Randy Gradishar

https://www.theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351

This is why shit escalates from peaceful protest to riots and looting.

His name is Lupe. He doesn't count.

I see a whole lot of kids that just need a good ass whipping. A lot of kids from fatherless homes. The rest are punkass white kids raised on Ritalin and time out. Really time to put away the non lethal and bring out the buckshot. 

Imagine wanting another 4 years of this shit.

I'm a 5 minute walk from TWO Apple stores.
I would get you an iPad but I don't support products made in China anymore.

Unfortunately, I doubt that "thinking" is high on their list of abilities. 
But we can hope.

Destroying property isn't ruining lives.  Ruining lives is when police kill a man and the department tries to cover for the murderer.  

It’s time to take the gloves off with these fucks. When they’re out destroying property and ruining lives I say it’s open season. 

We need to get rid of these anti-fascists said the fascist. 

Those leagues played 75-80% of their season already.  They’ve gotten most of the revenue.  Most tv revenue in sports is for playoff rights.  There’s a MUCH better chance the NBA of NHL will play playoff games thus generating playoff tv revenue.  

Pro-abortionists championing the value of human life amuses me. 

He values property more than human life.

The line between The Onion and reality is pretty much non-existent.

When you have Manfred that can't even penalize blatant cheating and the Union demanding full pay with no regard to real finance, baseball is going to fuck this up. It will be a team effort. 

You want to be the socially distanced guy cheering from the Uecker seats? How about the usher that has to tell people they can't sit in their season tickets seat because there are too many people who in those rows. I'm sure the Diamond Club ticket holders would be happy to sit in the view level. 
You can't simplify the solution to fans participating.
 
 

You're an atty right?   Whats the old adage about not signing until you've read the fine print?   Now, try imagining a situation where you're being asked to sign something and being told -- BTW, we are going to keep the fine print hidden -- just trust us.
That's the world MLB players have been living in..   This isn't just about the pandemic to them, this is about the last few years and a system that they know is completely one sided.

It's pretty simple:
The players and owners have a system in which the owners do not share revenue. This is one reason why the players immediately rejected the owners' first offer of a 50-50% split on revenue this season (that and it's a really bad deal for the players financially for a number of reasons, both in general and this year specifically).
Because of this, the owners benefit disproportionately when baseball is doing well. Estimates have the sport somewhere around 7-10 billion in profits over the last few years. The players get their money, but don't share in the extra profit except insofar as salaries go up with inflation. The owners take responsibility for both risk and reward.
In past years, there has been no talk from the owners of sharing said windfall with players, but now? They want the players to share disproportionately with them in losses.
How much will they lose? Per the owners, roughly $4b this season. But that number has already been shown to a be a lie just based on info made publicly available. Estimates by independent sites suggest that even with only prorated salaries for players the owners may not be looking at a deficit at all this year when all is said and done - at least not in baseball revenue.
The problem is we don't actually know the full financial situation of the owners - and neither do the players precisely or for certain. And that's a problem. The owners want the players to take a massive cut (actually, for the minimum salary players and the next tier up the deal isn't that awful, but it still isn't great) despite the fact that they've already lost half their money for the year (and most players don't have all that many years of their skills being worth what they are now). The players have rightly accepted that loss - nobody made any money of the lost 82 games; there is no money, so nobody is to blame for it's loss - yet the simple equation is that they've already lost a lot of money in 2020.
Now the owners want them to give up significantly more. The players believe the owners are being deceptive. The owners have accountants skilled at hiding money to make them look less successful publicly so they can shrug when people complain about them being cheap. This is the problem with sharing revenue: It is way too easy to engage in creative bookkeeping to screw the players out of what is their due.
Subsequently, the union wants to see certain information in the financials. Basically, if the owners really are losing money, they should be able to prove it. They won't show it, though, because they've had a long history of successfully blaming all their problems on 'greedy players'. They don't want to give up any more money than they have to. The owners obviously are hurting this year, too.
Personally, I think the owners' nonsense comes down to a couple of things:
- If they can get the players to give in now, it sets a precedent for the upcoming labor battle: No one wants to give in too easily.
- The owners likely are hurting in other holdings due to the pandemic and are trying to make up for losses in other areas (outside of baseball) at the expense of the players.
Either way, it's garbage, and until the owners show the financial documents, I have zero sympathy for them. And if worst comes to worst and there is no season, I'm 100% blaming the owners and the league.
Personally, I think the simplest solution is a full prorated salary for the bottom tier or two and a full prorated salary (possibly minor cuts depending on whether the owners actually are in the red) for the higher tiers with a moderate deferral paid out over the next few years.

There are actually people still taking the owners side? I tend to lean pro-owner reflexively, but there’s no legit argument in favor of the owners in this case for anyone actually aware of the facts. 

I find it odd too why the general public rails against rich athletes getting paid so much to play a game.  Meanwhile there's almost no talk of Tom Cruise, Will Smith, RD Jr., etc.  making tens of millions in movies and we have to pay so much at the theaters.  Or musicians making tens of millions for concerts (without any new music whatsoever and usually drunk/etc. playing on stage) and yet we pay $100's for tickets.  Athletes, imho, have more talent and put more work in then either of these two sectors.  Some of these are complete talent-less messes (btw, i'm actually friends with a few of these TL RMFers).  It's just funny to me why athletes get this crap from average Joe but not the other entertainment sectors like the rock star, actor, etc.
Then there's some CEOs that get crazy millions and do crap to the company...but that's another story (& that one actually is complained about more).

In their defense, they don’t know you

if i was a player i would not negotiate down from the contract we just negotiated a month ago. it's a hill i'd die on.