Quote from: Uncle Rico on Today at 10:42:15 AMPenix having ACL surgery.  Falcons in disarray.

How could they have known this might happen?

Quote from: wadesworld on Today at 10:27:57 AMTotally fine with a better rev share system as a solution, too.

Not opposed, but a much bigger problem (IMO) than the revenue sharing system is that there's no mechanism that force owners to spend the shared revenue.
According to numbers I've seen, MLB teams pool 48% of their local revenues and divide them evenly, which works out to about $110 million per club. Add in the $90 million each receives in national revenues, and teams have a $200 million baseline to work with even before touching the other 52% of their local revenues.
And yet only 12 teams exceeded $200 million in payroll last season. That's inexcusable.
Obviously there are tons of other costs associated with running an MLB team. The two teams owned by public corps. - and therefore with somewhat open books - are the Blue Jays and Braves. According to their 2023 reports, non-baseball operating costs were $134 million and $137 million, respectively.

Until the owners are forced to spend more of the revenue they're making, there's no real justification for a cap. It'll merely be a tool to artificially depress wages.

What a great International Break. The US played well, you have historical CONCACAF qualifiers, wildly entertaining games resulting in Scotland qualifying and Ireland making it to the playoffs in UEFA.  Italy playing with fire for the 3rd consecutive WC, we'll see if they can actually figure things out this time. Can't wait for next summer.

Scoopers posting "I'm worried" before a game has been light humor (OK, OK-very light humor), but I really am worried about tonight's game. I tried to rationalize the IU game as mostly a case of DeVries going bonkers, even though it was much more than just that. IU's struggles with mighty Incarnate Word helps support that theory. But going from up 9 to losing by 7 so quickly in the Maryland game on our home court still haunts me. And Fanta repeating over and over that it was because MD was geared up because of Payne going out was SO annoying.

I am often a bit nervous at the beginning of games but was completely relaxed and confident at the beginning of the Maryland game. I'm hoping to find tonight that I was worried about nothing after the final buzzer. Call it blind faith if you like, but despite the evidence to the contrary well-stated here, I think this team plays fairly well and comes away with our first non-cupcake W. To be clear, I have no illusions that a W would mean all is well going forward.

Penix having ACL surgery.  Falcons in disarray.

Not sure I want Haiti here. 

Bitcoin has fallen under $90K.

It's down 5% so far this year.

Quote from: The Sultan on Today at 09:17:06 AMYeah, again all a salary cap does is give owners a reason not to pay the players. More centralized revenue distribution is the much easier way to solve this issue. The players would still have to agree, but throw in a salary floor, and my guess is that they'd be on board.

Honestly at this point in time, I am not sure the NFL or NBA actually needs a salary cap as long as revenue distribution is relatively equal. It enriches the owners more than the players.

Right, and for all intents, the NBA has so many exceptions and legal circumventions that it doesn't really have a salary cap. There are costs with going over the cap, but nobody is losing out on players they really want because of the cap.

Totally fine with a better rev share system as a solution, too.

Time to bring Nate Oats home.