2021-22 CBA Negotiation/Lockout Thread (DEAL IS AGREED TO)

[ScottT]

13 minutes ago, mmc said:

 

Not how it works.

And it's not like their revenue hasnt/won't be affected 

[Angels 1961]

29 minutes ago, greginpsca said:

This is stupid. No team with a .500 or worse record should ever play in the playoffs.

How about purple and old?

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[Homebrewer]

Fuck these assholes...all of them. Sick of this.

[mmc]

 

[Adam]

Can the owners also demand that players stop calling each other “______y?”

 

that’d be worth canceling some games for

[mmc]

 

[Angel Oracle]

54 minutes ago, mmc said:

 

Didn’t Heyman say this this morning?

Hard to take anything he says seriously 

[AngelsLakersFan]

6 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

 

This is exactly what I have been saying about ownership's position. If they can't get the deal they want they will be willing to go until July without the season starting because they don't lose anything more after they cancel their first slate of games.

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[AngelsLakersFan]

4 hours ago, Taylor said:

Are you an owners fan or a baseball fan?

You know I check the profitability standings daily.

[fan_since79]

"Sides still very far apart on key aspects..." 

Sigh...so frustrating. 

Either they'll get a deal done very soon through some miracle of compromise by both sides, or Opening Day will be sometime in July.  This is really absurd. If they assume the fans will remain loyal after this fiasco, they're full of it.

I'm not clear on what "expanded postseason" means. Will they be playing the World Series in the second week of November? 

 

[Lou]

Most fans will be loyal.

[Inside Pitch]

2 hours ago, mmc said:

 

MLB sold the TV rights with expanded postseasons...   This was always going to be the players biggest chip.

[AngelsLakersFan]

39 minutes ago, mmc said:

 

Say hello to 14 teams in the post season. 

The league is doing quite a bit to sap my enjoyment from the game. We'll see how it plays out over the next few years. Let's hope it works out better than it did for my NBA fandom.

[tdawg87]

2 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Say hello to 14 teams in the post season. 

The league is doing quite a bit to sap my enjoyment from the game. We'll see how it plays out over the next few years. Let's hope it works out better than it did for my NBA fandom.

And we'll still miss the playoffs.

[Lou]

4 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Say hello to 14 teams in the post season. 

The league is doing quite a bit to sap my enjoyment from the game. We'll see how it plays out over the next few years. Let's hope it works out better than it did for my NBA fandom.

If we're the 7th team from the AL to make the postseason....

 

we'll all be here, fired up to watch. 

[Taylor]

14 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

You know I check the profitability standings daily.

[fan_since79]

21 minutes ago, Lou said:

Most fans will be loyal.

It took years for the fans to come back after the debacle of 1994. We'll see. There are so many more sources of entertainment now, and games in person are so damn expensive. 

But yeah, I'll probably hang in there, as baseball's in my blood. 

 

[fan_since79]

22 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

And we'll still miss the playoffs.

It'll be close, no doubt. 

[Lou]

6 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

It took years for the fans to come back after the debacle of 1994. We'll see. There are so many more sources of entertainment now, and games in person are so damn expensive. 

But yeah, I'll probably hang in there, as baseball's in my blood. 

 

Our attendance increased from 1994 to 1995.

[ScottT]

Seems like both sides have a lot moved more today than they did the last three months... and this will get figured out fairly soon.

[jsnpritchett]

6 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

It took years for the fans to come back after the debacle of 1994. We'll see. There are so many more sources of entertainment now, and games in person are so damn expensive. 

 

Yep. Avg attendance in 1994 was a little over 31K.  Didn't meet or exceed '94 levels again until 2006 (though it was fairly close in a few individual years).  In 2019, it was at just over 28K.