Dick Allen

All JR sitting this one out means is he realizes there are enough owners that share his opinion where he doesn't have to take the bad pub like last time. He is loving Manfred taking all this heat, but remember he was the one that kept his appointment from being unanimous because he thought he would be too soft with the union. It is smart he is sitting it out. Why take the heat if you don't have to?

Just an FYI on what MLB meal money is and how petty the owners are who want to add it to the CBT. It's $30 a day. 2 Coronas at a Sox game.

What I don't understand is if it's such a shitty business to be in, and people are lined up to pay you billions of dollars for your team, why aren't you selling?

If the owners wanted, they could end the lockout and play with the terms of the last CBA, but they don't want to do that because that gives the union a right to strike when it hurts the owners most.

I am trying to understand how the owners are still going to negotiate when they have already given their final and best offer. Soz already sent season ticket holders a message saying how dissippointed they are, and saying you will get credits for games missed unless you want to jump through hoops for refunds. I am going to jump through the hoops.

I don't understand why it's so important for either side to look like they are trying to be fair. IT DOESN'T MATTER. You lose games, you lose fans. The more games you lose, the more fans you lose. If owners think it's cool to lose a month of games because it's cold in many cities and kids are still in school, let them look at their empty seats in July and August when they have an agreement. As a Sox fan who was around for 1994, this is deja vu. We have to sit through a rebuild. Then the team gets good, the covid, no fans, restricitions, fewer opportunities and lockout, missed games. It's almost as if they are trying to tell us something.

The thing that really worries me is if in the end Putin has no way out except to accept this move as a total failure, he may start pressing nuke buttons.

It happened to Ventura and Buehrle and Thomas. When it was apparent Konerko was sliding fast, they gave him a small 1 year goodbye deal. They. Also wouldn't take Thome back in 2010 for $1 million. Assuming there is some sort of agreement before winter and there will be games played, the week after the agreement is going to be nuts

One thing Bryant has going for him is his position versatility. When Moncada goes down, you can put him at 3B. He can even play CF when Robert gets hurt., and Engel is rehabbing. Not ideal but it won't kill you if it's for a couple of weeks. The other thing he could probably do is turn some Cubs fans in to Sox fans. Conforto probably is the better fit, especially in the most important category, economics.

I do think analytics has made things far more uniform with the teams, and that tends to get boring.

These RSNs who actually pay baseball teams, hope like crazy some games are cancelled. They lose money every year, yet the people they pay can't seem to make ends meet, yet still fly private jets. Weird.

That said, there is a reason why these businesses keep appreciating at incredible rates, and it isn't because they bleed cash.

It is pretty funny none of these teams that lose cash every year ever want to show their books to players. When I lived in a high rise, they would always take pictures of condos that hadn't been updated to fight property tax increases. If they are losing money, why don't they show anyone?

When Samson was with the Marlins, they were hoarding their revenue sharing checks. Their payroll was so low, I remember reading an article that stated they could lock their gates and not let anyone in and still turn a profit. Samson has signed off on tax returns stating they lost money. He isn't going to say anything different now.

For tax purposes, these guys get to reduce their income each year for 15 years after buying a team by 1/15th the purchase price of the team. So if you buy a team for $2 billion, you get to reduce your income over $133 million each year for 15 years.

Not true.

It has to be because there are not a ton of teams that will spend. 12 teams last year had a payroll under $100 million. The average team payroll thanks to the Dodgers was $132 million. Do NFL teams average over $70 million under the cap?

The owners just want a CBA that saves them from themselves. If the higher revenue teams really wanted more competition, they would divide their money up more equally. And lower revenue teams can print money with the little revenue sharing they get, crying poor, and not trying to win.

It's urgency compared to December and January. This is coming down to the deadline for a full season and probably beyond that. I am sure the owners believe they can still get expanded playoffs in 2022 without playing 162. They will give in a bit somewhere else to get it.

Why would you think either side is going to come up with something anywhere near their best offer until there are a couple of seconds left on the clock?

No it can't. To think every team loses money in April because the White Sox and rest of the low revenue ALCentral don't draw well in April is shortlisted. Many teams draw pretty well in April, not to mention their local TV contracts that won't pay teams for games not played. If they were going to miss games, I will give you they would chose April, but if all those games were money losers, the season would start later.

Its just like college. Pay no attention all semester, then the night before the final realize you better start looking at this shit.

I understand all that, but I just don't get how do you actually drop a spot in the last 2 weeks when you have played like he's played those 2 weeks, doing something no one has ever done in the NBA, and the team is #1 in the East.

It would be the best 60 game stretch he’s had in 7 years,

So in the ESPN expert NBA MVP poll, the Bulls have won 5 straight, back to #1 in the East. DDR has gone on an unprecedented in NBA history streak, and somehow he has dropped from 6th to 7th .