CBA 2026

[GeddyWrox]

SO... what's everyone going to do with their summer in 2027?

[GeddyWrox]

I need to start ripping through all the movies and shows on my "watch someday" list.

[ghostrunner]

Wonder how much that affects call-ups late in the season this year, since players on the 40 man can’t play during a stoppage.

[heyzeus]

No bigger admission that you don't know what the [expletive] you're doing and have the mind of a baby than demanding that you be restrained from offering a contract longer than five years in length. Save me from myself, please.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

No bigger admission that you don't know what the [expletive] you're doing and have the mind of a baby than demanding that you be restrained from offering a contract longer than five years in length. Save me from myself, please.

But if they all did it without the written agreement, couldn't that be seen as collusion?

[GeddyWrox]

No bigger admission that you don't know what the [expletive] you're doing and have the mind of a baby than demanding that you be restrained from offering a contract longer than five years in length. Save me from myself, please.

But if they all did it without the written agreement, couldn't that be seen as collusion?

I was thinking this too.

[ghostrunner]

I presume the Dodgers or whoever would quickly break a non-written agreement

[sighyoung]

I presume the Dodgers or whoever would quickly break a non-written agreement

I agree. It would have to be an iron-clad agreement, or else teams would be tempted to break it to their own advantage. This is the reason cartels often fall apart and require complete transparency of records: otherwise, one firm will be tempted to cheat to undercut the others, whether in selling oil or light bulbs below the collusion price, or signing free agents to longer contracts.

As heyzeus is mentioning, the proposed contract rule is like Ulysses asking his crew to tie him to the mast so he can hear the Sirens' song but not be lured to his death.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Holy [expletive]! Was watching the Brewers Reds game on MLB.TV and one of the commercials was a legit political type hit piece against the MLBPA. I gotta see if it’s on YouTube yet. Seriously disgusting.

[pioneer98]

There’s a “[expletive] everyone else” attitude permeating our society right now. Rich people don’t feel like they have to even pretend there’s a world outside of themselves. Few are interested in the collective good. That could turn this work stoppage into a catastrophe for the sport.

This probably belongs on the politics page, but hasn't this always been the case?

In the past billionaires cared about their public image enough that it would blunt their absolute worst tendencies to some small degree. Not anymore. They are free to publicly be openly greedy, viscious a-holes now. They realized there were no consequences any more.