section314 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 I'm sure it will be illuminating as usual. This guy just scares the crap out of me. A cross between the pilot of the Hindenburg and captain of the Titanic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chirorob Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 6 hours ago, section314 said: I'm sure it will be illuminating as usual. This guy just scares the crap out of me. A cross between the pilot of the Hindenburg and captain of the Titanic. Is he the worst commissioner of the big 4 sports? I have to vote yes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section314 Posted February 11, 2022 Author Share Posted February 11, 2022 1 hour ago, chirorob said: Is he the worst commissioner of the big 4 sports? I have to vote yes. I think he’s running unopposed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCarl40 Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 On 2/10/2022 at 6:40 PM, chirorob said: Is he the worst commissioner of the big 4 sports? I have to vote yes. He’s awful. Bettman is right up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAM SAM HE'S OUR MAN Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 A letter to baseball fans March 1, 2022 To Our Fans: I had hoped against hope that I would not have to be in the position of canceling games. We worked hard to avoid an outcome that is bad for our fans, bad for our players and bad for our clubs. I want to assure our fans that our failure to reach an agreement was not due to a lack of effort on the part of either party. The Players came here for nine days, worked hard and tried to make a deal. I appreciate their effort. Our committee of Club representatives committed to the process, offered compromise after compromise, and hung in past the deadline to exhaust all efforts to reach an agreement. So far, we have failed to achieve our mutual goal of a fair deal. The unfortunate thing is that the agreement we have offered has huge benefits for fans and players. We have listened to the Players Association throughout this process. A primary goal of the Players Association has been to increase pay for younger players. As I have said previously, we agree and share that goal. We offered to raise the minimum salary to $700,000, an increase of $130,000 from 2021. We offered to create an annual bonus pool of $30 million for the very best young players. In total, we are offering a 33% raise to nearly two-thirds of Major League players and adding more than $100 million annually in additional compensation for younger players. The proposal also addressed player and fan concerns about issues like service time and competitive issues. Baseball would for the first time have a draft lottery -- the most aggressive in professional sports. Also, for the first time ever, we agreed to an incentive system to encourage clubs to promote top prospects to their Opening Day rosters. We also proposed that the first and second-place finishers in the Rookie of the Year voting in each league would receive a full year of service. The MLBPA asked to make free agency more robust. For the first time ever, we agreed to eliminate direct draft pick compensation, a change the MLBPA has sought for decades. On the Competitive Balance Tax, we offered a significantly larger first-year increase than in the last two agreements, bearing in mind that the Competitive Balance Tax is the only mechanism in the agreement that protects some semblance of a level playing field among clubs. The International Draft would have more fairly allocated talent among the clubs and reduced abuses in some international markets. We also listened to our fans. The expanded playoffs would bring the excitement of meaningful September baseball and postseason baseball to fans in more of our markets. While we preferred a 14-team format, when the format became a significant obstacle, we listened to the players’ concerns, and offered to compromise by accepting their 12-team format. Finally, we offered a procedural agreement that would allow for the timely implementation of sorely needed rules like the pitch timer and elimination of shifts to improve the entertainment value of the game on the field. And we agreed to the universal DH. So, what is next? The calendar dictates that we are not going to be able to play the first two series of regular season games and those games are officially canceled. We are prepared to continue negotiations. We have been informed that the MLBPA is headed back to New York meaning that no agreement is possible until at least Thursday. Currently, camps could not meaningfully operate until at least March 8th, leaving only 23 days before scheduled Opening Day. We played without an agreement in 1994 and the players went on strike in August, forcing the cancellation of the World Series. It was a painful chapter in our game’s history. We cannot risk such an outcome again for our fans and our sport. The Clubs and our owners fully understand just how important it is to our millions of fans that we get the game on the field as soon as possible. To that end, we want to bargain and we want a deal with the Players Association as quickly as possible. OFFICIAL INFORMATION HELP/CONTACT US MORE MLB SITES & AFFILIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAM SAM HE'S OUR MAN Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Just now, SAM SAM HE'S OUR MAN said: A letter to baseball fans March 1, 2022 To Our Fans: I had hoped against hope that I would not have to be in the position of canceling games. We worked hard to avoid an outcome that is bad for our fans, bad for our players and bad for our clubs. I want to assure our fans that our failure to reach an agreement was not due to a lack of effort on the part of either party. The Players came here for nine days, worked hard and tried to make a deal. I appreciate their effort. Our committee of Club representatives committed to the process, offered compromise after compromise, and hung in past the deadline to exhaust all efforts to reach an agreement. So far, we have failed to achieve our mutual goal of a fair deal. The unfortunate thing is that the agreement we have offered has huge benefits for fans and players. We have listened to the Players Association throughout this process. A primary goal of the Players Association has been to increase pay for younger players. As I have said previously, we agree and share that goal. We offered to raise the minimum salary to $700,000, an increase of $130,000 from 2021. We offered to create an annual bonus pool of $30 million for the very best young players. In total, we are offering a 33% raise to nearly two-thirds of Major League players and adding more than $100 million annually in additional compensation for younger players. The proposal also addressed player and fan concerns about issues like service time and competitive issues. Baseball would for the first time have a draft lottery -- the most aggressive in professional sports. Also, for the first time ever, we agreed to an incentive system to encourage clubs to promote top prospects to their Opening Day rosters. We also proposed that the first and second-place finishers in the Rookie of the Year voting in each league would receive a full year of service. The MLBPA asked to make free agency more robust. For the first time ever, we agreed to eliminate direct draft pick compensation, a change the MLBPA has sought for decades. On the Competitive Balance Tax, we offered a significantly larger first-year increase than in the last two agreements, bearing in mind that the Competitive Balance Tax is the only mechanism in the agreement that protects some semblance of a level playing field among clubs. The International Draft would have more fairly allocated talent among the clubs and reduced abuses in some international markets. We also listened to our fans. The expanded playoffs would bring the excitement of meaningful September baseball and postseason baseball to fans in more of our markets. While we preferred a 14-team format, when the format became a significant obstacle, we listened to the players’ concerns, and offered to compromise by accepting their 12-team format. Finally, we offered a procedural agreement that would allow for the timely implementation of sorely needed rules like the pitch timer and elimination of shifts to improve the entertainment value of the game on the field. And we agreed to the universal DH. So, what is next? The calendar dictates that we are not going to be able to play the first two series of regular season games and those games are officially canceled. We are prepared to continue negotiations. We have been informed that the MLBPA is headed back to New York meaning that no agreement is possible until at least Thursday. Currently, camps could not meaningfully operate until at least March 8th, leaving only 23 days before scheduled Opening Day. We played without an agreement in 1994 and the players went on strike in August, forcing the cancellation of the World Series. It was a painful chapter in our game’s history. We cannot risk such an outcome again for our fans and our sport. The Clubs and our owners fully understand just how important it is to our millions of fans that we get the game on the field as soon as possible. To that end, we want to bargain and we want a deal with the Players Association as quickly as possible. OFFICIAL INFORMATION HELP/CONTACT US MORE MLB SITES & AFFILIA FU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barton Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Manfred is a joke. Truly a joke. The Astros decision will live on forever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section314 Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 16 hours ago, Barton said: Manfred is a joke. Truly a joke. The Astros decision will live on forever. Saw in paper today Manfred makes 11mm /year. Wonder if he gets paid even though there's no baseball being played?? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetsfan80 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 On 3/6/2022 at 9:08 AM, section314 said: Saw in paper today Manfred makes 11mm /year. Wonder if he gets paid even though there's no baseball being played?? He gets docked a dollar for each game missed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lith Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 So, did talks really breakdown yesterday over the International Draft. Is that really the issue that is going to cost another week of the season and result in less than 162 game schedule. At this point, I am guessing May 1 is the earliest we see baseball this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lith Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Some movement this AM. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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