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All that for one year of possible excellence? A little high for my tastes,

An opinion can be well reasoned and persuasive. I thought it was. That's my opinion. We good?

Thank you for that well reasoned and time consuming rebuttal.

Listening to CBS sports radio, it appears Trevor Bauer has been on Fox news, and will be on Doug gottlieb show as well soon telling his story. Based on Doug's analysis, it sounds like Trevor is completely innocent of everything except maybe public opinion of his personal preferences in a sexual life. He's already expressed he's learned a lesson from that haha maybe he has. But he wants to be back in baseball and we need somebody like him, is this a match?

Me too but not above $27m per.

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Nice info thanks. On this board I think I am a huge minority... I think more like an owner than a player I suppose. For me, there is no player worth more than $30mil a year and that would be a very select few. I don't care how much money the owners make. This league needs a salary cap / floor badly. Do you think having a small handful of cities able to collect all the best players is part of a reason why MLB is more of a regional sport and not national? Is the NFL model better for business generally and assists in it's national following? Or these models have nothing to do with it?

At the current $$$ I'm fine with moving forward with our own.. I would like to see ownership put money into the FO / Scouting departments so we can keep what we have going..

Money is ruining this sport. I can only hope the Dodgers miss the playoffs.

Describes me 100%

I was thinking he should have pinch run and stole 2nd in the 7th...

Now Mateo is in? Thought he should have pinch run in the 7th.

Any chance we have two starting pitchers in the same game? Since we seem to only make it to five sometimes six innings perhaps you have Kremer start, and Gibson finish. Or something like that.

Yes.. I agree.. my comment wasn't appropriate.

All good points... I retract my comment.. but I would have preferred Tampa and Toronto won and we beat them both to get to the WS. That would have been the icing on the cake for me.. albeit a different cake.

Them both bowing out so easily certainly doesn't validate anything we accomplished.

Interesting.. I see it the opposite. Toronto and Tampa going out with a whimper diminishes our division title in my view. The best case would have been Tampa and Toronta to win, We beat Tampa again, Toronto beats Minnesota, we beat Toronto again. That would have provided the most value to winning the division,

It lessons are achievement, if only superficially.

Couldn't agree more. I am not on board with the owner bashing of those who won't just throw money at the problem. I'd support a salary cap. That way the teams with the best organizations would get rewarded.

I don't know what all the Rays hatred is about... I would have preferred they won the WS if it isn't going to be us. I certainly prefer a team that is built through their systems as opposed to buying a title. So hopefully that will be us.

I think I am with you here... I want to play the team that loses.

Maybe you can't expect it, and I completely agree with your sentiment, but not surpassing 2 million in a year the team matched the greatest top 3? in all of Orioles history is awful to me. Certainly nothing to be proud of:

That's awful. Wow

As the last out was in progress all I could think of were all the pundits critical of the FO not doing more during the offseason. These guys just get paid to run their mouths, they don't know how to run a baseball organization.

I was also surprised at the conversations between Managers and their pitchers when making a visit. Nothing like has to be going on today.... when the reliever entered he give the ball, tell them the game situation, man on 2nd and 2 outs for example, and leave. I have to think today there is much more discussion about strategy... obviously didn't just start recently..