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Your daily reminder…
A salary cap isn’t about competitive balance.
It’s a tool designed to suppress player salaries, protect ownership costs, and inflate franchise values.
The same owners who claim it “levels the playing field” are the ones cashing in when team values skyrocket while player pay gets artificially restrained.
Competitive balance doesn’t come from a hard cap, it comes from revenue sharing and smart spending.
A cap just makes the owners richer
Tampa must win tonight!
This series could be over before we all go to bed!!!
The @Brewers are 6-1 this month when they give up the first run of the game
Those 6 wins are tied for the most by any team in a single Postseason 😤
ALT “They believe, and they don’t give up.” - Pat Murphy on the Brewers’ resolve 2026 World Series presented by Capital One Pictured: Members of the Brewers celebrate on the infield after a win. They wear white Brewers uniforms with dark blue caps.
Game 3 of the World Series tomorrow night.
Brewers up 2-0.
Series shifts to Tampa.
Neither team has ever won a title.
One of them ends the drought this week.
That’s the best part of this matchup
Hard to argue with this
Aaron Rodgers sat at that podium in Paris and said out loud what the corporate league office spends millions trying to sanitize.
The NFL talks endlessly about “player safety” and “expanding the global game.” But behind closed doors, owners scrapped player-friendly bye weeks, forced a brutal 17th regular-season game, and shipped franchises across oceans simply because there was another dollar to squeeze out of foreign TV markets.
While families and players navigate locked-down streets, civil tension, and grueling travel schedules, ownership sits in five-star suites counting international expansion checks.
Rodgers doesn't care about league fines anymore. He’s telling you the truth: in the modern NFL, the brand and the balance sheet come first. The humans on the field come second.
I mean, this seems pretty obvious
Brewers closer Trevor Megill was very straightforward with his thoughts about Tropicana Field
(via @Dario_Melendez)
Jeff Bates retweeted
Trying to grow my #hobby community here so, every so often, will be doing random giveaways.
Just need to do the basic follow, like and retweet that everyone seems to do 😉
1st up The Wizard RC - Ozzie Smith. Free PWE
Drawing Wednesday when @CardsStory starts their thread!
Very cool
In 1993, someone paid $24.20 for a ringside seat to UFC 1.
That ticket sold last night at @milehighcard for $82,881!!
This post might be the poster child for the insane “But Make Rules So My Team Can Win Crowd!”
I don’t know what is wrong with these crazy people!?
Did you not get enough participation trophies as a child!?
This is crazy!
If MLB and MLBPA do not agree on a Salary Cap and Floor this offseason, they need to realign the Conferences and Divisions:
Here is my new NL and AL based on fairness if a cap/floor isn't put in place:
NL Central:
- Pittsburgh Pirates
- Cincinnati Reds
- Washington Nationals
- Cleveland Guardians
- Miami Marlins
NL East:
- Detroit Tigers
- Milwaukee Brewers
- New York Mets
- Philadelphia Phillies
- Atlanta Braves
NL West:
- Los Ángeles Dodgers
- San Diego Padres
- Arizona Diamondbacks
- Los Ángeles Angels
- San Francisco Giants
AL East:
- Toronto Blue Jays
- Boston Red Sox
- Chicago Cubs
- New York Yankees
- Baltimore Orioles
AL Central:
- Kansas City Royals
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Tampa Bay Rays
- Colorado Rockies
- Chicago White Sox
AL West:
- Texas Rangers
- Seattle Mariners
- Athletics
- Houston Astros
- Minnesota Twins
Too funny
"What do Michael Jackson and Steve Sax have in common?
They each wear a glove on one hand for no apparent reason."
Johnny Carson.
Dodgers Pedro Guerrero committed several hard-to-believe fielding errors during one game.
At the same time Dodgers' 2nd baseman Steve Sax was undergoing his horrendous fielding slump in which he couldn't throw the most routine ball to first without trouble.
Tommy Lasorda decided it was time for one of his famous motivational meetings and zeroed in on Pedro Guerrero:
"How can you play third base like that?
You've gotta be thinking about something besides baseball.
What is it?"
"Two things," Guerrero said.
"What's the first thing?"
"God, don't let them hit the ball to me."
"And what's the other thing?" Lasorda said.
"I'm thinking:
"Don't hit it to Saxxy either."
Old School Still Wins
The Brewers, Pat Murphy, and a Bullpen Built for October
Milwaukee is up 2-0 in the World Series, and it isn’t because of a payroll arms race. It’s because the Brewers play baseball the right way, trust the process when the scoreboard looks ugly, and hand the late innings to a bullpen that has been elite since April.
Game 1 set the tone. Jacob Misiorowski gave them five solid innings. Then Pat Murphy did what he has done all year, he turned it over.
Abner Uribe got four outs.
Aaron Ashby got five more.
Trevor Megill closed it.
When a game-ending double play was overturned in the ninth and the Rays suddenly had life, Megill didn’t melt.
He stayed on the mound, stayed ready, and struck out Jonny DeLuca to lock down a 3-2 win.
That is composure. That is preparation. That is Murphy’s club.
Game 2 was even louder proof.
Down 4-0 before they had swung a bat, most teams start writing the loss. The Brewers started chipping. A run here. Another there.
Sal Frelick found the seats.
Rookie shortstop Cooper Pratt, who had a rough first inning, delivered the go-ahead single in the seventh.
Behind them, the bullpen threw six scoreless innings, JoJo Romero, Dustin May, DL Hall, Uribe again, then Ashby for the final five outs and the save.
Milwaukee walked off the night with a 5-4 win and a 2-0 series lead. Same identity. Same refusal to fold.
That is the Brewers’ style.
Manufacture offense. Play clean baseball. Keep the game within reach.
Then let a deep, fearless pen finish it.
Their bullpen led the National League with a 3.40 ERA in the regular season. In October it has been even stingier, the kind of group where Uribe, Ashby, and Megill feel like a three-headed closer.
No egos. No hierarchy. Just outs.
A lot of that traces to Pat Murphy. He doesn’t panic when a starter’s night ends early. He doesn’t cling to a plan that the game has already broken.
He trusts his guys, sequences them with purpose, and keeps the clubhouse believing even when American Family Field is holding its breath.
Leadership like that shows up in the ninth after a blown call and in the seventh of a four-run climb.
Players play freer when they know the manager believes in the next pitch, not the last mistake.
Big market or small, the lesson from these first two World Series games is simple.
Play good old-school baseball.
Build an elite bullpen.
Trust a manager who uses it.
That formula wins in the regular season, and it wins in October too.
Coffee
Church
Lunch with the family
Save the world from a MLB Salary Cap
Relax with the wife
Maybe watch a movie on the couch tonight
Going to be a nice Sunday
Hope everyone reading this has a great day!
