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travacado's thoughts
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Saturday, August 31, 2002
Just our luck, baseball makes late-inning rally
Darn it.
They're not going to strike.
They're going to keep playing.
They're going to keep cluttering the sports pages with box scores, ERA's, slugging percentages and all those other numbing numbers that none of us really cares about anymore.
Baseball has solved its labor dispute, and I think I speak for the vast majority of American sports fans when I say . . . How do you think Spurrier's going to do this year? (By Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel) View the entire article
But here are the real questions revolving baseball's mess: Have you already done enough damage to p*ss off the fans? Yes, I am focused on college football at the moment. If the Braves make the World Series, I will admit that I will watch, but that's about it. Have the owners done anything to solve the competive imbalance problem? No, while revenue sharing is definitely a step in the right direction it means absolutely nothing if you don't force the lesser clubs into taking their gift and spending it on players. As of now, they pocket the cash and turn a profit!
It is a step in the right direction but the true outcome won't be told until 2006.
Now time to speak to the fans
That they avoided a strike is important, although getting a deal done last summer -- as Paul Beeston tried to do -- and avoiding the tawdry contraction press conference two days after something really historic (a classic World Series) and the bitter winter of hardline rhetoric from the privileged classes would have been far, far more important. In a season in which Curt Schilling, Randy Johnson, Barry Bonds, the A's, Braves, Twins, Pedro Martinez Alfonso Soriano, Sammy Sosa, and so many others have given fans so much ... only to be drowned out by the sorrow of the labor dispute.
What was striking about the press conference is that not once did Selig mention the word "fans." To many fans, this could be taken as Selig essentially saying, "We've been telling you the players are greedy, mercenary and overrated for two years, and now we're putting millions more into the pockets of certain billionaires without asking them to invest in the game, but owners and players alike expect you to come back, bring your family of four to our games and spend the expected $150. I am the owners' commissioner and you're lucky." (By Peter Gammons, ESPN.com) View the entire article
TIDAL 10:43 AM
Monday, August 19, 2002
Players, owners just don't get it
This is an industry that needs to seriously re-evaluate itself, its leadership, its business practices, its understanding of the product and its customer. But it's pretty hard for anyone to take it seriously, not when billionaires and millionaires sound like the Kennedy kids fighting over who gets the bigger dish of ice cream. (By Peter Gammons, ESPN.com) View the entire article
I am fed up with all of it! It took me almost a year and a half to come back after 1994 and I don't think that I will this time. These guys need to read "Fair Ball" by Bob Costas and use that to create their framework. Otherwise, it's time for football and next spring I will be enjoying the Stanley Cup Playoffs...
TIDAL 1:27 PM
Thursday, August 15, 2002
A Wrigley virgin's first time
Page 2's Jim Caple meets up with a traveling companion in Chicago and introduces his old pal Scooter to Wrigley. (By Jim Caple, ESPN.com) View the entire article
TIDAL 12:42 PM
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