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MLB 2022

#181
If you watch The Big Interview (Dan Rather) with Geddy Lee you get a Great tour of his baseball collection…and it's Big!

It's easy to see his love for, and reverence for, the history of the game.

If I had Geddy kind of money, I'd like to think that I would spend it on something as cool as that, instead of space capsule ride.
 
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#182
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It was Andre Dawson and his '78 Expos that both brought me back to baseball.. and totally turned my head around, by showing (on the CBC) me the NL
Game.
 
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#183
the harp unstrung said:
If you watch The Big Interview (Dan Rather) with Geddy Lee you get a Great tour of his baseball collection…and it's Big!

It's easy to see his love for, and reverence for, the history of the game.

If I had Geddy kind of money, I'd like to think that I would spend it on something as cool as that, instead of space capsule ride.
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Oh I've watched it several times. I'm usually not a big Rather fan. But that conversation is easy to watch.
 
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#188
mrpackerguy said:
15min meeting today and both sides walked away accomplishing nothing. Guess I'm not watching a baseball game when I'm in Phoenix 4th week of the month
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I know. I'm planning to visit my daughter (who lives outside of Phoenix) sometime in March and was hoping to catch a spring training game. Looks unlikely.
What's fascinating is that, with all the money that stands to be lost with a partially lost season, neither side seems particularly interested in negotiating.
 
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#190
kesslari said:
I know. I'm planning to visit my daughter (who lives outside of Phoenix) sometime in March and was hoping to catch a spring training game. Looks unlikely.
What's fascinating is that, with all the money that stands to be lost with a partially lost season, neither side seems particularly interested in negotiating.
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I dunno, what I'm taking away from this is that Spring Training and early regular season games aren't that important to the owner's bottom line. There doesn't seem to be a very high sense of urgency from the league/owners side to get a deal done. If this drags on and on and the whole season, and more importantly the postseason, is at risk of being lost then I think it will be a different story. But it seems to me that for now the league/owners aren't willing to budge very much even if it impacts ST and the start of the regular season.
 
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#198
Most people are blaming the owners in this dispute. I blame Scott Boras. He's the one who stands to gain the most by raising the CBT thresholds and having a higher amount in the pool for pre-arbitration players.

It's true that the owners locked the players out and they could have let them play during negotiations, but then the players would strike mid-season. The sides are too far apart for me to believe that there would be a resolution before a strike happened.

Here are the winners and losers as I see it when a deal finally gets done:

Winner: Owners. They will see revenue soar with mega-TV contracts and increased ticket prices.

Winner: Players. Their minimum salary, which they will only stay at for a year or 2, will be over 20 times the median salary of the US worker (Invalid Link Removed).

Loser: Fans. Tickets will get more expensive. Concessions will get more expensive. MLB gear will get more expensive. And the product will continue down the three true outcomes road that it is currently on (that's a rant for a different post).

I'm a die-hard Brewer fan. I have loved the game of baseball my entire life. I will watch a game at any level. I'm not sure if I want to spend the money on MLB any more.
 

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