Will MLB players strike? Do you care?

[bigschweeler]

If they strike again, which is rumored to happen in August, will you go back to the game again when the strike is resolved? Can the owners and players continue to have labor difficulties and expect the fans to return?

If they strike again I see it as having devastating consequences to the game. Attendance is already down at most parks this year, the talk of contraction has hurt the league, and there doesn't seem to be the kind of record breaking accomplishments this year (home run race) that have helped bring the fans back in the past.

Thoughts?

 

[WODIN]

MLB is on the verge of imploding. I hope it does. Fuck I'm sick of all the bullshit and drama. Lost me on the last strike.

 

[Code]

I hope so, I'd actually follow it if they brought in scabs.
I still wouldn't watch it, too boring.

The NFL season was cool with the scabs playing.

 

[TheProject]

The last strike killed my interest in baseball for several years. They do it again, I can't say that I'd regain my interest.

Get revenue sharing, get salary caps, and fix the game.

 

[bigschweeler]

MLB has us by the balls between the end of May/beginning of June until the first week in September.

What sports options do we have?

Tennis?
Golf?
Arena Football?

 

[FLASHMAN1]

MLB is on the verge of imploding. I hope it does. Fuck I'm sick of all the bullshit and drama. Lost me on the last strike.

Me too, I used to love baseball... I never got back into it after the last strike... I'm in a union, so I know what it's like to HAVE to fight to get good salaries, benefits, etc... These fuckers make MILLIONS to PLAY A GAME and they're whining??? please... My union's motto is, "united we bargain, divided we beg" and for most BLUE COLLAR workers, that's an absolute truth, but for these guys, it's just ridiculous... to all MLB players that go on strike!!!

 

[bigmean]

I think they should strike every year. The MLB season is way to long as it is. Same goes for the NHL.

 

[bigschweeler]

The MLB season is way to long as it is. Same goes for the NHL.

And the NBA.

 

[rudedawg]

LMAO at the "should strike every year because the season is too long anyway" That was funny.

Same ole bullshit......... owners claim they aren't making money yet they won't show their books and teams are being sold to investors for 10 times more than they paid for them. Why would someone want to buy a business that failed so miserably??????? These are the same guys that keep signing guys to these contracts.

I am going to be a scab if they strike. Fuck the union it didn't do shit for me anyway!!!!!

"there doesn't seem to be the kind of record breaking accomplishments this year (home run race) that have helped bring the fans back in the past"

too early to start speculating on records.

Listening to Schilling on talk radio yesterday they (the players) have no other options than to strike.

 

[rudedawg]

Here is a good link for the haters:

http://sunfive.fresno.edu/~morris/nomlb.htm

 

[bigschweeler]

Same ole bullshit......... owners claim they aren't making money yet they won't show their books and teams are being sold to investors for 10 times more than they paid for them. Why would someone want to buy a business that failed so miserably??????? These are the same guys that keep signing guys to these contracts.

Exactly. Were you listening to Gambo and Ash on 910 yesterday?

The question is will the fans come back? I don't think they sympathize with the players or the owners, and as such, just have growing dissatisfaction with the entire enterprise. Baseball probably can survive another strike based on past history, but it will hurt the game more than the last one.

 

[HighIntensity]

Baseballs a joke......

look at sports like this

Football rocks the entire season-real national past time

Basketball- First month and playoffs are good, say what you want about basketball the playoffs have been exciteing this year.

Hockey- sport blows, but once in a while I will catch a good playoff game, and wings vrs. avs is always fun.

 

[slickdadd]

Baseballs a joke......

look at sports like this

Football rocks the entire season-real national past time

Basketball- First month and playoffs are good, say what you want about basketball the playoffs have been exciteing this year.

Hockey- sport blows, but once in a while I will catch a good playoff game, and wings vrs. avs is always fun.

Hockey is a good game. I have become more interested in it then that of baseball in the past few years.
As for baseball, When the yankees win every year basically, i begin to lose interest. The regular season is an incredible bore. I've never been a big MLB fan. I hardly ever catch mlb playoff games. I watched the series last year, just because it was awesome, but now they are totally negating how great that was with all the shit now. Too bad.

 

[the nature boy]

What sports options do we have?

masterbation.


I agree with project, they need a salary cap. big time. look at what its done for the NFL.

 

[rudedawg]

Exactly. Were you listening to Gambo and Ash on 910 yesterday?

The question is will the fans come back? I don't think they sympathize with the players or the owners, and as such, just have growing dissatisfaction with the entire enterprise. Baseball probably can survive another strike based on past history, but it will hurt the game more than the last one.

Yep I was listening to Gambo and Ash. Schilling is a good dude, or he seems like it anyway. Pretty much tells it like it is without the TOTAL politically correctness.

For sure if they strike (which I would say is 99.99% going to happen) it will take a whole lot of incentives for the fans to come back.......although we all did after the last one. Maybe they can get all this shit straight so the average Joe Blow can afford to take his family of four to the game without it costing $100.

 

[bigschweeler]

masterbation.


I agree with project, they need a salary cap. big time. look at what its done for the NFL.

That's a sport?

I agree with the salary cap. There is too much of a competitive imbalance between teams today. When the Yankees can go out and sign their own TV deal, have the largest payroll in the league, and win 5 out of the last 6 World Series, there is something wrong.

The Twins, Royals, Expos, Tigers, Pirates and others in the league can't keep their star players because they jump ship once they've become established.

At least in the NFL the salary cap creates an even playing field.

 

[bigschweeler]

Yep I was listening to Gambo and Ash. Schilling is a good dude, or he seems like it anyway. Pretty much tells it like it is without the TOTAL politically correctness.

Schill seems like a good dude. Hell he owns Rottweilers so he's gotta be pretty cool.

What was the name of the guy who was running the player's association from '66 into the 80s or 90s? He has some interesting things to say. He was probably still there when you were playing, right?

He definitely dodged the salary cap/revenue sharing question in that he said that something like 160 or 170 million dollars changed hands last year from the larger market clubs to the smaller ones. That doesn't exactly address the teams having even payrolls.

 

[rudedawg]

Schill seems like a good dude. Hell he owns Rottweilers so he's gotta be pretty cool.

What was the name of the guy who was running the player's association from '66 into the 80s or 90s? He has some interesting things to say. He was probably still there when you were playing, right?

He definitely dodged the salary cap/revenue sharing question in that he said that something like 160 or 170 million dollars changed hands last year from the larger market clubs to the smaller ones. That doesn't exactly address the teams having even payrolls.

Man I am not that old.......I played from 88 - 95 It was Fehr then too....... Is it Miller you are thinking of?????

 

[bigschweeler]

Yeah that was his name. He was on 910 yesterday after Schill I think.

 

[Boss101]

Baseball needs a salary cap or it will go nowhere. I think most fans are sick of players making 25 million a year and then going on strike. It took baseball almost 4 years to recover from the 94 strike thanks to McGwire and Sosa breaking the single season homerun record. If the season keeps going without a strike I'm hoping for an Expos Twins World Series.

 

[bigschweeler]

Yeah - Expos - Twins - would be awesome. Then they would have to decide to contract the World Series champions!

I was hoping to see the Charlotte Hornets do the same thing this year in the NBA, but alas, they lost the series to the Nets last night.

 

[rudedawg]

Baseball needs a salary cap or it will go nowhere. I think most fans are sick of players making 25 million a year and then going on strike. It took baseball almost 4 years to recover from the 94 strike thanks to McGwire and Sosa breaking the single season homerun record. If the season keeps going without a strike I'm hoping for an Expos Twins World Series.

Dick Cheney made $38 million last year.
Bank One CEO made $29.8 million in only 8 months of "work" last year.
George Lucas makes $250 million/yr.
Oprah Winfrey makes $150 million/yr.
Martin Lawrence ,YA HIM, makes $33 million/yr
Tiger Woods $53 million/yr
Tyson makes $44 million/yr
Keanu Reeves $25.5 million
Rosie O'Donnell $25 million......now there is a waste of money

BTW you do realize that if the players go on strike they don't make money right? Not all of them make anywhere close to that $25 million/yr. The majority is in the $200 - 500K range.

Salary ranges

In millions 2002 2001
$15 to $22 6 2
$10 to $15 19 22
$5 to $10 121 118
$1 to $5 267 284
$.5 to $1 106 92
$.2 to $.5 330 339