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Originally Posted by PSUColonel
Really, at this point it’s the MLBPA who is providing the clown show. They are so hell bent on making up for the last two deals they got fleeced on. (Their own fault). Now, they won’t even accept a reasonably good deal.
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If you agree they have been fleeced in the past few CBA's how is it that you can consider anything MLB has offered at this point "a reasonably good deal"?
The owners have gone full-blown villain/bully status here as far as I can tell...even as much as throwing new random stuff into their last-minute offers hoping the players might miss it due to the deadline.
How do you think the previous bad deals came to be? The owners have and continue to strong-arm the union while using their vast resources to buy positive PR and make the players out to be the villains.
The union isn't even really standing up to them, their last offer doesn't really get them anything they were hoping to get at the beginning of this process, which is younger players getting paid closer to the value they are providing and rules to prevent teams from going into full tank mode (a la Astros, Cubs, etc.).
The owners are flat-out trying to break the union at this point.