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Well since the season started may as well make a new thread...
 
Also... Netflix doesn't have a bad TV crew but...

WTF is wrong with the CF camera... Is super foggy looking and they have graphics behind the left handed batters box, so around the player looks glitchy... We are in the Matrix lol
 
Aaron Judge Opening Day Golden Sombrero!

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southernflyer said:
It only started if you pay for Netflix.

Tomorrow's opening day.
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I have Netflix for my other interests so may as well watch some baseball when it's on... Problem is I don't have Peacock...
 
For those without a Washington Post subscription, excerpt of article about the imminent lockout for MLB.

Because I’m starting to hear something else from my casual fan friends: They’re not gonna strike, are they?
Oh yes: That. In December, the collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the players union expires, and it is widely expected that the league — really, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and the owners he represents — will impose a lockout shortly thereafter. (Which, obviously, is very different from a strike, though the casual fan tends to conflate the two.)

There was a lockout after the 2021 season as well, and it was quite contentious, but because it was settled by March 10, ultimately no games were lost. This has led Manfred, justifiably, to boast that he has never lost a game to a labor fight during his 11 years as commissioner.
It may be harder this time.

Owners have signaled that they will insist on a salary cap, which they claim will help level the playing field between teams financially. But many observers (and certainly the union) believe the idea is just a way to lower salaries — to essentially save owners from themselves.


The salary cap is the great redline for the players union. It has long been seen as a signifier of the union’s strength that MLB is the only North American professional sports league without a cap. The players will be extremely loath, to say the least, to consent to one.
Maybe cooler heads will prevail. Saber-rattling is common in labor negotiations, particularly early in the process. And the no-stoppage streak extends well beyond Manfred.

Baseball hasn’t lost a regular season game to a labor battle since the 1994 World Series was canceled, a near-fatal, self-inflicted wound that took the sport years to recover from. But that psychic scar still stings: Baseball fans will accept a lot, but the one thing that truly tests their loyalty is a money fight that makes it so there is, in fact, no baseball.


Nine months out from the bargaining agreement’s expiration, the looming threat is piercing the public consciousness, and it is doing so at a highly inopportune time, potentially blunting all the game’s momentum. People are embracing baseball again in a way they haven’t in years, maybe decades. I’ve enjoyed my friends doing something other than complaining about baseball. I hope the sport won’t give them a big reason to start again.
 
DCTribefan said:
For those without a Washington Post subscription, excerpt of article about the imminent lockout for MLB.

Because I’m starting to hear something else from my casual fan friends: They’re not gonna strike, are they?
Oh yes: That.
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Not a single game will be lost. Except for the loss of a portion of the Hot Stove and some spring training, it will all be much ado about nothing.
 
WhoAzcue said:
Not a single game will be lost. Except for the loss of a portion of the Hot Stove and some spring training, it will all be much ado about nothing.
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Too much to lose from the owner's POV not to lock out.

The RSNs are defunct. Local tv revenue is fractured between the haves and have nots more than ever. National tv contracts and streaming revenues are a pittance.
 
It didn't take long for Royals' fans to say "Kyle Isbel would have had that one in his back pocket" watching a fly ball elude Lane Thomas in CF and land for a two-run double in their loss to the Braves on opening day.

Will teams never learn?
 
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