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A more apt equivalent would be the 2010 Bulls, when they finally had their young players ready to shine (Rose, Noah), their in house vets (Deng), in house role players (Taj, Omer), supplemented with free agency (Korver, Boozer, Brewer).

Who wants to tell him we ended the rebuild?

Tbh, we'll be better off than most teams in this department.

Manfred

Jerksticks, take this here. We have a fatality rate from a known sample size. It's what we can act off of at the moment. It is a large sample size. It's much better thought our then throwing your hands in the air and going "but it might be different!"

The 6-8 owners that didn't want to have a season might.

It makes money cause of BAM tech, Korean companies, and betting markets. It's not making money because it's attracting new fans. It's a seeing the forest through the trees situation.

I don't know if I've ever been as proud of being of a White Sox fan as I was while reading this paragraph.

By keeping the grievance, players won this. *Disclaimer that Bob is accurate

In a five round draft, nah. Take your two big swings. Horn is wild card.

Damn it Jerry. Possible butterfly effect: Sox probably don't do the Thome trade, keeping Rowand and Gio. Anderson can be shipped for a pitcher, probably better than Vazquez.

Yeah, Dr. Osterholm (who has been brought up in this thread) has said that a factor in the protests favor was that they were basically all outside and most of the protesters have been wearing masks.

Lefty, .281/.409/.755 career college line, mostly played center, 70 grade name.

The Zenni is a perfect example of this. It worked well initially, the they made it so bad. I mean, I bought Zenni frames because of it. They didn't need to make it green.

I hate this, but I hate not having baseball more. I just hope the advertisements will match the aesthetic of the uniforms (I know they won't).

But what would they complain about?

I was thinking 8 per league, which I guess would be 16. So I'm having an off day. 12 would be a good place to cut it.

I'm in favor of like, 8 teams, not 16, for what it's worth.

In a vacuum, MLB is the best sport for expanded playoffs. One rotation gets hot and it can change everything. There's the most upset potential.

It became a political statement.

Except they aren't unless the players agree to not file grievances that the owners negotiated in bad faith. So this lays solely at the feet of the owners and Rob "100% baseball this year ... Just kidding" Manfred.

Right, the players have said they'll play under the previously agreed upon deal. The owners just don't like that deal anymore.

It's more like they're a cage match, but the players are in the corner with their arms down saying "we're done. Can we just exit the ring?" while the owners are refusing to lift the cage.

Removing the anti-trust exemption or forcing the owners to make their books public as a condition is what makes the most sense. Maybe having owners who like baseball makes the most sense.