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  1. homer
    They'll get over it when the Packers sign Will Fuller
  2. homer
    I'm sure they have some good reason to - as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame.
  3. homer
    Penn St giving Illinois all they can handle and then some. Tie game with 5 minutes left.
  4. homer
    The Royals sold for a billion in 2020.
  5. homer
    Bingo. Further whether owners make profit or not is irrelevant. Principal owners owe a fiduciary duty to their shareholders, if the teams weren’t profitable there would be infighting with nearly every club. Also don’t forget the teams do frequently reinvest that money into the franchise in other ways, like revamping the spring training facility, the pitching lab, purchasing the A-ball affiliate in Carolina. It’s always been the players asking for more and their union is a PR juggernaut and has multitudes of friendly media barkers to influence the narrative, to suggest the owners don’t need or deserve the money they’ve made off the game. We fans as bystanders have a binary choice if the blame for the work stoppage primarily lays with the unconscionably rich owners or the extremely wealthy players. Owners largely don't care about year to year profitability because the value of the team still goes up whether they make money each year or not. Attanasio and Co bought the Brewers for $225 million in 2005. The team is estimated to be valued at $1.3 billion 17 years later.
  6. homer
    That was roughly the topic of a recent Freakonomics podcast.
  7. homer
    Did the players go on strike? This is all about the owners forcing the players to fix the mistakes the owners keep making.
  8. homer
    Good, it is the unions fault for the most part. it's the unions fault the owners locked out the players?
  9. homer
    That made me laugh harder than it should have
  10. homer
    Agreed
  11. homer
    Let me guess it will be game 17 which the gold package is supposed to get. Part of me says the gold package always gets the shaft but I think I would make it an excuse to go as I have never been to London. I read that Gold is losing a pre-season game.
  12. homer
    Re MLB.tv "Update on #MLBTV and MLB Audio subscription renewals: we will not bill for 2022 subscriptions today. Notification about renewal will occur once a new CBA is in effect. All current subscriptions will remain active until then. Subscribers, check your email for important updates."
  13. homer
    I've often had the random thought that if you hypothetically did this with every player so that the gap among them wasn't really noticeable...would people really care? I guess we will see what college baseball TV ratings are if there's no MLB this year.
  14. homer
    Except labor is an operating cost, not profit. Viewing the two as the same thing is wrong, as the players are literally the ones out there working to provide a product. Is the pay of the general manager profit, too? I wouldn't say the players are providing the product. It is the owners who provide the product (an MLB game) to the paying customer. The players are more like a factory worker who helps create a finished product for the owner to sell. To keep things in perspective, Disney had an operating income over 7 billion dollars in 2021. As someone else said earlier, baseball teams aren't the best investment in terms of generating profits, a billionaire would be better off buying Microsoft or Disney if annual profits is what they're after. With baseball teams, the real money making event occurs when the owner goes to sell the team (Attanasio bought the Brewers for 223 million in 2005, and even conservatively could sell it for more than one billion dollars, a nearly 500% return on his initial investment in less than 20 years). Factory workers are generally replaceable. If the Brewers replaced Corbin Burnes with Joe Replacement Level Pitcher....well, that would suck.
  15. homer
    Watched Free Guy last night. I was surprised at how funny it was. I haven't played a video game in probably 12 years but apparently, most of the tropes from back then still apply.
  16. homer
    if you have MLB.tv you may want to cancel. It auto-renews on March 1 for a lot of people I believe
  17. homer
    Down goes Purdue
  18. homer
    Kimi on HBO Max was a surprisingly good thriller. Some stuff in the second half was a little unbelievable but overall it was good. I really dig Soderbergh's style. You could see the Hitchcock influence in this one.
  19. homer
    I've seen a few people say the difference between pick 15 and 60 is very small this year. Good idea to trade out of the 1st if you can. (I realize I say this every year)
  20. homer
    I get the impression that teams aren't all that concerned about cap room.
  21. homer
    everything has come back quite a bit. NASDAQ is actually up right now
  22. homer
    I believe he was the losing pitcher in game 14. I didn't realize he was actually teammates with Morris. Cool story.
  23. homer
    Yes because probably 20 years ago I got burned by not having one so I still make sure I write it down (rare because that means I ordered over the phone) or keep the email until I receive the product and know I won't return it.
  24. homer
    The penalty on the players seems really light.
  25. homer
    They should build a statue of that guy Am I the only one that saw that and immediately thought; "That has to be the strength coach."
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