If it works like that in Basketball and Soccer, I don't see how Baseball as a sport is any different. Even if you did have a potential to play in the majors, would you rather make 20k a year in milb or 120k a year in Korea while you develop? The main problem is more that NPB and KBO have a limit on the number of foreign players they can sign. Now imagine an independent league that had teams in a bunch of large cities, not small towns throughout America. MLB would do everything to stop that from happening.

> Maybe more Americans need to go to Japan and Korea.

Maybe! But the ones good enough to get a lot of money there are good enough to have a likely MLB career and a huge signing bonus that they'd be throwing away.

So much fun to watch.

Classic Cats

Crazy stuff

lucky bracket

Edit: Thanks a lot, Iowa.

Same. Looked like a high school team 2nd half

I had one where Princeton won, but so did Virginia, and one where Furman won, but I had princeton losing

I was like… how is no one talking about how this man is completely upside down and suspended in mid-air?

Agreed. In some ways this feels like one of the biggest upsets of what could have been a 1-seed, like when Middle Tennessee beat MSU. In other ways it feels totally predictable.

Let's see what else you got going! Post em up!

All 4 of my brackets are now ruined

Lots of American players do go to Korea and Japan, but only after it's clear they aren't going to have a major league career in the US.

I don't see how "loss of affiliation" would lead to higher salaries. There are already lots of unaffiliated minor leagues, and they are basically for the guys who aren't good enough to play in the affiliated minors. No player who has the talent to make the majors is going to voluntarily play for an independent league team.

Obviously I don't know the specific situation but as someone who has been drafted (middle rounds) this story doesn't track. A good friend was 3rd round with an agent in 2011 and got 300k. By the time I came through, unless you were a very early rounder and had an agent, you didn't get to negotiate. Take it or leave it. If you are in a position that you might be drafted you are almost always very well educated on the process. "Smart enough to ask" wasn't a thing.

File this under "basic logic is all that is required to deduce this"

No team in the NCAA can play up to the best teams and down to the worst teams, quite like Arizona.

So that settles the argument then. Bring in more eyeballs and you can get paid equally. Unequal revenue does NOT equal equal pay. I don’t get the disconnect here. Advertisers will pay for eyeballs. They’re not there.

It gets worse: Ramey made a jumper with 11 minutes left to give them 49.

They finished with 55.

They do all kinds of fun shit.

>"I'm not saying no professional female athletes. Serena Williams. The women in the UFC. You know? But nobody's watching your fucking sport. And then you're gonna come, and you're gonna get mad, at fucking men. They keep doing that shit. Why are you yelling at us? It's not our fucking job. It's not my fucking job to give a fuck about women's soccer. Okay? I have men's sport to pay attention to. This is your bullshit!"

They were the Sand Gnats when they were a summer league team.

lmfao you could try telling me said relevant distinction

4:43?! Damn…

Arizona didn't score in the last 4:43 of the game. They played lazy, arrogant and stupid throughout. Their talent still almost won out, but props to Princeton's defensive gameplan and effort.

There's real reasons we see big upsets more often now: there's talent, size and athleticism everywhere, the whole world is getting recruited better, and it's hard to give the most effort all the time. It's hard to compare the passion future NBA guys have for this tournament to what future car salesman do. I'm not saying they don't care or that they all don't try, but there's no way to remove the mindset of the future.

I’m not the person who said that but the distinction is pretty clear. I’m not saying the kid should be legally liable for someone’s deaths or anything but if you really can’t acknowledge the distinction between a weapon and a vehicle then idk what to tell you