Had the players accepted any number of exceedingly fair offers the owners have made especially over the last week or so, we’d have baseball in April.

But you’re right on top of their sinister plan.

Keep on ****ing that chicken.

‘Both sides’ my ass. One side has come to the table looking to address the others concerns. The other is just throwing tantrums and moving goalposts.

LMAO at the characterization of these being massive concessions as if their initial positions weren't outrageously out of line to begin with.

Just wait a month or so for the real negotiations to begin.

Exceedingly fair for who? The owners are fighting over relative pennies for them at this point. If they wanted the season to start on time, it would be starting on time.

As opposed to the 1,000% increase in the pre-arb pool the players requested over what they agreed to, what, 8 years ago?

Or again, how about the literal DECADES the players have spent foolishly spurning MLB efforts to create a genuine revenue split?

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I enjoyed seeing this one earlier btw. I'm sure if it was solely up to Cohen, they would be starting the season on time.

Ah.

So typical populist class warfare stuff.

Got it.

So the guy who shit on his own players on social media is now the champion of the ‘All Owners Are Bastards’ crowd, eh?

Makes sense.

The owners sat on their hands for months by not even making an offer to MLBPA, and are now fighting aggressively over distinctions that will make an almost miniscule difference in terms of their overall business.

It doesn't take a lot to figure out why.

MLBPA has yet to even vote on an offer.

You think the big market clubs are the ones driving this lockout?

Well, any owner who accepted millions in subsidies or public funding for stadiums deserves to be considered a bastard.

Even though it would have paid them more money, a majority of the Latin players would prefer to pick their team rather than get drafted to a team that they have no choice with being with. For example, the Chicago White Sox are popular among Cuban players because they have the support system in place that they're comfortable with.

I think the real issue with the international draft is there's a fear that this new system would eliminate the influence of buscones. Buscones are both good and bad.

They pay Dominican players in their early years, basically extend them loans and then they take a portion of their signing bonus when they sign. I think MLB wants to get rid of their corruptive influence but at the same time, these guys are responsible for the youth development of baseball too in the country. There's a fear about who might take over the vacuum of Dominican player development if the buscones don't have the incentive to do so anymore.

Puerto Rico's interest in youth baseball plummeted when it was included in the draft, and the buscones were marginalized. That's what the Dominicans fear.

Either way, it's going to be an issue that is going to take time to resolve.

The problem I have with that is seeing an owner going to the government officials and saying we need this public subsidized ballpark to compete with the Yankees and Dodgers.

Once they get it, like the Pirates did with PNC Park and the Marlins with LoanDepot Park, their operating behavior in terms of being competitive and being more aggressive with player spending was not much different when they didn't have the new ballpark.

They still operate like the A's and Rays do in their dumps of a ballpark.

I bet a lot of domestic players feel the same way.

MLBPA is apparently cool with a world draft though.

I just think it’s funny who is now a player ally…