MLB Offseason: Owners got a dinger of a CBA

The first two series of the regular season have been canceled.

 

C'mon, owners! Cancel the whole season, you always say you lose less money when the players aren't playing, put your money where your collective mouths are!

 

I wonder how many games the owners have decided to cancel before they "settle for the good of the game".

Creeps.

 

Jordan has been majority owner of the Bobcats for 12 years and minority owner for 4 years before that. A few good years, lots of not so good ones.

Great ex-player doesn't guarantee anything.

 

Rob Manfred: "The last five years were difficult from a revenue perspective."

Difficult in that it's hard to find places to stack the literal billions they are making.

 

Cancel the entire season and send all the players AND owners to Ukraine. That'll solve the baseball problem.

 

This is ridiculous.

I will sound extremely spiteful but I hope there is no baseball and people can figure out a better way to resolve this. It's frustrating and I don't feel any need to contribute to the problem with my time and money.

 

I had a trip to Busch and Kauffman stadiums lined up for the first week of May. I don't expect these games to be played now. I think we're going to the beach.

 

You'll never convince me that MLB needs to ban the shift.

Manfred really seems to be playing to the lowest common denominator. I, for one, liked the strategy element of baseball, much like you'd see in football. Yes, the easy way to appeal to people is a home run, especially a walk off, but some of us are also interested in the small ball that can win (see: Edgar Renteria in 1997, Luis Gonzalez in 2001).

If these are truly the best players in the world, they should be able to strategize and overcome a defensive strategy.

 

I'm not a huge fan of the shift either, to be honest.