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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:36:23 PM EDT
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We can only hope. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:43:12 PM EDT
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The other problem is with the players. They use drugs, start fights, and commit crimes off the court/field.
I personally could care less if all the professional sports all went down the toilet. Come summer, I'm going to go take in a game of the local minor league baseball team, the Windy City Thunderbolts. It is a heck of a lot more fun than going to see MLB anyways. Not only because it costs less, the players are regular folks like you and me. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:45:44 PM EDT
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+1 'cept fer football.  |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:46:48 PM EDT
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Ain't going to happen. They will come to their senses, and it will be like nothing happened. Looked at football and baseball from several years ago. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:47:05 PM EDT
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Ehhh, the morons over there are probably gonna get in a fight with Tagliabue (or whatever his name is) over SOMETHING. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:47:14 PM EDT
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Don't think of it as "killing" Think of it as the natural cycle of business. Kinda like Reagan and the Air Traffic Controllers? Do want to work? THese guys do, we'll hire them for less money, and you can go stand in teh unemployment line. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:49:13 PM EDT
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Yeah, but they all will go down the toilet sometime. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:50:48 PM EDT
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Let me get this straight: Basketball and hockey will just go on hiatus until they can find some "scabs" that can work for less? |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:51:01 PM EDT
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 The problem is the fans! If there was no fan base, there would be no game. If people didn't like professional sports, they wouldn't pay the outrageous ticket and concession costs - hence, no game, no reason to bicker over huge amounts of cash, no incentives to perform better by using performance enhacing drugs, etc., etc. Pro sports will always be around until the fans speak with their dollars and say enough is enough. However, we'll never see the opiate of the masses shunned (you'll see the proof once the NHL comes back and everyone will witness full arenas yet again). Hmm...on that note, how about those baseball salaries? Didn't we have a few strikes with that organization? Yep! And the game is back into full swing. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:51:18 PM EDT
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Professional sports don't seem to be about anything but greed anymore.
What is worse are the parents who allow their kids to ignore education based on the misguided hope that their child's mediocre athletic ability will be worth something after high school. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:53:54 PM EDT
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Good point! They can barely read or write, or use language in an intellegent manner, but they'll just keep thinking that they can get through life thinking they'll hit the NBA. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:56:00 PM EDT
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No money for pro sports from me.
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:56:13 PM EDT
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If the free market was allowed to control, YES. But with the presence of unions, its unliekly. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 2:59:40 PM EDT
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About the only pro sports team that I follow is the Atlanta Falcons considering they recruit most of the Virginia Tech football players. After that, all I watch is golf and nascar. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 3:01:16 PM EDT
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The issue also is these players that make millions of dollars can't even put on a good show.
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Posted: 5/19/2005 3:09:40 PM EDT
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Unless our culture changes, I don't see it happening in near future at all. Matter of fact, it's a reverse of what you're thinking. What I see, are the cost of buying/building a team getting higher; TV/cable contracts are getting bigger; the big three (NFL, NBA, MLB) are getting more powerful. 82nd mentioned about the fan, and this is the root of the equation...But I don't see fans band together and boycott the game. It comes down to culture and the ways of life here for a lot of people in US. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 3:14:30 PM EDT
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Who knows if greed will kill pro sports.
But those fuckers are paid WAY too much. They need to get back to their roots. I'm 48, and play baseball in the MSBL - cost me $300.00 this year to play about 25 games. All major league ball players need to play in local leagues for a while, and realize what the sport is really about. |
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Posted: 5/19/2005 3:22:14 PM EDT
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It already has as far as I'm concerned. The greed and blatant cheating (steroids)plus the 'thug' mentality that many of the players exhibit has serverd to assure that I will no longer watch any pro sporting events. (Hell it's already been years) And I don't even miss it!!!........ 
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Posted: 5/19/2005 3:38:10 PM EDT
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The only sport I know of that seems to avoid these problems is Major League Soccer. A very humble salary cap is in place, and all player contracts are owned by the league, not the teams. There have been very very few incidents of criminal allegations in the 10 yr history of MLS. One coach was fined for mooning an opposing team fan after 90 mins of heckling and abuse a couple years ago.He was fined by the league. ( Ray Hudson, former coach of Miami Fusion and DC United) The players in MLS make a practice of being very accessible before and after matches for autographs etc., and DC United players frequently attend our supporter club parties and tailgates. There is very little of the high school football hero/superjock/above the law attitudes so prevelant in other sports. DaddyDett La Barra Brava Vamos United! |
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