The Mr. National

Dedicated to the one and only Mr. National.

[The Mr. National @BuildTheStatue]

"DC, when I came here, I came from another organization, I was down on baseball and thinking about retiring. You made me love baseball again."
-- Howie Kendrick

Kendrick came to DC from Philadelphia.

[The Mr. National @BuildTheStatue]

@WeeklyAudible I get $50 and you call me a whore? That's not very nice. You have to give me at least $100 to call me that...

[Bears In 4 @Caleb2Colston]

@BuildTheStatue who said anything about retarded QBR? 😂 he didn’t even know ben’s offense until week 11

[The Mr. National @BuildTheStatue]

QBR was 16th.

[Bears In 4 @Caleb2Colston]

@CrackSandwich58 @theblockspot top 7 in every metric except cmp % isn’t a great qb? interesting

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@MadHatter_LJ

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Cooper DeJean was just 1st Team All Pro. AND I'M A COMMANDERS FAN. What an idiotic post.

[FIRST ROUND MOCK @firstroundmock]

The Eagles are still trying to find a position for Cooper DeJean going into year 3.

This is why I had a 4th round pre-draft grade on him: https://t.co/yF0Da9Mjlf

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@commanders_365 Also Daniel Kelly: https://t.co/XYaV7SyMKR

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@commanders_365 I would love to see that. I would troll this clown endlessly...

And you know I will too 🤣

[The Mr. National @BuildTheStatue]

@commanders_365 It looks like he was there four years? 2 as in intern, 2 as a special teams scout? Is that a real thing?

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Organizationally, it was better for us too...

[Bussin' With The Boys @BussinWTB]

Bryce Harper was really offered a contract mid-game 😂

[The Mr. National @BuildTheStatue]

Garrett Wilson for Mariota, who says no?

[ProFootballTalk @ProFootballTalk]

Aaron Glenn: Congrats to Russell Wilson on TV job, we're looking at QB options. https://t.co/1JKg2oI8cw

[The Mr. National @BuildTheStatue]

Mets fan. Shockingly.

[Turk Stevens @TurkStevens]

@DPYoungblood No, the small Market fans are because their owners are too cheap and won't spend the free money they already get in Revenue sharing. So why don't the other owners do something about those cheap owners? Why should the players agree to less money because owners are being cheap?

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@DPYoungblood If you're anti-cap, you're pro-Scott Boras.

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And now for something completely different, Mets fan doesn't want a cap...

[Ben Yoel @Ben_Yoel]

I stand with the players.

Anyone with a brain should too.

[The Mr. National @BuildTheStatue]

This one tweet encapsulates both ends of the problem:

No one can compete financially with the likes of the Yankees, Dodgers, Mets

Owners don't bother to try and/or are too cheap.

They're both fixed by a cap and floor.

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

Look at the last annual Forbes report on the Miami Marlins: $320M in revenue, $99M in player expenses, and $53M in operating income, and a $400M increase in team value. Marlins ownership doesn't think the system is broken... they love it!

https://t.co/CLbEVy7w0v

[The Mr. National @BuildTheStatue]

Alex. That's what the salary floor does...

[Alex Wood @Awood45]

If MLB truly cared about competitive balance, it would force revenue-sharing teams to spend those dollars on talent instead of pocketing the money. The 50/50 split only comes inside of a cap/floor system, which replaces a true open market with an owner-controlled ceiling.

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Bruce Meyer trying to convince everyone how much money the union loses under a cap...

[The Mr. National @BuildTheStatue]

Bull. Shit.

[Evan Drellich @EvanDrellich]

Bruce Meyer, interim head of MLBPA, says MLB's salary-cap proposal would result in less money overall going to players:

"Player share, under their proposal, would go down. ... Had MLB’s proposal been in place in 2026, players would, we estimate, lose over half a billion dollars"

[The Mr. National @BuildTheStatue]

@Tio_Albert2145 @dodgers52 @JeffSpiegel Oh they absolutely do, and it's part of the problem as well--the Nationals owners are cheap and it drives me crazy. That's why a cap and floor are both very necessary for the health of the league.

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Dodgers fan actually thinks this. The fear over losing their overwhelming and obvious financial advantage is palpable.

[Jeff Spiegel @JeffSpiegel]

@BuildTheStatue Except it isn’t 😂 Why are we inventing scenarios that don’t exist? The ratio of spending top to bottom is basically the same as it was 25 years ago, and…you guessed it….way more than a handful of teams have won.

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@LoveDaVeggies 1999 the Yankees spent $88m on payroll. Current value of that payroll is $175m. The disparity is growing--that's the bigger issue.