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Posted: 8/16/2002 10:05:21 AM EDT
[#1]
Yeah... this will suck ass. The layoff plans/freezez hit the table around midnight(EST)
I got the call at 06:30(PST) This will be a sad day... Thank god I'm a consultant! I will still work for MLB, cuz why? I'm not a capital expense! wheeee! Now who's gonna come to any games [:(] ... you think they woulda learned. |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 10:08:30 AM EDT
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A strike would be the best thing for baseball right now. The fans punishment to the teams might be the only thing that can save the game.
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Posted: 8/16/2002 10:10:18 AM EDT
[#3]
[sleep] I didn't care the last time either.
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Posted: 8/16/2002 10:34:06 AM EDT
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Quoted: [sleep] I didn't care the last time either. I agree. With ticket prices and food and drink prices, going to a game is almost out of reach for the average fan already. They should disband the teams, sell the stadium land that the public is paying for and put the public out of their misery. As a result of unquenchable greed, very few baseball fans are left anyway. |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 10:34:49 AM EDT
[#5]
IMO both sides deserve each other and deserve ehat they get.
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Posted: 8/16/2002 10:36:15 AM EDT
[#6]
America needs to let go of our favorite past time.
Wake up call for the players needs to happen. PEOPLE, DONT GO TO BASBALL GAMES!! Show them that 1-5 million a year is much better then NOTHING! |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 10:43:08 AM EDT
[#7]
[sleep]
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Posted: 8/16/2002 10:52:31 AM EDT
[#8]
Good.. maybe something better will come on instead of baseball... something about guns..
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Posted: 8/16/2002 11:00:09 AM EDT
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Quoted: America needs to let go of our favorite past time. Wake up call for the players needs to happen. PEOPLE, DONT GO TO BASBALL GAMES!! Show them that 1-5 million a year is much better then NOTHING! It's these asshole players being greedy. They see these figures, and well you know we should all split it evenly - is their mentality. Picture if you will 35K (Rounding +/-2k) people; each spending $11.27 (Average/net) now multiply that with the homestands; 68(65-70)* *Excluding All Star, Division, or WorSer. Do the math. Per game = $394,450 X Homestands(68) Concessions/Ticketing = $26,822,600/per annum* *Excluding special events That is net profit, After the bills are paid Food/beverage/ticketing) they bring about 30Mil[+/-]. Now add this on... they don't tell me these figures... -Retail outlets (Regional/stadium) -Now we throw in advertising (radio/TV/infield/outfield) -Rights for radio to play by play -Rights for fox sportsnet -Licensing (all teams/logos owned by MLB) kickback -ESPN Highlite fee -Japan Broadcast rights -" " HD -Diamond club (preferred seating) +$$ -Suite Dues -Suites (+catering fees x 20 suites) Bah. the players are fucking idiots. Talk about biting the hand. They should be happy they still have a parking place. [puke] - |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 11:07:31 AM EDT
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Geez, modern baseball sounds like our modern economy!
Not enough money to go around and yet the show keeps rolling all the while expenses keep going up. Amazing. |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 11:08:04 AM EDT
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They truly have got to be kidding me. The average salary of a ballplayer is 2.3 MILLION dollars. I can't believe these pampered premadonnas actually have the audacity to strike. Someone needs to remind them that our economy is in shambles, people have lost their retirements savings, we're in a global war and many have suffered this past year. All the likes of which these 'ballplayers' will never experience in their pampered careers. I don't know who to hate more, the ballplayers who strike or the moronic fans who continue to patronize and attend the games....
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Posted: 8/16/2002 11:21:45 AM EDT
[#12]
Please lord let them strike! Maybe then i mif=ght be able to find something worth watching on tv.
Why the fuck anyone cares about america's most boring sport is beyond me. Golf is bad enough but at least it requires a little skill. mike |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 11:32:44 AM EDT
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Just one more example of a union screwing up business.
But in the end, who cares about baseball? I know I don't. |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 11:39:47 AM EDT
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Baseball is dead. The players are just riding it's bloated corpse.
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Posted: 8/16/2002 11:46:40 AM EDT
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The worst thing we, as a nation, could ever do is give a bunch of retards (baseball players) millions of dollars so they can run amock. Hopefully, professional baseball will collapse and these mental midgets can go back to the carwash and Wendy's.
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Posted: 8/16/2002 11:52:54 AM EDT
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I actually enjoy baseball...but I will not be sorry to see the strike. The last time there was a strike, the minor leagues got such a boost. That is what baseball is all about...spending a hot, humid summer evening out under the stars, watching all the kids running around the stadium while you chill with some good friends. Best of all, minor leagus games will set you back a whopping 5-10 dollars per ticket.
I say let the big boys strike...I will continue to enjoy the minor league games. sloth |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 11:56:52 AM EDT
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yanno what I say?
Fuck the bastards. They get PAID to play a fucking game, and they want to bitch about it? FUCK 'EM. |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 11:59:17 AM EDT
[#18]
I agree with you guys. Professional baseball sucks, and the players are overpaid drug addicts.
That said, it was once a great game, just like football and other pro sports. What killed them was TV, skyrocketing revenues, and skyrocketing salaries. As Paul Simon put it, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 12:03:53 PM EDT
[#19]
I don't care if they strike for a hundred years.
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Posted: 8/16/2002 12:06:15 PM EDT
[#20]
Quoted: Just one more example of a union screwing up business. I don't know about that. I think the fans are ultimately to blame. As long as they patronize the games and feed the players egos (and wallets) the players will continue to demand more. After all, dDo you honestly think ball players would demand such a high salary if fans weren't willing to pay for it. As long as we're willing to pay for $8 hotdogs, they'll continue to demand more.. |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 12:06:21 PM EDT
[#21]
Screw them all. I hope nobody goes back to watching the game.
You know you just can't live these days on a million dollars. Baseball first. Next basketball. Losers. |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 12:08:07 PM EDT
[#22]
Soccer. Now, more than ever.
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Posted: 8/16/2002 12:34:33 PM EDT
[#23]
and the problem with this is?
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Posted: 8/16/2002 12:40:55 PM EDT
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Quoted: I actually enjoy baseball...but I will not be sorry to see the strike. The last time there was a strike, the minor leagues got such a boost. That is what baseball is all about...spending a hot, humid summer evening out under the stars, watching all the kids running around the stadium while you chill with some good friends. Best of all, minor leagus games will set you back a whopping 5-10 dollars per ticket. I say let the big boys strike...I will continue to enjoy the minor league games. sloth Minor League games are great just the way the are, you and I don't need all of the overflow form the Bigs spilling over and making it an oredeal to go to a game. I like that I can be sitting around a 6:00 and decide to go to the 7:30 game, walk up to the ticket office and sit front row, down either baseline, or if I want, plop my ass 10 rows back behind the plate. Let the ignorant masses stay that way, so I can relax, stretch out and enjoy the game. |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 12:42:08 PM EDT
[#25]
Hell,I love Baseball, but if they strike again, I'll be the first one to drive a nail in their coffin. Oh well, still have Hockey. Football plain sucks. Basketball- don't even get me started.
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Posted: 8/16/2002 12:55:02 PM EDT
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I don't understand why the players want to strike, they make more money in a year than most of us will in several lifetimes. F'em!
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Posted: 8/16/2002 1:27:51 PM EDT
[#27]
Strike... strike... strike...
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Posted: 8/16/2002 2:58:19 PM EDT
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Dateline USA October 2005-
Many overpaid under educated adult children lamented the passing of the Last professional baseball season in the USA. The National pass time has passed and these guys will have to actually get a job. In a side note all of the Major sports networks announced that they will be airing Summer Biathalon in the time slots previously reserved for the late game since they already had the cameras and the former stadiums were revamped into shooting ranges. Baseball declined in popularity due to high costs associated with unionism and several strikes by the former millionaire unionists. |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 3:46:43 PM EDT
[#29]
Geez, a guy can make over a mil to warm a bench his whole career and has the nerve to say he isn't making enough!!!!!!!
My wife's cousin married a guy who got picked up by the Rangers and got a huge signing bonus and gets alot of money, and he played 3 games 2 years ago when their star SS got injured. But he makes tons of money still doing squat. Screw 'em. Salary caps of $200,000 per player. End of story. Then we wouldn't have the problem of teams going under, or having to move, or anything. They get to keep their endorsements, and a cut of all licensed clothing with their name, but no more salary. And during their playing life, the team covers medical for them and their family. One shot at drug rehab, and no felony convictions. First one and your contract is terminated. Wait, now it sounds like a job!!! |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 7:52:58 PM EDT
[#30]
Quoted: Quoted: Just one more example of a union screwing up business. I don't know about that. I think the fans are ultimately to blame. |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 7:55:58 PM EDT
[#31]
A very messed up situation to say the least.
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Posted: 8/16/2002 8:04:54 PM EDT
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This is the most intelligent thing I have heard all month! Hydguy, you are a prophet. Thanks, Bob Quoted: Geez, a guy can make over a mil to warm a bench his whole career and has the nerve to say he isn't making enough!!!!!!! My wife's cousin married a guy who got picked up by the Rangers and got a huge signing bonus and gets alot of money, and he played 3 games 2 years ago when their star SS got injured. But he makes tons of money still doing squat. Screw 'em. Salary caps of $200,000 per player. End of story. Then we wouldn't have the problem of teams going under, or having to move, or anything. They get to keep their endorsements, and a cut of all licensed clothing with their name, but no more salary. And during their playing life, the team covers medical for them and their family. One shot at drug rehab, and no felony convictions. First one and your contract is terminated. Wait, now it sounds like a job!!! |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 8:05:00 PM EDT
[#33]
Its a good thing its almost Football season!!!!
GO BEARS!!! |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 10:15:10 PM EDT
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In my business I get to meet a lot of celebs and most of them are sports figures. One of them was Kenny Bernstein ... cool! and so anyway I got to meet Rex Hudler one day and as he and I were talking I said "To be honest with you, I was so discouraged by the last strike I havent gone back to a single game" He talked me into going to see a game or two and so my daughter and I have been going to Angels games ever since. (That was 3 years ago)
Now they want to pull this crap AGAIN?? Did they not learn?? Hey I enjoy a night out at the ballpark with the family, watch a game and just RELAX. Now, from what I hear that the players this time are NOT HAPPY about a strike and the union is calling the shots. How does that saying go?? "Screw me once shame on you, screw me twice shame on me" Well, MLB got a second chance with me. Strike again, I'M DONE! |
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Posted: 8/16/2002 10:28:00 PM EDT
[#35]
I'd rather watch Drag Racing anyway.
Or Gun Shows. |
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