When did Trump become a billionaire? Because anyone who’s looked at his net worth has trouble seeing it.

I’m a conservative solely on economic matters, yet this election was the first time I didn’t vote Republican. Get it yet?

Tariffs mean less jobs here. Think about it.

Charlie Finley proposed that every player be made a free agent at the end of every year, but Marvin Miller was too smart for that. Miller felt that it would bias the negotiations so that teams could negotiate with 30 different starting first basemen (for example) to force down the demands of the best players.

Manny kept juicing after baseball banned it, otherwise he’s way better than Ortiz and a lock.

There are lots of guys with far more valuable careers than Jeter getting passed over right now, such as Walker/Raines/McGwire/Bagwell, and historically, such as Grich.

Because defense and baserunning matters and Walker was far better at both.

Analyzing Home/road splits is meaningless. Because he played in Coors, it meant Larry Walker had to hit in the toughest road parks in baseball, of course he’s going to have a wide home/road split, just as a player who plays in a pitchers park usually has a narrow split.

All players got bigger during their careers, even before weight training was accepted. Look at Willie Mays.

The Edgar comparison is a false dichotomy. Offense is half of the game, defense isn’t even a quarter of it (pitching more important). Edgar was so awesome at hitting that he qualifies based on that alone, Visquel was awesome at defense but terrible at the his important task, hitting.

Omar Visquel was never even the best player on his own team.

The Hall Of Fat guys hittin homers!

the improvements were necessary for an industrial park that no one will use. OK.

Wow, Vlad i said a first ballot entry while the far superior Larry Walker may never get in?

Why do unions hate freedom?

Nope, unions raise wages by reducing job counts in their industries and lower wages in non-unionized industries with the overflow of jobless. Unions can’t print money, higher wages in competitive industries means the employer has to reduce headcount to afford them, its why UAW car makers were gung ho on robots well…

If you want to take a longer view, the 80 years since FDR have never had remotely the economic growth the 80 years before it had.

It was built long before the Timbers (I went to many football and baseball games there in the 80s and 90s, IIRC it’s probably 60+ years old), but local taxpayers have been charged more than $50M since 2001 for massive updates for baseball and the Timbers.

The Coyotes have a proposal for a new stadium that would require taxpayers to pick up half the cost. Since the Coyotes are a proven terrible investment, this is unlikely to ever happen.

You are correct in that players have no rights.