Good thing negotiations were concluded before the players were able to go on strike.
How do you feel about baseball when players and teams have a hard time reaching negoations?
2006-10-23 08:02:10 · 8 answers · asked by Neea_Gastino 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Greg R & Draciron you both have good points.
2006-10-24 04:08:18 · update #1
I would continue watching and keep gong to the minor league and NCAA games in my area.
2006-10-23 08:04:20 · answer #1 · answered by Colin L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I supported the first strike. I almost quit watching baseball over the second strike.
Baseball HAS to reduce salaries and costs if it is to go international. If MLB is to surivive as a major sport it needs to go international. Long term there's more money in doing so. Short term players need to drop from 15 mill a year to 3 mill a year for the superstarts. Even if a player only, I mean only makes 3 mill a year for 5 years. After taxes and agent that's at least 3 mill take home. If the player only invests 1 mill of that how can they not be set for life? 5 mill, 10 mill is there really a difference in standard of living? Is it worth that ego to make it where families can no longer attend games?
I used to watch at least 20 games a year at the ball park. I won't even consider taking the family any more. Just too expensive. I go to one or two a year now. Baseball attendance has greyed up and gone affluent. That can't last. Without the youth being there at the ballpark, without the families the future of the game is very grim. The current salaries and operating expenses are literal economic suicide.
Were the players to go on strike again it'd be a final nail. Why bother watching when the sport is doomed. My father a life long baseball fan was so turned off by the last strike he never again watched baseball. I'll have to side with him if there is another strike. Beyond the futility of rooting for a sport that killed itself, the sheer greed will be more than even I can stomach.
2006-10-24 04:52:47 · answer #2 · answered by draciron 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't care. You got Bonds, who acts 13 years old, with too much money and drugs in his system, who doesn't care one bit about baseball. You have many more who cheat, while MLB looks the other way ( Rogers), and to me it is a waste of time and money. If baseball players still played for the team where they live, that would be one thing. But why root for the Yankees when those guys come from everywhere but New York ( usually a Spanish speaking country )? The only thing about the Yankees being from New York is the uniforms they wear. Next year, who knows where they will be or who Steinbrenner will spend his millions to guarantee a World Series victory? I'd rather go watch high school baseball, there is more at stake and everyone lives around here.
2006-10-23 16:31:56 · answer #3 · answered by commonsense 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there's little else for the players to gain. their union is probably the most powerful one in professional sports. all they can really do is to prevent backsliding to the days when future hall of famers were paid a pittance while the owners profited off of their work.
2006-10-23 16:34:25 · answer #4 · answered by lenny 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can go on strike for all I care. Millionaires whining about billionaires. Neither side has the moral high ground.
2006-10-23 15:05:18 · answer #5 · answered by Your Best Fiend 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would celebrate... I would rather watch Curling than Baseball... it's more exciting.
2006-10-23 15:09:51 · answer #6 · answered by redheadedcyclone 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just spend more time on Yahoo answers!!!!
2006-10-23 20:02:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Id probably kill myself...
2006-10-23 15:57:17 · answer #8 · answered by kwjinx 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋