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Sports saleries should go back to what they were in the 50's…
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I had a cousin (now long deceased) who was catcher with the St. Louis Cardinals for many seasons back in the 40s and 50s. Pay was so low then that he had to work as a store clerk in the off season to make ends meet.
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When somebody I've a connection with - family, classmate, military associate, old friend passes, I do get that feeling that I moved up the departure list!
An what their employers think they're worth.
It would be cool to buy a new car from LeBron James or Shohei Ohtani in the off-season, but that's not going to happen. College athletes have now figured that out and are getting increasingly higher salaries for use of their NIL as a means of generating money for their universities.
Darn that pesky supply-and-demand stuff!
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That's Burgess Meredith from one of the "Grumpy Old Men" films.
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The team owners are making hundreds of millions. They charge as much as the market will bear for tickets. So ticket prices would NOT go down if the players earned less (contrary to the delusions of people who don't understand basic economics).
Seems perfectly reasonable to me for the players to negotiate for as much as the owners are willing to pay.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me for the players to negotiate for as much as the owners are willing to pay.
That is true, but with the preponderance of streaming companies buying the rights to show ball games I get less and less games I can watch. I sure cannot afford to go see the games at the stadiums here in town. I used to get a season of MLB.tv and could watch any out of market game I wanted to. This year with all of the streaming services having rights to so many of the games I got tons of blackouts, even though MLB.tv said I was supposed to be able to watch any out of market game. I am tired of blackouts for any reason, in market or out. I never thought I would contemplate not watching baseball any more but it may come to that.
I understand your frustration, JohnRippert, and agree with it. But don't let yourself imagine that it has anything to do with the money that the players are making. It has to do with the owners efforts to maximize their revenues, and nothing else.
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