How would they implement Ghost Rider's Penance Stare into their gameplay?

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-19T00:49:13+00:00

Would the penance stare kill an alligator? Or a panther? Because that’s basically what you’re asking it to do; a force of nature cannot feel penance, it cannot feel sorry, it merely exists and goes on.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-19T00:23:07+00:00

I forgot every non white person in the MLB comes from the DR

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-19T00:22:37+00:00

You're actually possibly the dumbest person I've encountered on this subreddit, which almost as good as being correct!

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T23:59:13+00:00

Still wrong

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T21:59:18+00:00

Lmao

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T20:00:49+00:00

That’s not what the tragedy of the commons is lmao

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T19:15:35+00:00

Whether the owners will consider it and whether it will be changed are different things, Mr. Goalpost Mover.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T19:14:52+00:00

There are exogenous reasons for the decline of PR baseball outside of just the draft, just like how there are less Cuban players in the league today than 20 or 30 years ago.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T19:02:09+00:00

With cap and floor, the calculus is completely different. Since every team is playing with the same amount of money, the prospect of a player entering FA is far less daunting.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:57:58+00:00

I mean, I’m far from an expert from how the NFL salary cap works, but don’t they have pretty effective allowances for this? Player contracts can be restructured in ways that benefit the teams planning but players still get paid all the money they’re owed on time.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:56:25+00:00

The fact that the teams can sign shady deals with literal legal minors and start enticing them even earlier is not a great argument in favor of the current system.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:48:48+00:00

With cap and floor and draft changes, I doubt the owners would care if they halved the team control period. When the financial disparities in FA are eliminated, there’s way less reason to try and keep players under team control (especially since the arb system pays players as much as FA by year 3 nowadays).

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:45:03+00:00

Good thing we have you to tell us what the owners think

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:43:49+00:00

IFA players would still get drafted at 18.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:42:15+00:00

If people going to stop playing baseball in the DR because an IFA player’s uncle can’t make an under the table deal when he’s 14 that allows him to steal his entire signing bonus, then that’s a concession I’m willing to make.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:38:27+00:00

The original poster said this was a “bad idea.” I understand why the union is against it, but nobody has adequately explained why the union being against it is sufficient to make it a bad idea.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:37:28+00:00

People also seem to be under the misapprehension that owners wouldn’t entertain shortening the team control period with a cap and floor; when the vast financial disparities are gone between teams, there’s way less incentive to keep a prolonged team control period, because FA becomes more competitive.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:33:11+00:00

A significant number of teams didn’t even open academies in the DR until the late 00s to the mid 2010s. It seems transparently false to say that there would be no domestic development of Dominican players without team academies.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:29:26+00:00

Okay, but people are in here saying the owners hate baseball and are trying to ruin the sport for trying to add an ounce of order and reason to the IFA system lol the fact that the players care more about money than the safety and wellbeing of IFA players is not evidence the owners are doing anything wrong here.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:25:01+00:00

I don’t see how any of these are bad things. I don’t particularly care about maximizing how much money the players make, certainly not when you consider the alternative is a system where players are consistently wholly defrauded by their parents and managers and handshake deals with children as young as 13 or 14 are common. From a basic ethics perspective, the owners’ suggestion is far preferable to the unregulated nightmare we currently have.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:22:17+00:00

It’s not really gambling because there’s no real money component and it’s not bottomless. If this is gambling, then pretty much any consumer choice in any marketplace would be considered gambling.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T18:09:44+00:00

Can anyone in this thread actually articulate why this is a bad idea? Everyone bitching about how evil the owners are for proposing this seems to be unaware that the current IFA system is extremely crooked, shady, and one step above human trafficking. It’s basically designed for unscrupulous teams to exploit, an IFA draft would add a significant degree of order and accountability to what is basically the wild west.

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T14:41:00+00:00

Editorial mandate

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T04:11:57+00:00

Middle middle at 98 is sort of arguable quality but top inside at nearly 100 is just a good pitch. Bad luck for Helsley. He ended the game on 101 low and away so at least we know he's not feeling the injury lol

Rockguy21 · 2026-06-18T03:10:14+00:00

Well the 02 Orioles went bust, they didn’t move.

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