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        <title><![CDATA[Mark Teixeira’s MLB proposal stance ‘just so stupid’: Dodgers’ Alex Wood]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alex Wood hasn&#8217;t lost his fastball, even two months after coronavirus suspended MLB&#8217;s season.</p><p>The Dodgers pitcher reacted to Mark Teixeira&#8217;s suggestion that players should take less money than expected <strong>to play baseball this year</strong>, slamming him for the take on Twitter.</p><p>&#8220;I refuse to judge someone I don’t really know off of one comment but damn this statement is just so stupid lol,&#8221; Wood tweeted Tuesday night.</p><p>Wood &#8212; who was set to make $4 million this season &#8212; fired back at Teixeira as MLB began to negotiate with the Players Association over a deal that would try to restart the season. The expected hangup is the money, as the owners want to have a 50-50 revenue share with the players instead of the prorated salaries they agreed to in a deal in March.</p><figure id="attachment_15652849"  class="wp-caption alignnone aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/mark-teixeira-alex-wood.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/mark-teixeira-alex-wood.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/mark-teixeira-alex-wood.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Mark Teixeira, Alex Wood</span><span class="credit">Paul J. Bereswill; Getty Images</span></figcaption></figure><p>Teixeira, who made more than $200 million across his 13-year career, did his former teammates and fellow players no favors when he encouraged them to take the deal.</p><p>“Players need to understand that if they turn this deal down and shut the sport down, they’re not making a cent,” the former Yankees first baseman and now ESPN analyst said <strong>on &#8220;Get Up&#8221;</strong> on Tuesday morning. “I would rather make pennies on the dollar and give hope to people and play baseball than not make anything and lose an entire year off their career.”</p><p>Teixeira said he was making an exception by not siding with the players.</p><p>&#8220;This is unprecedented in the history of the Major League Baseball Players Association,&#8221; Teixeira said. &#8220;And every other year, I would stand together and say, &#8216;The owners aren&#8217;t going to do this to us and we&#8217;re going to get paid our full fare. If I&#8217;m going to put myself out there, I&#8217;m going to get paid a full day&#8217;s wage.&#8217;</p><p>&#8220;The problem is you have people all over the world taking paycuts, losing their jobs, losing their lives. Front-line workers putting their lives at risk. These are unprecedented times, and this is the one time I would advocate for the players accepting a deal like this. A 50-50 split of revenues is not that crazy.</p><p>&#8220;If I&#8217;m a player, I don&#8217;t like it, but I&#8217;m going to do whatever I have to do to play and that means taking this deal.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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