southsider2k5

See the difference is that if I thought my company wasn't treating me right, I could leave. Instead baseball tried to build a comparison system to try to equate players under this system. The whole point of quantitative analysis is also to try to get the underpaid and appreciated their fair share. It isn't only owners doing this. You have someone like Scott Boras doing this as well.

Good lord. That Russian troll farm bad though they might be busy.

And they become bacon. Win/win.

Yes because contract negotiations and arbitration haven't been doing that for decades.

You lost me in the 1st sentence. Negotiations imply 2 parties negotiating in good faith. That has never happened here.

I would imagine that will now have to be a part of negotiations as well.

Well it is also official. I won't be paying for a ticket or merchandise this year.

And let the spin begin.

How long do you have?

Manfred won't call it an "impasse" in the terms of the legal meanings of the word.