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So what exactly could Rick Hahn have said yesterday that would have been all right?

There is a 10 million dollar a year difference between the two deals. That is a broad swath if you ask me

But if he is still a 10 million dollar pitcher, he can turn it down and go chase more cash.

Effectively, yes.

The nine figure deals ended up way out-kicking the rate of dollars that could be brought in, especially with the destruction of cable going on in slow motion.

Which teams are affected, do we know?

Hopefully all involved reevaluated and came to their senses.

And you would need to know the specific force to request it from.

Hey Jack, lay off of the enter key.

Ok, that is awesome to hear.

If he is going to be there, you HAVE to attack this head on and hope he can stay on message for 15 minutes and then shut his mouth.

Look as much as I would like to see the Sox step forward here, we all knew they wouldn't without action from MLB. Manfred has it out for Jerry, so he is leaving them hang in the wind.

Have fun with Ron883, he's already there!

The Padres have to pay their players somehow!

Apparently the Dodgers, but not the White Sox. I wonder if JR regrets trying to screw Manfred and block his candidacy yet?

This year gets better and better.

That's not true at all. The Sox fan base's level of hope would have this as a 20 win team.

The word "traditionalist" gets thrown around too much in baseball. I don't know why we pretend that baseball rules have always been the same, but that isn't really the case. Some of the early rules of baseball included... -playing until someone scored 21 times. -The original distance between bases was 42 paces -Strikes weren't originally a thing. Then umpires had to warn players to swing at good pitches before calling a strike. -Not only was a flyball an out, but also if caught on the first bounce -No provisions for balls or walks were made -For a 20 year period you could request a high or low pitch. -Pitches were done underhand -for a long time ground rule doubles of today were home runs My wonder isn't with trying to adjust to changes in the game, it is that i swear I read somewhere that this didn't actually reduce the number of pitches thrown in extra inning games at all once all of the extra offense was factored in.

Hell hath no fury like the Padres scorned.

I have not heard this one before, but apparently some call the extra inning runner the Manfred Man, and I am here for it.

Versus another half-assed season of not really being able to contend nor spend?

Again, look at his FIP vs ERA. He lost almost a run per game due to defense. Teams know how bad the Sox defense is, and how much better their own is. His 2022 FIP was under his career average.

Didn't they figure out this did nothing to shorten games?

Tim isn't exactly a top flight guy either.