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In your opinion, does it suck because you don't like baseball or because of the political and financial problems associated with it? If you're not a baseball fan to begin with, what's the point of coming to a thread like this and complaining about it? And if you're a fan of baseball, but not the way things are run, why not elaborate on what football does that baseball can learn from?

"In your opinion, does it suck because you don't like baseball or because of the political and financial problems associated with it? If you're not a baseball fan to begin with, what's the point of coming to a thread like this and complaining about it? And if you're a fan of baseball, but not the way things are run, why not elaborate on what football does that baseball can learn from?"

When I was a boy back in the sixties, my buddies and I would take our shiny new 6 transistor radios to school to listen to games at recess. Baseball was exciting all the way to the World Series. But baseball, like most of pro sports, has become perverted by the money. The ownwers have no control over their spending.....and the players think they are the owners and deserve the bulk of the money. Players are shifted from team to team every year. And in MLB, the team with the richest owner buys up the latest batch of stars and wins a series. With 9 strikes in the last 30 years, the players prove to the fan that it's all about the money. Maybe I'm older now, and I can see what MLB is really about. But it just seemed more real....more interesting back in the sixties...when I was a boy.By the way...this is true now of all pro sports. That is why I like college football. It's big time sports....and it is much more fun than MLB!

Also, if I had control of any pro sport, I would cap a players salary at $1mil. Period. That would be the tops. That is all any player is worth. If a player complains about all the money the owners make, I would tell them to save up a couple hundred million $ and buy a team. The owners risk their capital....they should make most of the money! The owners have blown it. They need to fix it.They need to get together and tell the players...in all pro sports....that the gravy train years are over. And if they want to quit...so be it. They can go get a job in their college major.....communications.

"If you're not a baseball fan to begin with, what's the point of coming to a thread like this and complaining about it? "

I know this was not directed at me but it might as well have been.

I abject to any MLB, NFL, NBA .... player getting the huge salaries while the taxpayer is required to pay for their playground. If the owners built their own stadiums and paid for all the associated support services and then had enough money left over to pay these salaries then GREAT.

However, this is not the case. Cities are forced to build stadiums that will for the most part lose money yet the owners and players keep the profits. Great scam if you ask me.

In Buffalo, every 5 years of so we play the team is going to leave if you don't do x,y,z.

I know the topic here is MLB but one of the things that sucks is the NFL refusing to allow the Stuper Bowl to be played in any Northern City without a domed stadium. We support the team, built the facility but are denied the bump to the local economy that a Stuper Bowl can bring.