"MLB owners will use any 2020 player concessions as leverage to implement a future salary cap" — PFT Commenter

Take Slip·May 29, 2020

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MLB owners will use any 2020 player concessions as leverage to implement a future salary cap

If the players choose to go ahead and say, 'yeah, we will take your demand this season to do essentially a soft salary cap for this one year,' do you think that there's any possibility that the owners don't use that as future leverage in the next negotiation? I think that they're going to take whatever they can get and any sacrifice that the players make, that's going to come back to bite them in the ass for future generations.

Prediction Baseball Medium

The 2022 MLB lockout and the ensuing CBA negotiations saw owners continue to push for things the players viewed as salary cap mechanisms, proving PFT's point about perpetual leverage.

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Take Slip·May 29, 2020

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Big Cat

Fake crowd noise in sports broadcasts is a good idea with no downside

I'm totally down with the fake crowd noise. They had it for the Bundesliga. I thought it was awesome. It really does make it seem like a real game... I don't see any downside. I know the opposition to that is we want to hear the players talk, but as soon as players know that they're on a live mic, they're not going to talk the same way.

Opinion Media Mild

The major US sports leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL) all eventually used artificial crowd noise during the 2020 seasons with generally positive reception.

Win

Take Slip·May 29, 2020

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Big Cat

MLB owners are bluffing about canceling the season to force a better deal

I keep going back to the fact that it feels like the owners are okay threatening this year not having baseball, and that tells you everything. Because if they are, that means that they're probably not losing as much money as they're claiming they're going to lose. They're just trying to get a good deal.

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The 2020 season did eventually happen, suggesting the threats were indeed part of the negotiation leverage to reduce player salaries for the shortened season.

Loss

Take Slip·May 29, 2020·Fyre Fest

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PFT Commenter

The government is coming for the First Amendment by regulating comment sections

The government is coming for comment sections. They're taking away our First Amendment. They are coming for our First Amendment and they're trying to silence the internet commenters of America. It means right now that no one's allowed to talk trash on the internet.

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The claim is a hyperbolic interpretation of legal changes to platform liability, making it literally incorrect as a legal fact but a valid satirical stance.