That's what makes this so disappointing.. We have some really bad ones still working and a guy that was really good behind the plate, is gone.
2024-25 MLB off-season news and notes discussion thread
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Definitely sounds like Manfred is going to attempt some kind of Cap or harsher penalties for breaking through the luxury tax threshold in the next CBA.
That only works if the haters are forced to only make one meme per offseason when the Dodgers don’t win the World Series.
I don't see the Tampa Bay Rays making here in the area. Sternburg wants more public funds for a stadium. Kick rocks. Unless baseball adopts a cap...the sport is not sustainable long term. Fans are done with the haves and the have nots. There's no new fans growing up either. Millenials and Zs aren't watching. Major stoppage incoming
Or....the current owner could just sell....
It's always fun driving by the ruins of Tropicana Field just sitting there not getting worked on at all. I've defended Stu for the better part of a decade and it's nice knowing this is how I get repaid.
We are LOOONNNNGGGGG past "f*** this guy"
I don't see the Tampa Bay Rays making here in the area. Sternburg wants more public funds for a stadium. Kick rocks. Unless baseball adopts a cap...the sport is not sustainable long term. Fans are done with the haves and the have nots. There's no new fans growing up either. Millenials and Zs aren't watching. Major stoppage incoming
Baseball sucks. I hope it dies a horrible death. They have a real long term problem with their fans dying off and nobody to replace them.
Stu is a welfare queen. The organization is forced to sell off any decent player because they cannot afford to keep them.
Baseball sucks. I hope it dies a horrible death. They have a real long term problem with their fans dying off and nobody to replace them.
Oh for sure...which is why I think a new owner who isn't a Peter Angelos clone, would probably be able to get Tampa back to being relevant. Honestly, what is needed is an actual baseball stadium where fans have an experience in and around the ballpark. The Trop just doesn't do that for anyone. And if Sternburg can't figure out that you have to give a little to get a little more...then I don't know what to tell him.
They are definitely headed for a work stoppage. the players have held far too much power since the 70s.
Owners own and players play. Time for more of a league balance. If not, I see contraction in baseball's future.
Honestly, I think they just have to make the luxury tax more punitive and it would eliminate the need for a Cap. Forfeiture of all international money would be a good punishment. Reduction of draft pool money is another. Losing your first round pick altogether or handing it to the team that finished behind you if they didn't, themselves, go over the luxury threshold. Just have to be more punitive with the penalties.
The only way I would vote for public funding of a new stadium is for a hard cap league wide...period. Otherwise...what are we doing here?
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