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#75,481
As someone who loves history this shocked me. I had no clue that Rhode Island wasn’t actually the real name of the state.

 
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#75,482
Florida Stanley said:
This has been brewing for years. He called down the thunder and he is getting it....

This SATURDAY. High noon-ish.

Y’all gon see the difference in how those mid state boys do it.
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*cuts to video of the artist formerly known as flat top standing in his “workshop” covered in blood like a scene from a saw movie standing over a butchered cow on a steel table*

No thanks
 
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#75,484
Sorry if this has been talked about already in this thread, but couldn't find any discussion of it or in general media.

What was the league's justification during negotiations for not paying the full prorated salaries? I get they want to cut costs, but a paying a prorated salary is effectively cutting costs. Look at it as the teams effectively laying their players off due to COVID, just like regular businesses like restaurants did. I get why the players refusing to play for not the full prorated salary was a non-starter.

I'm not an "always blame the person in power" guy. Far from it, actually. The general public, on balance, seems to lean that way though. However, the fans tendency to side with ownership in sports labor disputes has always been baffling to me. The players are labor (very, very well-compensated labor), the owners are management. In most other facets of life, everything else being equal, the general public sides with labor over ownership/management.
 
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05_never_again said:
Sorry if this has been talked about already in this thread, but couldn't find any discussion of it or in general media.

What was the league's justification during negotiations for not paying the full prorated salaries? I get they want to cut costs, but a paying a prorated salary is effectively cutting costs. Look at it as the teams effectively laying their players off due to COVID, just like regular businesses like restaurants did. I get why the players refusing to play for not the full prorated salary was a non-starter.

I'm not an "always blame the person in power" guy. Far from it, actually. The general public, on balance, seems to lean that way though. However, the fans tendency to side with ownership in sports labor disputes has always been baffling to me. The players are labor (very, very well-compensated labor), the owners are management. In most other facets of life, everything else being equal, the general public sides with labor over ownership/management.
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So the owners will argue they can’t afford it. I find that a little dubious, but that’s their stance. Because the league won’t make any revenue off fans in stands (a significant income for teams) for the entire season the owners wanted the players to take a pay cut and offered other concessions to offset those pay cuts while trying to have some sort of legitimate season. Like 80 games or something like that. Baseball makes more than the other two current sports leagues from fan attendance. So they would be hurt by it more than the NBA or NHL. Also those teams got 30-35 worth of fan revenue. Baseball won’t get any. It’s a significant loss of money. Especially since most teams are still playing employees during this pandemic.
 
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AV_12 said:
Nats getting a big advantage
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That’s why I don’t like it. Rays also get a bit advantage playing the Marlins while the Yankees play the Mets.

My guess is they did it so to keep 30 home/30 away without screwing up the divisional play.
 
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#75,495
zjcvols said:
vs Righties

LF Acuna
2B Albies
1B Freeman
DH Ozuna
RF Markakis
C D’Arnaud
3B Camargo
SS Swanson
CF Inciarte

vs Lefties
RF Acuna
2B Albies
1B Freeman
DH Ozuna
3B Camargo
LF Riley
C Flowes
SS Swanson
CF Inciarte
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You misspelled Adam Duvall
 
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#75,496
I’ve talked myself into the Braves as World Series champs becauae Freddie and Markadick won’t be walking corpses by October

Also Dansby might stay healthy!
 
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I would have done this:

1. All games played within in the division (15x4)
2. End the season on a Wednesday.
2. Top two teams in the division play a best of three Friday-Sunday.
3. Losers of the divisional series play an NCAA style tournament double elimination at the teams home stadium that had the best run differential over the 60 games for final wild card spot (and they don’t play the first game).

So let’s pretend that the Cards, Dbacks and Nats all lost the divisional round and Dbacks had the best RD. All games in Phoenix and Dbacks get bye

Tuesday: Cards/Nats (better RD gets to be home). Nats win
Wednesday: Nats/Dbacks. Nats lose
Thursday: Cards/Nats eliminator game (Nats get to be home team) Nats win.
Friday: Nats have to beat D-Backs twice.
Saturday: If necessary

Monday- Start best of five divisional series.
LCS/WS is normal.
 
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#75,500
zjcvols said:
I would have done this:

1. All games played within in the division (15x4)
2. End the season on a Wednesday.
2. Top two teams in the division play a best of three Friday-Sunday.
3. Losers of the divisional series play an NCAA style tournament double elimination at the teams home stadium that had the best run differential over the 60 games for final wild card spot (and they don’t play the first game).

So let’s pretend that the Cards, Dbacks and Nats all lost the divisional round and Dbacks had the best RD. All games in Phoenix and Dbacks get bye

Tuesday: Cards/Nats (better RD gets to be home). Nats win
Wednesday: Nats/Dbacks. Nats lose
Thursday: Cards/Nats eliminator game (Nats get to be home team) Nats win.
Friday: Nats have to beat D-Backs twice.
Saturday: If necessary

Monday- Start best of five divisional series.
LCS/WS is normal.
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Also, you could take the three winners from the weekend series and have the same thing for who gets home field throughout the NLDS/NLCS.
 
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