The Pirates and the CBA

I don't know the site etiquette on linking another SB Nation story so Charlie or whoever can feel free to delete this if necessary. I just wanted to make sure everybody noticed it because I know I often glance over the stories linked on the side.

4 months ago KentuckyPirate 13 comments 0 recs |

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kinda on topic of being derailed derek lee news kinda

https://twitter.com/#!/Joelsherman1/status/161127042212048897

by karreemofwheat on Jan 24, 2012 12:14 PM EST reply actions

If D-Lee

retires and we lose out on that pick I will be so pissed. Talk about adding insult to injury. Not only will he not sign with us (for more money than Pena got with Tampa) but he spurns all other offers and retires costing us the compensatory pick.

by KentuckyPirate on Jan 24, 2012 12:23 PM EST up reply actions

maybe he was full of shit and he lowers his demands.

and signs somewhere. as much as imo i think we need him. i think he may be a clubhouse cancer, and i don’t want him.

by karreemofwheat on Jan 24, 2012 12:31 PM EST up reply actions

On a boat

Hey, it’s Operation Shutdown II! Lee and Jermaine Dye and Bengie Molina can all sit around on their boats listening to their favorite song “I’m too sexy to take more money than you will ever earn in your life.”

by Aphthakid on Jan 24, 2012 1:39 PM EST up reply actions

this story confirms we are being hamstrung in the eyes of the mlb community.

i was hoping i was just being a homer in my woe as me.

by karreemofwheat on Jan 24, 2012 12:29 PM EST reply actions

Revenue sharing

The real problem with the new CBA is that it’s apparently doing away with revenue sharing. The BoSox and Yanks actions certainly suggest they’re looking to get under the luxury tax threshold before those rebates start kicking in. By the time the rebates hit 100%, there may be no teams paying the luxury tax and, therefore, no more revenue sharing.

by Aphthakid on Jan 24, 2012 1:32 PM EST reply actions

nah

Luxury tax isn’t revenue sharing — the luxury tax goes into a general fund, revenue sharing comes from teams much more broadly.

There are a lot of changes to revenue sharing, for instance that teams in the top half of the markets are so are ineligible (which completely screws the A’s, who count as in a top market even though the Giants dominate the market), but the Pirates will still be getting their share.

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by WHYG Zane Smith on Jan 24, 2012 2:18 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

The A's

are financially screwed regardless if the team can’t get to San Jose. If they can, they could instantly become a financial juggernaut since their ownership is already loaded and this would give them a new stadium in a cash-rich part of the country. It would be interesting to see how Brad Pitt would adjust his GM approach if his budget were doubled overnight…

by KentuckyPirate on Jan 24, 2012 2:36 PM EST up reply actions

Step 1

Replace Philip Seymour Hoffman with Angelina Jolie.

by Aphthakid on Jan 24, 2012 2:42 PM EST up reply actions

The way it works

Is that your revenue sharing rebate depends on whether or not you’re over the luxury tax threshold. Initially, any team that avoids the luxury tax threshold gets a 25% revenue sharing rebate. Eventually that scales up so that by the end of the CBA, teams that have successfully avoided luxury tax get 100% of their revenue sharing refunded.

by Aphthakid on Jan 24, 2012 2:40 PM EST up reply actions

ah, OK

I’m so used to people conflating luxury tax with revenue sharing that I practically have a macro for that comment. (Of course, usually it’s entitled Yankees fans complaining about how the Pirates are stealing their luxury tax money.)

I’d hope the rebates don’t actually cut the revenue-sharing pool for the small-market teams, but I wouldn’t put it past Bud to screw us over like that.

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by WHYG Zane Smith on Jan 24, 2012 3:43 PM EST up reply actions