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So did you get the nail out of your wife's tire or not?

Don’t you know the drill?  When there is a day with no talks between the two sides, it is the owners that are guilty of wasting time.

I don't think it's laughable since we don't know all the details of their communications since even before the lockout occurred.
You're laughing at rampant speculation. To me, that's weird.

Why don’t they just use this so there is no delay of the season?
 

Teachers have lost the right to expect the benefit of the doubt.  Bummer but that’s where they put themselves.
How times change.  Teachers went from selfless underpaid warrior heroes to selfish overpaid wimpy sponges.
And the teachers Union is still hellbent on fighting for more concessions and income for these entitled spoiled babies.
There are still some good teachers of course.
But the scales have tipped in the big picture.  On the whole, they are a problem much more than they are a a solution.

Teachers have lost the right to expect the benefit of the doubt.  Bummer but that’s where they put themselves.
How times change.  Teachers went from selfless underpaid warrior heroes to selfish overpaid wimpy sponges.
And the teachers Union is still hellbent on fighting for more concessions and income for these entitled spoiled babies.
There are still some good teachers of course.
But the scales have tipped in the big picture.  On the whole, they are a problem much more than they are a a solution.

Teachers have lost the right to expect the benefit of the doubt.  Bummer but that’s where they put themselves.
How times change.  Teachers went from selfless underpaid warrior heroes to selfish overpaid wimpy sponges.
And the teachers Union is still hellbent on fighting for more concessions and income for these entitled spoiled babies.
There are still some good teachers of course.
But the scales have tipped in the big picture.  On the whole, they are a problem much more than they are a a solution.

Somebody else mentioned it already but McPherson not panning out was purely due to injury.  He was legit skills wise.  If the back doesn’t disintegrate, he probably has a Ryan Howard-like offensive career.
I just don’t view that the same as players not panning out because they didn’t develop (skills wise) that last step to be functional in the majors.

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

So you guys read “hole to fill” and then immediately saw pictures of hot women, and your brains went directly to discussing grammar?
 

Sooner or later there will be a tidal wave of voices that come after the sleazeball Jeter for his womanizing ways and “generosity” (gift baskets).
It’s just not his turn yet.  Patience.

I am not saying the Angels are in great shape.
But you do have to remember this ranking is about the farm system overall (not the majors) and it openly says it emphasizes the advanced players closest to the majors.
So you have to consider that the Angels now have quite a few recently graduated players from the minors.
If you believe the purpose of the ranking is to get a glimpse of how optimistic you should be about talent in the majors in the next couple of years, it is a fair consideration that a team that has recently graduated a good number of potentially high impact players to the majors is actually CLOSER to better days ahead than a team that has not graduated a good crop and is still waiting for them to be ready.
In no way am I saying the Angels should not be deeply committed to improving their organizational talent, but that should be true every day of the week forever.
The Angels, with where they are right now in their path to better days, are not going to score well in a system that doesn’t consider recently graduated players and underemphasizes players deeper in the minors. . . Where the Angels have definitely improved.
Bottom line is the Angels are better off today than most times recently and yet they “dropped” in this ranking.

Negotiating

The word “greed” in these kinds of situations is almost always unproductive and distracting.
Everyone wants to end up with as much compensation as they can.
In this CBA negotiation, I would say either everyone is greedy or nobody is greedy.
 

Many of my current opinions are based on an assumption that the team agrees that it is time to win now now.
In that context Rodon could be huge for this year and next year.
Guys capable of being truly dominant and dominant right now, are pretty rare.
If you can get this guy into an Angel uniform right now I think you do it.

Many of my current opinions are based on an assumption that the team agrees that it is time to win now now.
In that context Rodon could be huge for this year and next year.
Guys capable of being truly dominant and dominant right now, are pretty rare.
If you can get this guy into an Angel uniform right now I think you do it.