Tony Fioriglio

21st Century Breakdown by Green Day

I Love the 80s and most of the other 2005ish VH1 shows

If it were anyone other Sydney Sweeney, it never would have even gotten attention. A lot of people really seem to hate her in an "Early 2000s Britney Spears" sorta way and are always ready to get mad and in this instance, the other side misread the moment and blew it up for different reason.

Anecdotally, I don't think it's the millenials taking the bait with LLM; it's the people who are too old to have ever had a conversation with SmarterChild on AIM in 2004

Well, I listened to it and I won't be doing that again.

That's not even the worst Fleetwood Mac cover, not when Smashing Pumpkins' version of "Landslide" is still out in the universe

I'd counter your argument with Johan Rojas, who is not quite the fielder that PCA is but pretty close and basically unplayable because he can't hit at all

Brad Neely?!?! When I was in college, a few of my friends and I were obsessed with his videos and used to quote them all the time.

The funny thing is, Marge probably would vote for Trump

"It felt like the thing to do" was a really wild explanation for that.

I don't think people really understand what they're watching most of the time.

I've never believed in the concept of East Coast Bias until this trade. Dude's thrown like 13 pitches in Philadelphia and has taken over the internet

Also, not to spam, but isn't the league expanding? Like, if their financial situation was so dire, as you make it out to be, wouldn't it be far more likely they contract teams rather than add teams?

Hasn't Amazon famously never turned a profit?

The CBA is 442 pages long. There are lots and lots of other things that could be negotiated that have no relation to a salary cap. I admire how condescending you are while being completely wrong. I'm not going to keep replying because it's a waste of time because you're not interested in learning.

That's purely a function of CBA negotiations. You don't need a cap to raise minimum salaries or have players reach free agency sooner.

Could you express that in percentages? Only 1/3 of the teams in MLB are in markets outside the top 15. Therefore, one every eight years is almost exactly what you'd expect, right, since mathematically two out of every three champions SHOULD be from large markets

It's also weird because MLB has a higher percentage of it's league in big media markets than other leagues. My man is just FILLED with bad-faith arguments and misrepresenting data. Also, just factual errors, too. It's a shame he didn't have an editor look at this piece before it ran

A smart man like yourself knows that TV ratings are much more important to league revenue than attendance, right? Also, MLB attendance per game as increased every year since the pandemic (LOL): www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majo...

How and why would they be repaired drastically in a cap system? What's to stop teams from just paying top stars even more to meet the floor you propose?

So you're making a bad-faith argument around semantics when Clark is talking actual actions. Got it.

I'd recommend reading this article by Jayson Stark because the idea that MLB has the worst competitive balance is laughably wrong: www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...

Once again, this is a service time and minimum salary issue. Absolutely nothing to do with a salary cap.

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A salary cap has literally no bearing on the league minimum. That's a CBA negotiated thing. Therefore, this comparison is incorrect. And silly.

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This paragraph is nonsensical because by definition, literally half the players in the league are either average or below average. Therefore, no team is going to be filled entirely with above average players.

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Quick question: Which team missed games more recently, the NHL or MLB? Also, what happened with the NFL in 2011? If memory serves, that was a lock out, no?

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For starters, ratings are declining for both the NBA and NHL, so that first sentence is wrong. Secondly, without MLB opening it's book, there's no way to know how much of the league's revenue the player's are getting, so your assertion is wrong there.

This is exactly it. All he's arguing for is a much higher league minimum, a shorter time to free agency, and a limit on a team's ability to taxi players back and forth to the minors, limiting their ability to earn service time. A salary cap fixes literally zero of these

There is a lot of untrue statements in that column.

I don't know why I actually read that article, but imagine unironically writing this line: "Baseball’s economic imbalance has created the greatest competitive imbalance in American male major league sports."