I always find this as ridiculously laughable because money is the only thing important to MLB shareholders, not giving a hot elephant's tusk about the fans who purchase season passes or are semi-regular attendees of games. They're always fighting about who gets what, how often, how much, and so on. It's like c'mon, Major League Baseball! Get your *POOP* heads out of whatever hole you crawled in to, give the players the fair share of what they will be payed for so they don't have a reason to jump ship and go to another sport! What Major League Baseball needs is a SINGLE chief arbiter, not multiple ones bickering and bitching to the owners and presidents of the major teams and their shareholders! Get it figured our or just shut the sport down completely and we'll raise funds for a new major baseball governing body that doesn't gig players up the backside and leave them out in the cold, that gives players of all nationalities a fair opportunity to try out for a major team, and so on. No more of this bull*POOP* from MLB! Either Manfred and company gets this done soon or there won't be ANY baseball. And my, my, what a mess that'd be for the kiddos moving up in Little League and the high schoolers moving through spring and summer Legion leagues, and NCAA college baseball if MLB were to teeter on the brink of collapsing. But, I guess that's just pipe dream of sorts.
See, that's my issue with MLB. They're always fighting for money. See, at least the NBA, NHL and NFL dole out fair and honest collective bargaining agreements. Are they perfect? Oh, heck no, son. But you don't see NFL owners and managers bickering to Roger Goodell about how much to pay prospective draftees and veteran players. Most have a very good idea on how much to pay and for how long, unless you're the clueless Lost Brokers Raiders and J E T S. NBA owners and managers have some idea on how much to pay their star players. And the same can apply for most NHL teams. With those three, they already figured out their CBA's, or are in the process of restructuring their CBA's. Yet, MLB has one and they can't figure out what in the Sam Hill they're supposed to do. Seems like things go well one day, then they yank that out from underneath at the very last minute just to delay it longer and make fans turn off baseball completely, or watch global baseball, which I'm sure MLB fans would rather not do.
