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1. Bob Tufts Posted: September 25, 2011 at 12:41 AM (#3935370)Play some real hardball and re-release a 2012 schedule without the Dodgers as a MLB team..
If by "hardball" you mean "giving McCourt a good laugh and antagonizing the MLBPA in the middle of negotiating the next CBA," then go ahead.
the two sides have come a long way.
It will be interesting to see what happens. People keep saying the CBA is close, and yet there's been no reported movement re: draft slotting or realignment, which were supposedly two of the top priorities on the management side.
Which is a reason to believe that things are running smoothly. Press leaks happen when one side is trying to gain leverage through the media and the public. Look at the NFL CBA negotiations, when things moved the fastest was when it was relatively quiet.
Perhaps, but there's no happy middle ground on some of these issues. Either draft slotting happens or it doesn't, and either the Astros switch leagues or they don't, but there's no real halfway point. It's hard to imagine the owners have said the hell with slotting without some owners being very angry about it, and it's just as unlikely that the union has agreed to slotting without some agents being furious. In other words, I wonder if the fast negotiations to this point have entailed crossing off the minor issues before diving into the major ones.
and steal attention from the World Series? Does Selig think he's AROD now?
So? The agents work for the players, not the other way around. As we saw in football (and many real world union negotiations), it is pretty easy to compromise when it involves cutting salaries/benefits from new hires in favor of a better deal for existing union members.
I don't know if that applies as directly, because player are already so heavily cost controlled for their first six seasons. There are plenty of MLBPA members who have made more off their initial signing bonus than off all their MLB salary, and plenty more who remember just how tough it was (or, in many cases, is) to live on a minor league salary with no savings to fall back on. Furthermore, the draft bonuses in baseball aren't nearly as out of control as in football.
If it was as simple as that, slotting would have been instituted in MLB 20 years ago, when people first started talking about it. The union seems to see slotting as a precursor to a salary cap and has always opposed it on those grounds.
Regardless, everything in MLB works to deadlines. There seems to be a lot of optimism, but unless one side has capitulated for unknown reasons, it's hard to believe major concessions have been made more than two months before the current CBA expires.
I don't think there's a law that says that negotiations have to devolve into brinkmanship unless one party surrenders.
I didn't suggest there was. I simply pointed out that the optimism for an early and peaceful CBA deal is at odds with the media coverage of the past couple of years, which suggested there would be a major battle over draft slotting and other issues.
If it takes until the last hour before the signing deadline for dozens of draft picks to sign contracts, then it seems a little strange that the CBA could be all but wrapped up more than two months before the deadline, unless MLB and the MLBPA have managed to make huge breakthroughs re: slotting, realignment, etc., and keep all of it a secret.
From what I've seen of the coverage, a lot of it seems to be the exaggeration. The labor pundits have no serious issues to discuss, so they make a massive stink about minor annoyances like slotting, compensation picks, and realignment which neither side is remotely willing to go to the mat for.
From what I've seen, the MLBPA does want it. The issue seems to be working out the particulars (which isn't that difficult) and actually convincing an owner to switch leagues (the major stumbling block).
Right, both sides want realignment, but unless the Astros or some other team relents, MLB can't deliver it at the bargaining table.
These are strange, strange times for the Commissioner's Office. It's hard to believe the CBA negotiation is almost a non-issue while MLB is fighting multiple internecine battles (Dodgers and Astros, plus the Bay Area issue). I doubt this is what Bud Selig had in mind for what he still claims is the end of his time as commissioner.
They'll get ARod to announce it during the Game 3 pregame festivities, to boost the ratings for the Rays & Braves...
I doubt that Selig expected that he'd be fighting court battles with Hicks and the McCourts and whatever the hell is going on in Houston, and it's his own damn fault for letting those people get so close to ownership positions (or into them), but I think Selig's record is pretty impressive overall.
Selig should declare victory and move on. Perhaps a litigator that worked with small and large market teams like Lucchino would be a good five to seven year choice as successor?
Bud Selig claiming credit for "labor peace in our time" is like George W. Bush claiming credit for keeping us safe from terrorists.
Who is Churchill?
And oh no, who would play.........................HITLER?!
Schilling would be perfect for the role, bet he has all the vintage uniforms needed.
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