All The Owners Are So Bad In Multiple Ways - Work Stoppage 2027 Style

[We Got The Whole 9]

[Stratos]

8 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

you are a horsefeathers idiot. 

Cry harder.

[CubinNY]

10 minutes ago, Stratos said:

Cry harder.

I'm not crying, you horsefeathers idiot. I'm merely pointing out that you are a horsefeathers idiot. 

[Stratos]

4 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

I'm not crying, you horsefeathers idiot. I'm merely pointing out that you are a horsefeathers idiot. 

 Don't make me tap the sign....

[Tryptamine]

1 hour ago, Stratos said:

This is exactly right.

The fans should be interested in their own interests.  Which means what is good for their team and the game (their product).

A work stoppage is bad for the fans and the game.

The Dodgers buying championships is bad for every fan of every other team, including Cubs fans.  The system needs some reform, i couldn't care less who that hurts or benefits between players or owners.  Ideally a fair deal is reached where players don't lose any piece of the pie but the pie is more evenly distributed between players on different teams.

Taking the viewpoint of, as far as I'm concerned everyone else can get horsefeathered, as long as I enjoy myself is not an exactly enlightened way to watch baseball.

[Outshined_One]

When the hell did a bunch of billionaires become communists whinging about payroll disparity?

Oh, right, because it means more money for them while screwing over labor and the fans.

[Andy]

9 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

When the hell did a bunch of billionaires become communists whinging about payroll disparity?

Oh, right, because it means more money for them while screwing over labor and the fans.

I've pointed out elsewhere that there is literally nothing stopping owners from enacting aggressive revenue sharing among themselves. It would require zero input from the players. But the owners want to take from them to facilitate less payroll disparity instead, for obvious reasons.

[Stratos]

12 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

Taking the viewpoint of, as far as I'm concerned everyone else can get horsefeathered, as long as I enjoy myself is not an exactly enlightened way to watch baseball.

That's not exactly my view, but that's exactly what the owners and players do.  As i said, i want a fair deal for players.

We're all paying customers and most of us are on working class incomes.  Who is looking out for our interests?  The owners and players aren't.

The status quo is screwing over fans of 29 teams so I don't see the point of losing a year of baseball to uphold that system.

[Outshined_One]

12 minutes ago, Stratos said:

The status quo is screwing over fans of 29 teams so I don't see the point of losing a year of baseball to uphold that system.

 

This isn't a strike; the owners are the ones locking out the players, and the owners could easily take a number of steps to mitigate these competition issues without player approval, be it through additional revenue sharing, increased payrolls, or otherwise.

The payroll and competitive disparities were self-inflicted by the owners. This is just a money grab under the guise of fairness.