That’s already happening in the NFL when you try to mandate higher floor salaries for vets. You can’t really have it both ways; if you institute higher pay for younger players, it’s hard to find a way to similarly raise that floor for vets without exactly what you’re talking about happening. That’s why I think the % rule could be interesting to try for the reasons I mentioned above; somebody like the As can grab cheap vets the bigger clubs won’t want to pay for and get solid production out of them.
To piggy back, we’re all right. Baseball far and away has they most toxic writers, players, fans and owners of any other sport that I am aware of. Certain areas may shine brighter, but as a collective it’s quite a cunt stew.
He doubled down and said that with this system we wouldn't need owners so force the owners to sell to the cities. It's like he took two good ideas in theory and mixed them to create the worst thing possible
You know as he was typing out that Excel he was thinking how everyone was going to think his idea was revolutionary and awesome.
I always love that ideas like that always get presented as a "clear solution" but would get an immediate no from the players and perhaps also the owners.
Good history here on the luxury tax and how we got to this mess. Manfred and the owners are the worst and I hate them, but the PA has been so incompetent in these CBAs for pretty much 2 decades at this point that it's going to take a miracle (and probably multiple extended work stoppages) to recover just some of the losses they've taken.
On mlbn Dan O’Dowd was asked his favorite player development story with the Rockies and he said Kaz Matsui, that’s so sad lol
No clue, 2020 felt like him selling out for power and hitting a ton to the warning track but still got homers. Just sacrificed average. Last year down the stretch and in the playoffs guys were throwing 91 middle middle to him and he couldn't do shit with it. Hopefully it was injury related and is fixable. Otherwise we are legit Pujols screwed.
I mean, this is millionaires vs billionaires. But it really feels more like normal people vs assholes. Manfred’s a dick, league isn’t transparent, and owners seem like assholes for the most part. Even the NHL pays their minor leaguers decently. And it’s hard to argue with a 50/50 split of revenue.
If Buck finally gets his place in Cooperstown I’ll bawl. If he’s robbed once more, I’ll bawl even more.
Once again, he gave this speech, to induct his fellow negro leagues players, knowing his heart was completely broke, because he didn’t make the “cut”. Hopefully Sunday, Dec 5th will forever be known as Buck O’Neil day:
The Buck O'Neil piece on Fangraphs today was great. Him not being in the baseball HOF is one of the bigger jokes among many that place has going.
That’s beautiful. Buck was the best of all of us. First colored manager in MLB history, he didn’t care, he just wanted to win.
I watch Baseball the documentary at least once a year up through the 6th inning. It is a flawed documentary but Buck O'neill is always a highlight. Along with Dan Okrent talking about the injustice of baseball at the end of 5th inning: Shadow Ball.
Watched it a 100 times but this video always breaks my heart. Never got the chance to meet Buck, but have met his good friend Mr Kendricks a number of times (if you visit KC and don’t go to the Negro Leagues museum and the WW1 museum then you’re the worst), Mr Kendricks says he got word that Buck didn’t make the cut and burst into tears, he felt he had to deliver the news and didn’t know how he’d be able to, so he just walked up to his longtime fiend, tears running down his face, and told him…Bucks response “well, i knew this might not happen, but I was prepared..”
“You play baseball, you play football, you play anything, you’re the top of the line, but you are also the grandson of a slave, uh huh, and you just might be honored as the top of your profession…you can’t beat that, (sad part) America’s come a long way…”
It’s a spring tradition for us. When March rolls around we start in, as the snow melts, the weather warms up, we fire it up. Between the episodes, and back yard whiffle ball matches, and rando spring training games on TV/radio it’s just a blink of an eye until that national holiday..opening day.
Congrats to Buck, Minnie, Tony, Gil, Bud and Jim. Wish they were all here to see it. Great great day.
When I think of new age thinkers for the modern game, Buck Showalter and Brad Ausmus are among the first names that come to mind.