No way the players get a floor without a much harder cap than the luxury tax replaces.

I always said the center console cupholder is the best place for a wireless charger.

I always said the center console cupholder is the best place for a wireless charger.

There are 2 fallacies in this article:

MLB players have guaranteed contracts for good-to-great value with quality minimums for vets in a relatively-speaking low injury-risk sport. They also have a robust minor league system that can support players trying to make a major league squad for years. Spring training every year to make sure prospects get as close…

Tanking doesn’t seem that valuable in MLB to me. In the NBA or NFL and you have a high pick, you have a pretty good chance at grabbing a star player. In baseball the hit rate is lower, and often you don’t know what you have for years down the line. In addition, unlike the NFL or NBA, baseball draftees don’t always…

I think you’ve got the right idea here. Teams have gotten smarter about not spending $10M/year for replacement level players, which has let them do things cheaply.

Yeah, I’m assuming that even for an MLB team, shelling out damn near $30 million a year for bust free agents significantly effects their operating budgets... we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one.

Concur. It ain’t collusion, it’s that older/declining players have become ridiculously expensive as compared to younger guys. Hosmer, Martinez, Moustakas, Arrieta - who actually wants to pay any of these guys $20m+ for the next 5-7 years? I wouldn’t take a bet that all four of those guys will actually be good next…

The truth is signing guys in their 30's to huge multi-year contracts is dumb, and owners and just as importantly fans have realized that. Yet free agency, which is the primary driver of salary inflation, is based on a model where big contracts for 30 year olds are the norm. The equitable solution is of course to pour…

For a long time the union has been protecting the interests of older veteran players at the expense of younger players. As a result, the cost differential between young and old players has become so large that teams (except for the Giants) are basically only rostering young players, because they’re so cheap. So,…

Saying that isn’t exactly the truth. When something needs 60 votes to pass, you would have to have 60 members to HOLD it. When the numbers are 51 to 49, for all intents and purposes no one holds the Senate. Every time people use the “But Republicans hold the Senate...” argument, they show their ignorance of…

It’s not really about how long the games take as much as the pace of the games. If a game lasted over three hours but was played at a quick pace, people would be okay. It’s all those moments when it takes five minutes for a pitcher to pitch to just one batter because both the pitcher and hitter take too long to get…

Seriously, though- why will putting pitchers on a pitch clock be so upsetting to pitchers? Is the ten to thirty seconds they claim they need to stare even more intently at the catcher that big of a deal? Will all of their .ERA’s climb skyward because of this?

They already did that last season.

I am 1000000000000000000000% for all of this.

Meanwhile, the NFL has announced plans to place every completed passing play under video review so they can fit in 2 more commercials.

Ugh. Those lame sports websites, writing stories about LaVar Ball in a desperate attempt at getting clicks. Sad!

suckerdumped there weren’t we

Licking the boots of tabloid writers is fucking weird.

Quite frankly I’m shocked he: A) drives and B) doesn’t believe a single, unifying wiper speed across all makes and models is sufficient for everyone’s needs.