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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4200296, member: 405"]
I haven't been following this as closely as others, but reading Randy Levine's interview the other day (granted, biased toward the owners, but he's not on the negotiating committee this time ...), we'll he said "The players have got to get over that there were unforeseen consequences to what they asked for.  Maybe a bunch of things didn't turn out the way the players thought.  That's not a negotiating strategy, to try to fix what you already lost.  There isn't endless money."

Well, in honesty the owners are asking the players to protect the owners from themselves spending too much money (or, The Steve Cohen Effect).

The players are all over the place.  They wanted to keep big money contracts for older players, and didn't anticipate that owners would get tired of paying $30M a year to a 38 year old DH with bad knees who can't hit a fastball anymore.  The guys who really got hurt are the mid-career guys.  Markets just died for lots of those kinds of guys.

Collective bargaining is a lot more complicated than a lot of these meatheads think it is.  Part of the problem is that the biggest stars (i.e. biggest earners) tilt the balance too much, and there's not enough money to field the rest of a competitive team, for some of these smaller market clubs.

Baseball is turning into basketball, sort of, in terms of imbalanced salary structure, but when the best players in the league in MLB only get your team 5 or 10 wins against replacement, vs. the impact of a LeBron James or a Steph Curry in the NBA, your odds of winning on the big contract are much greater in the NBA.  Pitchers arms blow up all the time now; they're not really a god investment, although they are probably the most determining factor in winning.
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