One reason would be these splits provide a new high water mark for the owners to negotiate down from each subsequent CBA. Meanwhile their franchise values go up up up and the players get none of that gain in equity.
Curt Hogg mentioned Marmol was staring into our dugout on Monday for full at bats and pointed to rib cage multiple times, our guys don't believe his explanation.
And I consider the people arguing that this is actually mostly positive as the same people telling anyone within shouting distance how much this team sucks when it's April. But that's the beauty of it, we both come to our own conclusions.
See that's your problem, you see 3 negative pages out of 4 as overwhelmingly negative when what you should do is cherry pick the 10 positive posts in the middle.