Texsox

Sometimes you have to cheer for the lion.

**Just discussing the concept, not TLR specifically** Baseball moves slower than any other sport. The manager is not really calling plays or making substitutions in and out. Also, if being out of the game causes it to pass you by the following would be true. No one here really knows anything about the game because they were never in. Plus, ten years from now, you'll really know nothing. I'm not certain that's true.

I was not a fan of the move. It seemed less about baseball and more about egos.

Which is why so many Sox fans want Ozzie back. Alcohol? Check. Hasn't managed in years? Check. Old prick? Check. It will work the second time! Lol

That's so old school. They are the next generation and how they want to play the game. I can't wait for the kids to update their media during the game. Imagine him posting to TikTok a POV video of himself rounding the bases. Why just have the network people interview players and coaches during the game?

He doesn't have to sell. Just step away from day to day operations and hire someone from outside to clean house.

The team has really gone to hell since he left the dugout and stepped into that new role. I would love to have Tony advising me. Anything he thought was a good idea I would immediately cross off except bring back an analytics person.

Wow, 20 wins by Juneteenth.

Oddly, in a season that is should be the easiest to track how many wins, I have no idea until I look. And shockingly, the number is usually higher than I thought.

If you feel like it look through 205 pages of posters wanting players to get more. How the players share if revenue dropped from almost 2/3 to less than half in ten years.

Yes. The people that are generating all those billions in profit deserve their share. Even a crappy player generators a lot of profit for the company. The MLB average salary is over $4,500,000. Are those averages based on the players contribution to humanity or the profits generated by baseball teams? So yes, the company is profitable and the employees deserve their fair share. The Sox and the rest of the league take the work of players and generate profits. Like every other company salaries are based on profitability. The current minimum salary in baseball is $750,000. I think that's too low. $3,000,000 would be an easy change. And teams would still generate generational wealth. JR to MLB ownership "You new owners throwing around these big contacts are fools. This is why I'm the master of ownership. I have it to the point that Sox fans are worried about me making enough money. Lol They side with me over the players." If you would like a different example look at Amazon and Walmart. They thrived and built empires on paying their employees as cheaply as possible while the owners became some of the wealthiest individuals in the planet. Their employees were schooled by HR on the various government programs available for low income workers. I find that morally wrong. I will always take the side if the employees. But hey, you like the employer side.

For a team that brings in a couple hundred million? Yes. Do you think JR and the rest of the investors are worth those millions?

What they are worth? That's an interesting question. Compared to doctors? Soldiers? Accountants? Or are they worth a share of the profits that the company earns?

Ideally they have good players.

After the lockout, I don't care how much money a player makes. Almost everyone here wanted the players to get everything they asked for and screw the owners.

Let's get him shipped out. A couple of prospects and a fifth starter would be about as good as Getz can get.

We're arguing which player who would never be a part of even a .500 team we should have kept? I really miss the days when Leury was the worst player on the roster.

It will be interesting how baseball changes their ownership rules as teams become prohibataly too expensive for individual or small group purchase. They have loosened to allow Institutional Investing. What might be next? How about true public ownership with actual stock traded conventionally?

Would it be a dome with skiing in the winter?

Winning now is more important than money in some franchises. They needed him for a year, anything else was bonus. We're so use to a cheap owner the concept of paying a guy for three years when you need him for one is crazy. But we want to make certain JR makes money.

I'm bummed for him. He had the character the team is trying to build. Hell TLR cared enough to "run" to defend him. But this clears the way for our next manager.

X2 I'm just not a fan of uniforms for profit.

Jordan was frozen out in his first All Star game. So this isn't unusual. I wonder if this is also a tug of war between Olympics and the WNBA. The little sister sticking it to the big money sister.

That's been my thought. The only person fired on the last couple years that I wish they retained was Shelly Duncan. But not so much Shelly as they then eliminated the position.

All the same reasons that are in the Ozzie thread about Pedro are valid for Katz. I'm just curious how he became the Teflon coach.