October 17Oct 17 "Lots of people want to be owners and lots of people don't realize how hard it is to be an owner. I keep telling people, it's not as easy as I thought," he said."The owners care more about winning than making money. They're not against making money. Of course, they don't want to lose money. The obsession with winning and beating your competitors is really what drives these people who own these teams. There's nothing as satisfying as winning a championship."
4 hours ago4 hr Author On 10/16/2026 at 7:04 PM, Chick Mercedes said:Online I would imagine is generally on the side of labor yes. In years past. I don’t know if the flow of online political leaning is gaining any more of the *ahem* more supply side people nowadaysWhen the choice is siding with JR or the players, it's an easy choice. But, still they are both shitting on the fans.
4 hours ago4 hr The lockout will end on like March 1st and you're going to see a crazy run in the first few days, similar to when NBA FA opens I'd imagine. Some guys will be left hanging (and teams) and the Sox will have to be prepared for a billion scenarios. Not going to be easy, luckily we don't have any real core players to re sign, unless you think Fedde or Grich or Newsome is a core guy, I don't. I think Grich is going to get overpaid and go back to just being like a 1 WAR player. Fedde I'd welcome back, same with Newsome, but they aren't core guys.
3 hours ago3 hr Author 20 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:The lockout will end on like March 1st and you're going to see a crazy run in the first few days, similar to when NBA FA opens I'd imagine. Some guys will be left hanging (and teams) and the Sox will have to be prepared for a billion scenarios. Not going to be easy, luckily we don't have any real core players to re sign, unless you think Fedde or Grich or Newsome is a core guy, I don't. I think Grich is going to get overpaid and go back to just being like a 1 WAR player. Fedde I'd welcome back, same with Newsome, but they aren't core guys.That would be an interesting poll. I am thinking April 5th with loss of games.
3 hours ago3 hr 12 minutes ago, Texsox said:That would be an interesting poll. I am thinking April 5th with loss of games.Only reason I think it will be March 1st or so is because these greedy POS won't want the revenue loss of cancelled games. Doesn't matter how much it will screw over the players' schedules.
3 hours ago3 hr Memorial Day weekend when the 60 game clauses in the national TV deals automatically kick in and the owners lose negotiating power regarding their desire to lock in new deals.
3 hours ago3 hr Author 12 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:Only reason I think it will be March 1st or so is because these greedy POS won't want the revenue loss of cancelled games. Doesn't matter how much it will screw over the players' schedules.The last one ended on 3/10 and they pushed back opening day. Greedy players won't allow it to end earlier. They don't care about fans who schedule vacations around spring training and opening day. Both sides have equal respect for the fans who make this possible. And those same fans just decided which side's s%*# smells better.
3 hours ago3 hr 22 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:Only reason I think it will be March 1st or so is because these greedy POS won't want the revenue loss of cancelled games. Doesn't matter how much it will screw over the players' schedules.It ended March 10th last time and they missed no games
1 hour ago1 hr Owners have already calculated labor cost certainly of a cap gets them each an additional $800 million boost in franchise variation...Is that a position the majority of baseball fans are going to be sympathetic towards?Maybe to the 20-22% of US households 50+ that have acculumulated net worths of $1-3 million over the last decade plus.Families under 35/40 or so are going to hate it...just like hearing there's going to be so much abundance due to AI in the future that you won't need to save or even work and you can pursue the best UBI version of yourself as a hobby lol.https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/EURONEXT-VWRL/?timeframe=120MFor a decade, this ETF is close to doubling that ROI that "poor" MLB owners are getting.NFL and NBA owners both at 300-350% jumps in valuations.Greed is good??? Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by caulfield12
1 hour ago1 hr The two sides are much more dug in on their issues right now than last time. I don’t see the early March end date of last time to be a good indicator. I think the earliest this lockout ends is April but probably will go much later than that. If one of the sides caves on the salary cap issue before then, I’ll be very surprised.
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