Also should raise eyebrows and offer some hope that the current union could be effectively busted up in favor of a PA that actually represents the rank-and-file. We will see.

Nononononono.

This wasn't super agents trying to protect their meal tickets. Noooooooo.

It was unreasonable owners that didn't want to play baseball in April.

KCN told me so.

Guess who didn't need Ken Rosenthal to tell him what was completely obvious if you were paying any attention at all and not just swallowing anything fed to you by the sports 'media'.

<----------- This guy right here.

Still insane to me how badly the sportswriters misrepresented what was going on in this process. And how eager some people were to believe it.

They should cut the Spring Training down to one-week instead of whatever the hell it is now. Did any of that crap change?

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I'm fine taking the L here for the greater good (the Jays project to be one of the best teams in the league this year after all). Although, despite the MLBPA executive board not having the necessary support in the end from the rank-and-file, I'd still maintain that the delay the owners engaged in over the past few months suggested they didn't particularly care if the season started on time.

MLB reaches labor deal agreement with players union and Opening Day is set for April 7

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/sport...spt/index.html

No. It's a trade off. In your ultimate effort to neuter an agent-driven representative sub-committee and create a schism with the top 1% and the rank and file...you gladly choose to be OK with starting the season late. It's insane to say they didn't care about starting on time unless you're saying they didn't care when considering the bigger picture goals.

Hate hate hate 12 team and expanded playoffs. That is just a great way for me to not care about your post season. I don't even care about NBA playoffs until the conference finals. Now I won't care about the MLB until the NLCS and ALCS. Why play a 162 game schedule when you are just gonna let so many teams in?

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One interesting nugget in the new agreement: Starting in 2023, the schedule will feature fewer divisional games, and every team will play at least one series against every other opponent, including in the other league. The exact format is still being determined.</p>&mdash; Jared Diamond (@jareddiamond) <a href="https://twitter.com/jareddiamond/status/1502062106862137351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is great. Well maybe not for Royals fans, but AL East teams have been getting screwed by the unbalanced schedule for years.

That's what I'm saying. It was tactical, and to their credit, it worked.

With the expanded postseason and universal DH, the league is just a little bit worse than it was a year ago.

Nothing of any consequence from a gameplay perspective was addressed.

Great work, guys.

I'm disappointed so many of you root for the Royals. I've always considered the Royals to be completely classless.

Hey dickhead, you are on a KANSAS city chiefs message board, with a god damn Chiefs hat on your dog..and you hate the Royals? Go **** ya self

Royals maybe shit, but they are our shit.

The Royals are not like the Chiefs. The Royals are the Raiders. Here's something a Raider/Royal would do:

-throw a pitch at the head of the best player ever, just cause he's the best player ever (this follows prison logic of fighting the biggest dude in the prison)

-have it backfire (like when Raiders fans happen by the George Brett statue after dark) by Trout hitting a hard liner back up the middle like the best player of all time might do with any pitch, yours or anyone else's, Yordan.

-then charge at Mike Trout, trying to instigate a brawl, because, and I kid you not "he hit that ball back at me on purpose".

**** the Royals and **** the Raiders. The Chiefs and Angels are cool though.

RIP to Yordan but he was a coward and he personified the Royals. The Chiefs are not like that team at all.