Trying to comprehend the details of the negotiations between the MLB owners and players is akin to huffing the aura of those around you at 4 p.m. The smell is becoming something more than you, and you are angry about what is around you.
This has been foisted upon us all, so it's important to remember who is responsible for this. The owners, an obscenely rich group of pilot fish who will never be satisfied until they start fishing for real, drained the carcass of everything worth nothing.
Yesterday, they topped themselves, as their representative troll of deceit, cluelessness, and arrogance, Rob Manfred, rejected their own proposal. The earliest the season can start is on April 14.
You may be thinking that that doesn't sound right. How can that be possible? Jon Heyman, the resident toad, has a spine that is buckled under the weight of all the water he is carrying for the owners.
It was Rob Manfre's idea.
Heyman doesn't offer commentary or point out how stupid it is, but he does say that the owners rejected the idea because it came after a deadline that everyone made up and has no meaning. The owners rejected their idea again. Wrap your arms around that and get yourself a drink or a treat as your brain starts to go crazy.
The international signing system is pretty messed up. It is filled with corruption and in the balance are the lives of kids who get lost in it. It needs to be fixed. An international draft, at least the one owners want to install, has nothing to do with fixing that corruption or not leaving adolescent kids twisting in the wake. It's just about finding another group of players you don't have to pay anything for, which is what a draft would do. The owners wouldn't have to outbid each other for talent, which is what this whole damn thing is about.
After progress was made on major issues like the pool for first- and second-year players and the CBT, the owners knew the players would reject, so they could once again try and pin this whole. It's all theater.
Heyman wasn't done pulling his "Hey, I'm just asking" act, he was just asking "what all the ignorant shitheads do when important things are being discussed and they want to side with?"
That is what this is about, Jon. The players could have saved all of their service time by collapsing a month ago and giving in to owners and worsening a corrupt system, which Heyman would realize when he does huffing the owner's limo. The game of baseball is being made trash by all of that. The players don't want to do that, so they think trading in some of their pay is worth the tradeoff for the long-term good of their futures and the game. I wouldn't want to let Heyman go off without a fight, so we'll leave it.
The idea of an international draft is something that players have always resisted. It's another way for owners to take advantage of players who have little choice, and players who might be worse off economically than their American counterparts. Signing bonuses and checks are the only ones they see, and they make a lot of difference for a lot of them.
This isn't about owners fixing a broken system. It's about cutting checks and money. The players offered them something they had suggested, but it was thrown back in their faces because I have no idea.
They are beyond logic. I hope I live long enough to see these 30 fuckwits kill the sport and have to sell every team for $12. I don't think I'll make it.
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