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This is what the union wants. Salaries for the players to go up.

As of right now the person the Bears wanted as their starting LT is out with back surgery. Thier starting RT is out with a knee injury. One of their backup tackles is out with a concussion. They just signed Peters off the street because they have no one else and he hasn't played a full season in 2 years. Even if those are his strengths he will not be able to improve on them and develop them if he needs to use the 4.4 all the time. Sure it helps in the short term but doesn't help in the long term.

They don't need an elite one. But one that at least has tackles that aren't 3rd string. Running 4.4 all the time doesn't help develop his passing skills. This is where he needs his reps.

Agreed. It brings up bad memories of what happened to David Carr. Why risk a possible franchise QB getting gun shy by running for his life constantly.

Me too.

This is a non-issue for the CBA as the minor leagues are not part of the union, thus they really aren't going to sacrifice any part of their union for non-members.

The MLB union is by far the strongest in all of sports. And of course they control the money flow, they OWN the team. Doesn't mean that the players aren't trying to screw the owners over every chance they get.

No just the millionaires. It's a union negotiation just like any other. It's amazing how many people think it's only the owners just to get something from the union. The union is trying to do the exact same thing. That's the essence of bargaining unit negotiations.

They won't go over it multiple times without dropping down for a year. This will increase the competition in the league. But they will still have a few teams every year go over. There are currently 9 teams over 180 and 7 teams under 100. It will bring better competition.

Part of it will be offset by the lower ceiling as it will create more revenue for the lower salary teams.

It's a good starting point for negotiation as the salary floor is really enticing. It will keep teams from totally ranking, make the league more competitive and bring the lower salaries up.

What was wrong with Hendriks. He struck out the side.

Reading this I thought they blew the lead and were losing by 5. They got out if the inning without a run. Yeesh.

Need to get him innings.

This is why a hard salary floor is what baseball needs.

The 180 is just when the first penalty is. Its not a hard cap. I love the proposal. A salary floor us what the league needs to stop the tanking and making the league more competitive.

Brain gets in the way. Better when acting on instinct.

I used a towel to coil it up had handed it to him to hold. Not shocking he didn't want to sit. While someone else had the more important job of running g to call 911. Believe it or not there was no damage. The ER doc just wound it up and stitched the scrotum back up.

Its my best but it isn't even in the top 10 stories when we have a few too many.

Wasn't so pretty live. Be happy you didn't have to take care of it.

Could be that too

Seems like he has an achy knee or ankle with this much time off in a short stretch.

No team would handle him differently, except maybe have these innings in the minors, due to his limited usage in college.

A personal opinion that his methods lead to too much stress on the arm and increased the potential for injuries, especially for breaking pitches. The "snap" of the famous towel drill was one I particularly never liked.

The issue obviously isn't too severe that they opted for the conservative treatment route to avoid surgery. It just didn't resolve itself so they then opted for surgery. When the low back is involved it's always better to try the conservative route first.