We Digress or We Drink

<p>We get feisty over <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-lockout-negotiations-turn-hostile-as-owners-reject-players-comprehensive-proposal-051135502.html">“hostile” CBA negotiations</a>, and stand with “furious” players. We call Rob Manfred on his ridiculous assertion that there is a deadline that needs to be met or games get canceled. It’s YOUR lockout, MLB!  Thank you <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/champion-braves-report-huge-profits-as-mlb-claims-teams-are-bad-investments-173334889.html">Atlanta Hammers</a> for being compelled to release your financials therefore providing actual data. And for you billionaire vs millionaire folks, please give Sara Sanchez’s <a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2022/2/25/22949745/cba-negotiations-battle-billionaires-thousandaires-handful-millionaires">Thousandaires</a> piece a read.  Pottymouth requests a vegetarian version of new CWS boyfriend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efrPBrixYBc">Leury Garcia</a>’s “Tres Golpes,” while Patti picks <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-white-sox-gavin-sheets-homecoming-20210709-kfsdfhijqrhj3fdskumr6gzmyu-story.html">Gavin Sheets</a>, only partially because she gets to name check Journey, Larry Sheets, and Cal Ripken. Pottymouth selects mindfully meditative <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2021/05/07/multitude-experiences-has-taught-brewers-tyrone-taylor-focus-here-and-now/4983614001/">Tyrone Taylor</a> of the Brewers, and Patti selects <a href="https://www.dailyemerald.com/sports/baseball/eugene-emeralds-shortstop-jace-peterson-more-than-an-athlete/article_720db466-4cf9-5970-86e9-063030874e39.html">Jace Peterson</a> only partially because she gets to name check Mallory Pugh.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://cpblstats.com/cpbl-players-union-sign-collective-bargaining-agreement-cba/">CPBL</a> players and the league have their first CBA, and a sixth team on the way. We hope for a World Baseball Classic sometime soon and we root for a <a href="https://www.spi