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I am a diehard baseball fan and always have been
I hated the '94 strike, but in this one I see the point of a lot of the problems..I agree a luxury tax will help, but they also need more revenue sharing otherwise smaller market teams will be hard pressed to compete with larger market teams...
I do side with the players on some issues...and the owners on others...
The owners are the ones who keep paying the big salaries and then bitch about it....they kept expanding the league to get that $150 per team franchise fee from new teams and diluted the talent pool so that some guy who would be stacking lumber and playing on the company softball team is pitching with a bloated 6.50 ERA and making the league minimum of $200K per year...
It does seem odd with billionaire owners (who can seem to profit at any business except baseball) fighting with millionaire owners...
but as far as blaoted salaries, what is wrong with paying the best players the most money? A-Rod got a 10 year $250 million contract, but if not for him, how many people would be attending Rangers games now? How many asses does he put in seats? He's one of the best if not the best in the game...shouldn't he be paid accordingly? Barry Bonds one of the best ever....maybe he's underpaid? Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez, Curt Shilling, Tom Glavine...the elite of pitching and all certain hall of famers...shouldn't they be commanding and getting the largest salaries?
My problem with salary caps is that it tells a business owner that he can't spend over a certain amount...imagine if there were a porn salary cap and you had to stop earning income at a certain level...and I don't recall a salary cap stopping the Lakers from rolling through the competition last year...
Just because they are in a higher tax bracket, doesn't mean they don't deserve the same labor considerations as the auto workers in Detroit or the steel workers in Pittsburg or even the Wal-Mart employees who are tryin to get some changes brought about....
My favorite argument is "they are getting paid millions to play a kids game" oh really? Since when does a kids game earn several billions per year? These athletes bust their asses night in and night out and only a very tiny percentage ever make it...my friend Lumpy FatFuck on the sofa isn't exactly going to be pitching for the Braves anytime soon...
The sad thing is, even a shitty team can still sell at a whopping profit...I don't see anyone bitching about that....Wayne Herzinga owned the Marlins, spent like a maniac to build this amazing team, won a world series, gutted the team the next year and sold it the next year for a stunning profit...who did the most damage to baseball? him or the "crybaby millionaire players" who accepted the money he was offering?
A strike will most certainly piss me off but in the end, players will come and go, but I will always be a baseball fan....
did anyone see the Little League World Series? Stunning....damn, I love baseball...
football? um, I only watch 2-3 games per year, yet love to bet on it, so weee, gambling season is back.......
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