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I like the runner on 2B rule. I think it adds intensity to extra innings and games finish faster saving bullpen arms. I don't mind that the league has gone back to the standard rule but if they decide to revisit the runner on 2nd rule I'm good with that.

Spend Dodgers, spend.

Per the Passan tweet that is linked in responses above: Jeff Passan @JeffPassan MLB and the MLBPA agreed that they have until July 25 to reach a deal on an international draft that would start in 2024, a source tells ESPN. If a deal is reached, the qualifying offer will vanish. If no deal, the QO will return and the international system will remain the same. My prediction is the status quo will remain (no int'l draft) because no matter how badly players want the QO to go away it only affects a handful of players each year and the potential prospects from the DR and similar countries prefer the way things are now. We'll see.

Get ready for the griping from players that lose out, like when Braun won RoY over Tulowitzki by 2 points, to go from eye roll moments to actual anger because the stakes have been raised. Winner gets the service time bonus the loser is left in the cold.

I am excited for the shift ban, though I suspect it's just going to be restricted to a zone like area which makes more sense.

Man, James Brown Hot Tub was amazing. Petition to rename this thread MLB Hot Tub.

Hey look at that, apple tv already found one. Excuse me, are you calling me stupid? That doesn't seem in line with what this forum is about. It's a conversation man, try to be an adult. Again, it's $5. A movie rental. Sorry if you unwisely spend every last dime on your cable subscription that you can't afford a one time cost of $5 to watch a game. Or it's just not as big a deal as you're making it out to be since you apparently don't mind missing a game.

It was my mindset and I stated that it would be difficult to tag Adams and would require, among other things, a long-term extension from Rodgers to free up salary. It was also my position that if they did tag Adams, it would be with the intent of extending him to a long-term contract, not trading him. IMO that is all pretty much exactly consistent with what has occurred. Considering that everyone expected Rodgers was either going to sign a new deal or get traded that pretty much means nothing. If Rodgers had been traded there'd be room to fit a tagged Adams and potentially trade him if they preferred not to keep a high priced WR as a luxury on a team that had little chance to contend for anything in the immediate future. So I don't think anybody suggesting a tag and trade felt the team would trade Adams if Rodgers was going to remain a Packer.

LOL so nobody here would pay $5 to watch a Brewers game? It's not like you have to subscribe year round for the rest of your life. You could find 5 friends and chip in a dollar each and share the password. Get creative.

To be honest I'm not really aware of any Brewers fans truly covering the team on YouTube. There's a channel called BrewPack that does some stuff but it's a pretty small channel that is mostly highlight compilations and things like that. It'd be cool if there were a Tom Grossi (Packers guy) level Brewers fan covering the team but like I said, not aware of any.

I wouldn't rule out blackouts for the Apple TV+ thing for the local markets. They tend to give preference to the RSN contracts in situations like that. Especially for a Friday night game.

My guess is very similar. It'll be a package that is debated among Packer fans for years. Will all be water under the bridge if Rodgers gets a SB win in the next few years. I was good either way, keep him or trade him. Just didn't want to see him retire and lose him and whatever compensation a trade would have brought. I think the draft picks are spot on, the players being exchanged might have differed a bit.

Well we're looking at what a Rodgers trade would have looked like.

J/K he's back on a 4 year $200 million deal. https://cheeseheadtv.com/blog/hes-back-233?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Shameless prediction, Rodgers doesn't make a decision today. Too expected. Not his style.

"Billionaires arguing with millionaires." "Both sides are to blame." Man, I just love mindless clichés. "The billionaires are to blame." "It's all the owner's fault." These are the ones I really want to catch on. It just feels more accurate.

I don't think this time around can truly compare to 1994 unless they lose the playoffs and world series and the owners have specifically set this up so that doesn't happen. Doesn't mean there won't be negative effects but I think the idea is it won't be on that level. It also still feels, right now, that both sides are invested in making this as painless as possible. There may be a delay to the start of the season but as long as it's not a big delay the recovery shouldn't be too difficult. I don't really know where that line is though between minimal delay and too big of a delay.

Yeah, the whole pearl clutching "He touched me" thing in the handshake line doesn't really hold much water with me either. I get it, we live in a society where personal space is respected to a high degree but in sports especially a touch on the arm is hardly something to get upset about. Mike Maddux wouldn't know what to do with himself if that was the case, he's the poster boy for a touchy feely coach to the point where it was always something I noticed.

My guess it comes down to laziness and slurring the sounds together to the point where the "ue" sound blends into an "o". Add in that Puerto pretty obviously translates to Port and it's real easy to just say Porto.

I think this is one of those things that sounds good in theory but ultimately is too randomly situational to really have much impact. I'm sure that there are players in the AL that DH and later get pinch hit for as game situations arise. Pinch hitting will still be very much a thing in baseball, in fact we'll probably see a bit of an uptick for pinch hitting for other position players than if a team was specifically saving them for the pitcher spot.

Unless something changed, I don't think the rules allow a player to be listed at two positions to start the game. Since DH is a position, Ohtani would have to be either the pitcher or the DH, not both. If he goes out as the pitcher the new pitcher would have to be substituted for the DH, thus losing the DH for that game if they wanted Ohtani to continue to bat. When Ohtani pitches he bats as a pitcher. The Angels don't use the DH in those games. When he's removed from the game they use a pinch hitter for the pitcher spot, just like NL teams do/did. I based this off of 1 box score I looked up from this season. I suppose it's possible the one game this happened was the one I looked up but I feel pretty confident that is exactly how they use him when he pitches.

I really don't think it does. It might shift the type of player getting a roster spot but the new rule only changes things for 15 teams, the other half of the league has already been using it for decades.

Also, Pat C. broke his shooting hand tonight. No timeline on the injury yet. Unfortunate timing after we were all talking about DDV being a redundant player and it was ok he was traded. Bummer.

Wow did he look young there. I'll take something like this to a nut-shot or taking out their legs while in the air type of thing. Plus needing to go back as far as you did to find something like this speaks to it being the exception rather than the norm. I don't think we get to give Giannis a pass for being young when we're talking about Allen's college exploits. That hit on Dunleavy Giannis sprinted from three quarters court away and tackled him like a cornerback hitting a WR over the middle, he was lucky not to be hurt. It's not shown in that video but I remember it. As I've said I didn't feel sorry for Dunleavy (he had just shoved Giannis down to the floor) but it's a bad thing he did. Actually here it is in more detail around the 1:40 mark. Giannis has had his share of questionable moments. There's a video of him continually getting into the space of jump shooters so they come down hard on his foot underneath them and twisting ankles, including last season in the playoffs when Kyrie got hurt. He's very good at showing concern for guys he gets tangled with, I think he's being authentic but can we be absolutely sure? How hasn't he done a better job of keeping his feet out of harm's way if it's been this repetitive and he's drawn multiple flagrant fouls doing it? Kyrie: (I don't think it was on purpose but go ask some Nets fans about it.) Mix tape: This happened tonight against the Suns, called for a flagrant foul: He also had a pretty hard foul on Westbrook the other night vs. the Lakers, Westbrook initially got upset but calmed down after Giannis made sure he was ok. I don't think Giannis is dirty, that's not the argument I'm making, but what if all those plays were by Greyson Allen instead? Hmmmm. Giannis' reputation and likeability saves him some grief for sure.

This is a nice start. Let's see what the owners offer on CBT, minimum salary and 0-6 year players for earlier free agency or arbitration. How does lessening the CBT, increasing minimum salaries and granting earlier free agency help the small- or medium-market teams like the Brewers whatsoever? Perhaps I'm not looking at this situation 100% straight, but the players share at least part of the blame here. They, by and large, want the large market (i.e. rich) teams to become richer, because in the eyes of the players, the large markets are the only teams spending money on player salaries the way they should. They do not want increased revenue sharing or a competitive balance tax because, in their minds, the owners of the smaller markets are simply going to pocket that money, and not reinvest it into player salaries. But they also don't want a cap, because then that means that we're going to see fewer of these huge mega deals. I'm sorry, but as a fan of one of those small/medium-market teams, I am not in favor of anything that is going to hand more money to the large markets that already operate at a competitive advantage. I know the argument is "Well, those smaller markets just need to spend more!" But I don't get the feeling that Mark Attanasio is Scrooge McDuck-diving into piles of cash that he earns annually through his ownership of the Brewers. I just can't side with what I consider an imbalanced labor situation just because it benefits my favorite team, it just doesn't feel right to me. I understand that it's difficult to find a perfect balance but I feel like MLB could do more to make sure players earn a fair slice of the overall pie. I'm not even saying it has to be split 50/50. I have no idea where the split is now but from everything I've heard the league's profits have steadily been on the rise but the same hasn't held true to player salaries. Maybe a solution entails a pool of money outside of payroll that awards supplements to pre-arbitration or players in arbitration that have earned it year to year. Maybe part of that pool goes to providing health care or other benefits for retired players or players whose careers were cut short by injury. I just think there has to be a way to make sure that when the league is increasingly profitable the players' share of that goes up similarly. In some ways I'm not sure why the players are so afraid of a salary cap. It seems to work well enough for the NBA and NFL and the star players still make ridiculous sums of money. Even in the NFL where contracts aren't guaranteed and roster sizes are 53 players and for the most part there's parity and good competition.