***2021 MLB Thread: BACK***

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  1. devine

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    What is the expectation with the season and season schedule?

    I was planning a trip to wrigley but completely forgot about the lockout
     
  2. WillySaliba

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    We don’t know, there isn’t even a schedule for the sides to negotiate at this point. Prevailing thought is they’ll start talking in February.
     
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  3. MG2

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    I'll be surprised if they're playing real games at the start of June at this point. Only way I can see that is if this whole thing has been a bluff by the players, and they might as well pack it up and leave if that's the case.
     
  4. Tex

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    I was just doing the same for Boston. Sad!
     
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  5. WillySaliba

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    I was hoping to get to a game, in Tampa.
     
  6. ndpat3130

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    My schedule is going to be really busy this year so not sure if I'll be able to go anywhere, but would be able to go to a White Sox away series in April (would be to KC). I doubt that will be happening :(
     
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  7. devine

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    The lockout is probably a good thing in this case
     
  8. Gin Buckets

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    Since the HoF ballot results come in tomorrow, how would you vote?

    If I had a ballot, I think this is how I'd vote it, in no order:
    Barry Bonds
    Roger Clemens
    A-Rod
    Big Papi
    Scott Rolen
    Billy Wagner
    Gary Sheffield
    Andruw Jones
    Todd Helton
    Curt Schilling

    Would really want to find a way to get Jeff Kent in there, but not over any of those others. If I took any of the steroid users off it would be Bonds (because he treats people like shit), A-Rod (see Bonds, Barry), and Clemens (affair with a 16 year old :blech: )
     
  9. WillySaliba

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    I think they should all be in. Yet another archaic baseball process that's always been stupid since the mid 60s.
     
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  10. jrmy

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    Barry Bonds
    Roger Clemens
    Alex Rodriguez
    Sammy Sosa
    David Ortiz
    Andruw Jones
    Todd Helton
    Gary Sheffield
    Manny Ramirez
    Scott Rolen

    With Billy Wagner the first guy left off.

    Omar Vizquel is an immediate no. Dude sucks. And I'm not voting for Schilling because he's a piece of shit.
     
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  11. Andy Reocho

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  12. MG2

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    So the players withdrew a bit and made a more realistic offer. The next offer from MLB will tell us if there's a chance for baseball in April, or if this is going until July or later. My money is on July or later.
     
  13. The Goat

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  14. joey jo-jo jr shabadoo

    joey jo-jo jr shabadoo you know for me, the action is the juice

    and deal with that unruly bridge traffic?

    bold move
     
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  15. Andy Reocho

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  16. The Goat

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    Think the players should take the 600 million minimum and run with it.
     
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  17. Andy Reocho

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  18. MG2

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    I get that MLB wants to keep costs down, but if you introduce something like $800k year one, $900k year two, $1M year three, isn't the PA immediately dropping the "arb after 2 years" thing? Yes, you're adding money to payrolls, but doing it in a cost controlled way instead of creating more scenarios for higher salaries in arb or FA. And in the process, you're putting a ton of pressure on the PA by including something that would benefit so many more players than anything else at the table.
     
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  19. SC

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    $10M is fucking laughable.

     
  20. electronic

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    God the owners are fucking awful.
     
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    so they offered 10 but then accepted 105?
     
  22. jrmy

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    Let's split the difference and put $100M in the pre-arb high WAR pool and call the minimum wage $750k
     
  23. MG2

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    No. They agreed to the idea of creating a pool for pre-arbitration players. They then offered $95M less than what players asked for.
     
  24. MG2

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    I read these stories every time MLB makes a "proposal" and wonder how I missed the news that Darryl Morey was hired to take over negotiations on MLB's behalf
     
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  25. fucktx

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    The HOF is a fucking joke if Ortiz gets in on the first ballot and two of the greatest players of all time fall off the ballot
     
  26. SC

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  27. killerwvu

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  28. beerleagueman

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    so roids is forgiven if you make them laugh . joke voters
     
  29. bwi2

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  30. The Goat

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    Just such a stupid organization. Complete joke how they treat it as some sanctimonious hallowed ground when it is filled with so many pieces of shit. Along with players who abused stuff like amphetamines and such.
     
  31. bwi2

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    David Ortiz tested positive you stupid fucks
     
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  32. jrmy

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    Everyone with a ballot should be drawn and quartered
     
  33. Tobias

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    between this and the universal dh it’s clear this sport is in its final death spiral thank god we got a title before the end
     
  34. Charles DeMar

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  35. JGator1

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    Saving the city of Boston after the marathon bombing clearly gives him a pass
     
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  36. ZeroPointZero

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    people forget that was basically the same as 9/11

    (according to Bostonians)
     
  37. bro

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    Ortiz tested positive, is a bit statistically overrated (similar to Jeter), and didn't play defense. And he gets in on the first ballot while Bonds doesn't? Awful
     
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  38. devine

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    Cant they do something like have former HOF’ers or a committee of former players and coaches vote? This is such a joke
     
  39. cal

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    yeah but this is our fuckin city, man
     
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  40. CUAngler

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    This hit home

     
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  41. Tobias

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    they do but there are a bunch of old fucks on that too

    they’ll make it eventually but it’ll take a while for the olds to die
     
  42. spagett

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    Baseball deserves to die for shit like this
     
  43. Baseballman86

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    So dumb. Change the damn process.

    Bunch of stuffy old white men make the wrong choice for baseball related voting. I am shocked.
     
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  44. electronic

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    Very very cool, baseball writers, you fucking dinosaurs that nobody gives a shit about.

     
  45. bro

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  46. MG2

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    I'm at the point where I'm more confused by some the strong stances for Bonds/Clemens either way. I'd probably vote for both of them and Schilling because I don't view the HOF as some sacred place where only the most virtuous can be enshrined. I actually kind of think it's important to document that some of the best players are assholes and/or cheaters, too. But I also don't really give a fuck that none of them are in because of what they did (Clemens and Schilling, especially), and it's hard for me to get mad at people who don't vote for them simply because they view the HOF different from me.

    This isn't a merit argument where people don't realize how good someone was. This is an impossible situation where there are no correct answers.
     
  47. Tobias

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