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Originally Posted by jingram058
It's 100% on the players and the owners, 50/50. The whole thing is a pile of feces anymore. Too many TV commercials every half inning to pay those player salaries you're all so quick to defend, thus you can't shorten the length of a nine inning game enough to keep anyone interested. Stupid designated hitters, stadiums named after corporations, instant replays, four finger intentional walks, yada yada yada. Yeah, baseball is great, the players all ought make a trillion dollars and the owners are all greedy. BS.
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I'm too young to be a grouchy old fart, but I agree. I have no sympathy for whiny billionaire owners. And no sympathy for whiny millionaires who play a game and act like they are somehow oppressed by this system in which they are in the very top percentile of the most fortunate people on the planet while getting to earn it by playing a game. The increasing costs to watch a game that is less interesting with every year and increasingly becoming a limited outcome event (swing for dinger, or strikeout) is just not a good combination to me. I don't really watch games anymore, still love the history. It has always had its problems and there is no such thing as perfect balance, but watching millionaires cry every few years that they aren't paid enough to throw a baseball while they outearn 99%+ of Americans while living their dream is offputting.