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If winnings games is more important, why are we locked out in a stalemate going nowhere? Does ownership's unilateral refusal to reconsider the economic balance of their massive windfalls since the last CBA sort of contradict your theory that most prefer to win games as their first priority? The owners initiated the lockout and have refused to negotiate for 5 weeks. That fact alone makes it difficult for me to believe that ownership cares one bit about the health and well-being of the game first, or in any way think it is a higher priority than protecting their profits.

Yes, but I don’t see how it starts on time. I don’t see ownership coming to the table any time soon willing to negotiate in good faith until games and dollars are lost.

Do you think most owners would prefer to win or to profit? That is the fundamental issue I have with ownership in sports. And I have a hard time seeing ownership as a whole agreeing to something that puts a league wide competitive balance standard in place that penalizes teams that choose to remain in a low cost perpetual rebuild while banking gobs of money. In a perfect world ownership would be pouring profits into trying to win every year, thus helping their own popularity and their own bottom line, and would keep the game as a whole healthy and competitive. But some owners would rather run out an inexpensive 60 win team and reap the windfall of profit sharing.

No surprise. A token video call to make it look like they are talking again, but with nothing substantive on the table. All cover to continue running out the clock until games are in real jeopardy.

“Cave, or we stonewall you until you lose game checks” in full effect.

So your irrefutable source on “most employees” is your own personal work experience, that, while valid, is minuscule in the grand scope of labor negotiations. You being staunchly anti-labor doesn’t make your claims true.

Hahahaha holy shit. Please point to a verifiable corroborated source of information that backs up this claim.

Yeah, unless the owners are willing to compromise on some stuff quite soon I don’t see how spring training and exhibition games start on time.

When the Bulls signed Dwayne Wade and Rajon Rondo a few years back it nearly broke me as a Bulls fan. I didn’t watch a single game until after Butler was traded away. It it is ok to divorce yourself from a team, permanently or for a season or two. If they really make you miserable day in and day out, at some point that shit is on you.

I quit paying attention to the Bears and the NFL ages ago. It is quite possible to quit a sports franchise. I spend zero energy on that sorry team and couldn’t be happier. Continually threatening to do so while constantly whining on a message board says more about you than it is an indictment of the team. There are dozens of other sports teams you could invest in, yet you choose to remain miserable. Log off, flip on the tv, and find your bliss elsewhere, please.

I’m torn. I’d hate to give up Crochet, but a Crochet level reliever is probably easier to find again than a guy like McNeil that fits this teams needs like a glove. It’s a tough call but a move I’d probably make.

Nice to see that Manfred is busy firing journalists instead of negotiating with the MLBPA in good faith.

This team needs a legit starting PF IMO, but I don’t know how they acquire one without depleting it’s depth in a detrimental way. Interior D and rebounding are two big issues that could limit this team when it matters.

Is winning 60 games out of the realm of possibility? Perhaps. But there is definitely something special about this squad.

"This new era of players playing for the highest bidder will ultimately ruin the game. " Based on what exactly? Last I checked Baseball revenues have continually risen, and the players share hasn't, and the owners locked said players out because they don't want to share those higher revenues with the very players the create those revenues. So how exactly has "players playing for the highest bidder" aka trying to maximize their earnings during a limited playing career ruined the game? Baseball seems pretty popular to me. Lucas Giolito made $4,1500,00 last season and is still on his rookie deal. Not exactly a high priced player in today's game. I know you are stating your own opinions here, something you are completely free to do, but a little fact checking goes a long way.

Time will tell what exactly? Never mind, don’t answer, it won’t be based in factual evidence anyway.

Service Time manipulation is so commonplace that its discussed on message boards and on social media. Kris Bryant is an outlier in filing a grievance, but every single team considers when to start the service time clock on top prospects. Claiming it affects "relatively few people" is rather specious. Please point to any source of evidence that "the average player" feels well paid. Didn't you also purport that all players are millionaires? But suddenly they are worried about missing paychecks?

Bell seemed pretty useful on those Warriors teams, I'd love to see him stick here.