MLB may have a deal in place.......

Guy Incognito said:
$700K is a good amount of money, but the league games the fuck out of the system and depresses salaries on the low end. No other pro league gives six years of team control to all rookies.

The cheap owners who are pocketing CBT money are 100% not competing and not trying to compete by just paying guys at the low end of the scale and shoveling money into their pocket. Fuck them.

Do I think that the players are asking for too much? Possibly, but they're also at least negotiating. Owners locked the players out, tried to declare an impasse before they even started seriously bargaining, and are already walking back the claims that they won't play 162 games this year.
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six years of team control, plus wiggle room based on call up date and all that shit.
 
fordman84 said:
what it means to me is there is a chance I can watch a Rangers game on TV, since Bally Sports are all feckless cunts.
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You know, I should be happy about this since I can't get Pirates games on the local broadcast anymore but damnit not up for paying for an Apple TV subscription just for that. I miss that incredibly fan-friendly TV deal they have for the local (and even broader) market.
 
 
steelerssb said:
You know, I should be happy about this since I can't get Pirates games on the local broadcast anymore but damnit not up for paying for an Apple TV subscription just for that. I miss that incredibly fan-friendly TV deal they have for the local (and even broader) market.
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It’s more than a little irritating that the reason the local deals went away in a lot of markets is because they couldn’t be monetized to earn huge profits. For every YES network, there’s 3-4 small market teams which can’t compete. You’d think owners of the teams in those media markets would just get whatever hodgepodge of coverage that they can and make due with whatever revenue they can get from “Muffler Guy” and “Shwarma Shack” crap sponsors. But those big deals edge them out through the exclusivity; Fox’s RSNs are dead, and the fans are just supposed to be happy with a handful of national coverage or pay a premium for a subscription service?
 
Mofo said:
It’s more than a little irritating that the reason the local deals went away in a lot of markets is because they couldn’t be monetized to earn huge profits. For every YES network, there’s 3-4 small market teams which can’t compete. You’d think owners of the teams in those media markets would just get whatever hodgepodge of coverage that they can and make due with whatever revenue they can get from “Muffler Guy” and “Shwarma Shack” crap sponsors. But those big deals edge them out through the exclusivity; Fox’s RSNs are dead, and the fans are just supposed to be happy with a handful of national coverage or pay a premium for a subscription service?
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I'm just happy Bally hasn't come for the Pirates (which seems like an easy joke but they even now still draw surprisingly good TV ratings). Them and the Penguins are on AT&T sportsnet and every game and pre/post is there like it always has been (national broadcast games notwithstanding).
 
Guy Incognito said:
$700K is a good amount of money, but the league games the fuck out of the system and depresses salaries on the low end. No other pro league gives six years of team control to all rookies.

The cheap owners who are pocketing CBT money are 100% not competing and not trying to compete by just paying guys at the low end of the scale and shoveling money into their pocket. Fuck them.

Do I think that the players are asking for too much? Possibly, but they're also at least negotiating. Owners locked the players out, tried to declare an impasse before they even started seriously bargaining, and are already walking back the claims that they won't play 162 games this year.
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I can’t understand the “they make so much more than the average Joe”. Yeah, they do. That is their industry. It’s just weak narrative to complain. Everything is relative to the revenue that their league makes.

Things like you mention here are bullshit regardless of what a base salary is, and totally not relevant to what the average Joe makes.

I could get behind why sports has been able to grow to such revenue levels (and the insane costs to attend a game as a result). But, let’s face it….that mess was settled long ago.

Watching Winning Time’s first episode and they are talking about $500k and $600k as insane salaries. Sure, that’s 1979, but adjusted for inflation it’s low $2M. For guys like Magic and Bird. Top guys now make at least 10-20x that.

And where the economics of sports (and hence the cost of to the fans) is concerned this mess was settled even way back then.

None of it changes legit gripes I’ve seen the players having in this case.
 
Big Al Rogorson said:
This ticks me off beyond words. I had 4 tickets to the Nationals game on 4/12. Wonder if I'll be refunded since the commissioner canceled the game?
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You should get refunded or be able to get tickets for different game
 
Big Al Rogorson said:
This ticks me off beyond words. I had 4 tickets to the Nationals game on 4/12. Wonder if I'll be refunded since the commissioner canceled the game?
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Hopefully you get a refund but I wouldn't be surprised if you don't.
 
Guy Incognito said:
$700K is a good amount of money, but the league games the fuck out of the system and depresses salaries on the low end. No other pro league gives six years of team control to all rookies.
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That may be, but what other pro league's contracts are all guaranteed?
 
Guy Incognito said:
Scumbags must have started squirming when they realized that going any further out impacts those big-money TV deals.
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Even their deals are procrastinating
 
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