Surprising amount of out-of-town baseball fans here now, considering nothing is going on. All getting smashed.

which play?

hell, replay in MLB gets it right 90% of the time or better for bang-bang plays.

point is, there is no arbitrary nonsense call in MLB that puts the other team on the verge of scoring 7 points.

And the World Series beat the NBA Finals in tv ratings.

No shit. National TV contracts bring in a lot of money but the bread and butter of all MLB teams is the local cable/TV contract. Your team matters.

The Yankees on TV only matters to Yankees fans. I didn’t watch an inning of the World Series last year. But watched every inning of my team in the playoffs.

That's not saying much

last year all baseball teams let their pitchers doctor the baseball. No one ratted out anyone. We are doing it, you don’t say anything, you can cheat too. We won’t say anything. It became so out in the open, MLB had to stop it last year.

That’s how ****ed up baseball is now. Cheat to help pitchers and make the game have less offense.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources: Deal not close, but not impossible. CBT thresholds, prearb pool big issues, among others. MLB has proposed two choices:<br><br>A: 14-team expanded postseason, minimum of ~$700k, ~40m into prearb pool<br><br>B: 12-team expanded postseason, ~$675k minimum, ~$20m into prearb pool</p>&mdash; Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanDrellich/status/1498472526942515206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Significant: Per multiple sources with direct knowledge, the major topic right now -- and holdup -- is not CBT, but whether to expand postseason to 12 or 14 teams. PA wants 12. 14 very important to owners. This has been a big part of today.</p>&mdash; Andy Martino (@martinonyc) <a href="https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1498498700598984715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hearing now that players are resistant as a group to 14 teams in the playoffs, and it’s not just 1, 2 or a few against it. Theres’s “widespread consensus” not to go to 14 postseason teams.</p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1498507437111918593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Do the owners or players hate the salary cap with players getting a percentage?

Every other sport has it…why doesn’t MLB?

The MLBPA is represented by the top 10% of players making the big money. Are they afraid of losing money while the minimum wage guys finally get paid?


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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So there will be a 12-team postseason pool and the owners have agreed to have similar luxury tax penalties as the last CBA</p>&mdash; Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href="https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1498519584684617728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">3 division winners and 3 wildcard teams. Everyone give me your best format for that? <br><br>Can’t simple have 1v6, 2v5 and 3v4. Need to reward division winners more than that IMO <a href="https://t.co/36ib54HNvw">https://t.co/36ib54HNvw</a></p>&mdash; Jomboy (@Jomboy_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jomboy_/status/1498521084076957698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The two sides still have to finalize luxury tax thresholds with tweaks to smaller issues before a deal is reached.</p>&mdash; Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href="https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1498522630407827456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

At least it seems like there's some optimism. Wasn't sure we'd have any at all today.

MLBN is live covering the negotiations.


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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Current plan is to stay in the stadium and keep talking until a deal is done. Determination to finish this exists.</p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1498535106130198532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>