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The owners are screwing minor leaguers and the teams over relatively small end money in a particularly short sided way. And that's after by most accounts, several strong revenue and profitable years. And with franchise values that have doubled and tripled over the last decade. They were so awash in cash that most teams are in palatial spring training homes. For practice. Practice?!? But we're supposed to believe the woe is me pablum they're offering up now? Please.

So if they take a small haircut this year, long term I don't see this wrecking their balance sheets.



That's also why killing a season is going to hurt the players more than it hurts the owners.

Agreed. And it's why the owners' actions are so cynical and craven imho.


One thing I have noticed is very few people under 30 seem to really give a shit if they play. That is not good for the long term health of the sport.

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The owners are screwing minor leaguers and the teams over relatively small end money in a particularly short sided way. And that's after by most accounts, several strong revenue and profitable years. And with franchise values that have doubled and tripled over the last decade. They were so awash in cash that most teams are in palatial spring training homes. For practice. Practice?!? But we're supposed to believe the woe is me pablum they're offering up now? Please.

So if they take a small haircut this year, long term I don't see this wrecking their balance sheets.



That's also why killing a season is going to hurt the players more than it hurts the owners.

Agreed. And it's why the owners' actions are so cynical and craven imho.

It's a pisspoor attempt at union busting. What happens now is owners will cave and cry poor all the way through 2021.
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:lol: I know this will sound pro owners but to say "Hey owners, how about losing MORE money with this proposal?" is worse than the owners wanting to factor in the ban on fans in the stands.

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:lol: I know this will sound pro owners but to say "Hey owners, how about losing MORE money with this proposal?" is worse than the owners wanting to factor in the ban on fans in the stands.

If owners can't afford it, they should sell their teams.

I wish America would notice how MLB players dealt with income inequity.

They unionized. They got strong. They stayed strong. Did it hurt owners through all these years?

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If owners can't afford it, they should sell their teams.
Stop interfering with family owned businesses.

Whether they make $10,000 a year or $100 million a year a business isn't going to open up knowing it would lose less money staying closed for a while.

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I wish America would notice how MLB players dealt with income inequity.

They unionized. They got strong. They stayed strong. Did it hurt owners through all these years?

Nope
Yup. Worked well for the state of Illinois and their unions too!

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If owners can't afford it, they should sell their teams.
Stop interfering with family owned businesses.

Whether they make $10,000 a year or $100 million a year a business isn't going to open up knowing it would lose less money staying closed for a while.

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I wish America would notice how MLB players dealt with income inequity.

They unionized. They got strong. They stayed strong. Did it hurt owners through all these years?

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Yup. Worked well for the state of Illinois and their unions too!

I misspoke. And it's an important misspeak. Private Sector unions. Public sector unions are an atrocity.
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I misspoke. And it's an important misspeak. Private Sector unions. Public sector unions are an atrocity.
Ok then. It worked out great for the Big 3 automakers!

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I misspoke. And it's an important misspeak. Private Sector unions. Public sector unions are an atrocity.
Ok then. It worked out great for the Big 3 automakers!

Right to work laws and NAFTA killed it all. The pornographic income inequality all stems from those two things.
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Shocking that Brick is pro owner.

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Shocking that Brick is pro owner.
I'm being a realist. The players expect to be paid the exact same amount of money per game that they would get if fans were in the stadium or not. I don't blame them for wanting that but let's not act like this is a Wal-Mart worker fighting for dental benefits.

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Shocking that Brick is pro owner.
I'm being a realist. The players expect to be paid the exact same amount of money per game that they would get if fans were in the stadium or not. I don't blame them for wanting that but let's not act like this is a Wal-Mart worker fighting for dental benefits.

They have a contract. I hear all the time how business owners take all the risk in their ventures and that's why they get the lion's share of the profits.

Welp....risk time.
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They have a contract. I hear all the time how business owners take all the risk in their ventures and that's why they get the lion's share of the profits.
They do have a contract. That contract lets them not play games instead of lose a ton of money. The owners aren't violating any contract if they cancel the games because fans can't be there.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
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Shocking that Brick is pro owner.
I'm being a realist. The players expect to be paid the exact same amount of money per game that they would get if fans were in the stadium or not. I don't blame them for wanting that but let's not act like this is a Wal-Mart worker fighting for dental benefits.


The players agreed to prorate. The owners seemed to have "forgot" to include language if fans were not allowed. Now they want to do yet another deal.

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They have a contract. I hear all the time how business owners take all the risk in their ventures and that's why they get the lion's share of the profits.
They do have a contract. That contract lets them not play games instead of lose a ton of money. The owners aren't violating any contract if they cancel the games because fans can't be there.


I'm sorry players hold all the cards. But then again, they are the talent. They are who people come to see. It's THEIR game. If owners don't like it, sell. Rich guys will be lining up at the door to buy.
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Shocking that Brick is pro owner.
I'm being a realist. The players expect to be paid the exact same amount of money per game that they would get if fans were in the stadium or not. I don't blame them for wanting that but let's not act like this is a Wal-Mart worker fighting for dental benefits.


The players agreed to prorate. The owners seemed to have "forgot" to include language if fans were not allowed. Now they want to do yet another deal.

Yup. Prorated salary of 0 games is $0.

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They have a contract. I hear all the time how business owners take all the risk in their ventures and that's why they get the lion's share of the profits.
They do have a contract. That contract lets them not play games instead of lose a ton of money. The owners aren't violating any contract if they cancel the games because fans can't be there.


I'm sorry players hold all the cards. But then again, they are the talent. They are who people come to see. It's THEIR game. If owners don't like it, sell. Rich guys will be lining up at the door to buy.
No. The owners can cancel the season and start fresh in 2021.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
conns7901 wrote:
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Shocking that Brick is pro owner.
I'm being a realist. The players expect to be paid the exact same amount of money per game that they would get if fans were in the stadium or not. I don't blame them for wanting that but let's not act like this is a Wal-Mart worker fighting for dental benefits.


The players agreed to prorate. The owners seemed to have "forgot" to include language if fans were not allowed. Now they want to do yet another deal.

Yup. Prorated salary of 0 games is $0.

Players will be fine. What REALLY pisses you of is that it's inevitable owners will cave.
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Nardi wrote:
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Shocking that Brick is pro owner.
I'm being a realist. The players expect to be paid the exact same amount of money per game that they would get if fans were in the stadium or not. I don't blame them for wanting that but let's not act like this is a Wal-Mart worker fighting for dental benefits.


The players agreed to prorate. The owners seemed to have "forgot" to include language if fans were not allowed. Now they want to do yet another deal.

Yup. Prorated salary of 0 games is $0.

Players will be fine. What REALLY pisses you of is that it's inevitable owners will cave.

Not really. I'll applaud the players for calling their bluff.

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conns7901 wrote:
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The owners are screwing minor leaguers and the teams over relatively small end money in a particularly short sided way. And that's after by most accounts, several strong revenue and profitable years. And with franchise values that have doubled and tripled over the last decade. They were so awash in cash that most teams are in palatial spring training homes. For practice. Practice?!? But we're supposed to believe the woe is me pablum they're offering up now? Please.

So if they take a small haircut this year, long term I don't see this wrecking their balance sheets.



That's also why killing a season is going to hurt the players more than it hurts the owners.

Agreed. And it's why the owners' actions are so cynical and craven imho.


One thing I have noticed is very few people under 30 seem to really give a shit if they play. That is not good for the long term health of the sport.

Yup. Haven't any of my friends say they miss baseball. Keep hearing how football hopefully will be ready and the NHL playoffs are wild.
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Kirkwood wrote:
conns7901 wrote:
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The owners are screwing minor leaguers and the teams over relatively small end money in a particularly short sided way. And that's after by most accounts, several strong revenue and profitable years. And with franchise values that have doubled and tripled over the last decade. They were so awash in cash that most teams are in palatial spring training homes. For practice. Practice?!? But we're supposed to believe the woe is me pablum they're offering up now? Please.

So if they take a small haircut this year, long term I don't see this wrecking their balance sheets.



That's also why killing a season is going to hurt the players more than it hurts the owners.

Agreed. And it's why the owners' actions are so cynical and craven imho.


One thing I have noticed is very few people under 30 seem to really give a shit if they play. That is not good for the long term health of the sport.

Yup. Haven't any of my friends say they miss baseball.

I miss it less now than in April. Out of sight, out of mind. THIS is why owners will cave.
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They should all go to court and become free agents.
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Owners are looking to keep their profits the same as last year.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ml ... 538twitter

To break even under the assumptions we’ve laid out, teams would only have to reduce MLB player costs to 47 percent of their normal full-season amounts. Instead, the owners have advanced plans that would cut salaries down to a far smaller share. Doing a rough analysis using last year’s salaries and the league’s proposed reduction scale (according to Passan and Jesse Rogers), players would make only 48 percent of their prorated salaries under the owners’ sliding-scale proposal — or just 24 percent of their normal, full-season salaries.

Plug that into the ledgers above, and cutting the salaries down to 24 percent of usual instead of half, would bring costs down to $3.1 billion … resulting in a net operating income of $1.1 billion, or almost exactly what Forbes estimated MLB made across last year in a full season.

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Owners are looking to keep their profits the same as last year.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ml ... 538twitter

To break even under the assumptions we’ve laid out, teams would only have to reduce MLB player costs to 47 percent of their normal full-season amounts. Instead, the owners have advanced plans that would cut salaries down to a far smaller share. Doing a rough analysis using last year’s salaries and the league’s proposed reduction scale (according to Passan and Jesse Rogers), players would make only 48 percent of their prorated salaries under the owners’ sliding-scale proposal — or just 24 percent of their normal, full-season salaries.

Plug that into the ledgers above, and cutting the salaries down to 24 percent of usual instead of half, would bring costs down to $3.1 billion … resulting in a net operating income of $1.1 billion, or almost exactly what Forbes estimated MLB made across last year in a full season.

Of course the owners know they won't ever get that either.

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I think the season will be canceled.

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Nice to see owners giving concessions.

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I still think that expansion to 32 teams in 2024 is the answer. They can ask players making over $10m to deferhalf the overage and get paid back in full out of expansion fees. The union gets 80 more guys and a permanent DH., the minor leagues get to save 8 more teams (go to 128).

The owners get cash flow, realignment into conferences, the full expansion fees minus the interest on the deferrals, and a reason to go to a full 16 team playoff like the NBA.

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