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InkStainedWretch
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re: Passan: Kyle Tucker to Dodgers. 4yrs/240m/Bichette to Mets 3/126
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/16/26 at 2:30 pm to WestCoastAg
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everyone knows the history of baseball ownership and when it comes to labor relations has been one of good faith and fairness
Absolute truth but troglodytes like Gussie Busch and M. Donald Grant are in hell right now, this is a different group of owners.
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re: Passan: Kyle Tucker to Dodgers. 4yrs/240m/Bichette to Mets 3/126
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/16/26 at 11:14 am to Suntiger
Because of the atrocious way players were treated back in the days of the reserve clause, even though that ended 50 years ago, baseball has always had the most militant union unwilling to compromise on anything or give the owners anything that could be construed as a victory.
re: Passan: Kyle Tucker to Dodgers. 4yrs/240m/Bichette to Mets 3/126
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/16/26 at 10:59 am to Geauxgurt
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It's a joke sport that has been ruined as usual by a major market team and the other teams just taking it.
None of this is new. In the 17 seasons from 1947 to 1963 a New York team won the Series 15 times … including 10 in a row from 1947 to 1956 … and after the Dodgers moved to LA they won two during that span. And half the teams and their fan bases understood and accepted that they only existed as cannon fodder and had no chance whatsoever at the big trophy, they just played the season and did what they could do and entertained who showed up and went home when it was over.
Here’s the difference now: Back then there were eight or 10 teams in each league, 16 or 20 in MLB. Now are there 30 and they are talking seriously about adding more. You cannot have a sport with one behemoth with a bottomless checkbook and that many teams out in flyover country destined to be cannon fodder.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/14/26 at 9:38 am to Sl0thstronautEsq
From your mouth to God’s ears.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/14/26 at 8:50 am to tide06
There are people who downvote just for the sheer hell of it, or because they don’t like certain posters. Let them have their fun. They’re proving their basic inferiority and moronity.
re: Tommy Tubberville
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/14/26 at 7:38 am to Diego Ricardo
I don’t discuss politics in any shape, form or fashion on social media or message boards, ever, except non-philosophical things like pointing out to people who get on here or on the Rant crowing that liberals are behind NIL and the portal that the Supreme Court decision was 9-0 and that two of the most conservative justices wrote the opinions.
So neither you nor anyone else will know my feelings about Tuberville along those lines.
That being said, I also would never, under any circumstances, let a sports rivalry influence my vote in an election. Sports, college and professional, is a fantasy world, a diversion from real life, although it’s obvious that it’s life itself for a lot of folks especially in Alabama.
So neither you nor anyone else will know my feelings about Tuberville along those lines.
That being said, I also would never, under any circumstances, let a sports rivalry influence my vote in an election. Sports, college and professional, is a fantasy world, a diversion from real life, although it’s obvious that it’s life itself for a lot of folks especially in Alabama.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/13/26 at 9:55 am to Riseupfromtherubble
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NIL doesn't kill our program, but it does reduce it to hoping for lightning in a bottle. The teams in tier 1 will be the group that's in the hunt every year. When you can't fill a two deep with elite players because you can't afford to, you need 2 things: Elite coaching and elite quarterback play
This …
re: College Football has become so fricking stupid.
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/13/26 at 9:30 am to Grievous Angel
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The top coaches are getting 10x that now. How long did we expect players to sit around and look at that and ask: "what about me?"
When the big money came in, where we are today was inevitable.
re: College Football has become so fricking stupid.
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/13/26 at 9:16 am to bamabonners
I have no problem with the sentiment, but the cynic in me says that would last about as long as the first time we got a mudhole stomped in us by one of those rich teams.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 12:20 pm to UASports23
And Congress ain’t about to touch an antitrust exemption for college football because they have regretted giving one to baseball for 102 years and they know the other pro leagues would be on the doorstep screaming if college football got one.
re: Are we really that broke?
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 11:41 am to FairhopeTider
I fear they may have thought they could make a splash but brought small bills and a knife to a gunfight that in 2026 requires large bills and a .357 magnum.
I think we are going to have to play moneyball in the long term and I don’t know how great our chances will be against the competition we face. What Indiana is doing isn’t all a hardass coaching 2 stars up, remember Mark Cuban is writing checks.
I think we are going to have to play moneyball in the long term and I don’t know how great our chances will be against the competition we face. What Indiana is doing isn’t all a hardass coaching 2 stars up, remember Mark Cuban is writing checks.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 11:35 am to UASports23
ROFLMAO
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 11:06 am to YStar
I don’t know if he’s eligible to play right now but Indiana has someone who was with Miami until Jan. 2.
re: NIL caps and limiting transfers.
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 10:20 am to Wildcat23
Bleeding hearts … the USSC decision that unleashed this was 9-0 and those radical commie Marxists Gorsuch and Kavanaugh wrote the opinions.
This is not about politics or conservative vs. liberal which is what your bleeding hearts comment connotes, it’s the fact that fans are being shown once and for all that this is a business as much as a sport; it’s not different or more special than any other business before the law simply because of its tradition; and fans even though they certainly “pay the bills” don’t really have any tangible ownership in the thing.
This is not about politics or conservative vs. liberal which is what your bleeding hearts comment connotes, it’s the fact that fans are being shown once and for all that this is a business as much as a sport; it’s not different or more special than any other business before the law simply because of its tradition; and fans even though they certainly “pay the bills” don’t really have any tangible ownership in the thing.
re: Coach Cig, "You cant be a nice guy with my job"
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 9:10 am to RolltidePA
The crowd you’re talking about knows only toughness and run the damn bawlll Pawlll and Saban is God. Everything else is beyond their cognitive abilities.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 8:34 am to Diego Ricardo
The only way he does this is if he really wants to scratch the itch of trying to win a national championship.
re: Reporter Lynn Jones congratulates Jaguars head coach after loss
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 8:32 am to sgallo3
I was in the trade … journalism is a trade, not a profession … for 49 years and covered sports at the highest levels for 20 of those years.
I have no problem with this.
I have no problem with this.
re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 2 posts for updated roster info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 8:26 am to UASports23
Yeah and last night people were calling it clickbait when I shared the AL.com story.
Maybe it’s going to finally dawn on people how much we are through the looking glass in this sport and how we’re playing with Monopoly money compared to other schools.
Maybe it’s going to finally dawn on people how much we are through the looking glass in this sport and how we’re playing with Monopoly money compared to other schools.
re: So we had Hollywood Smothers for less than a week?
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 8:12 am to TS1926
That cap will last as long as it takes the first case to get in court. In a business you can’t keep A from offering someone more than B for their services.
What is going over fans’ heads, or they’re willfully ignoring it, or they are hoping someone will come in and restore all that is righteous and holy, is that this is equally a business and a sport. And in the eyes of the law, it’s no more special than any other business, the century of tradition is irrelevant.
I keep saying, it wasn’t the liberals on the Supreme Court that launched this, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh wrote the opinions on the 9-0 decision, and they signaled strongly that they are willing to go even farther toward the players’ side.
And fans can’t do a thing about it except stop tuning in and spending their money on the sport, because the courts are not going to consider their interests and desires.
What is going over fans’ heads, or they’re willfully ignoring it, or they are hoping someone will come in and restore all that is righteous and holy, is that this is equally a business and a sport. And in the eyes of the law, it’s no more special than any other business, the century of tradition is irrelevant.
I keep saying, it wasn’t the liberals on the Supreme Court that launched this, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh wrote the opinions on the 9-0 decision, and they signaled strongly that they are willing to go even farther toward the players’ side.
And fans can’t do a thing about it except stop tuning in and spending their money on the sport, because the courts are not going to consider their interests and desires.
re: How about a 16- or 24-team playoff?
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/12/26 at 8:03 am to prouddawg
I’ve let people bitch without offering my own opinion.
Four is never happening again, period.
I could live with 16 because the bracketing would be easier but conference championship games would need to go away at that point.
24 and above would be insane.
Four is never happening again, period.
I could live with 16 because the bracketing would be easier but conference championship games would need to go away at that point.
24 and above would be insane.
re: OT: How about a 16- or a 24-team playoff?
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 1/11/26 at 11:30 pm to imjustafatkid
If they go to 24, according to the story, conference championship games would go away.
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