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According to Tyler Kepner in The Times, the agreement would include DH in all games this year and next, and a 16-team postseason, presumably just for 2020. -
Manfred and Clark met face to face (with masks, I assume) and appear to be zeroing in on an agreement to start a 60-game season on July 19. Players would get the full pro-rated salary. This according to ESPN.
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Yesterday as a mental exercise I tried remembering who was on the current Mets. I had a hard time coming up with J.D. Davis' name. I even had a moment where I thought, "Oh, yeah! Michael Conforto!" I did this to remind myself that the Mets are more than just deGrom and Alonso, the only guys I've given much thought to over the last couple of months.
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When I read "Chris Heston" I thought, oh yeah, that sounds familiar. But is he a Giant or a Brewer or a Rockie? No idea.
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Same deal. I just don't retain this kind of stuff anymore.
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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=38694 time=1592230165 user_id=68] Mets fans will recall Ed Halicki's no-hitter.
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I couldn't believe that no Giant pitcher had thrown a no-hitter until 2012. (That's what the first paragraph seems to indicate.) Before I got to the second paragraph I looked it up and found out that it was the first perfect game by a Giants pitcher.
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ESPN wrote: In a statement Saturday night, MLBPA executive director Tony Clark rejected MLB's latest proposal and said: "Further dialogue with the league would be futile. It's time to get back to work. Tell us when and where." Looks like we'll be having the short season. Better than nothing.
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I believe that's the case. I'm pretty sure there will be a season, unless the players can successfully challenge Manfred's unilateral implementation of a shorter season. If he does do that, I'd like to see him go for 70 games instead of 50. Yes, it would cost the owners more money, but it might head off some contention as they go into the next CBA. (I know what's important for the owners, though. It will be 50 games.)
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Nice! It's good that we got that guy who was already anagrammed.
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https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Large/Baseball/85/85-23441RepFr.jpg> In a way he was an early-day Richard Hidalgo. Short-term Met with an impressive home-run feat.
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=Ceetar post_id=38510 time=1591798439 user_id=102] it has everything to do with the people that are sitting in that section not wanting people that didn't spend as much money as them to sit in that section.
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People can be ushered out of the stadium one section at a time for each exit. Hopefully the fans would cooperate.
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I think you mean "Old Grilled Gin". Or maybe "Long Girdle Lid" or "Gold Gill Diner"
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I imagine he's one of a great many AAAA players who are rethinking their future in the game this year.
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I would be down with that idea. Don't even call it a World Series. This year there would be an "MLB Tournament Champion" instead. It's just nomenclature, to be sure, but I'd rather see the Mets with two World Championships and a Tournament Championship than three World Championships with one having an asterisk. There would, forever, be that "yeah, but..." attached to it.
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Other anagrams for Pete-Crow Armstrong include: Carpenter Got Worms Camper Wrongs Otter Protest Wrong Cream Retracts Wrong Poem Worst Preterm Conga
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According to the Associated Press, the latest MLB proposal offers to expand the playoffs this year to up to 16 teams. (Why not?) And there's also this: The proposal would eliminate all free-agent compensation for the first time since the free-agent era started in 1976. It also would forgive 20% of the $170 million in salaries already advanced to players during April and May. The part about the free-agent compensation will only help a small subset of the players. I'm not familiar with the $170 million advance.
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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=38390 time=1591650105 user_id=68] I wouldn't go to a baseball game in these times if they paid me. And then fed me.
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And not all games will be played in empty stadiums. There won't be any crowds of 40,000, but I know that there are mayors and governors who said that they would allow paid spectators at sporting events. (I haven't been keeping track of which ones have said that.) If you could put 5,000 people in the park and charge them $100 per ticket (I'm totally making these numbers up) that would mitigate the $640,000 they owners will lose (using numbers that they probably totally made up) each game. What happens if the players agree to 75% and then the ticket revenue starts up again? The owners addressed that in an earlier proposal, but they players don't trust the bookkeeping so that didn't get anywhere.
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No, they get 75% of their pro-rated pay. For a 76-game season, assuming the postseason gets played, players would receive 35.1% of their salary. (76/162) * 0.75. That really doesn't look like the kind of proposal that the players will go for, does it? Maybe if instead of 50 and 75 percent it was 75 and 100. And maybe that will be the counter proposal.
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6 DOWN has a spelling error and 3 DOWN has, in my opinion, a factual error. Still, this is a nice three-minute distraction if you're interested. https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/sports-squared-crossword-the-miracle-of-the-1969-mets/313479460https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/sports-squared-crossword-the-miracle-of-the-1969-mets/313479460
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The Wilpons' Mets Money Woes Continue
Benjamin Grimm replied to batmagadanleadoff's topic in New York Mets Talk
It may have just gotten a little tougher for Fred Wilpon to hang on to the New York Mets. That's really all we need to know, isn't it? -
Andy Martino wrote: First the good news: MLB players will report to spring training even if the owners impose an approximately 50 game schedule. Because of this, people on all sides of the current labor dispute are extremely confident that there will be a 2020 season. Here's more good news. MLB might make another financial offer to players after all, according to sources, despite a belief earlier this week that it would not. The negotiation for a new agreement on pay is not over, and it won't necessarily be limited only to back channels. https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/next-week-will-tell-if-2020-mlb-season-starts-in-early-or-late-july/313495662Full article here He does a lot of recapping and concludes with this: The upshot of all this? The next week or so will decide if we get a shortened and contentious season that begins in late July or a more harmonious one that launches closer to August
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