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Welcome to Cinci @Aust_Hendrick7 We’ve got a great thing goin here, and I know you’re used to playing baseball, but right now in this league all we do is sit at home and negotiate. Get yourself a nice comfy recliner chair and a twitch stream, you’re gonna need it! #BornToBaseball
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Fake news. 70% guarantee. Only 80% if playoffs happen...don’t get it twisted y’all twitter.com/AP/status/1271…
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Just so y’all know, 70% of prorated salaries at 72 games is the exact same as...wait for it...full prorated salary at 48. Nothing to see here. Same exact offer in different clothing. Just a reallocation of risk.
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Just so you all know, I’m on your side. I want baseball back just as much as anyone else. I’m just trying to provide accurate info to you, the fans, about what’s being proposed.
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The owners’ whole strategy from the beginning has been this. Play as few regular season games as possible to limit player cost as much as possible. Play as many post season games as possible to drive revenue as high as possible. They’re more than happy to play only 50 games...
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July. So you, as fans, can form your own opinion to this question: why would players play the additional 24 games for free and burden the additional risk of injury?
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Only way they play more is if players agree to play more games for the same amount of money as they’d be getting at 50 games. There is no rush for the owners to get baseball back yet, as a 50 game season can start in august, so spring training 2 wouldn’t have to start until mid
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Been saying this. Not sure what other company intentionally tries to drive a wedge between their customers and their product. twitter.com/marcuszappia/s…
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Oh good so...we can play now, right? Seems there is plenty to around here. Seems there is plenty of money being made by the league and the teams. Given than players are the product, I’m sure some of this can be distributed to them, right? Yay for baseball! espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…
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Why is it that everyone feels entitled to come to my feed to share their opinions about the negotiations with me but I’m not allowed to share my opinion about negotiations on my own feed?
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1) Quick note on the TBS deal announcement and how it relates to MLBs strategy during these negotiations. Players who play in the post season do not get paid salary. They get a share of GATE revenue from the first 3 games in ALDS and from the first 4 games in ALCS and WS. Owners
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The hall of fame is a shrine to the history of the game. Regardless of your feelings on this, steroids are part of the game’s history. It would be very hard to convince me that no players in the hall of fame currently used performance enhancing drugs. And even if they didn’t use
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what we would consider “steroids”, substances that are illegal today were legal back then. Greenies, amphetamines, etc., used to be handed out like candy. Players were forced to take them because it was seen as “not doing everything you could to help the team” if you didn’t.
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Those same substances are illegal today, so by that logic, should every player that took them be disallowed from the hall of fame? It would be a hall of empty if that were the case. At some point, the best players of their era have to be enshrined. Period. Its part of our game’s
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So, Rob, explain to us how you can be 100% sure that there’s going to be baseball but not confident there will be baseball at the same time? hmmm. What changed between those statements 🤔🤔 Players told you to set the season, but it’s too early to set the season right now,
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play as many games as possible”. The public backlash combined with potential of having to explain yourself in front of an arbitrator isn’t too appealing, is it? Let’s see...the way I have it figured you want to play between 50 and 60 games. Can’t make it 50 cuz that would be too
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obvious to everyone what you were trying to do. And no one would think that was a “representative season” so you’d risk not getting your precious playoff money. Nope, can’t have that. So gotta make it more than that. But not too many...you’ve gone as high as about 55 games full
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isn’t it Rob? Because then you’d have to explain why you’re only going to impose 50 games when we could easily play 70+ right now. The tactic is to bluff with “no season” again and delay another 2-3 weeks until you clear the risk of “not negotiating in good faith by trying to
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Be at least 4 off days in there...so that’s 64 days. Plus about 20 for spring training...84 days. Sept 27-84 days is July 5. Plus about a week to get players to spring training. So tack on another 7, that takes us to June 28. As I have it figured, that’s your deadline. But today
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Is June 15, so how do you delay another 13 days? 🤔🤔🤔 guess we all got that answer today. Threaten to cancel the season. Threaten arbitration. Threaten grievances. All the while, hold the fans for ransom. Hold the future of the game for ransom. No one believes your bluff, bud.
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You’re holding a losing hand. Unfortunately, it’s a losing hand for everyone involved, not just you. There’s some saying out there about not killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Check it out on the ole google machine. It’s worth knowing.
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Prorated salary, so you’ll probably settle somewhere around there, potentially a couple games higher than that to throw people off the scent, isn’t that right, Rob? So in that scenario, let’s see, sept 27 end date to protect playoff tv schedules, 60 ish games, going to have to
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I’m so down for this twitter.com/A_DancinPengui…
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Could be having this in actual games right now but until that’s resolved...heres’s some high quality desert baseball for your viewing pleasure twitter.com/Watch_Momentum…
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