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CBA Madness, Phase V (Job Creation)

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So I think MLB/owners have made a few proposals since MLBPA made their initial offer, with the last one being super ludicrous. MLBPA to their credit have been like “whatever, bro” and I think they’ll wait a few to make their counteroffer as there haven’t been actual negotiations yet as far as I can tell. We talked about the way these proposals, particularly from MLB and ownership, have been released to the media without much in the way of pushback at the end of the last pod, but for now it seems MLBPA just wants to do stuff on the margins until it gets closer to the deadline. Via Jorge Castillo:

The proposals seem to make sense, MLBPA of course wants to create more jobs (ergo more roster spots), and to provide better job security given how hard it is to get to MLB in the first place. The last bit about getting data and video seems like something a team should do anyway to help their players get better, but some teams apparently don’t do that kind of thing so maybe having something like this regulated would be good. And now we wait for more as the weeks/days/hours tick down to the December deadline…

Oh, yeah, Seiya Suzuki hit his 100th career home run. Nice day for baseball, albeit being hot enough to fry your brain if you’re not wearing a hat.

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  36. FIFA Peace Prize cant even give red card immunity smh, what even was the point of all the blatant corruption

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  39. LFG 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌

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  42. I gave up on the division some time ago, but still (dying laughing) that the Cubs just went 10-2 and only picked up one game on the Brewers in the division.

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  48. The Cardinals are losing, the go-ahead run was a “double” deflected off the ankle or something of the Cards pitcher and it took forever to retrieve and then he was down for a bit but stayed in…ow

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  57. Checking in on the Cubs pitching staff

    they are 29th in the bigs by fWAR with 2.5. 2.0 of that is Ben Brown.

    They are last in the league by bWAR with 1.0. 2.1 of that is Ben Brown.

    It’s like a live experiment of how elite a defense you need with a replacement level staff.

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  94. andcounting,

    (dying laughing)
    If you’re following on gameday you can see the point when the data stops working. During Seiya’s at bat it looked like he struck out on three unidentified pitches right down the middle. So when they challenged that pitch, I knew it was never going to work. (dying laughing)

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  105. Rice Cube,

    I’m pretty sure every hitter has a nearly evergreen hall pass to hammer a hanger down the middle. Even if you plan on taking a strike, you swing at that. It’s just a brain fart.

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  106. The peacock MLB broadcasts have some bizarre audio production. The Pittsburgh v Washington broadcast at a barely occupied Nationals Park has the crowd and stadium noise amplified, the field mics cranked up even louder, and then the announcers mics sounding like they’re watching from the cozy confines of an acoustically perfect NPR studio. The mix also seems to change every time they cut to a different camera. It’s so weird.

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  109. Liberatore left the bases loaded and gave up two runs but only made five more pitches than Assad, who retired the Cardinals in order. (dying laughing)

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  114. Ferguson likes to mix his cutter, 4-seamer, sinker, and sweeper inside on the hands of righties so they can’t tell how much or which way the pitches will break. The 4-seamer is laser straight. The sinker breaks in a bit. The cutter breaks away a little, and the sweeper breaks a tiny bit if he throws it AT the batter, a lot if he throws it over the plate, but it just hangs and floats through happyland when it starts slightly inside. So his inside pitches are either nasty af or batting practice.

    That one to Jordan Walker was not nasty.

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  118. Is Dansby the only guy that slides feet first anymore? Helped on his scoring last inning, since he could just pop up rather than push up.

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  127. Rice Cube,

    England played well but it really felt like Mexico lost that game, they really had no plan in the second half. Just endless crosses instead of just taking some shots.

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