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MLB Pseudo-Season 2020: Roger, Dodgers

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It's a shame there's a recently-built ballpark right in the middle of Uptown Charlotte, because that would be a great location for a new franchise.
 
Once the Panthers get some nice taxpayer money to move out of town to South Carolina you'll see Charlotte go hard after MLB.

The lack of good cities won't matter when MLB will get billions in expansion fees.
 
Maybe they should put another team in Florida. That way you can have 3 teams that the people of Florida don't care about. How about a team in Hawaii? Wouldn't have to worry about bad weather, ever.


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Jayson1 said:
Maybe they should put another team in Florida. That way you can have 3 teams that the people of Florida don't care about. How about a team in Hawaii? Wouldn't have to worry about bad weather, ever.


Jason
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Actually, it rains a lot in Hawaii.

Still waiting for MLB to get it together. It's ridiculous they're sitting on all this ticket money without offering refunds.
 
BillJ said:
I think Charlotte would be a realistic possibility, I wouldn’t totally write off Las Vegas now that the NHL and NFL are there, and there are a smattering of other cities that might be areas where MLB could survive.

I just wouldn’t write off expansion, as MLB may want to generate fast cash in the near future to cover losses related to COVID-19 and a possible work stoppage.
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Charlotte ain't happening, not after they just spent oodles of money on a AAAA-level mallpark for the Knights (and no one attends the games).
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Refunds are the responsibility of the individual ballparks, aren't they? Not the teams, or MLB in general?
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But until they decide what kind of season they're going to have, when and where they're going to have it, all games are considered "postponed", and therefore non-refundable. That's an MLB decision.
 
Interesting.

Our tickets are not from Ticketmaster, and they aren't in Canada.

There's nothing on the Angels website, and no link to request refunds.

I'm going to have to dig into it further. Our games are in early July, maybe that's part of it.
 
They might also have not actually been postponed yet.

That's the case with the Yankee games I was supposed to see in June. Obviously they won't be played, but Ticketmaster still lists them as on schedule.

Ticketmaster is refunding my Toronto games because they HAVE been postponed. The Yankee games haven't been, at least not yet.
 
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They might also have not actually been postponed yet.

That's the case with the Yankee games I was supposed to see in June. Obviously they won't be played, but Ticketmaster still lists them as on schedule.

Ticketmaster is refunding my Toronto games because they HAVE been postponed. The Yankee games haven't been, at least not yet.
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That’s what I was saying originally. That’s not an Angels decision. But yeah, if anyone thinks there are going to be 60,000 fans at Angels Stadium in 6 weeks they’re delusional.
 
Major League Baseball has proposed cutting the salaries of the highest-paid players in baseball, with the lowest-paid players taking lesser cuts from their full prorated shares, in its first economic proposal to the MLB Players Association, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN.

The long-awaited plan, which was delivered to the union Tuesday afternoon, proposes that high-salaried players take significant reductions of what they will be paid during a prospective season, according to sources.
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Edit: 40 percent or less of their annual salary under the deal, and that's after the MLBPA agreed to a prorated salary reduction.

Fuck MLB so hard. Pay your labor, you assholes.
 
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Reading that makes me think we won't have any Baseball for a while. Why would the players association want to do that. God after hearing what the NHL is coming up with and realizing that because my team is out, I really couldn't give a damn, I was looking forward to the MLB and what they might have to offer. The prospects don't look good. :(
 
Whatever the players give up now, it will be impossible to get back when it comes time to negotiate the CBA.
 
Kronos said:
Nice, turn the lower paid guys against the higher paid ones, isn't that in Union busting 101?
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Manfred literally made his bones busting unions back in the 1970s, and he was MLB's chief labor lawyer during the labor disputes in the '80s and especially the 1994 strike.

This is his bread and butter.
 
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