Maverick NFL Owners like Jerry Jones still have to abide by some standards but Baseball has no standards and that suits everyone just fine - but the game is losing popularity and the foreign born players plus the steroids issue continues to alienate fans from the game.
2007-05-31 11:30:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
Selig used steroids to make the owners richer. The owners dumped Fay Vincent because they were losing money. As the owners made more money, the players wanted their piece of the pie as well which resulted in the unfortunate work stoppage of 1994. To ensure that the owners wouldn't lose money, Bonds, McGuire, Sosa and others took steroids which allowed long-time records to be broken like Roger Maris' 61 Home Runs. Now, the owners have their eyes set on Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak and singles hitters like Ichiro and others are striving to get that 57 game hitting streak going. While MLB's attendance numbers are growing, NASCAR's attendance numbers are soaring through the roof. There are 43 racing teams accountable to the CEO of NASCAR and every driver is a free agent - other than tragic deaths, the sport continues to grow and prosper. I used to like baseball until Selig and his greedy friends ruined it for me. Name the last small market team to win the World Series....
2007-05-31 15:53:29 · update #1
A no nonsense owner would help, but it will take years upon years to fix baseball. Selig and previous owners made the players union way too strong. They were so scared of a player's strike that nothing really got done to balance out the financial situation at the collective bargaining agreement. I do applaud his changing of the previous weak anti-steriod policy, however steriods being in the game so long was a problem that was allowed to flourish in the game for years because they chose to turn a blind eye.
Look at the NFL. With the salary cap, every team has a chance to win. Their drug policy is so strict that players are even punished for drugs that do not enhance their perforamance. The NHL sacrificed one season to ensure that small market teams would have as equal chances of winning the cup as the big market teams who were destroying the game and the parity in the league.
It won't be an overnight fix, but I can be sure that Selig is happy with the league right now because the Yankees haven't won in years and they are in a big slump.
2007-05-31 15:40:26 · answer #1 · answered by Mark Y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You make your question sound like it is a given fact when in reality the opposite is true. You may not like Selig, for whatever reason, but the game has done very well under his command. It is not losing popularity and, in fact, MLB is setting attendance records and continuing to grow every year. How can you say the game has no standards when it continues to operate with some of the most ridged standards of any major sport. Players in MBL from other countries add to the game and those that believe otherwise are in a small minority. Of course baseball has its share of problems and the use of drugs is one of them. It is a sign of the times and they will deal with it just like every other sport must do. It sounds to me like you are a big NFL fan trying to dump on baseball which is fine, but it would help your point of view if you got your facts straight.
2007-05-31 19:10:35 · answer #2 · answered by Frizzer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh-huh, sure, that's why attendance keeps going up every year.
MLB, under the Seligula regime, has gone from profitable to filthy-rich profitable. I don't know what you're trying to imply by the "foreign born players" comment but international players tend to expand the overall audience of baseball; any domestic shrinkage is more than overcome by more eyes tuning in overseas.
Selig has helped make baseball owners even richer, and assisted more than half of them to getting new parks mainly paid for through public monies. They have no basis for firing him.
And in the owner's suite, nothing talks like munny.
2007-05-31 18:37:12 · answer #3 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell, the corpse of Kenesaw Mountain Landis could do a better job than Spineless Selig.
2007-05-31 18:51:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That will never happen - the MLB players union will not allow it. We would have another strike if the owners tried to do that, the players would not allow it in the collective bargaining agreement.
2007-05-31 18:39:47 · answer #5 · answered by Chongo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think football has no standard they have shaw marion getting a slap on the wrist even though he tested possible and admitted to steriods
2007-05-31 18:56:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anybody would be better than Selig.
2007-05-31 18:36:16 · answer #7 · answered by Sharon S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see how Goodell does with this Dog fighting thing, then ask this question again.
2007-05-31 18:35:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep,less people will want to take steroids or start brawls.
2007-05-31 19:29:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea
2007-05-31 18:33:32 · answer #10 · answered by Philip P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋