2021-2022 Off Season Thread

[ojo]

Don’t tanking teams in mlb never make the playoffs?

How long is never? Teams that have engaged in tanking over the past decade have been to the postseason in the 21st century. The goal is to prevent teams from even trying to tank.

[newhampfan]

Don’t tanking teams in mlb never make the playoffs?

MLB should determine its own formal limits to season-ending scenes, as it did in the past before the NFL took over and TV determined how owners could make more money via more and more playoffs--hockey and NBA basketball the same. Now MLB owners want a fourteen-game playoff scheme? For what? Ridiculous. So that poor-performing team owners and their families can also buy more yachts and travel to places where they can temporarily distract themselves from ...what? Most fans pay to see games. Do owners and players with their financial advisors pay their taxes? When's enough enough? Does Cashman have to work off his guilt by sleeping as-if homeless once a year? How much money do millionaire players or billionaire owners need to succumb to the lust of greed? I came to Yankee fandom in a different era, I guess, no doubt that of the dinosaurs.

[b_joseph]

MLB should determine its own formal limits to season-ending scenes, as it did in the past before the NFL took over and TV determined how owners could make more money via more and more playoffs--hockey and NBA basketball the same. Now MLB owners want a fourteen-game playoff scheme? For what? Ridiculous. So that poor-performing team owners and their families can also buy more yachts and travel to places where they can temporarily distract themselves from ...what? Most fans pay to see games. Do owners and players with their financial advisors pay their taxes? When's enough enough? Does Cashman have to work off his guilt by sleeping as-if homeless once a year? How much money do millionaire players or billionaire owners need to succumb to the lust of greed? I came to Yankee fandom in a different era, I guess, no doubt that of the dinosaurs.

People have been greedy forever…this isnt a new world thing. Owners of the past were so greedy they didnt even allow players to have a free agency

[newhampfan]

People have been greedy forever…this isnt a new world thing. Owners of the past were so greedy they didnt even allow players to have a free agency

True, but now it's all social-media exposed and over the top. Players and owners both.

[ElectricStuff]

We need the players, we don't need owners.

[philleotardo]

-Tanaka staying with Rakuten

-Cashman rappelling down the Stamford building

[JDPNYY]

-Tanaka staying with Rakuten

-Cashman rappelling down the Stamford building

We have 4-7 question marks. Season tickets are selling out fast. Only on YES.

[BeantownYankee]

-Tanaka staying with Rakuten

-Cashman rappelling down the Stamford building

Yankees rappelling down the AL east

[ymike673]

We have 4-7 question marks. Season tickets are selling out fast. Only on YES.

I would laugh but it's just so sad.

[sjb23]

Regarding all the FAs the Yanks haven't signed: Do plans that are no longer options force the Yanks to start negotiating harder via trades? - which from what I understand can be done but not announced (or become official) during the lockout.

[kan_t]

Tanaka is confirmed to stay at Japan for next season. That makes senses for him given the current situation of MLB.

[Maynerd]

People have been greedy forever…this isnt a new world thing. Owners of the past were so greedy they didnt even allow players to have a free agency

Owners of the past were so greedy they sold tickets for under ten bucks, so fans could bring their family to a game without taking out a loan.

[kan_t]

Owners of the past were so greedy they sold tickets for under ten bucks, so fans could bring their family to a game without taking out a loan.

I'm sure the owners of the past really didn't care if fans went to the game taking out a loan or not.

[YFIB]

Owners of the past were so greedy they sold tickets for under ten bucks, so fans could bring their family to a game without taking out a loan.

Let's not overstate their generosity - they paid the players a relative pittance in terms of the revenue the game brought in. And that doesn't even take into account how those in the minor leagues have been treated.

[matt2351]

We need the players, we don't need owners.