Harry Dresden
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if they do that i will start watching triple A....
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martybegan
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martybegan
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The Owners want a Salary Cap, the Players do not.
I don't expect baseball in 2027, or maybe even 2028.
Harry Dresden
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can you blame them?....some of them have to live on 60 million a year....that must be pretty rough...
martybegan
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All the other major US sports have one, with the NBA having a soft cap, and the NHL and NFL having hard caps.
Harry Dresden
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minimum wage is 820 thousand thats pretty good to play a sport you love playing...
martybegan
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I don't begrudge either side making the money they can make.
There is a limited number of people on the planet that can play sports professionally, far less than those that can do my job, and I am compensated well ($200k a year for 28 years in the industry). Also people don't pay to watch me do my job, compared to professional athletes who do get people pay to watch them do their job.
rosends
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Yeah, um... About that...
Harry Dresden
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there has to be a limit ....how much money can the sport make?...
martybegan
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The market decides that. How much are people willing to pay to watch/attend/buy merchandise?
leftwinger
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Still like the "human element" as I've heard repeatedly my entire living days? A 20% error rate?
Possible DEI hire.
Possible DEI hire.
Harry Dresden
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and he has been considered a bad umpire for years,yet he is still umping....
Bucknor calling Stephen Piscotty out on strikes, 2016Bucknor was a member of the umpiring crew for the 2005 and 2021 All-Star Games, and also for the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013 and 2020 American League Division Series.
Sports Illustrated surveys of active major league players voted Bucknor as the worst umpire in MLB. In a 2010 ESPN survey of 100 active players, Bucknor was again named the worst umpire in MLB. Following MLB's implementation of the Automated Ball-Strike System in 2026, Bucknor garnered international attention for a series of badly missed calls.
Bucknor was the first base umpire for then-Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander's second no-hitter, thrown on May 7, 2011, against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Bucknor was the home plate umpire for Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito’s no-hitter, thrown on August 25, 2020, against the Pittsburgh Pirates
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Votto
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It is freaking ridiculous.
Before the season started, someone asked me who would win the World Series this year
I just looked at the salaries these teams payout in addition to knowing which teams have a good front office, like the Braves, and those who do not, like the Mets, and I laughingly said the Braves.
That is, unless the Braves can get passed the Dodgers so they can play the Yankees in the World Series.
It is so damned predictable, it is painful to watch.
Harry Dresden
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then why do you watch it?...
Votto
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Who says I do?
Harry Dresden
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if you dont then why the comments?..
DGS49
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MLB has always had to consider the possible anti-trust ramifications of a hard cap.
No matter what your chosen career is, you have an unrestricted right to go to any employer in the country and negotiate your best deal.
But baseball players historically never had that right. Because of the "reserve clause" in all player contracts, the team that held your contract basically owned you. Unless they voluntarily granted you free agency, you could not even approach any other major league team about a tryout.
This was a grotesque, illegal monopolistic practice that the Courts pointedly ignored because they were staffed by baseball fans who didn't want to **** things up. But those days are gone now.
MLB has, since the end of the reserve clause, done as much as they thought they could get away with to limit what the players could do. A "hard" salary cap would bring about not only a strike, but the possibility of getting in trouble with the Justice Department for an anti-Trust violation.
So for two unavoidable reasons, a hard salary cap will never happen in MLB.
No matter what your chosen career is, you have an unrestricted right to go to any employer in the country and negotiate your best deal.
But baseball players historically never had that right. Because of the "reserve clause" in all player contracts, the team that held your contract basically owned you. Unless they voluntarily granted you free agency, you could not even approach any other major league team about a tryout.
This was a grotesque, illegal monopolistic practice that the Courts pointedly ignored because they were staffed by baseball fans who didn't want to **** things up. But those days are gone now.
MLB has, since the end of the reserve clause, done as much as they thought they could get away with to limit what the players could do. A "hard" salary cap would bring about not only a strike, but the possibility of getting in trouble with the Justice Department for an anti-Trust violation.
So for two unavoidable reasons, a hard salary cap will never happen in MLB.
Votto
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Lawyers destroyed baseball like they have destroyed the country
No surprises here.
I have to say, baseball is more like college football than any other sport in relation to payroll. For example, there is no hope of Bowling Green winning a college football championship, just like there is no chance that a team like the Reds will ever win one.
You have you hand full of teams that spend tens of millions more than any others, the only ones who can win a national championship, and the rest of the teams.
The only difference is, there are no bowl games for the lesser teams to enjoy in MLB as the small market teams never see the light of day.
Essentially what you now have are small market teams that are mere glorified AAA teams that the big market teams can take from once the small market team produces a good player.
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