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MLB Pseudo-Season 2020: Roger, Dodgers

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Even on the motley crew that was the 1993 Phillies, Dykstra was the team's designated asshole (and that's saying a lot considering Curt Schilling was also an alum of that team). Since then he's done nothing to improve my opinion of him, and quite a bit to diminish it further.
 
I do wonder if we could be headed for a replacement player season for 2020. Lots of unattached players that the MLB could have for super cheap, if players currently under contract don't want to play ball/
 
BillJ said:
I do wonder if we could be headed for a replacement player season for 2020. Lots of unattached players that the MLB could have for super cheap, if players currently under contract don't want to play ball/
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Would still be a violation of the FLSA because the CBA is valid through December 31, 2021. There is a valid agreement negotiated in good faith between the MLBPA and MLB; the owners can't unilaterally say "oh, sorry."

Edit: The reason MLB was allowed to use replacement players in 1995 was because the previous CBA had expired on December 31, 1993; the MLBPA agreed to play the 1994 season under the terms of the previous CBA, assuming that the league would negotiate in good faith towards a new agreement. That did not happen.
 
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Time to pull the ole full the paten owner move.. Welcome to Sunday Night Baseball were the New York Metz take on the Atlanta Bravehearts. Opening Day of The Major Lee Baseball season.


Jason
 
Jayson1 said:
Time to pull the ole full the paten owner move.. Welcome to Sunday Night Baseball were the New York Metz take on the Atlanta Bravehearts. Opening Day of The Major Lee Baseball season.

Jason
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Make it the "Lee Majors" baseball season and you've got a deal. Of course, Lee is about 100 now, so it'll need to be more like an old-timers game. Hey guys, why don't they bring back the old-timers game?
 
With breathtaking tone deafness Cubs owner Tom Ricketts says most MLB owners don't take any money for themselves out of team revenues and that they are losing "biblical" amounts of money because of the pandemic . Unlike you and I, they aren't actually losing money, they're just not making it temporarily.
 
The Ricketts family is worth over $5B and Tom almost $1B, he really could afford to forgo salary or any other type of payout from the team.
 
Jim Klag said:
With breathtaking tone deafness Cubs owner Tom Ricketts says most MLB owners don't take any money for themselves out of team revenues and that they are losing "biblical" amounts of money because of the pandemic . Unlike you and I, they aren't actually losing money, they're just not making it temporarily.
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Joe Ricketts: "Islam isn't a religion, it's a cult."
Pete Ricketts: "You people."
Todd Ricketts: Donald Trump's chief fundraiser.

Nothing about this family should surprise you.
 
Kronos said:
If MLB owners all lose money maybe they should just give up.
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They don't. A MLB franchise is a license to print money. Even if the games aren't happening, the owners are still pulling in piles of money from merchandise sales and other ancillary outlets.

You have to be aggressively stupid to lose money when you own one of 30 franchises in an antitrust-exempt professional sport that makes $14 billion a year.
 
I know, it's really something that their plan is to claim they run baseball out of their hearts and it's all a big money losing operation, who is going to buy that?
 
MLB is insisting on further pay concessions as a condition for starting the season.

Fuck it, call it a day, see y'all in 2021, get ready for the mother of all labor wars when the CBA expires on 12/31/2021.
 
If there is any kind of baseball season this year, there will be so few games played that no one will take the 2020 World Series seriously. There'd be an asterisk hanging over it for all time.

I realize there have been shortened seasons before, but not like this. How could a WS title earned by only playing 30 or 40 games possibly be legitimate?
 
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If there is any kind of baseball season this year, there will be so few games played that no one will take the 2020 World Series seriously. There'd be an asterisk hanging over it for all time.

I realize there have been shortened seasons before, but not like this. How could a WS title earned by only playing 30 or 40 games possibly be legitimate?
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The Astros cheated and still won.

Doesn't take 162 games for a World Series.
 
Timby said:
Doesn't take 162 games for a World Series.
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Yes, like I said, I realize there have been shortened seasons before. But none of them were anywhere near as short as 2020 will be (if it exists at all).

Historically, whenever we've had shortened seasons, there at least were a decent amount of games. 140, 150, that type of thing. But they're talking 30 or 40 games for the 2020 season. How can that possibly be legitimate? How can a team say they've earned their division if they play so few games? They haven't worked even close to as hard as teams do in a real season.
 
The NFL chooses a champion after 20 games. NCAA football picks a champion after 14 games.

The number of games is arbitrary, regardless. Why not 163 games? Why not 157? If everyone knows the rules and parameters in advance, then it's legitimate.

Is it better if the season is longer? I suppose so, but that's not an option right now. As for "taking the World Series seriously"...who does that anyway? It's a game.

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The NFL chooses a champion after 20 games. NCAA football picks a champion after 14 games.
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Yeah, well, that's just baseball vs. football for ya. Football is supposed to have that few games a year. Baseball isn't. Baseball depends on having hundreds of games a season.

To put it another way: You can't call it the Tour de France if it's only two miles, can you? Same story here.
 
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Yeah, well, that's just baseball vs. football for ya. Football is supposed to have that few games a year. Baseball isn't. Baseball depends on having hundreds of games a season.
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NCAA baseball plays about a 30-game season, a month-long national tournament and then 10 days of World Series. I think as long as all the teams play all the other teams in their league, 50 odd games ought to be enough. Let's just play ball.
 
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