Conforto taking a 1 year deal? I think that could be a result. Ditto Rodon.

I do think it helps because he’s paid more than his worth by about $4 million, but if the season is 60 games long, he’s only overpaid by $1.3 million.

Amazon isn’t paying enough? Sorry chum, the business landscape hasn’t changed. You don’t have valuable enough skills to be able to boost your earnings. Go get a second college degree and sell yourself in multiple ways. That should be the bare minimum to earn a fair wage right?

Because it is way harder to play CF defense well than 1b defense. I am a great salesperson and do all of the books for this company, should I be worth more than a person who can do only one of those skills?

Graveman was clearly Tepera’s replacement (and Tepera replaced Heuer).

I’m ok with this. I expected far worse from the owners.

A 43 day delay to create a deadline was the explicit negotiating strategy of one side. If opening day doesn’t happen, the side that chose that strategy will be to blame for it. If that makes them villains…well that’s the term you chose. And on the other point…no, trying to find the point where the other side will break is not negotiating, at least not the only version of it. It is also possible to recognize that a lockout costs money for both sides and work to find common ground in the middle. It would take time in this case since there are actual problems with the MLB market and how it is operating, so one might want to come in with an open mind and leave one’s self plenty of time to do the hard work of reworking the whole system.

Sir, this is a baseball forum and a thread about baseball’s owners locking out their players.

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/red-herring-examples.html

Not how negotiations work.