Adam Silver is the worst commissioner and it's not even close

100 loses in baseball equals a 6-10 season in the NFL and a 100 win season in baseball equals a 10-6 season in the NFL.

Same (but for Colorado for me). I don't think it'll ever happen, but I'm surprised that the MLB thinks they make more money when it's dominated by big market teams all the time. I enjoy going to Rockies games, but it's sure hard to really get in to watching when they're constantly in the bottom.

I lost all interest in baseball in 1994 when they went on strike mid season when Griffey Jr was on a run and had a chance to break the home run record without needing steroids to do it.

I see it this way…if you can’t figure out the business side of how to split up billions of dollars fairly during the offseason, you deserve for your golden goose to die. You’re making a choice to punish the fans for your greed.

**** baseball and it’s greed.

I was prepared to do the same thing with football if they started missing regular season games during the last CBA negotiations, too.

Yes and in today's MLB, it is much much much harder for big market teams to lose 100 games with the economics involved. It's also much harder and rarely occurs for a 100 loss team to make the playoffs the next year.

Huge story, but I'm having a hard time caring.

Will care a bit if the lockout is ongoing in late February. Until then, who cares?

They'll figure it out.

Owners aren't looking for a hard cap and players aren't looking for a significant change in FA rules. So the two things that could implode the whole smash aren't even on the table.

Meanwhile there was enough of a warning period that most of the major FAs have already signed so winter meetings weren't even necessary.

Much ado about nothing.

Soccer is the best sport in the world. An american might think 'oh the ball went into the stands, that's a tv timeout and I'll have a chance to do tiktoks a bunch of times over. So this is fine.

But in soccer, the clock runs. It runs all the time. You dont get a tiktok time out. They grab the ball and the game continues. I absolutely love it. So do they.

I spent 2 months in England once. Ate more baked beans for breakfast than I ever would have expected.

They aren't into endless stoppages. Game will fail there. No englishman will accept 80% commercials during the "game". They laugh at us for that and they should

There will be games missed.

The owners basically proposed a de facto cap with proposing implement a floor and lowering the ceiling for when the luxury tax occurs.

I read they talked about raising the luxury tax ceiling but not by as much as the players preferred.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/08/18/ml...xury-tax-mlbpa

Nope.

And that's pretty much a salary cap.

That was back in August, though.

Their most recent proposal is different:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Some details: MLB offered to raise 1st luxury tax tier to $214m, peaking at $220m <br><br>MLBPA free agency proposal:<br>Year 1 of deal, no change, 6 years service to become FA<br>Years 2-3: 6 years—or if age 30 1/2 &amp; 5 years of service<br>Years 4-5: 6 years—or if age 29 1/2 &amp; 5 years service</p>&mdash; Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanDrellich/status/1466169658625642498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

They appear to have dropped the $180 million payroll minimum (though it seems odd that the MLBPA would have a problem with it; it's a re-allocation of money - that will end up being plowed into the floor and require those teams rolling $50 million payrolls to get more active in FA -- that should be HUGE for 'middle class' free agents).

Moreover, recent reports are that it's the arb and FA eligibility issues that are really the sticking points for the PA and MLB has come to them a little bit in some of those areas. Yes, they may have to come a little further, but it's not something I think the owners will dig their heels in on, especially if they can get the luxury tax stuff ironed out.

The lockout was designed to prevent what happened in 1994, when the players and owners sat on their asses too long and suddenly February was here and nobody had gotten serious. The lockout is an attempt to keep everyone at the table until a deal is done.

The owners aren't messing with guaranteed contracts or a hard cap - this will get resolved.

Golf. LPGA to be specific.

I anticipate the players to cave in at some point. They'll probably get some middle ground on arbitration/free agency, but not a lot.