Bellhorn04
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What could have happened differently?
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The Duquette appointment was the first step toward a new era of great success for the Red Sox.
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I must say dissecting those painful losses of the past is much more bearable when you're looking back on them through the filter of 4 championships.
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And Johnny Mac had the perfect opportunity to pinch-hit Baylor for Buckner against Orosco.
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Damon was a good player. Letting him go was kind of a wash. Didn't help much, didn't hurt much. We won a ring without him and he won one with the Yanks.
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1980-1985 was sheer hell for Sox fans.
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They're kind of a necessary evil, jad, if you want pro sports. What beef can Red Sox fans really have with Henry? If he had told fans before he bought the team that over the next 20 years, prices would go up, but the team would win 4 championships, how many Red Sox fans would have signed on for that? Somewhere over 90 per cent, I'd say.
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How do Red Sox ticket prices compare to Patriots, Celtics and Bruins prices?
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Other sports have gotten pretty expensive too. Concert prices have skyrocketed, which has been tied to the big decline in sales of physical product. Fenway has the highest average prices, and all the amenities are expensive as heck, so people tend to pick on it as being on a gouge. Not without some justification, of course. But in return they also place high expectations on the team to provide good entertainment.
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I'm guessing they settle at around $220-230 for the tax thresholds and $700-725 K for the min salaries.
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We seem to be hearing some more hopeful signs on the negotiations now, at least.
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The bottom line is, the players have asked for a $245 million first tax threshold and a $775,000 minimum salary, and they will have to settle for less if a deal is going to get done.
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You have to have a minimum salary for MLB players for their first 3 years because it's a fixed wage. They can't offer their services to any other teams, they have no control over any of it. It's just the way the system is set up.
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Exactly what I'm saying.
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I think the majority of the players would survive somehow. Some are already rich, after all.
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Most people are used to hearing about the huge amounts of money pro athletes make.
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That's beside the point. The owners certainly don't want the game of baseball and the multi-billion dollar value of their franchises to be ruined.
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Who gets a 65% raise from one union agreement to the next though? Just not realistic.
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Only if they make it to the majors and stay there.
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So what if the owners have other businesses? They need the players to conduct their baseball business.
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They're just the same as any other unionized labor force.
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It's their livelihood. I consider them workers just as much as I am. The money doesn't just get handed to them. They have to make it to the top.
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Why would it suddenly be more important than it was the last decade?
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The bottom line is, the players didn't pay much attention in the last couple of CBA's to increases in minimum salary. They can't expect to make up for that all at once. If that's what they're thinking, it's no wonder these negotiations are going nowhere.
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But the reason nobody blinks an eye about Cruise's $75 mill is that they only care about the $$$ it actually costs them to see the movie.
