AP source: MLB owners approve proposal to start 82-game season in July

[SlinkyRedfoot]

i think it will. the president is pushing for it harder than a first pussy grab attempt.

Speaking of grabbing some pussy, I'm feeling a little backed up this morning. Gotta get the poison out, if you know what I'm saying.

I just bought Mrs Redfoot a one way ticket...

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Players should get used to making less.

This will change the entire landscape on salaries

So the owners make more?

Despite the huge contracts being handed out, overall player salaries as a percentage of revenue are down quite a bit over the last thirty years.

 

[podsox]

I’m on the players side of the issue but this is hot garbage. His entire empathetic rant of health and safety was about the money. If you don’t feel safe playing then don’t play

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

If the players refuse to play because they are tone deaf about this...

I mean seriously. The teams will be making a shit ton less due to no gate/concessions/Souvenirs/etc. They are saying to the players, for this year, let’s just split proceeds 50/50. Players are saying “Fuck you. Pay me.”

Yep.

That's how I see it too.

I also saw a quote from some union spokesdouche who said something to the effect of the owners are taking advantage of a global health crisis to get something they've never been able to get in the past, a salary cap.

Fuck that bullshit.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

This is why baseball will eventually be the fourth most popular sport in the US.

Obviously, football at #1. I guess basketball at #2?

What other sport are you thinking might be over baseball? If you say soccer, don't even reply because I don't feel like calling you retarded.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Im a big Tigers fan but I'm not watching that trash right now.

Ironically, the Tigers are the shit show that you see because there's no salary cap and for years, those retards were spending senselessly as if there was an endless pool of money.

They're in the position they are because of a shit front office.

 

[bksballer89]

These baseball players are something else.

I hope they don't see a fucking dime after this month.

Rays' Snell: Playing for reduced pay 'not worth it'

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

These baseball players are something else.

I hope they don't see a fucking dime after this month.

Rays' Snell: Playing for reduced pay 'not worth it'

"The risk is through the roof."

First of all, no it's not. You're 27 years old. Even IF you caught this shit, you have a nearly zero chance of dying. Pussy.

Second of all, you have an opportunity to provide something to America that could actually help the country.

This whole idea pisses me off. What about the grocery store employees, healthcare workers, etc that have been grinding through this shit since it started? They're making a tiny fraction of what these cunts make, and I'm sure they don't have a fraction of the efforts to avoid the virus that the players would have. MLB and its teams would be dissecting everything all the time, and I assume there would be regular testing.

Bad look all over for the players. I'm a big baseball fan, but this pisses me off.

 

[raptorlife4]

And then there is this

 

[Rock Strongo]

"The risk is through the roof."

First of all, no it's not. You're 27 years old. Even IF you caught this shit, you have a nearly zero chance of dying. Pussy.

Second of all, you have an opportunity to provide something to America that could actually help the country.

This whole idea pisses me off. What about the grocery store employees, healthcare workers, etc that have been grinding through this shit since it started? They're making a tiny fraction of what these cunts make, and I'm sure they don't have a fraction of the efforts to avoid the virus that the players would have. MLB and its teams would be dissecting everything all the time, and I assume there would be regular testing.

Bad look all over for the players. I'm a big baseball fan, but this pisses me off.

hes only going to be exposed directly to his teammates and club house staff, sans standing at 1B.

MLB has the least amount of exposure of any pro team sport.

 

[Rock Strongo]

And then there is this

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

And then there is this

That's great. I hope folks are throwing that tweet in his face repeatedly.

Fuck that guy.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

So the owners make more?

Despite the huge contracts being handed out, overall player salaries as a percentage of revenue are down quite a bit over the last thirty years.

Because they're idiots who can't see the big picture

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Ironically, the Tigers are the shit show that you see because there's no salary cap and for years, those retards were spending senselessly as if there was an endless pool of money.

They're in the position they are because of a shit front office.

I completely agree they're trash because of no salary cap.

And yes that front office traded away all their players for Jack shit. And signed the dumbest extension in history with Cabrera

 

[calsnowskier]

Speaking of grabbing some pussy, I'm feeling a little backed up this morning. Gotta get the poison out, if you know what I'm saying.

I just bought Mrs Redfoot a one way ticket...

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Soooo....


Your wife is jumping on a virgin and going to Pound Town...

and YOU paid for this??

 

[msgkings322]

No push back there, but curious as to what "many things" might be.

A faster paced game perfect for the internet, shorter games, hipper players having fun on Twitter, global appeal, far more athletic and exciting action, general decline in racism, and so on

Things change. Baseball is a 20th century game, basketball is more 21st century.

 

[msgkings322]

Yea leading with the "risking our lives" comment won't sit well

What is everyone else in a public facing job doing

No one feels sorry for you

Especially because hardly ANY young, healthy people get sick from this. Did any NBA player even know they had it, before a test said so?

Kind of a side bar, who is the most famous person to actually die from Covid? The most famous to have contracted it is probably Tom Hanks, but he survived just fine. Roy Horn (of Siegfried and Roy) just died from it so maybe he's the most famous? Any of you heard of any other famous people dying of it?

I should add American famous, because a big time Indian actor died of it I think. In India he's like Tom Hanks.

Fuck Blake Snell.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

A faster paced game perfect for the internet, shorter games, hipper players having fun on Twitter, global appeal, far more athletic and exciting action, general decline in racism, and so on

Things change. Baseball is a 20th century game, basketball is more 21st century.

That's why soccer will continue to grow. No commercials except halftime. Baseball is a game of patience in a world of snippets

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Especially because hardly ANY young, healthy people get sick from this. Did any NBA player even know they had it, before a test said so?

Kind of a side bar, who is the most famous person to actually die from Covid? The most famous to have contracted it is probably Tom Hanks, but he survived just fine. Roy Horn (of Siegfried and Roy) just died from it so maybe he's the most famous? Any of you heard of any other famous people dying of it?

I should add American famous, because a big time Indian actor died of it I think. In India he's like Tom Hanks.

Fuck Blake Snell.

I'd go with Horn yes.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

I really shouldn't be so anti baseball in a baseball thread. I love the sport myself I'm just disappointed in the optics of this.

Hopefully they figure it out.