“UNION-OWNERS TALK SALARY CAP..MY RESPONSE”
Lots of baseball games to be played. Lots of days left in the season for the two sides to sit and discuss a new CBA deal to prevent a lockout. Here are the first proposals made by each side, and my reaction to them ------- OWNERS MLB Owners..Make 1st proposal to Union in CBA-talks ..Salary Cap (245M)...Considering the money pouring into baseball..a ridiculous low cap figure-considering how many teams are spending north of (275M) a year ..Salary Floor (171M)..A good starting point for all these...
“BASEBALL’S BEST TEAMS RIGHT NOW-SUPRISE SEASON”
The New York Times hit a home run with their headline about the Padres: "Best Bad Team in Baseball...or the Worst Good Team in Baseball?" That pretty much sums up the current state of Padres Baseball. But now that he have crossed the one-third mark...
BASEBALL STANDINGS..NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR EYES
Nothing wrong with your eyesight, but this is an indeed a strange start to the baseball season. There are 16-of-30 teams at .500 or less in the standings, including some teams with hopeless rosters. Here we are, one-third of the way,...
UNION-OWNERS MAKE CBA OFFERS..PADRES DRAG (2-6) RECORD ON ROAD..SPURS DESTROY THUNDER-HERE COMES GAME #7..HOCKEY TRAGEDY-SUICIDE-MONTREAL…USA COACH INTERVIEWS FOR JOB
...(Baseball)... MLB Owners..Make 1st proposal to Union in CBA-talks ..Salary Cap (245M) ..Salary Floor (171M) ..50-50 Revenue Share with Players ..Teams pool all local TV-Radio Revenue into Pot ..Phase in Salary Cap ..Larry Bird Right Retain FA Players outside Cap MLB Union..Made 1st proposal to Union in CBA-talks ..No Salary Cap ..Integrity Tax-Any team below (150M) ..Increase Lux Tax Threshold start at (300M) ..Increase Minimum Salary (780,000) to (1.5M) ..Increase Pre Arbitration Bonus Pool (50M-to-180M) ..TV Tax on Big Market Franchises --------- Padres-at-Washington..Friday..Lucas Giolitio-vs-Andrew Alvarez Padres..Off day-Thursday Padres (31-24)...Lost (6-of-8)..now...
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Lee ‘Hacksaw’ Hamilton has built a national reputation as one of America’s top sports-talk show hosts. He has been named Talk Show Host of the Year seven times by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. He has spent his last 26-years doing Sports-Talk Radio in San Diego, and was the first talk show host hired at the legendary 77,000-watt XTRA-Sports-690, and now at 50,000-watt Mighty 1090, hosts the San Diego Padres pre-postgame talk shows. .
He was the popular longtime Radio Voice of the San Diego Chargers, and also did NFL play-by-play for the Seattle Seahawks, and the Compass Media Networks, in addition to his college play-by-play work for the USC-Trojans, Arizona State Sun Devils, San Diego State Aztecs and the Ohio University Bobcats. His NFL play-by-play has been featured at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in the Hall of Champions in San Diego, and for NFL-Films.
He broadcast the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and the WHA-All Star games.
He has also worked for Sirius-XMs Home Plate Baseball Channel, and did talk shows for Fox Sports 570-KLAC in Los Angeles, and Fox Sports Radio’s network..
He spent 8-years doing hockey for the Cleveland Crusaders and Indianapolis Racers, and 8-years doing Minor League baseball for the Phoenix Giants and the Utica Blue Sox.
He worked at KTAR-Phoenix, 3WE-Radio in Cleveland, and began his career at WLGN-Logan, Ohio and WIBX-Utica, New York.
An accomplished writer, he was named ‘Columnist of the Year’ by the San Diego Press Club, and has written freelance sports columns for the San Diego Union Tribune, and the SDNN-San News Network website.
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