Poll: 2022 MLB season

[RCMcKenzie]

I've got UCLA and Texas at Minute Made live on my local sports provider. This is good stuff. Give these guys some wood bats, add more games, and a tv package. We're ready to roll. Baylor and LSU are up next tonight. That one might be on mlb.tv Kind of ironic.

The monopoly is totally bogus. Owners should not have a monopoly, but it's not like a start-up league would want to pay fair to middling shortstops $400 million either.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

I've got UCLA and Texas at Minute Made live on my local sports provider. This is good stuff. Give these guys some wood bats, add more games, and a tv package. We're ready to roll. Baylor and LSU are up next tonight. That one might be on mlb.tv Kind of ironic.

The monopoly is totally bogus. Owners should not have a monopoly, but it's not like a start-up league would want to pay fair to middling shortstops $400 million either.

Not so sure, if they can get a cable/TV contract, who knows. Look at football and basketball, there have been alternate leagues started over the years. Hockey not really, but it has always been more of an international sport than baseball, football, and basketball, which all started out as pretty much American only sports, at least in their beginnings. But no one has really tried forming a new league against MLB since the Federal League back in 1914-15. And that was before the anti-trust exemption was confirmed and in place. It seems that the exemption MLB has has played some role over the years in keeping competitors from trying to form rival leagues, just not sure exactly how . Maybe the knowledge MLB has no anti-trust restrictions is more than enough to keep potential rival leagues from even trying to form and compete.

And as for ball games on TV or cable, watch them start broadcasting live South Korean games again.

[RCMcKenzie]

Bob, I'm watching the Baylor v LSU game right now on my local Astros network, 7-5 Baylor in the 7th. As the PGA used to say, "These guys are good." NCAA top 25 baseball is good baseball, much better than the KBL. I noticed the MLB channel originally had this game scheduled for broadcast, but it is blacked-out for old re-runs. I guess Sherzer is thinking what I'm thinking, and called the network to call it off, before anyone gets any ideas.

I think we agree that the monopoly is antiquated and should be removed by congress. I'd rather watch Correa play shortstop, but I can live with watching these NCAA guys who play for free plus a major college education for free. The 1915 guys were welders and carpenters, regular blue-collar guys, who truly deserved better.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

Bob, I'm watching the Baylor v LSU game right now on my local Astros network, 7-5 Baylor in the 7th. As the PGA used to say, "These guys are good." NCAA top 25 baseball is good baseball, much better than the KBL. I noticed the MLB channel originally had this game scheduled for broadcast, but it is blacked-out for old re-runs. I guess Sherzer is thinking what I'm thinking, and called the network to call it off, before anyone gets any ideas.

I think we agree that the monopoly is antiquated and should be removed by congress. I'd rather watch Correa play shortstop, but I can live with watching these NCAA guys who play for free plus a major college education for free. The 1915 guys were welders and carpenters, regular blue-collar guys, who truly deserved better.

Rob, I'm with you. And don't forget, guys playing in college today are often the pro athletes of tomorrow. LOL You could be watching the next Scherzer and Trout in that college game for all you know.

Actually, when it comes to pro sports of any kind, I've often wondered why we as the public and fans put up with private ownership of teams. Think about it, at no other level from when we're growing up and going to junior high, then high school, and finally college, nobody privately owns and profits from pee wee, little league, pony league, high school and college teams. But suddenly after college it all becomes privately owned. Yet people grow up with and develop huge allegiances to their teams, only to see them sometimes just taken and moved away by greedy owners and leagues. But teams aren't just known as the Yankees or Dodgers, they're known as the New York Yankees, or Los Angeles Dodgers, and are closely identified and tied to that city/region and their people/fans. Such moves can have a terrible economic effect and impact on cities and businesses when they do move on, along with emotional effect on the fan base. And most stadiums, arenas, and so on are built and/or subsidized with taxpayer dollars. So why shouldn't these pro teams be operated by the cities/regions and not by private owners? I'm waiting for when the next time some pro team tries to move, and in response the people and city file an eminent domain proceeding against that pro team, and take it over to keep it going for the economic benefit of the city/region, as well as for the feelings of the team's fans. Will likely never happen, but just think if pro teams did become municipally controlled and operated how much fun it might be if the people got to vote on who the next manager or head coach might be. If nothing else, I'll bet you'd see the biggest turn outs ever seen at the polls. LOL

[Piratedogcardshows]

Such a let down. Glad the local minor leagues are mostly unaffected.