Old Red
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Yes, and the fans will even pay more than they did before.
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And what are the fans doing for themselves? No matter what happens the fans will go running back with open arms.
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I would agree with bringing up the bottom of the salary scale, and taking some off the top, but you know that those at the top would never go for that.
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If there is not a max salary then why does there have to be a min salary of say $1M? Just asking for a different point of view?
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I don’t think there would have been an MLB as a business without the regular players just like there wouldn’t be an MLB as a business without the owners. That’s the way I look at it. Just a point of view that I don’t say is right, or wrong.
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I have said repeatedly that I don’t have sympathy for either side, and I spend more time targeting the players, because most on here seem to be on their side, which they are pampered, and hero worshipped enough.
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Nothing wrong with that either. I never said it didn’t go both ways.
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There is lots of more important jobs out there that get nowhere near the money that these guys get to play a kids game top 800, or not.
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And what’s wrong with that?
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That’s how it works that you have to be good enough.
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Survive yes, but most would probably not be millionaires.
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It doesn’t matter to me why the ticket prices keep going up. Both sides are greedy, and I’m not all that needy.
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Billionaires, and millionaires involved in a game. It’s the principle of the thing that ticket prices keep rising. Me not having gone to Fenway in 20 years has nothing to do with it, and even I had a free pass I would still complain about ticket prices. It WON’T go back, because the fans will keep on paying no matter how high prices go. Boston ranks where in ticket prices?
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Nobody said the did, but the point being that owners could survive without baseball, but could the players?
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Yes, but that doesn’t mean anyone has to like it. I could care less how much the owners, or players make in the long run, but I do care when ticket prices keep going up, and up, and up. Where do the Red Sox rank in ticket prices?
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Of course the owners need the players to conduct their baseball business, but they have other business to fall back on, where the players don’t.
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There is nothing wrong with players trying to get as much money as they can just like anyone else, and I never said there was, but if they don’t like what they get then you either play, or don’t. I think the players need the owners more than the other way around. The owners already have businesses.
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Thanks for your permission.
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Yes it’s their livelihood, but they work for someone. It’s not the other way around.
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Couldn’t of said this any better myself. Well written.
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It’s not their right to do that?
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I’m all for that too. Like I have stated before I have no sympathy for either side. The owners do already invest though in different enterprises.
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There is something wrong with that?
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Not in the big scheme of things, and I’ll say it again if they don’t like what they are paid just like with any job let them find a new one.
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Like I’ve said many times that if the players don’t like what they are getting paid let them find another job out in the real word.