Will MLB players strike? Do you care?

[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.