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The Clubhouse / Re: Can Butera, Toboni, and Kilambi channel Beathard and Gibbs?
« Last post by Slateman on January 16, 2026, 11:05:00 am »
The Redskins won Super Bowls in both strike years.
Gibbs won three Super Bowls and Beathard won four. So what the freak does having a strike shortened season have to do with anything? Gibbs went on to win five NASCAR championships. He might be one of the top ten coaches of all time, in all of sports. Great coaches/executives thrive in all conditions and learn how to adapt to them. Also, football is so vastly different than baseball its not worth talking about. A full football season has about the same urgency as the last month of a regular MLB season. There's nothing to channel as Gibbs and Beathard would be more aligned to Dusty Baker and Mike Rizzo in today's game.

With a work outage for the CBA coming up in 2027 can the Nats better navigate the chaos than the rest of the league?
No one has any idea about what 2027 will look like. Exactly what about the Nats is designed to "better navigate the chaos than the rest of the league?" So far, our new front office has proven it's capable of nothing. And what does a team need to do to navigate the "chaos" better than other teams?

The 2020 Nats handled the chaos of Covid worse than every other team in MLB, will it be different this time?
Huh? How did they handle covid worse than every other team? What specific actions did other teams take that enabled them to handle covid well?

On the topic of the CBA, how happy are the small market teams with the Dodgers right now?

Considering they're going to be getting tens of millions of dollars from the Dodgers, I imagine they are quite happy.

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Are the Dodgers simply taking advantage of the last uncapped year or are the owners colluding?
If they are, then so are a lot of other teams. There are currently 10 teams over at least one luxury tax threshold, with a tax bill due of over 500 million dollars. 18 of the 30 teams have luxury tax payroll of 195 million or more. So the majority of teams are spending at or above a competitive level. I guess that counts as collusion?
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I do not think 2027 is the year for a championship run. I could see something like enough positions being set that the team may be ready to augment the core a bit assuming a rosy scenario:
a) Crews starts hitting
b) Wood and Lile mash for all of 2026
c) Ford takes over as catcher
d) somebody locks down a corner infield spot (House, Morales, a mystery guy)
e) Gore is dealt for a 2027 useful piece plus
f) Abrams's position is resolved or he's dealt
g) internal reliever candidates aren't chumps, and
h) 3 or 4 internal guys show enough to have a respectable  rotation.

Lots  of ifs, which is an indication of how far  this team is from pulling things together for  a 2027 run.
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The Out of Town Scoreboard / Re: The Next CBA (2027 and beyond)
« Last post by Slateman on January 16, 2026, 10:56:35 am »
Luxury tax with steeper penalties only further differentiates between the have and the have nots. While every team could easily handle 175-200 million in payroll, only a handful of teams can do what the Dodgers and Mets have done. A salary floor without a cap doesn't improve parity.
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The Out of Town Scoreboard / Re: The Next CBA (2027 and beyond)
« Last post by imref on January 16, 2026, 10:51:18 am »
FWIW, I prompted ChatGPT to predict what happens with negotiations, and to provide a deal that would be acceptable to both sides. It predicts a lockout but one that ends rather quickly, before the loss of the entire season, noting that both players and owners have strong incentive to reach an agreement.

Deal highlights:
- Stronger luxury tax and tax aprons that act as a soft-cap (similar to the NBA)
- Salary floor requiring minimum payroll, with revenue sharing, with rules requiring that revenue sharing goes to payroll and player benefits
- Minimal changes to existing service time rules
- Some potential changes to lottery and international draft rules, but no details
- Improved health and safety protocols, including long-term benefits and retirement, as well as mental health resources

Terms of a plausible CBA:
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Economic Structure
✅ Luxury tax with steeper penalties and additional thresholds
✅ A salary floor tied to revenue sharing spending rules
✅ No hard salary cap, but cap-like payroll management mechanisms (e.g., tax apron restrictions)
✅ Enhanced revenue sharing with accountability requirements

Player Compensation and Mobility
✅ Incremental increases in minimum salaries and pre-arbitration bonus pools
✅ Pilot or expanded draft lottery and modified international draft/bonus pools
✅ Potential tweaks to service time and arbitration eligibility (but not radical change)

Benefits & Protections
✅ Improved health, safety, and long-term player welfare benefits
✅ Enhanced pension/retirement structures
✅ Expanded rules around player development and agent access

Growth Initiatives
✅ Expanded playoffs revenue sharing (player bonuses tied to TV revenue)
✅ Tech innovations and fan experience considerations

It notes that ownership insistence on a hard cap would derail any deal.
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The Clubhouse / Can Butera, Toboni, and Kilambi channel Beathard and Gibbs?
« Last post by PowerBoater69 on January 16, 2026, 10:06:17 am »
The Redskins won Super Bowls in both strike years. With a work outage for the CBA coming up in 2027 can the Nats better navigate the chaos than the rest of the league? The 2020 Nats handled the chaos of Covid worse than every other team in MLB, will it be different this time?

On the topic of the CBA, how happy are the small market teams with the Dodgers right now? Fans are clamoring for a salary cap, the MLBPA has suddenly lost any foothold on public opinion. Are the Dodgers simply taking advantage of the last uncapped year or are the owners colluding?
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The Clubhouse / Re: nationals.tv is here
« Last post by The Chief on January 16, 2026, 09:43:38 am »
There are devices that can integrate an antenna into your device's ecosystem and provide DVR services for OTA broadcasts + whole home streaming.  I use one such device and it's a game changer.  I realize this won't make people suddenly flock to OTA, but it's a huge improvement for those of us that still use OTA anyway.
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The Out of Town Scoreboard / Re: 2025-26 Off-season (non-Nats)
« Last post by Smithian on January 16, 2026, 09:11:08 am »
The Tucker news is a bit sad not for competitive reasons. Any team can be beat in a short series.

But baseball is going to shut down in 2027. I am fine with all the "they could do same thing as Dodgers" arguments but whatever the facts are we do know baseball will shut down.

I don't think we will see a salary cap. But I can see new rules for salary floors and further punishing over cap spending even beyond what it is right now. If the Dodgers want to pay $10 for every $1, fine, but there has to be rules requiring low spenders to have floors or the money is evenly distributed to players. Some rule like that.
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The Clubhouse / Re: nationals.tv is here
« Last post by 1995hoo on January 16, 2026, 09:09:32 am »
Like mentioned above, it seems likely they may start showing a game a week OTA.   But that's not really the future either.   Only about 20% of the population actually use an antenna, so purely OTA is not a huge market.   The main network affiliates do have cable/sat/YTTV coverage, but have network obligations in prime time when most games are played.   The smaller OTA stations could pick up games, but if they did so, they'd try to leverage carriage fees to get on cable/sat etc, which makes them no different than the failing RSNs.

If they want to show the games free and ad supported, they can do that via streaming.   Once they give it away for free though, then it is hard to sell them to anyone.   The current $100/year is not a signicant revenue generator, and has other motivations.

It's funny you mention this now. I was explaining something along these lines to my wife the other night in the context of hockey, although it also applied to baseball. She didn't watch much in the way of sports in the 1980s and was somewhat surprised when I said that before cable was available in our neighborhood, we would be lucky to see 20 Caps games in an entire season (not counting playoffs) and none of them would be home games. I explained that Channel 20 picked up a small package of road games only and that some home games—but by no means the entire 40-game home schedule—was broadcast over cable on an extra-cost channel, Home Team Sports. She then realized that we don't get Channel 20 over YouTube TV. If we want to watch it, we need to connect an antenna and change the TV input (which means she would ask me to adjust the setting because she never remembers what to do).

As more people migrate away from cable or satellite, I wouldn't be surprised if the smaller stations (Channel 20, Channel 50, etc.) face even more of a struggle when some people either don't know how to find them or just don't want to go to the trouble to do so.
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The Out of Town Scoreboard / Re: 2025-26 Off-season (non-Nats)
« Last post by Slateman on January 16, 2026, 08:48:38 am »
Why would the large market teams ever agree to that? The 94 strike ended when the big market teams broke with the other teams over revenue sharing
Cus they'd make a lot more money with a cap.
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The Out of Town Scoreboard / Re: 2025-26 Off-season (non-Nats)
« Last post by imref on January 16, 2026, 08:42:24 am »
so according to analysis i saw this morning, Tucker would have to have something like an 11 WAR season to justify the cost of his contract. This is insane.
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