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While true, it's a tough sell having zero choice on where I'd sit Opening Day. I'd imagine I'm not alone in that sentiment.

I was thinking the same thing. An OD ticket is what makes me mildly interested, but I have no doubt that I'd be stuck in the upper deck.

You get a ticket to each game, but seats are chosen at random, so you don't even know which section until the day before the game. I won't sit in the upper deck in warm weather, screw freezing your ass off up there in April...

I did a similar pass probably a decade ago. Sitting in 30º April temps got old real fast!

Watching Polanco and Rojas on a daily basis last season, I honestly think Rojas is the better defender at this point. Neither bat is going to help the dismal offense much, but a reliable infield defense might be more beneficial to our developing pitching staff.

Oh no, I'm not suggesting that they are. Cincinnati is still a smaller market team after all. But I just can't see Francona at his age and with his health history, choosing the Reds of all teams if there weren't some convincing assurances. He could have any job he wanted at this point in his career, why willingly chose another small market team with cheap ownership and all of the bullshit that comes with that?

And why would Francona come out of retirement for the Reds of all teams if there weren't promises made about making a legit effort to win?

Jerry might be the worst owner in american sports, but the biggest villain? He is hardly notorious outside of Chicagoland. IDK, LeBron and Adam Silver ruining the NBA and or Rob Manfred making baseball worse instead of making more accessible are far more villainous IMO. But I really don't give a s%*# about the larger sports landscape outside of MLB anymore.

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Now do Vuc and Bust Williams…

Polanco completely forgot how to hit last season and hasn't played SS regularly since 2020. Not sure he offers more defensive utility than Rojas, and certainly not at twice the cost.

Are Split contracts Major League deals?

"This spring, the righty-hitting Madrigal will compete with Luisangel Acuña, Luis De Los Santos, Brett Baty and Jared Young, among others, for a spot on the Mets' Opening Day roster. Otherwise, he should land in Triple-A."

The only way out for them is to sell, or completely change how they operate. None of which seems likely. Jerry has driven this franchise into the ground and they have no one to blame but themselves. Ignoring those hard realities accomplishes nothing.

The corpse is barely in the ground...

Definitely too outside the box for JR.

The 'We' is a handful of posters that can't or refuse to see the forest from the trees.

How about 20 homers and a healthy All Star season before the deadline.

They’ll have to pry it out of his cold, dead hands.

The least they could have done is admit to the fanbase that they recognize where they are as an org and be honest about the lengthy and difficult path forward. Yes, some fans might still be upset, but that's better than the bald-faced lies that leave us not only upset, but disillusioned about the org and questioning the level to which they are detached from the same realities. Just being honest about it isn't a fix, but it goes a long way towards repairing the relationship with the fanbase.

We all know that, but Getz spent the winter signing wash up vets under the guise on not wasting a year. Our qualm is how disingenuous they were about it. What they sold to fans last winter wasn't "building from the ground up", which is why saying so now rings so hollow. It is what it is, but there's no reason for revisionist history.

What, in his brief tenure as GM, has instilled such confidence that he is or has started building a foundation in the org, 40 man roster or otherwise? The Cease trade? The Fedde/Kopech trade? A few new FO names that look good on paper but have no track record of success in their roles?

Obviously the numbers would need tweaking. A $300M hard cap only impacts a few teams, but $250 is probably too low if there are to be lux tax levels beneath it. I am honestly less in favor of a cap of any sort, but recognize it would probably be a requirement in order to get a salary floor. I firmly believe a floor brings about parity faster than a cap, but the chasm between the Dodgers and teams spending the bare minimum will only widen unless there are stricter parameters in place.

$100M floor at minimum. I like the idea of a floor with a penalty for not meeting a certain threshold tied to receiving Lux Tax monies. If cheap owners only want to meet the floor and not a certain minimum threshold, they lose Lux Tax payments. Owners would never agree to it, but a person can dream. I am more in favor of an NBA style soft cap than a pure hard cap, but a combo of both makes sense to me. A $200M lux tax level 1 with a $250 hard cap, or something like that. A cap likely only affects a few teams, I am far more interested in making cheap owners spend.

It's what he's supposed to say, it just rings hollow. His credibility is zero after last season and it's hard to take statements like these seriously.