Jaded-Fan
Registered User
I applaud the owners. They are setting an example for other sports. And for those who are saying otherwise, no, the players have not moved from their position, nor have the owners for that matter. One side or the other is going to have to give. If the players accept a Cap in principle but want a higher number than $38 million that is movement. Their other moves were band-aids that do not address the real long term problems.
If the owners hold out and win their Cap, I suspect that we could see other dominos fall, including eventually the almighty baseball union, and in the end that will be good for the fans everywhere as you will have sports righting themselves after decades of allowing the sports to become farces in more and more cities, and we the biggest clowns of all for paying outrageous sums to watch. Tell me the last time the Yankees or Boston missed the baseball post season entirely? How about Detroit or Colorado in hockey? That means that each year a third of the musical chairs are already taken in baseball in the American League. Hockey only avoids this by letting half the teams in, but the finals seem to have the top spenders in more years than not so the problem is the same.
I admit freely the owners are no friends of the fans, but in this case our desires dovetail. A fixed sport. If it enables owners to make a profit too where they can not now, I can live with that.
If the owners hold out and win their Cap, I suspect that we could see other dominos fall, including eventually the almighty baseball union, and in the end that will be good for the fans everywhere as you will have sports righting themselves after decades of allowing the sports to become farces in more and more cities, and we the biggest clowns of all for paying outrageous sums to watch. Tell me the last time the Yankees or Boston missed the baseball post season entirely? How about Detroit or Colorado in hockey? That means that each year a third of the musical chairs are already taken in baseball in the American League. Hockey only avoids this by letting half the teams in, but the finals seem to have the top spenders in more years than not so the problem is the same.
I admit freely the owners are no friends of the fans, but in this case our desires dovetail. A fixed sport. If it enables owners to make a profit too where they can not now, I can live with that.