Will the greed on both sides mean that Major League Baseball

Jan 5, 2022, 5:48 PM

actually kills itself with labor strife this time around?

It took a steroided up Home Run Chase between Mark MacQuire and Sammy Sosa in 1998 to bring baseball back from the doldrums after the greed forced cancellation of the Playoffs and World Series in 1994 because of a Players Strike. This carried into 1995, forcing a reduced schedule once an agreement was finally hammered out. The fans didn't really come back until that home run bonanza in 1998.

You would think that the two parties, ownership and the MLBPA, would have learned their respective lessons, but NOOOOOOO! The enmity this time around seems to be even worse than back then. Both sides accuse the other of flat out lying about revenues, and as of right now refuse to even negotiate.

What you really have there is a bunch of spoiled millionaires (the players) arguing with a bunch of spoiled billionaires (the owners). Only in this case, the players seem to hold an inordinate amount of power in their hands. The MLBPA has got to be the strongest union out there.

And, guess what the root problem is, that they are trying to negotiate toward? They want a reduced number of years before a player can enter free agency. Right now, the minimum is six years, they want that lowered to at least five, four if they could get it.

Well, guess what is causing all the wild chaos in COLLEGE FOOTBALL right now? TOTALLY UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENCY AFTER ZERO YEARS service.

I don't blame baseball owners at all for trying to keep as much of their teams income as they can. They had to lay out one heyall of an investment to buy or build those franchises, and they SHOULD make a profit before the players do.

As of right now, there is no salary cap in baseball, and the PLayers Union doesn't want that either. As the other two major pro sports have learned in this country, you HAVE to have a hard salary cap at some point, or the players will take ALL the money, leaving the owners with a loss for their multimillion dollar investments.

Now, I am not a MLB fanatic, but for those who are, you might as well get ready to have a summer WITHOUT the Boys of Summer. Greed says you can't have it, again.

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I can't even say it. If the mid and smaller market teams would just stick together some substantive change that could really help the sport could occur. Number 1: Real revenue sharing. The disparity in payrolls is astronomical. You drop free agency to 4-5 years and small market teams are dead. They can't hang on to star players now, and you want to cut the time they actually have them at a decent price after many years of development. In the NFL, Kansas City and NY have the same payroll. Every team can sign elite free agents. MLB is about the big TV markets hoarding the stars. Cleveland, KC, Cincy, Pittsburgh and a slew of others have to strike gold with young talent, flip it, then hope they strike gold in the trades.

It's amazing teams like Tampa, Oakland, Cleveland have been as competitive as they have been

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