The Major League Baseball Players Association wants to pursue a ban on all MLB-related prop bets, aiming to combat harassment from disgruntled gamblers, a source told ESPN. Story about its proposal Thursday to MLB, free and unlocked, with @DavidPurdum: https://t.co/DPHwqq1MIn
Wonder if Thunder were more familiar with Otega Oweh bc he started at OU before going to Ky? Brother is bad-ass NFL pass rusher originally drafted 1st rd by Balt. Otega has NBA body. Like him as scorer/defender. But so hard to find a spot for him on the favorite’s roster.
No you’re right thank you @Cardinals for not moving our game up to this afternoon when we politely asked given the whole world knew it was going to rain tonight. I actually was really hoping we could lose an off day and turn it into a 4 city road trip 👍🏻
According to today’s scathing & explosive article, Dianna Russini - when getting pulled over for a ticket - would Facetime NFL head coaches to get out of the tickets
In one example, she asked the cop’s favorite team, then Facetimed the team’s head coach - he picked up… and Russini got out of the ticket.
Lou Will asked Arkansas coach John Calipari about the concern around Darius Acuff’s defense.
Coach Cal: “He was such a good scorer, I didn’t give a shit about his defense.”
(via: @RunItBackFDTV)
Elly is making $800K of the Reds’ $132.8M payroll
Chase Burns is making $785K
Combined, the two most valuable players in the organization account for just 1.2% of the payroll
The Reds have elite young talent on bargain contracts, yet Nick Krall still can’t build a winner around them
The biggest issue baseball fans want solved to strengthen the game is fixing the payroll disparity that leaves too many fans without hope of their team competing for a World Series title. Every other major U.S. sport has tackled this problem, and every year more small market teams in those leagues have a chance to win. The salary cap and floor proposal levels the playing field, allowing us greater flexibility to address longstanding player priorities while sharing baseball revenue with the players 50/50.
Today, in addition to proposing the largest ever increase in the minimum salary, earned by over half of MLB players, we accepted two landmark changes to free agency that have been in place for 50 years. We agreed to both the MLBPA’s proposal to provide earlier access to free agency, and their proposal to eliminate the qualifying offer system, a provision players view as a drag on free agency. We also proposed to eliminate deferred compensation and to create a new “Cornerstone Player” provision similar to the NBA’s “Bird Rights” to give every team a fair shot at retaining their fans’ favorite star players.
We will continue working with the MLBPA during the bargaining process to improve the game for teams, players and fans.