"OK, we'll keep playing, but we won't do weekends." Bizarre.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 18 September 2004 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link
what will "fix" the current weirdness?
https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/1/14/18181665/mlb-mlbpa-player-power-labor-strike-machado-harper-murray
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
Good article, thanks morbs
― The Non-Verbal Signs Your Mod Is Giving You (WmC), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
Marc Normandin:
To understand how the luxury tax went from a compromise to something very like the salary cap it was supposed to prevent, we have to go back to the 1980s and 1990s. To understand what has to be done in order to undo the damage that this new understanding of the luxury tax has done to the mechanism of free agency, we’ll need to imagine a future that’s different from the present in some important ways.
https://deadspin.com/mlbs-luxury-tax-became-a-salary-cap-because-of-decades-1832200596
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 January 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link