Baseball strike poll *inspired by Shep*

[Dan Murphy]

With the a baseball strike looming tonight (sounds scary, huh? ) what is your thought???

 

[EROS]

No way, no how. Cool heads will prevail .

Hey, if they STRIKE they'll eventually have to reach a compromise down the road . Why not get it done............NOW!!!!!!!!!! ???????

 

[goofygirl]

I think there will be one. It dosent sound like either side wants to give in.

My BF is at tonight's Phillies game, probably the last game this year.

All I can say is.....

"ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL???!!! "

 

[Goofyposter]

perhaps I dernt understand all the issues...but.

I have ZERO sympathies fer anyone that' gitt'in paid 10 + MILLION dollars a year...to play A GAME!.....I, frankly hope they strike....and that the fans show their displeasure by avoiding games for a year or two...it's rediculious!!!

 

[EROS]

GOOFY, it's all about SUPPLY AND DEMAND .

There are only about 800 hitters in the Major Leagues who can actually put a bat on a fastball going over 90mph.

If there were ONLY 800 people in this country with the same profession as yourself, wouldn't there be a vast premium attached for securing their services???? Who knows???? Perhaps YOU would be getting $10,000,000/year ...........

 

[Kteacher]

Gee- I figured Red Sox fans would be hoping for a strike, what with being 8 games behind......

 

[EROS]

Kteacher, I've had this feeling that THIS is OUR YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .

Of course, I've been saying the same thing for the last 25 years ...........

 

[Poohbear123]

Who CARES?? NOT me thats for sure! I hate ALL SPORTS due to the fact they are ALL over paid Convicts!

 

[olena]

Of the whole bunch, the owners amaze me. They're really good at making the players look bad to ignorant fans. It helps that some of them control major media conglomerates.

As for this luxury tax thing, the teams with the highest payrolls pay a tax that goes to teams with the lowest payroll. Sounds good in theory, especially if those teams pump it into their own payrolls to develop more competitive teams. In the past few years, many owners have just taken this money and put it in their pockets! The Expos are a prime example. That doesn't seem fair to me. It's like a reward for being a cheapskate!

The players Union want that money to go specifically back to the team. I'm with them on that one.

As for their salaries, I don't care how much these players make. They don't make nearly as much as their owners. For over 100 years, the players were slaves to the owners' plantations.

Honestly though, I can't take sides. BOTH sides have greedy tendancies and mutual distrust. And Bud Selig is the wrong person to be commissioner. I don't know how things can be worked out with that mix. The last time, it took an arbitrator to end the strike.

As for my feelings, I won't be excited to see them strike. I'll be back, as a fan. It's a game, but it's also a business. It has been since, the Reds were formed in 1869. That's the way it is, has been and always will be and I accept that. So I'll just wait for things to settle and baseball to go on. And it will. Worse things have happened and it has endured. If there are fewer fans as a result, that's fine with me. I won't miss them.

 

[newmousecateer]

Frankly, I don't care anymore. These guys are making millions and they are still whinning and crying?

Oh, to be so poorly mistreated as they are is only a dream of mine.

 

[KimRaye]

Local sportscaster tonight mentioned that the players will probably extend the date! That'll really frost me, even if I do have tickets to a double header on Monday, I just want this over, one way or the other, tomorrow.

 

[Rajah]

Originally posted by Goofyposter
perhaps I dernt understand all the issues...but.

I have ZERO sympathies fer anyone that' gitt'in paid 10 + MILLION dollars a year...to play A GAME!.....I, frankly hope they strike....and that the fans show their displeasure by avoiding games for a year or two...it's rediculious!!!

Ohhh, someone else who shares my thoughts! I totally agree, Goofy.

 

[Kteacher]

So- what happenened??? Can't find it anywhere in the news....

 

[bumcat]

Give me football any time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



But I hope they don't strike (for a selfish reason). My dh received free tickets for tonights game, he is taking the kids and I am suppose to get the house to myself tonight which doesn't happen very often. I will be heartbroken if they can't go. LOL!

 

[bumcat]

Uh, eros. Could you put that second sentence in big letters I can't hardly see it. LOL!