southsider2k5

Congrats man!

Yeah, I also hate the interactions between Jaime and Beth. I can't say much more because I will spoil something you haven't seen yet, but we'll talk more when we get caught up. As of now I think my favorite characters are all of the ranch hands. I love Jimmy and Tex especially.

2021 was the 17th with a bit tighter of a COVID schedule https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/2021-mlb-spring-training-dates-schedule-when-do-pitchers-and-catchers-report-for-all-30-teams/

Going off of 2020s schedule, we would be four days away from pitchers and catchers starting to report for spring training. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/mlb-spring-training-reporting-dates-2020-pitchers-catchers/1ae9szkq7eby41wtmgcckq7hen

Boy that is a lot of volume and not a lot of cost for a guy of that calibur.

Just finished the 4th season here. IMO it took about a year and a half to get going, but was pretty good. I think I enjoyed more of the side characters than some of the main ones though. Most of all I love the scenery. So beautiful.

If I say the Rule of 72 and you don't know what it is, you should immediately go look it up and learn.

Everything is fine. Just don't ask any triggering questions.

So you're happier that your money is going to the billionaire owners instead? Odd flex.

The source material was posted earlier in this thread.

Every single team in baseball makes $100 million in cash before they ever sell a single ticket, beer, or hat. The season makes them money, no doubt, but a majority of cash flow comes from non-ballpark revenue.

Revenues have doubled with players share dropping by 25%. The billionaires are already bending you over, and then making you carry their mail afterwards.

You are on a message board, not a massage board. I know that's a small typo, but Soxtalk isn't here to be "fair and balanced". Any site that tries to say they are is lying. This is a bunch of individuals here trading opinions, with some of us even bothering to take the time to read up on what we are arguing. Soxtalk isn't soft or for those who just want their opinions spouted back at them in a protected and one sided format. This isn't about one person's feelings. It's about a 20 year old format which works to allow all sides to debate, but not necessarily agree. The fact that you tried to paint the admin team as some uniform force is the most ironic part of all. If you'd really paid attention you'd know that it's the admin team who typically has the nastiest rows with each other. It's just in this case the evidence is so overwhelming and obvious that we aren't.

Let me put it this way. I get a salary and a bonus based on personal and company performance in a six man shop. If nothing else changes, the company revenue doubles, and the company offers me 2% more, I would have a major problem. Your scenario is bogus and not at all apt. If the value of your house doubled, and the next owner was only willing to pay you 5% more, now you have a real comp. The players are the one who have taken a 25% haircut on doubled revenues here, not the owners

Again, what evidence do you have of this?

They pretty much did exactly that. They didn't negotiate for six weeks, then made an offer. Then the players made a counter offer and they walked away.

They obviously wanted to wait out the clock and then try to get the pressure on the players to cave, much like happened when it came to setting the 2020 season in which the owners got exactly what they wanted.

THEN WHY DID YOU REFUSE TO MEET FOR SIX F@#$ing WEEKS?!?!?!?

Also this is a good thread.

Again, 20 years ago, players held about 63% of baseball's revenue pie. Today it is a touch over 47%. They have lost 16 percentage points or about 25% of the share they once had. In order to start to make some of that back up to get back to even where they were, it is going to take some revenues flowing their way. For some perspective, the most recent baseball revenue numbers I saw were $10.7 billion. So when the players were asking for a $110 million piece for a specific group of underpaid arb qualifiers, you are talking about just a shade over 1% of the pool. When the dropped their ask to $100 million, it became less than 1%. The generous owners who proposed this idea and were willing to put $5 million into it are offering players 0.04% of revenues back. To simply get back to the 52% share the players had a few years back, the ownership would have to move almost $500 million in revenue over to players. To get back to 63%, it would take about $1.6 billion. So while the owners and their mouthpieces will try to blow people away with headlines about the players asking for 100 MILLION DOLLARS!, they leave out all perspective of the missing $1.6 BILLION that players would have had if things had remained simply the same for the last 20 years.