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you keep changing the goal posts

Posted on: March 23, 2023 at 09:32:48 CT

meatiger MU

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despite huge differentials in team salaries, there is still reasonable variation in champs in baseball.

Despite salary caps, there are still dynasties in other sports.

No question that salary caps lead to disparity. Many other things lead to disparity as well.

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They are saying Ohtani is going to fetch $600M… - Carlos Rossi KC - 3/23 08:16:57

RE: Stop trying to make fetch a thing(nm) - Legend MU - 3/23 11:26:38

Angels have had Trout and Ohtani and haven't been good - alstl MU - 3/23 10:19:34

They won't be good this year either. Looking at a .500 - Mizzou Tom KC - 3/23 10:57:19

He's a unique talent to say the least, the only question - playhard KC - 3/23 09:34:41

Baseball in its current form is so hard to follow - FIJItiger MU

- 3/23 08:23:40

i don't think baseball's problems are with the rules of the - phrejd MU - 3/23 10:50:52

Maybe you've changed? - Gyro STL - 3/23 09:42:04

Speeding the game up will help, the ball being in play - playhard KC - 3/23 09:39:19

That's because with years of smartphone use - mizzouSECedes STL - 3/23 08:44:28

I think the new rules will help that issue, but the no - Carlos Rossi KC - 3/23 09:00:30

Oh agreed for sure - mizzouSECedes STL - 3/23 09:11:13

these charts say differently - meatiger MU - 3/23 08:49:58

An avg of 30 min over 50 years? - mizzouSECedes STL - 3/23 08:52:31

title of your sex tape - colonel angus beef KC - 3/23 08:55:02

It’s changed considerably. The ball is rarely - FIJItiger MU

- 3/23 08:49:36

The ball doesn't have to be hit for the game to be - mizzouSECedes STL - 3/23 08:51:33

I would say if you don't think the game has changed then you - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:09:43

For people that really understand and appreciate - mizzouSECedes STL - 3/23 09:25:23

You need to talk to more baseball people. - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:27:29

Fiji doesn't watch or follow baseball, like basketball (nm) - Columbian Gold MU - 3/23 08:57:41

Everyone wants offense for everything - meatiger MU - 3/23 08:55:02

give us a defensive option that moves the ball and runners - TheShoe STL - 3/23 08:59:10

apply that to a reg season game in July - TheShoe STL - 3/23 08:54:30

Hope the real fans enjoy the product (nm) - FIJItiger MU

- 3/23 08:54:24

That's not the reason you don't currently follow baseball (nm) - Uncle John MU

- 3/23 08:40:16

Those are the 3 reasons(nm) - FIJItiger MU

- 3/23 08:46:53

I'm actually looking forward to the rule changes this - Mizzou Tom KC - 3/23 08:30:41

Same, but that kind of lends to Fiji's point - TheShoe STL - 3/23 08:40:57

Can you translate this to a Royals post because I'm - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:00:00

You guys have a ****ing fountain you can swim in - TheShoe STL - 3/23 09:01:07

I'm not complaining, I just wanted to follow your - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:04:22

theres not enough drinking - colonel angus beef KC - 3/23 09:08:31

To be fair everyone was drunk in the old times. Players, - Carlos Rossi KC - 3/23 09:17:03

so drunk they dropped a nuclear bomb on someone - colonel angus beef KC - 3/23 09:18:36

That's it - TheShoe STL - 3/23 09:05:49

RE: You guys have a ****ing fountain you can swim in - Carlos Rossi KC - 3/23 09:02:46

Until they have more than 4 or 5 teams plus - tman MU - 3/23 08:40:42

there are perennial winners and losers - meatiger MU - 3/23 08:47:30

Baseball is far worse than other sports. - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:02:26

RE: Baseball is far worse than other sports. - meatiger MU - 3/23 09:08:17

Look at the last 40 years of the NFL - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:16:24

RE: Look at the last 40 years of the NFL - meatiger MU - 3/23 09:19:18

6 of 10 are from baseball and one just got off the list. - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:31:35

A couple of things.... - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:23:50

you keep changing the goal posts - meatiger MU - 3/23 09:32:48

^^thinks there are goal posts in baseball - colonel angus beef KC - 3/23 09:36:26

No goalpost has been moved. - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:35:10

RE: No goalpost has been moved. - meatiger MU - 3/23 09:39:15

Then why are you arguing nuanced nonsense - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:41:51

This is what really needs to change - mizzouSECedes STL - 3/23 09:27:21

one of them goes right the other goes up - colonel angus beef KC - 3/23 09:21:20

LMAO(nm) - meatiger MU - 3/23 09:21:52

Yes, but baseball's setup almost ensures it(nm) - tman MU - 3/23 08:53:23

Not necessarily - TheShoe STL - 3/23 08:56:09

Reds lost 100 games last year... - Gyro STL - 3/23 10:04:04

Lightning in a bottle. Put a hard cap in and - tman MU - 3/23 08:58:48

I'd love that - TheShoe STL - 3/23 09:00:06

This would make the game about the team and - tman MU - 3/23 09:02:31

Every team should have at least 3 players in their lineup - TheShoe STL - 3/23 09:04:56

That would be up to the teams and how they - tman MU - 3/23 09:07:42

I've always thought baseball needed that kind of cap (nm) - Uncle John MU

- 3/23 09:01:53

Seems to have shaved about 20--30 minutes off - meatiger MU - 3/23 08:40:27

gonna be so many commercials running on screen - TheShoe STL - 3/23 08:42:35

why will there be more commercials? - meatiger MU - 3/23 08:45:52

"running on screen" - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:05:16

RE: "running on screen" - meatiger MU - 3/23 09:11:07

Of course it hasn't happened. But the company that is - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:14:03

they actually did file for bankruptcy - meatiger MU - 3/23 09:16:27

point remains the same (nm) - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:24:56

what if you look away when that happens - colonel angus beef KC - 3/23 09:09:17

Then you're likely going to miss some important action - kmawv8 MU - 3/23 09:10:29

that is not allowed anymore(nm) - meatiger MU - 3/23 09:12:40

Thankfully the pitch clock is helping with that nonsense (nm) - Uncle John MU

- 3/23 09:12:27

$$$(nm) - TheShoe STL - 3/23 08:47:23

DVR the game and get about an hour behind and then turn - Uncle John MU

- 3/23 08:45:46

I try - TheShoe STL - 3/23 08:47:06

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