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C’mon Marshawn

The usual suspects tweeting optimism because it’s supposed to make the owners look good and put pressure on the players to say yes, is exactly what we don’t need today.

Shut up, Jon. Go to Arby’s.

If they can’t put it in the end zone today, fuck ‘em all.

It’s official. April 14…they’re never going to figure this out on their own.

If it’s fake today, the real one can’t be too far behind. Like Friday.

No. They’ll play 162 if they settle today. Season will end 10/5, and they’ll make 3-4 games with doubleheaders.

Probably should have gone with “latest” instead of last. ?

The players should accept the intl draft. In five years, they’ll be glad they did. Enough is enough with that gross system.

I’m definitely for ties after 12, but if the man on 2nd rule continues, play the 10th and 11th regular, and then start it in the 12th.

I don’t believe they will continue. Same for man on 2nd in extras. Haven’t heard a word about either.

Hope so. My feeling is if there are 1200 players that have a vote, more than 600 want to go to spring training now.

No worries, we got Jhan Marinez back in the fold.

Man I hope they just freakin’ figure it out and declare victory…both sides. Let’s go! We need trades and signings and see some games soon!

I bet he works out. (Dumb and Dumber line-going for the lols)

When David Ortiz got in the Hall and I was looking at his stats, the thought crossed my mind that it’s too bad Eloy doesn’t want to just play “bad ass hitter” until he’s 40. He’d probably hit 600 homers and be sitting on stage with him someday.

See, I’m the opposite. I wouldn’t be against best of 3 in the wildcard, best of 5 in DS and CS; and make the World Series the only best of 7. The long series means it gives the casual fan more reason to tune out until the series is 2-2 if it gets there.

No offense to Chuck, but there are no great 14 team postseason ideas. Best they can do with 6- worst division winner win total plays the 6-seed and the other two play each other in a single game elimination. After that, the remaining worst regular season record plays the division winner with the highest win total. If ties, don’t pair up teams from same division if possible.

That would mean no TV show where teams pick opponents and fewer playoff games, so that won’t happen. I will say…if they sell their soul and go to 14, I will watch less regular season baseball, and won’t watch the postseason until LCS if I feel the teams that are in, deserve to be there…meaning good regular season win totals. They add inventory, I’ll watch less. Period.

Hoping this is more of a small market vs big market owner thing and they can come to some level of discomfort soon that they have to make a deal to get spring training going sometime in March. Everyone has too much to lose if they lose a quarter of the season.

I don’t think the shift should be applicable to a certain hitter. That’s fundamentally unfair to him. Rules have to be uniform to everyone. I’m on the side of just making the fielders play in zones on the dirt. Maybe have a 15 foot circumference around second base that fielders can’t be, so a bullet up the middle is a hit again or we actually see good defense.

We really don’t know how the win totals will shake out until it’s implemented and some teams choose not to be sellers at the deadline, or how they build their teams in the offseason to begin with. I’m hopeful six in each league won’t be a huge deal. Seven in each league is hot garbage.

Hope to see the photos on the roster pages reappear like in Back to the Future…and then Kimbrel traded by Friday.

Deadline extended. 10am-4pm central meeting.

They’re prepared to negotiate late tonight, so I guess that’s a good thing. It would be pretty wild if they got it done and the next 10 days is nothing but free agent signings and trades. Who knows what GMs have been talking about trade-wise…there could be some wild 3-4 team trades.