Fear The Chorizo
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Check that - Canada hockey also gets the referees on their side, too.... Finland goes up 2-0, then every penalty, questionable icing, offsides, and other call goes Canada's way. Their last 2 goals should've been waived off due to goalie interference and an offsides on a 2nd power play that was called based on Canada being great at finding sticks to skate their faces into and react like they got slapped in the face with a tortilla point blank to sell the call.
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Watching Canada-Finland semifinal hockey game, and no wonder Team Canada always looks like they have skaters everywhere on the ice...apparently they get to play with 6 on the ice with their passive line change strategy. They did get caught with a penalty once early in the game (they actually almost had 7 on at that point) and should have gotten another penalty late in the 1st. If I'm one of their opponents, any time you see them going through a change at full strength, send the puck towards their bench - you're likely to hit someone or draw one of the guys going off the ice right back onto it. They have guys going over the boards onto the ice well before the other players are anywhere close to the bench to come off.
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A big part of special teams is roster construction....the Packers have routinely had very young or very thin rosters depending on cap situations, and the bottom of the gameday roster has killed them with special teams over the years. Coaching also plays a role in it....but if the players on special teams cant block or cover, those units are going to stink. They are a dying breed, but it wouldnt hurt to prioritize bringing in a vet or two that specializes in kick coverages...and have some vet lineman backups who can be reliable on fg blocking sets.
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The idea of full sharing of league broadcast revenues and then laying out a salary floor all teams need to pay in no way limits the ceiling on what the best players can make. The Dodgers are able to shell out a $70m per year deal to Ohtani but only pay him $2m per now only because they know their massive TV deal will cover the deferred payments 10 -20 yrs down the road. Honestly, I dont think MLB needs a cap if they push to fully share broadcast revenues across the league equally.
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$5-$10million is not generational wealth - im referring to 9 figure guaranteed contracts that only a small percentage of mlb players ever come close to earning, even in today's game. To me, generational wealth is enough for the player and their immediate family to not need to work another day in their life if they so choose, not a few years of big paychecks (which are also taxed heavily) that pulls a family out of poverty but doesnt mean they are independently wealthy no matter what decisions they make with the money over the next 50 years.
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What i think would go a long way towards improving the health of the game without a salary cap would be for MLB to push game broadcast revenues solely onto their platforms - establish leaguewide contracts with networks/cable/streaming services and do away with team-owned broadcasts, and then sharing that revenue equally across the league. Then, setting that shared amount as the salary floor every team has to pay players the following season. I'd even be ok with allowing current local broadcast contracts to run their course before those teams get looped into the leaguewide revenue bucket - but they'd get none of the shared revenue if their own local/self-owned TV revenues exceed a certain threshold. I dont see why players should be against that....and frankly a vast majority of owners would approve, too.
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I didn't say it would be easy - but it needs to happen. Multiple years of no baseball season would be worth getting it right this time around.
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The Dodgers ownership group doesn't need to be happy....several don't need to be happy...there doesn't need to be a 30-0 team consensus to move forward. I strongly feel that MLB has reached a point where getting unanimous agreement by MLB ownership groups for its financial structure would be a defeat for the longterm health of baseball.
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Players are already making way, way more than half of all profits on a year to year basis. Half of all revenues? Probably not - but MLB organizations have far more expenses that eat into revenues and reduce profits already...not to mention the guaranteed contracts they can't get away from like NFL and even NBA teams can with cuts/trades/etc.
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A cap with a floor, plus full revenue sharing that includes broadcast revenues, can absolutely exist and make everyone happy....because in that scenario the floor would be much closer to the cap than what Passan lays out in your post above. My point is the MLB financial system needs to be entirely redone - not just keeping revenue generation/sharing buckets the same as what they are now when one team gets ~$350M a year in its own TV market money and others get maybe $25M. Would players be happy with a cap/floor under the current revenue system? Heck no, and I wouldn't blame them. Would they be happy if pre arb/arbitration years/team control were reduced, full revenue sharing was implemented, and all 30 MLB clubs could readily spend upwards of $320M a year on their payroll? There sure as heck should be. Additionally, the deferred money nonsense needs to go away - teams could still defer money in contracts if they/players wish, but the actual AAV of that contract would need to count towards a team's salary cap during the years they are actually playing (not deferred).
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His filmography has to be among the more impressive lists of roles and work an actor has done - RIP indeed
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I get that, but players also need to have some awareness of why this is such a problem. I envision a lockout followed by a strike after a legitimate salary cap is imposed btw, too. Any sort of agreement that doesnt set a limit payroll can reach along with a salary floor, plus broadcast revenue sharing across the league, wont be good enough for the longterm health of baseball.
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In all honesty, if every other team spent as much as the Dodgers currently do, do you know what would happen? The Dodgers would just spend a ton more, because they print money and can because the current MLB rules wouldnt prevent it. The argument about the financial disparity in baseball being because of small market teams not spending themselves into oblivion is misleading, inaccurate, and ignorant. Bring on the strike if that is the position taken by the players making quotes (who obviously are among the minority of players who actually have received generational money in contracts - the current system sucks for younger players trying to stick and middling vets working through arbitration who never wind up reaching that 1st big free agent contract)
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2025-26 Offseason Around the League Thread
Fear The Chorizo replied to sveumrules's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Twins traded for him and sent Intl' bonus money to the Dodgers....I hate this for baseball and would much rather have the Dodgers be forced to release an arm like Banda because they're out of 40 man space, and then just have another MLB team pick him up for nothing in return to LAD. The amount of bonus pool money is a pittance, but it gives the Dodgers a bigger bit of dough to play in that talent acquisition arena - which is one the Brewers have made a TON of hay in recently in large part due to MLB trying to even the playing field and restrict how much money teams can throw at those players who have not yet played professionally. Screw the Dodgers -
The Packers would've had to fire their GM who picked Rodgers, navigated a pretty solid qb transition from Favre to rodgers, and appeared to have a loaded young roster after the 2009 season ( they won the next year's super bowl ) to retain Schneider as GM. Hindsight can be 20/20, but that take off being bummed Schneider isnt the Packers' GM now is pretty unrealistic. Maybe they could have tried to pry him away from Seattle instead of hiring Gute after Thompson aged out of his role in early 2018, but definitely not when he first got a GM gig.
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Yep - in today's NFL, maintaining roster depth to o ercome significant injuries is a mirage...to win a Super Bowl without the unquestioned best qb in the league (Mahomes), you need to be among the best 10 teams in the league going into the season, then get lucky with health and schedule quirks.
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Despite being a dog of a game, it is quite satisfying watching the Pats get embarrassed...kind of saw it coming 10 miles away after beating a horrible Stroud and backup qb to reach the super bowl out of a conference loaded with really good quarterbacks. They never belonged and Seattle showed why
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Easy for a secondary to look fast making tackles when the quarterback doesnt get the ball to receivers running flat out uncovered. The oline is getting handled, but Maye is deer in headlights bad tonight
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Health for both of those defenses is the key. Schemes can be aggressive when they also don't respect the opposing quarterback, too. These units are the reason they are in the super bowl....at the start of the year, GB's defense was right there, too.
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Pats need to line up and run the ball - their passing game is overmatched upfront
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Campbell is a tomato can at LT
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Ours was similar early in the season before Wyatt and Parsons blew out knees and Gary became a pumpkin. They are playing downhill because they arent threatened over the top because of the pass rush and iffy pass protection
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Helps that both QBs are light years worse than the Packers, too They are super aggressive because neither team thinks the quarterback can make the right decisions consistently....so far thats absolutely correct. Huge passing plays left on the field
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50,000 eclipsed on the Dow Jones Industrials...and to think it was under 8,000 just 17 years ago during the housing market recession
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Making a team cover more yards to score a touchdown is almost always the best decision, especially if you're debating whether to give the team the ball at midfield or inside their 20 to start a drive. Especially if you have a bad defense. Id argue that being overly aggressive costs your team points in the long run when its not a goal to go situation - unless you truly are in "gotta have it" game scenario mid to late 4th quarter. Sure, there should be some situations within the game and with how it's being played out to go for it at weird times....but I think even that should come after a more predictable playcalled set of downs. I know youre a Bears fan, so you've seen Johnson trying to get gadgety on key 3rd or 4th and shorts when a simple dive up the gut is going to gain a yard against a run defense on its heels. MLF is insanely predictable with getting 8 yards on 1st down, then calling an aggressive 2ns down play, then an unimaginative 3rd down run from the shotgun into a brick wall, followed by a frustrated timeout and 4th down play that ends up being a throw 30 yards downfield. Its like all the probabilities and scenarios make these playcalling "wizards" try to outsmart themselves
