Minor league lawsuit

[todeen]

Originally Posted by Tabe

After 20+ years ss season ticket holders for the Spokane Indians, my wife and I made the decision to give up our seats. Spokane got bumped up from short A to AA and the season increased from 76 to 120 to 132 games. The beginning of the season was moved from mid-June to early April. It's cold here a lot of nights in June, April would be unbearable. There was no season in 2020 and the tickets for 2021 were a mess so we'd actually put our seats on hold. Two years of summers off and ticket money to travel with were nice.



Bottom line: MLB messed up the good thing we had going here in Spokane and we got rid of our seats.

Hi neighbor! My parents had Indians seats, but gave them up before the reorganization when they changed the start times for Sunday games, and business games. I must say though, that Spokane puts out a good product. But baseball in April in Spokane, gross.

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[steve B]

To me Tanking makes no sense in baseball.

In other sports where someone straight out of college can make an impact it sort of makes sense if the team thinks the player available would be a special talent.
(And that's not guaranteed even for a top 10 pick, but it's more likely than in baseball.)

How many players in baseball get drafted and make the team right away with no time in the minors? I'm sure there are some, but very few.

So to me tanking in baseball is more an example of panicky clueless ownership/management than anything else.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by steve B

To me Tanking makes no sense in baseball.

In other sports where someone straight out of college can make an impact it sort of makes sense if the team thinks the player available would be a special talent.
(And that's not guaranteed even for a top 10 pick, but it's more likely than in baseball.)

How many players in baseball get drafted and make the team right away with no time in the minors? I'm sure there are some, but very few.

So to me tanking in baseball is more an example of panicky clueless ownership/management than anything else.

You be are so right and here is a link to details about the only 23 players drafted that never played in minors and look at where they got drafted and you will see that tanking did not help get these players

https://www.mlb.com/news/players-who...e-draft-to-mlb

[Chris-Counts]

It's way past time that baseball loses its bogus anti-trust exemption. Whenever I think about the clowns who run baseball, I'm reminded of the line Roy Hobbs utters to Max Mercy after the latter suggests he's "protecting" baseball against people like Hobbs. "Max, did you ever play the game?" Long live the minor leagues.

[egri]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

It's way past time that baseball loses its bogus anti-trust exemption. Whenever I think about the clowns who run baseball, I'm reminded of the line Roy Hobbs utters to Max Mercy after the latter suggests he's "protecting" baseball against people like Hobbs. "Max, did you ever play the game?" Long live the minor leagues.

I didn’t think I would see a worse commissioner than Bud Selig, but Rob Manfred has proved me wrong.

[mattsey9]

Originally Posted by egri

I didn’t think I would see a worse commissioner than Bud Selig, but Rob Manfred has proved me wrong.

Selig, for all his flaws, loved the game. Not so with Manfred.

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by todeen

Hi neighbor! My parents had Indians seats, but gave them up before the reorganization when they changed the start times for Sunday games, and business games. I must say though, that Spokane puts out a good product. But baseball in April in Spokane, gross.

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The Indians are a quality organization and I generally love the way they do things. The changes made aren't their fault.

The most irritating thing about it all is that, with the 2020 season, we finally acquired the seats we wanted. We've been trying to get all four of our seats into the same specific box for a decade but it wasn't happening. That finally happened - and we literally never got to use them.

The Indians offered me a half-season package for 2022 to keep us on but wouldn't do a "second half only" package. They wanted to give us 15-20 games in April/May and that just wasn't going to work. I'll pass on the decent chance of snow and 30-degree games, thanks.