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@@reilly3565 We should be bottom 5 for sure. Some of our top picks from the last few years were gonna start showing up this season tho, so we'd be bad but I'm not sure if we'd be last, last.
Well, the NHL had a whole season cancelled under Butthead's watch. MLB still has a ways to go before surpassing that dubious honor. But the optics of waging a labor war during a time of crisis for the average Joe Fan couldn't be worse!
as soon as the sherman anti trust act gets repealed. baseball is protected by that. mlb is the only professional baseball league allowed to operate in the us
@@tbb236 That doesn't make sense. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act protects _against_ a monopoly. If MLB is the only pro baseball league allowed to operate in the US, that would violate the act. Repealing the act would allow for monopolies.
As a big baseball guy, I’m annoyed but this is what they get. Owners are Cheap and selfish like the wilpons. Hope they enjoy a dying sport that could have been revitalized by getting this back early
@@stephenpatten2768 players are being reasonable. The contracts they were given are guaranteed. The owners reap the benefits of yearly earnings yet players don't get a piece of that. If owners want to keep their portion of earnings why shouldn't they be expected to absorb losses either?
@@unclerico1106 if he chose baseball and excelled at it he would've spent the first 5-6 years of his career making far less than his worth. And the chances of him becoming a premier player in baseball were far lower than football. In choosing football he already bagged 35 million guaranteed without even playing a single snap, and he's already proving he was worth the pick so his next contract could be monstrous.
@@downnice95 Maybe my favorite NPB team will finally decide to have a social media presence then lol. Being a foreign fan of the Carp can suck sometimes.
If I don't work half of the year why should I get paid for the whole year. They act like they aren't still getting millions of dollars for half their usual work
Lol right? That's part of the reason I no longer follow baseball. Ain't nobody got the energy to passionately follow that many games. #1 reason is there's no salary cap, so small market teams are basically 4A farm clubs. And the other reason is the Twins suck and will always suck because there's no salary cap. I ain't got time for that amount of losing, and always getting swept by the Yankees.
These owners make millions.. AND MILLIONS of dollars each and every year.. To NOT PROFIT for 1 season just shows how disgustingly greedy they are.. Pay your damn work force.. Full pay
If the MLB had a shorter season, I would tune in wayyyy more. When you have as many games as they do, the games don’t feel special like they feel in the NFL
“In good faith” is what is lawyers call the “catch all clause”. Anything we couldn’t think of and specifically write down, it falls under the catch all clause. CYA clause basically
What the players should do is just separate themselves from the MLB as an organization and start player owned teams and play in other local parks/fields. As a life-long Pirates fan, Bob Nutting can shove his billions up his ass for all the good he has done for my home team. I'd support a player owned team more than I would the current iteration of the Pirates.
Havent the players said that? We will play whatever is the number for 100% salary and the MLB is to provide said schedule. Isnt this what the MLB want?
Billionaires and millionaires fighting over money at a time when people cannot find jobs and families are going hungry. 100% pro rated salaries is a joke.
The MLB owners, the MLBPA and Manfred have all been operating like Baseball is still in its 1980's heyday. Baseball lost its buzz since the steroids era was vilified (personally, I didn't care, and I don't care. If they wanted to ban it on health concerns reasons, w/e), and Baseball never realized that. The best player in the game is in a market that doesn't matter (Trout), and the most famous players on the Yankees and the Dodgers, the two biggest markets in the US, are 2nd fiddle AT BEST to other athletes in other sports in their market. Hell, I think the Dodger's players may be 4th or 5th fiddle in LA.
Pure and simple: Greed is killing the sport. Both sides (the owners & players) need to be held accountable for this. The league made two initial bushwhack offers to the MLBA, only wanting to pay the the players up to a 30% salary for playing over half a season, which the players rightfully declined. The MLB also missed a huge opportunity to re-open on July 4th, which would've created enormous historical ratings. The players are finally starting to realize that the days of receiving 300+ mil contracts are over and they're not happy about it. A salary cap in baseball has been long over-due.
The MLB players are insane to be demanding as much of their salary as they are. If I were the league I wouldn’t accept their BS demands either. Who else gets paid full salary for 1/3 of their work???
And we will pay the price for greed. We can change this as fans .....believe me we can!!! NEVER EVER PAY ANYTHING FOR BASEBALL. BOYCOTT THEM FOR THE NEXT 3 YRS.
Ah yes because the league that has been guilty of colluding to keep players in specific places and keep player salaries down definitely negotiates in good faith.
I hope baseball takes this opportunity to aggressively change the game. Some of the changes I would like to see: 1. An aggressive realignment of the divisions. Let's put teams like Yankees/Mets, White Sox/Cubs... basically obvious geographical rivalries in the same division instead of having them in completely opposite leagues. 2. No more extra inning games. The games are already too long. When I was a huge diehard baseball purist I didn't mind a 16 inning game that ended 1-0, but I don't like that anymore and neither do most other people. Play 9 innings, which is already a marathon, and if it's tied let's have a homerun derby at the end. Kinda like how soccer or hockey ends in penalty kicks and shootouts. 3. Stop with the "unwritten rules of baseball." You sound like a bunch of crybabies making $10million and then whining that someone stopped and stared at the ball going over the fence for 4 seconds. Every other sport in America has guys showboating after a touchdown, hanging on the rim after a massive dunk, or the goofy celebrations after scoring a goal, but baseball has these stupid "unwritten rules" that say you can't toss your bat after you hit a homerun without some overpaid jackass crying about it. Let the players celebrate and have a good time. If you don't like it, don't give up a 500 foot dinger. 4. Bring back collisions. I'm sorry Buster Posey got hurt, but in a "non contact sport" I think it's awesome to see a guy running over the catcher or sliding hard into second base to break up a double play. 5. Either get rid of the DH or have it in both leagues. Just pick one, but let's keep it the same across baseball. 6. Salary cap. Teams need to be somewhat fiscally equal. Not only does there need to be a maximum that can be spent, but also a minimum. Hopefully that'll keep things equal and limit a teams ability to tank for better draft picks or essentially trying to buy a championship. 7. Minor league system... you've got rookie level, class A Short season, Low A, High A, AA, AAA, Arizona Fall League... how many levels of baseball do we really need? How bout this... get rid of the ones that don't make any money. I remember going to AA Memphis Chicks games when I was a kid and watching Michael Jordan play baseball at Tim McCarver Stadium when he was with the Barons. All of those games sold out. Any other games you could get a ticket almost anywhere in the stadium because it was mostly empty. Not many people were showing up to watch Bob "The Hammer" Hamlin and a minor league affiliate of a middling Kansas City Royals. The team eventually moved to Jackson TN becoming what is now the Jackson Generals, and Memphis landed the AAA Memphis Redbirds and built the fantastic Autozone Park. There's certainly a place in this world for minor league baseball, but I'd be willing to bet you could axe half of the teams and most people wouldn't notice. 8. 162 games is one outrageously long season. I don't think it'll ever happen, but I'd rather the season be 100 games at the most. College football teams have some of the largest stadiums in the world. How many home games do they play? 7? 8?? Know why people are willing to go to a college football game and sit at the very top of a 100,000 seat stadium? Because there's a very limited number of opportunities to do so. Baseball has the longest season with the longest games. I'd rather have a shorter season with shorter games and more fans in attendance. 9. Less day games. I've always been a Cubs fan and maybe I'm a little biased in my opinion here because the Cubs always had more day games than anyone for years because they didn't have stadium lights. I remember the 1998 season I would skip school to watch the Cubs play day games while I was enthralled with the homerun chase. I don't think I'll ever be as absorbed by baseball as I was back then. I'm certainly not going to skip anything in life now to watch a 4 hour baseball game that starts at 2:05 on a Thursday. 10. Do something to make the draft relevant. This year was the first time the mlb draft has even sniffed main stream relativity and that's because it was only 5 rounds. We all love hearing the stories of Mark Grace being a 24th rounder and Mike Piazza being drafted in the 62nd round... Why, oh why did they have 62 rounds? But don't we also cringe at the story of a Mark Appel? Or even Mark Prior? The length of the draft before this year was 40 rounds. Teams are just trying to find that diamond in the rough, but they've also got this thing called "undrafted free agent." If they keep the rounds short and eliminate a lot of the minor league, maybe we can see some of these first round guys before they spend 5 years in the minors. Players that don't get drafted can still sign with a team, but the draft actually means something in other sports, unlike baseball where it means absolutely nothing to the casual fan that just watches games occasionally. So there's 10 things I'd like to see baseball do and hopefully, if the 2020 season truly is lost, maybe they can use that time to improve the game.
Players have called the mlb bluff again. Manfred went from 100% confident there will be a season to days later now saying not confident at all. Manfred doesn't want to be the one to force a season. It's down to that if there will be a season. Now he will stall till the 26th to force a season of 50ish games. Trevor Bauer had a great tweet today on response to what Manfred recently said
I'm just getting into baseball but my uncle is a die hard Cardinals fan and a baseball fan and he is dying on the inside cause there is no baseball sad year man
so did the owners think that their team is any different from any other business and there is risk when owning a business? If you cant cut the losses then sell the team
I give the players most of the blame for this. They are just refusing to back down from this prorated salary thing, I get that you need your money, but you either make SOME of it or none at all. They also need to realize that the CBA is up after this year, so being on the owner's worst possible side is the last thing you want to do right now.
What do you mean? That dope Rob Mannford said it was 100% happening! If baseball doesn’t actually end up happening, can the owners ban together minus the Astro and the Red Sox owner. To get rid of this commissioner?!?!? He’s the worst all time and needs to go! That at least will make this year not a total bust!
On a much smaller scale...if I'm making a livable wage (never mind millions) do you think my family will back me if I refuse to play a game? When was the last time you cared how much money the corporation that gave you an opportunity made?
Okay something is driving me crazy. Is it "Jet Passam" of "Jeff Passam" I have seen his name on ESPN as Jeff but it sounds like they are saying Jet. Am I loosing my mind? Lol
I honestly find it ironic that baseball is having so much trouble getting going again. It's one of the few professional sports where the chances of players bleeding or sweating on each other are very minimal so you'd think it'd be the prime sport for this era of 'social distancing,' add to that how far players usually are away from each other except when they're running bases, batting, or in the dugout. I also know that all of my friends who are hardcore baseball fans would pay to see it so maybe if they made some games Pay-Per-View, that'd help to supplement some of the lost income from ticket sales and shut these greedy ass owners up a little bit.
Regardless of whoever is in the right or wrong in these negotiations, the publicity displayed from direct sources of each party is just sad. It’s like they are using the public as pawns to be greedy. It further increases my distaste for Manfred and Tony Clark/players. As a lifelong baseball fan, is it really worth putting emotions, time, money into fandom, when the leaders of the game constantly insult the integrity of the sport and its fans?
So does this make MLB the first sports league to have a season with no World Series (strike) and a season with no season? It took a lot for baseball to come back from the last lost season. I don't know they have the popularity to do it again.
Looks like a lot of people will be looking for new sports to watch and teams to cheer for. Chance for Australian rules football to grow their American audience. Professional Tag with parkour masters...
You'd think of any sport baseball would be able to socially distance the fans pretty sure 90% of games had 10% capacity or less whats an empty stadium when nobody was showing up anyway?
I got the perfect idea to fix all these sport problem. Let every players play them self on console and get the season going! KRplus Live stream the game.
This argument isn’t playing well to the rest of America. Millionaires arguing with billionaires is distasteful when so many are out of work. Pay attention other sports.
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Lol remember when MLB was gonna be the first league back
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
No guarantee the other sports will
Ufc been ahead of the game
@@BJ-ih8un Lol not hard for UFC to do
Noh Buddy the mls is coming back soon
As a Tigers fan I'm actively hopeful that there is no MLB season. If there is no season, I think that means we get the first draft pick again
U would be last anyways tho
@@reilly3565 We should be bottom 5 for sure. Some of our top picks from the last few years were gonna start showing up this season tho, so we'd be bad but I'm not sure if we'd be last, last.
Alex_Mac_ no it’s going to be a lottery style like the nhl lockout
If it turns out that way y'all get the 1st pick without the embarrassment of earning it. That's a win in my books lol
@@tingle8554 Daaah
When Gary Bettman isn’t the worst sports commissioner anymore
Damn right!!
Manfred even makes Rogey boi seem like Stern
Manfred is making Bud Selig look like Kenesaw Mountain Landis!
He is still the worst
Well, the NHL had a whole season cancelled under Butthead's watch. MLB still has a ways to go before surpassing that dubious honor. But the optics of waging a labor war during a time of crisis for the average Joe Fan couldn't be worse!
How long until Vince McMahon announces plans for the XLB?
as soon as the sherman anti trust act gets repealed. baseball is protected by that. mlb is the only professional baseball league allowed to operate in the us
There it is haha. I was going to comment that myself.
@@tbb236 That doesn't make sense. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act protects _against_ a monopoly. If MLB is the only pro baseball league allowed to operate in the US, that would violate the act. Repealing the act would allow for monopolies.
Or? bring the movie “BASEketball” to real life 🤔
I would pay more attention if they wired the players for sound bites like they did in the preseason. That was fun.
As a big baseball guy, I’m annoyed but this is what they get. Owners are Cheap and selfish like the wilpons. Hope they enjoy a dying sport that could have been revitalized by getting this back early
I’m sorry you’ve had to go through the experience as a Mets fan. It’s a tough lifestyle
Don’t worry bro, you weren’t missing much watching the Mets🙏🏾
Players are greedy, too.
@@stephenpatten2768 players are being reasonable. The contracts they were given are guaranteed. The owners reap the benefits of yearly earnings yet players don't get a piece of that. If owners want to keep their portion of earnings why shouldn't they be expected to absorb losses either?
I feel sorry for you being a Mets fan . Sadly , I am a Mets fan too .
Kyler Murray gotta be hyped, buddy made the right decision
Lol
patty mahomes too
Ehhhh that's if he actually pans out as a qb.
@@unclerico1106 id say he's panning out. Hot take id take kyler over lamar all day
@@unclerico1106 if he chose baseball and excelled at it he would've spent the first 5-6 years of his career making far less than his worth. And the chances of him becoming a premier player in baseball were far lower than football. In choosing football he already bagged 35 million guaranteed without even playing a single snap, and he's already proving he was worth the pick so his next contract could be monstrous.
That big gust of wind we all felt was all the astros players sighing in relief
Can we get Pat on Joe Rogan?
It would just be both of them talking at the same time.
Joe Rogan sold to the Spotify. You’re gonna have to ask Spotify.
@@john-martin he didn't sell. It's a license
Joe only likes fighting he doesn't ever talk sports
@@john-martin fail
2020 has now claimed its biggest victim yet: Baseball. Not a player, not a team, THE ENTIRE LEAGUE.
But Asian leagues are alive and well
RIP 2020 MLB season and good job Rob Manfred who belongs in the Hall of Shame!
2020 season? That might be the dagger to the heart
So you are the first to disregard over 100 years of baseball?
Pat always knows how to cut it to you straight! Best sports talker in the game today. Give him the MNF job
The NPB, which was arguably hit harder, just announced a 110 game return plan.
That says everything you need to know
With MLB being a joke the NPB is going to be the top league in the next five years
@@downnice95 Maybe my favorite NPB team will finally decide to have a social media presence then lol.
Being a foreign fan of the Carp can suck sometimes.
Finally hockey can takes its place like the true sport it is
If I don't work half of the year why should I get paid for the whole year. They act like they aren't still getting millions of dollars for half their usual work
Robert Manfred makes Roger Goodell look like a competent sports commissioner.
I was about to say this making sure nobody said it before me lolol
Good Job Manfred, you have officially killed Baseball.
Leave it to the MLB to screw up and miss out on a golden opportunity.
That's fine with me my nationals will defend another year
Facts it gives the pitchers more time to recover after a long season last year.
Also me, as a raptors fan
imagine actually calling yourself champions of a non-existent season.
@@willlame5597 kansas did
Nationals are a racist name.
Post a black square for the MLB 😞
I want shorter seasons in general. The mlb season is too damn long
“Oh boy, time for pivotal game 83”
Lol right? That's part of the reason I no longer follow baseball. Ain't nobody got the energy to passionately follow that many games. #1 reason is there's no salary cap, so small market teams are basically 4A farm clubs. And the other reason is the Twins suck and will always suck because there's no salary cap. I ain't got time for that amount of losing, and always getting swept by the Yankees.
Eternal Reign facts
Yeah I say do a 82 game season
Funny the players feel different, they want more games
Maybe get more two sport athletes . . .
These owners make millions.. AND MILLIONS of dollars each and every year.. To NOT PROFIT for 1 season just shows how disgustingly greedy they are.. Pay your damn work force.. Full pay
If the MLB had a shorter season, I would tune in wayyyy more. When you have as many games as they do, the games don’t feel special like they feel in the NFL
This effects the vendors groundskeepers security announcers etc. so many jobs lost over this disappointing season
They should only be paid for the games they play on a prorated basis.
@ jake glenn That is exactly what the players have been asking for since Day 1.
Yeah.. that’s exactly what the players want. The owners want to take out more from players salaries to make up for concessions.
As someone who has no idea about anything baseball but wants to learn, can somebody explain what prorated means and why they dont do it?
Man, I just wanna watch baseball.
Unfortunately Mr. Focus, it seems that baseball will not be surviving the quarantine...
You got a reply bra
@@ThePatMcAfeeShow ball is life
@@ThePatMcAfeeShow This is about greed on both sides.
@Hp forthewin life is ball
RIP Arlington and their new stadium that won't be filled until next year
I always used to be the guy to defend the MLB but I can't take Manfred anymore and they are just killing themselves
If they actually had a half decent commissioner, the MLB would be bigger than the NBA.
Striiiiiikke Three !!..Do I have to throw away my single baseball's card, too ??
Its ridiculous how greedy the players association is. Work together, fans want it. Players want it, stop thinking about $$ and just play
Pat I would rather have the WNBA be dead rather than the MLB
“In good faith” is what is lawyers call the “catch all clause”. Anything we couldn’t think of and specifically write down, it falls under the catch all clause. CYA clause basically
I was actually preparing to get into the MLB and learn/care about my local team since they were supposed to be the league back from hiatus... lol
At least your city has an MLB team. Mine is just AAA :'(
Rob Banks i got AA
Tanner_10 We only have a single A team but tickets are 5 bucks. I miss going to baseball games
What the players should do is just separate themselves from the MLB as an organization and start player owned teams and play in other local parks/fields. As a life-long Pirates fan, Bob Nutting can shove his billions up his ass for all the good he has done for my home team. I'd support a player owned team more than I would the current iteration of the Pirates.
Just make them play a 50 game season. He has the power to do that.
Havent the players said that?
We will play whatever is the number for 100% salary and the MLB is to provide said schedule.
Isnt this what the MLB want?
Should have been them playing in their spring training stadiums
These owners are the worst, they are so greedy and trying to make it look like they won’t have any money to pay the players
Billionaires and millionaires fighting over money at a time when people cannot find jobs and families are going hungry. 100% pro rated salaries is a joke.
Is that the overall goal? To kill professional sports?
The MLB owners, the MLBPA and Manfred have all been operating like Baseball is still in its 1980's heyday. Baseball lost its buzz since the steroids era was vilified (personally, I didn't care, and I don't care. If they wanted to ban it on health concerns reasons, w/e), and Baseball never realized that.
The best player in the game is in a market that doesn't matter (Trout), and the most famous players on the Yankees and the Dodgers, the two biggest markets in the US, are 2nd fiddle AT BEST to other athletes in other sports in their market. Hell, I think the Dodger's players may be 4th or 5th fiddle in LA.
I just hope the players claim a deal so we can watch some baseball this year
Pure and simple: Greed is killing the sport. Both sides (the owners & players) need to be held accountable for this. The league made two initial bushwhack offers to the MLBA, only wanting to pay the the players up to a 30% salary for playing over half a season, which the players rightfully declined. The MLB also missed a huge opportunity to re-open on July 4th, which would've created enormous historical ratings. The players are finally starting to realize that the days of receiving 300+ mil contracts are over and they're not happy about it. A salary cap in baseball has been long over-due.
Sucks for us who work for MLB ballparks/teams...
The MLB players are insane to be demanding as much of their salary as they are. If I were the league I wouldn’t accept their BS demands either. Who else gets paid full salary for 1/3 of their work???
And we will pay the price for greed. We can change this as fans .....believe me we can!!! NEVER EVER PAY ANYTHING FOR BASEBALL. BOYCOTT THEM FOR THE NEXT 3 YRS.
Millionaires arguing with billionaires. Looks so bad.
I thought Roger Goodell was bad....
Ah yes because the league that has been guilty of colluding to keep players in specific places and keep player salaries down definitely negotiates in good faith.
The players are failing to consider the fact that for owners they might be better off with no season because the losses will be lessened.
Congrats to the KBO, for one year the pinnacle of world baseball.
I have no sympathy for baseball or the players.
Pat Strietz - Striddy it’s mostly the owners they have the money but their cheaper than Mr Krabs
Millionaire problems
Let's be honest, is anybody gonna be bummed out if there's no baseball?season never started til October anyway.
Man, good thing the commissioner's trophy is just a piece of metal, otherwise people would be really upset about this!
Millionaires arguing with Billionaires. Turning fans off very quick.
That "in good faith" means: "If you say anything to the public about these negotiations that displeases us, you're fucked."
I'm a Rangers fan. We should be used to not having fans in the summer. At least day games.
“Jett Passin”
I hope baseball takes this opportunity to aggressively change the game. Some of the changes I would like to see:
1. An aggressive realignment of the divisions. Let's put teams like Yankees/Mets, White Sox/Cubs... basically obvious geographical rivalries in the same division instead of having them in completely opposite leagues.
2. No more extra inning games. The games are already too long. When I was a huge diehard baseball purist I didn't mind a 16 inning game that ended 1-0, but I don't like that anymore and neither do most other people. Play 9 innings, which is already a marathon, and if it's tied let's have a homerun derby at the end. Kinda like how soccer or hockey ends in penalty kicks and shootouts.
3. Stop with the "unwritten rules of baseball." You sound like a bunch of crybabies making $10million and then whining that someone stopped and stared at the ball going over the fence for 4 seconds. Every other sport in America has guys showboating after a touchdown, hanging on the rim after a massive dunk, or the goofy celebrations after scoring a goal, but baseball has these stupid "unwritten rules" that say you can't toss your bat after you hit a homerun without some overpaid jackass crying about it. Let the players celebrate and have a good time. If you don't like it, don't give up a 500 foot dinger.
4. Bring back collisions. I'm sorry Buster Posey got hurt, but in a "non contact sport" I think it's awesome to see a guy running over the catcher or sliding hard into second base to break up a double play.
5. Either get rid of the DH or have it in both leagues. Just pick one, but let's keep it the same across baseball.
6. Salary cap. Teams need to be somewhat fiscally equal. Not only does there need to be a maximum that can be spent, but also a minimum. Hopefully that'll keep things equal and limit a teams ability to tank for better draft picks or essentially trying to buy a championship.
7. Minor league system... you've got rookie level, class A Short season, Low A, High A, AA, AAA, Arizona Fall League... how many levels of baseball do we really need? How bout this... get rid of the ones that don't make any money. I remember going to AA Memphis Chicks games when I was a kid and watching Michael Jordan play baseball at Tim McCarver Stadium when he was with the Barons. All of those games sold out. Any other games you could get a ticket almost anywhere in the stadium because it was mostly empty. Not many people were showing up to watch Bob "The Hammer" Hamlin and a minor league affiliate of a middling Kansas City Royals. The team eventually moved to Jackson TN becoming what is now the Jackson Generals, and Memphis landed the AAA Memphis Redbirds and built the fantastic Autozone Park. There's certainly a place in this world for minor league baseball, but I'd be willing to bet you could axe half of the teams and most people wouldn't notice.
8. 162 games is one outrageously long season. I don't think it'll ever happen, but I'd rather the season be 100 games at the most. College football teams have some of the largest stadiums in the world. How many home games do they play? 7? 8?? Know why people are willing to go to a college football game and sit at the very top of a 100,000 seat stadium? Because there's a very limited number of opportunities to do so. Baseball has the longest season with the longest games. I'd rather have a shorter season with shorter games and more fans in attendance.
9. Less day games. I've always been a Cubs fan and maybe I'm a little biased in my opinion here because the Cubs always had more day games than anyone for years because they didn't have stadium lights. I remember the 1998 season I would skip school to watch the Cubs play day games while I was enthralled with the homerun chase. I don't think I'll ever be as absorbed by baseball as I was back then. I'm certainly not going to skip anything in life now to watch a 4 hour baseball game that starts at 2:05 on a Thursday.
10. Do something to make the draft relevant. This year was the first time the mlb draft has even sniffed main stream relativity and that's because it was only 5 rounds. We all love hearing the stories of Mark Grace being a 24th rounder and Mike Piazza being drafted in the 62nd round... Why, oh why did they have 62 rounds? But don't we also cringe at the story of a Mark Appel? Or even Mark Prior? The length of the draft before this year was 40 rounds. Teams are just trying to find that diamond in the rough, but they've also got this thing called "undrafted free agent." If they keep the rounds short and eliminate a lot of the minor league, maybe we can see some of these first round guys before they spend 5 years in the minors. Players that don't get drafted can still sign with a team, but the draft actually means something in other sports, unlike baseball where it means absolutely nothing to the casual fan that just watches games occasionally.
So there's 10 things I'd like to see baseball do and hopefully, if the 2020 season truly is lost, maybe they can use that time to improve the game.
MLB owners making NFL owners look good lol
this is just TERRIBLE leadership by the mlb, as THEY were supposed to be the league that SET THE TONE on the OTHER leagues coming back
At this point im just praying that we still get to have a football season
Players have called the mlb bluff again.
Manfred went from 100% confident there will be a season to days later now saying not confident at all.
Manfred doesn't want to be the one to force a season. It's down to that if there will be a season.
Now he will stall till the 26th to force a season of 50ish games.
Trevor Bauer had a great tweet today on response to what Manfred recently said
I'm just getting into baseball but my uncle is a die hard Cardinals fan and a baseball fan and he is dying on the inside cause there is no baseball sad year man
It's not THE MLB, it's just MLB
Washington Nationals get to celebrate World Series win for two years and just maybe forever as the last team to win it
so did the owners think that their team is any different from any other business and there is risk when owning a business? If you cant cut the losses then sell the team
There's going to be an AFL game in the United States before we have a MLB game
It's the pinnacle of sports freemasony, it ain't dying anytime soon.
I give the players most of the blame for this. They are just refusing to back down from this prorated salary thing, I get that you need your money, but you either make SOME of it or none at all. They also need to realize that the CBA is up after this year, so being on the owner's worst possible side is the last thing you want to do right now.
Start a new Baseball and Basketball league without high contracts. The losing teams get the worst draft picks for not trying.
All the Astros players happy af rn. No booing no getting drilled
What do you mean? That dope
Rob Mannford said it was 100% happening! If baseball doesn’t actually end up happening, can the owners ban together minus the Astro and the Red Sox owner. To get rid of this commissioner?!?!? He’s the worst all time and needs to go! That at least will make this year not a total bust!
On a much smaller scale...if I'm making a livable wage (never mind millions) do you think my family will back me if I refuse to play a game? When was the last time you cared how much money the corporation that gave you an opportunity made?
Okay something is driving me crazy. Is it "Jet Passam" of "Jeff Passam" I have seen his name on ESPN as Jeff but it sounds like they are saying Jet. Am I loosing my mind? Lol
Imagine announcing to the world that you wish you could be a scab xD
Summer ball is in full force in the South and the Heartland
The man's name is Jeff Passan, not Jet.
Shut up
I honestly find it ironic that baseball is having so much trouble getting going again. It's one of the few professional sports where the chances of players bleeding or sweating on each other are very minimal so you'd think it'd be the prime sport for this era of 'social distancing,' add to that how far players usually are away from each other except when they're running bases, batting, or in the dugout. I also know that all of my friends who are hardcore baseball fans would pay to see it so maybe if they made some games Pay-Per-View, that'd help to supplement some of the lost income from ticket sales and shut these greedy ass owners up a little bit.
This shows the stupidity of guaranteed contracts.
People who watch baseball are the same ones who have squatted trucks.
Idc, Football, UFC, JRE, PMS is all we need to survive
Whatever makes the most amount of $ for the ownership is what will happen
Regardless of whoever is in the right or wrong in these negotiations, the publicity displayed from direct sources of each party is just sad. It’s like they are using the public as pawns to be greedy. It further increases my distaste for Manfred and Tony Clark/players. As a lifelong baseball fan, is it really worth putting emotions, time, money into fandom, when the leaders of the game constantly insult the integrity of the sport and its fans?
"In good faith" word count anyone??
Both sides: "We don't care what the situation is or about the fans at all, WE WANTZ MOAR MONIEZ"
It’s pretty obvious Manfred is only worried about getting playoff money at this point he couldn’t care less about the game of baseball
Idea: can the MLB season (won't miss it) and start showing the AFL games!
RIP, MLB 2020
Sports in America is over. It will never be the same. Between negotiating, c19 and unspoken TRUTH of black american.
Can’t have a season without the PLAYERS
So does this make MLB the first sports league to have a season with no World Series (strike) and a season with no season? It took a lot for baseball to come back from the last lost season. I don't know they have the popularity to do it again.
Looks like a lot of people will be looking for new sports to watch and teams to cheer for. Chance for Australian rules football to grow their American audience. Professional Tag with parkour masters...
I forgot about baseball. Think about that for a second. Looking forward to football
Karma for not stripping the astros of the World Series
You'd think of any sport baseball would be able to socially distance the fans pretty sure 90% of games had 10% capacity or less whats an empty stadium when nobody was showing up anyway?
People also said baseball was dead in 1994.
I got the perfect idea to fix all these sport problem. Let every players play them self on console and get the season going! KRplus Live stream the game.
This argument isn’t playing well to the rest of America. Millionaires arguing with billionaires is distasteful when so many are out of work. Pay attention other sports.
a rival league should pop up as MLB has been so inept for the past 30 years it would probably have it's ass kicked by a rival league
can’t happen. the sherman antitrust act protects baseball from rival leagues starting up
Millionaires not sure when they’re going back to work. That sucks
double headers all Sept, 60 games, then playoffs, done.
Mr. Cub would approve
Let's play two!
Lol I'm sure the pitchers arms would love throwing every other day.....
@@abtwopoint0 yea, would definitely need guaranteed 100% pay then