Pro sports - it’s NOT about “the fans”....

daddyjt
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Some pretty revealing quotes from MLB players regarding the restart. Not surprising, sadly...

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/mlb-bryce-harper-nolan-arenado-blake-snell-pay-stance

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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    Joey doesn't make that and he was front line. Athletes who dont want to play shouldn't get paid at all. You try to catch and hit a ball, that's not worth 30 mil a year get over yourself you greedy overpaid sob.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Pro sports is a business, and like any business the objective is too make money for the owners. The owners will adjust the players and their salaries until the owners are making what they consider to be a reasonable profit.
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,479
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Pro sports is a business, and like any business the objective is too make money for the owners. The owners will adjust the players and their salaries until the owners are making what they consider to be a reasonable profit.

    Agreed - the owners are taking the hit when they start playing games to empty venues. No ticket sales, no concession sales, no merchandise sales (in the stadium). Added to that, the owners have to pay all the bills.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    Not to worry. They will bankrupt the sport.
    Problem solved.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,192
    tonyb wrote: »
    Not going to get any sympathy from me when you get roughly 30 million a year to play a game. People work very hard at other professions, some with life and death consequences....and to hear these cry babies .....well, sorry kids that just don't fly with me.
    I gotta completely agree with this. People right now are trying to figure out how they can pay their bills. Other people are losing their business due to this madness.


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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    Pro sports in the 21st Century... not about fans?!?

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    Next you're gonna tell me that Pro Wrasslin' isn't real?
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,581
    They should start a backyard Youtube venue and F**k the owners. Sorry I'm not a fan of the wealthy...
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,395
    Baseball(and pro sports in general) is all about multi-millionaires fighting billionaires for more money. A minor leaguer still makes more money than most of us see in a year, and are more fun to watch IMHO.

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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Pro sports in the 21st Century... not about fans?!?

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    Next you're gonna tell me that Pro Wrasslin' isn't real?

    Wait just a god darn minute! Are you telling me it's not real? Next you'll tell me Santa and the Easter bunny are not real either.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    I dunno, but I sure am lookin' forward to Roller Derby startin' up agin'.

    :|

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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,046
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I dunno, but I sure am lookin' forward to Roller Derby startin' up agin'.

    :|

    So am I, unless Skinny Minnie has retired. :o
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,715
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I dunno, but I sure am lookin' forward to Roller Derby startin' up agin'.
    :|

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    Ahhh, Roller Derby on Sunday mornings followed by Wrestling at the Chase. 😊

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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,048
    As long as I get to see Tom Brady play in Atlanta Dec . 20, Im good!
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    If the fans want to pay them millions, I am good with that. I guess the entertainment is worth it to them. It ain't my money.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    audioluvr wrote: »
    They should start a backyard Youtube venue and F**k the owners. Sorry I'm not a fan of the wealthy...

    Would you like em any better if they went broke?
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,715
    Stan Musial took a voluntary pay cut the last 4 years of his career because his batting average had dropped over those years.
    ....lowered his lifetime average to something around .323.

    One of the many reasons why he was called "Stan the Man" and not "Stan the Who' re".

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited May 2020
    Not to be confused with one-time Orioles relief pitcher Don Stanhouse -- who was known as "Stan the Man Unusual", as I recall. I believe he was also known as "Halfpack", because O's skipper Earl Weaver would smoke half a pack of cigarettes* any time Stanhouse was on the mound B)

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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Let's not forget Boog Powell, now that's a nickname! I think it was short for Boogerthorp.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,715
    When Albert Pujols was with the Cards the local sportswriters initially gave him the nickname of "El Hombre".
    Pujols put a stop to that saying "There's only one The Man and his name is Stan".
    Sal Palooza
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