Slighty OT -- Baseball Lockout
 

It's time to dredge up my favorite quote

"Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it."

Bill Terry
Hall of Famer

And if this lasts and if history is any predictor, expect more visitors to our collecting area (Vintage)

And since every thread needs a card

Everyone can talk about how the last strike destroyed baseball for years and years. I know half the people on the board will attest that they haven't watched a game since the last strike and how baseball has never been the same.

And of course baseball has been a dying game forever.

The NY Mets were valued at less than 400M in 1995. Today they are valued at over $2.5B.

The Boston Red Sox franchise was valued at about 325M in 1995. Today worth over 3 billion.

The Yankees were valued at at less than 600M in 1995. Estimated about 4.6B today.

Something tells me these guys aren't fools.

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The Yankees were valued at at less than 600M in 1995. Estimated about 4.6B today.

Remember George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees for $10 Million in 1973 and that was the same price CBS paid circa 1965

That's an even better ROI

Hard to argue the money. Here is a differing view:

https://howtheyplay.com/team-sports/...ging-Landscape

amazing but not shocking facts.

They all will recover and make plenty of money from it regardless on the end result of the new CBA

At least the work stoppage didn't start during the season. Let's hope they get this resolved quickly. Baseball can ill afford a mass exodus of fans.

Gotta figure, the best time for a sports work stoppage is during the off-season.

No matter how this mess gets figured out once again I will always love Baseball and support the Players.. I'll just watch reruns like I did during Covid..

Couldn’t agree more.

Yeap, I am one of the ones that quit watching MLB in 1994. Same reason that time, as now, greed. Because at the end of the day it's always about money. It is what it is. That's society. And I don't begrudge either side of the bargaining for doing what they are doing. It's business.
Me not watching doesn't mean teams are bad businesses by any means. It looks like they are super profitable. But that doesn't mean I am going to watch MLB. I just don't care about it. I do love collecting vintage baseball cards though.


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That Terry quote is so right on. It's interesting to compare the MLB product to another sport like the NBA...the NBA has a better commissioner, better leadership on both the owner and player sides, and yet the experience of watching an MLB game is so, so much better.

(I am a huge fan of both sports btw.)

Oddly, the 1994 strike actually jump started my interest in baseball history and vintage card collecting. I was trying to find something to fill the hole in my soul that the stoppage of baseball created. As I remember it, Ken Burns Baseball was originally broadcast on PBS just weeks after the premature end of the season, and I devoured it, especially the deadball and Ruth era episodes. Between that and my Microsoft Baseball CD-ROM, which had stats and bios of most of the top players in history, I was on my way. I bought my first vintage baseball cards sometime in September or October of that year, as I recall a dozen or so 1956 Topps star cards which I still have. I actually found the cards online, though not the www in those days. I think it was a BBS or forum that was part of the Prodigy service, IIRC.