Randy Gradishar

My dog is very good and he fucking hates fireworks. 
 
 

One of my employees, in his infinite wisdom, went to a party last weekend. No protection or social distancing, of course. Now both he and his wife are positive for COVID-19, and he has potentially exposed my entire day shift (plus my supervisors and me) to COVID. We wear masks at work, but there are no absolutes. I was retested yesterday, will be early next week before I get results back.
This man is an RN. You would believe that he would understand the basics of disease transmission, especially in view of what has been going on and the screening that we have been performing since March.

^Do you read anything other than Fox News? 

The mocking of the Mets on this is dumb.
Private equity investors can get 12-15% returns, so the Mets were definitely not stupid to defer at 8%.
The point is nobody can really have a valid opinion as to whether the Mets deferring a financial responsibility at 8% without knowing exactly what the expected return was for other investment opportunities OR knowing the cost of other debt that could be retired instead.
Basically the Mets borrowed from Bonilla at 8%.  Personally, where do I sign up?  I will gladly borrow millions of dollars at 8% and use some leverage to be very, very happy with the outcome.

I've come to the decision that I  don't care if baseball is played this year.

Also -- that roller coaster gif is effing perfect.

Rod Carew makes a suggestion and he’s spot on. 
 
https://cbssportsradio.radio.com/articles/hall-of-fame-rod-carew-mlb-should-cancel-2020-season

WE HAVE A CHANCE!!! 

Wow

I mean tbf the mask isn't going to do much to protect you, it's mainly to protect everyone else if you do have it.
Which just makes you a bigger douche if you refuse to wear one.

lol ok, keep up the show 

I don't know that past stoppages have been this black and white obvious. Based on the CBA, the owners - unlike other leagues - take on the risk and receive the benefits. To date, that has worked out exceedingly well for them. Now that it isn't, they want to not only take what the players gave up (pay for all games not played), they want more (a significant reduction of pay for games played). And now that they realize they're going to lose a grievance for negotiating in bad faith so they hold the season hostage to try to strong arm the players into playing ball.
It isn't entirely certain whether the owners would lose money with full pro rated salaries at, say, 82 games, because they won't reveal their financials. But honestly, that isn't the players' problem because the owners agreed to the effing CBA that says they bear the burden of both gains and losses! The players haven't been seeing the gains because the owners haven't been raising salaries at the level that the owners have been realizing gains.
It's a total joke, and too many fans are laughing when they should be holding the league responsible for screwing the fans over. The players shouldn't give in because, even if there is no baseball in 2020, once they do, not only will they be letting the owners get away with breaching the CBA, but they'll also be setting a bad precedent for negotiations of the next CBA (post-2021). They shouldn't do that.

I wonder which of these fine people are AW members.
 

Good luck with that.
 

To me common sense is pay players 100% of a pro-rated salary. They're already taking a pay-cut and they're risking their health with the virus. Owners can potentially sell the suites  or just eat it this year. 

Nobody comes to watch owners play. Artie a smart business man paid 160 mill for team now worth over 2 billion. I cannot feel sorry for the owners losing money. Owners making ton of money watching fans over pay food, beer, parking and tickets. Players have very short playing careers, screw the owners.

Nothing he said is wrong. Debatable, but not wrong.

Hyperbolic to hyperbolic.

TUCKER CARLSON: We were lied to about coronavirus and the mass lockdowns. Here's the proof

As long as it only hits pro football players and not college players, I'd be ok with that.

Yeah, I'm fine staying home for the foreseeable future.

Gross.

But maybe he will.