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Every day that goes by with nothing brewing brings closer to spring training 2021

I believe you are correct. It is sad to see. These are baseball players who just grind it out til they can't no more. Many many of them will be a portion of the 40 million newly unemployed. Brap

There is just not enough time to work through the acrimony.

The Mets took out the Padres 4-2 and move into the sweet sixteen The Mets take on the 1994 Montreal Expos today at 4pm watchable in some for at mlb.com

Outstanding work Edgy & Nymr I'll take Chris Young as the first pick on my 5x5 team

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlbpa-expected-to-propose-deferred-payments-on-prorated-salaries-in-2020-season-negotiations-reports-say/https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlbpa-expected-to-propose-deferred-payments-on-prorated-salaries-in-2020-season-negotiations-reports-say/ Looks like owners offered a proposal to pay players on a sliding scale basis with the highest paid getting about 40% and the minimum guys getting their full salary. MLBPA is "disappointed" and there is some speculation the union may ask for higher prorated pay with some money to players deferred to the future. I would hope something could gain traction on the idea of deferrents of monies. Of course its kinda like let me buy a hamburger today and I pay you tuesday. What would happen if a player has deferred payments coming and his team goes bankrupt? Not likely but they have to think about that

I find this a nice easy fun thing to do that requires little effort LGM

What would be the RAR rent above replacement?

https://www.mlb.com/dream-brackethttps://www.mlb.com/dream-bracket To keep us occupied MLB has selected 64 historic "best" baseball teams for a simulated tournament. Kinda like March madness for baseball The 1969 Mets got knocked off by a Marlins team... ugh The 86'ers knocked off a Rockies team. They now face the 1998 Padres. Results are revealed 5/27 4.p.m Link above has it all I'll pick our beloved cokeheads over the San Diego Steroid bunch in 6. Short series, short half life. Mets can rest for a couples in anticipation of an mlb parade.

This can almost go in the politics thread

No soup for Noah Bad optics dude

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brownke01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brownke01.shtml Kevin Brown. 19 years with many teams. His numbers remind me of Jack Morris. Not a compiler, just that Maddux type good as I recall

With the first call up and post season Jefferies had I pegged him for a perennial all star Gregg got flat out bullied He should have clocked one of the dbags in the locker room Philly fans loved Gregg for sure I saw Gregg as a Phillie at Shea. Believe he was in the the OF and I was screaming at him from a foul pole I liked to hang out by the left field foul poul standing area so I could smoke

I guess it was Busch 2, thanks! Forgot about Sportsmans Park

I was at Busch 1 as a teenager for a tour. We got to go on the astroturf. It was July and it felt somewhere north of 120 degrees. Fire on earth. How did they play on that stuff

The newbies would enter MLB in the spirit of "buying low". And why not

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-mlbpa-talks-progressing-toward-deal-for-2020-season-says-very-confident-player-representative/https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-mlbpa-talks-progressing-toward-deal-for-2020-season-says-very-confident-player-representative/ An encouraging statement from a player rep

Snell spoke out about the obvious In other MLB rumors today, "Same as it ever was."

Best wishes to Philip Seymour-Hoffman

The Owners have a "nuclear option." Players are to be paid a full salary even if the season is lost if they reject the compromise. I also understand what paragraph 11 can do to that payment schedule and if invoked long court cases will follow With no games MLB has zero operational revenue and existing TV contracts possibly stacked with rebates. Franchise TV networks ala SNY have little content to air and charge advertising revenue So, couldn't distressed franchises file for bankruptcy and let a trustee pay out pennies on the dollar to players and other creditors? I understand the history of owners not being forthcoming about their revenue but individual franchise losses could be and likely will be in the billions I don't think this will happen, but players have to get beyond the idea the MLB is coming off a record revenue year so in turn, we the players should be made whole this go round This is an economic catastrophe that is only in its' beginnings and a pandemic that is not contained and evolving daily Advice to MLB? safety first and serious serious compromise so that we still recognize the game in 2020 or even 2021 Hoping for the best

According to Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal, the league is planning to implement a safety protocol in which all baseball personnel would be tested for coronavirus multiple times a week, with results available within about 24 hours. Diamond outlined more specifics of the plan, including that the league's proposal does not require quarantining players or automatically suspending play if a player tests positive. MLB believes that it will be able to gain access to the tens of thousands of testing kits required for this plan without taking tests away from the frontline workers or hospitals, Diamond adds. This plan's safety measures are not as intensive as some of the other previously ideas the league had considered, like quarantining all required employees and players. Calling bullshit on this until all Americans have equal access to testing

BOC

I find it hard to imagine more than a few thousand fannies in the seats. So, the economic viability of the baseball business is at stake

How about the union accepts 50/50 revenue in return for the full year service time

Uh, the 50/50 revenue ain't gonna fly These are draconian measures to play ball I hope two weeks in and some player doesn't test positive. That would be a "Thar she blows." This may be a season where DFS and fantasy outshine the real sport Everything proposed smells of fakeyitis Now play ball dammit!