Thank you for a fair assessment. Your take is very refreshing because it is extremely rare. It is also the best way to look at it. Thank you very much.
Thank you for this! It seems most local, and now even national writers, want to pile on the owners. That's seems disingenuous to me. Although they shoulder plenty of blame all on their own, negotiations take two parties. This is a business deal...nothing more. Each wanting as much as possible regardless of the emotions.
In the end, yes, the fans lose. Baseball has had a good run of labor peace. This WILL pass...eventually. Sadly, it comes at a really bad time. The fabric of the game has changed so much in the past fifteen or so years. Analytics. Defensive Shifts. Pace of game. Cable cutters that can't watch their local team. The price of attending a game in person at a level many can't afford more than once or twice a season.
I'm pretty surprised at how national writers have gone all-in on trashing the owners. They've really bought the union's talking points. I understand where the players are coming from, but they can't expect to make up all their losses in one CBA. They need to realize that.
Thanks, Allen. Regarding Manfred, he would not have canceled any games without the owners telling him to do so. He might be a smug SOB who gets dirty behind the scenes, but it's at the behest of the owners. And they don't have to say a damn thing.
Thank you for a fair assessment. Your take is very refreshing because it is extremely rare. It is also the best way to look at it. Thank you very much.
Thank you for this! It seems most local, and now even national writers, want to pile on the owners. That's seems disingenuous to me. Although they shoulder plenty of blame all on their own, negotiations take two parties. This is a business deal...nothing more. Each wanting as much as possible regardless of the emotions.
In the end, yes, the fans lose. Baseball has had a good run of labor peace. This WILL pass...eventually. Sadly, it comes at a really bad time. The fabric of the game has changed so much in the past fifteen or so years. Analytics. Defensive Shifts. Pace of game. Cable cutters that can't watch their local team. The price of attending a game in person at a level many can't afford more than once or twice a season.
There's a lot going on.
Until then, I'm following college baseball.
I'm pretty surprised at how national writers have gone all-in on trashing the owners. They've really bought the union's talking points. I understand where the players are coming from, but they can't expect to make up all their losses in one CBA. They need to realize that.
Thanks, Allen. Regarding Manfred, he would not have canceled any games without the owners telling him to do so. He might be a smug SOB who gets dirty behind the scenes, but it's at the behest of the owners. And they don't have to say a damn thing.