Play Ball

“For those who have not heard already, owners and players reached an agreement. No strike.”

“SON OF A B!tch..i wanted a strike!”

“sorry but I realy don't care. They had no right to want to strike in the first place. I bust my hinny off working at work and at home and for little pay and you don't see me going on strike.
So sue me if I don't give a rats a$$”

“Fans can still strike. We don't have to pay their bloated salaries. When they get down to one fan per team, how they gonna do that???”

“One fan per team, now would that be a frickin salary cap?”

“Support your local high school and college athletic programs!

Textile soccer is top-notch!
Go Rams!”

“Textile, huh? Our paper covers them. Where you located flyguy?”

“I have to agree with Geobeet. A slowdown by the fans would force some change and reason.”

“I do not go to games, unless I get tickets from my company.

sorry guys but I can't resist the great seats, they kick a$$

but, im standing my ground!!!”

“What makes a professional athlete think they deserve what they're already getting? They don't save lives. They don't risk their lives. They don't dedicate themselves to making other people's lives better. All they do is play games for a living that many of us consider a recreation. Greedy millionaire players bickering with greedy billionaire owners...pathetic.”

“Ya say a guy who can't hit above the Mendoza line shouldn't get paid a million a year?
Ya say ya don't wanna pay some snotgurgle who won't sign an autograph for yer kid?
Ya say $5 hotdogs are too high and $5 cups of beer are an outrage?
Ya say yer tired of paying for losing baseball?
Ya say ya wanna contract the whole dam league?
Well cheer up Bunkie; I've got great news for you.
Stay home and don't pay it!
When the Rangers can't afford to pay Alex Rodriguez, and Barry Bonds can afford only one gold chain, and Larry Jones ain't chipper no more,

Maybe they'll get the point!”

“There's already been a little bit of an attitude adjustment. I read that three of the teams' players voted to not strike. So at least some of the players recognize that the constant squabbling is alienating the fans.”

“I've been on strike since 1994. Never went back. And I was such a fan that I had Phillies season tickets (when they sucked right out loud).”

“The players association would probably sue the public for "collusion."”

“http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2002/08/29/rays_angels_ap/


I guess it's time for the Angels to tank now...”

“Collusion? I don't think anybody can be coerced into patronizing businesses not of their choice. I think they call it a boycott.”

“It seems that they just got back their fans after the last strike.”

“In one way I'm glad (still have my DIRECTV) can see the rest of what I paid for, but the money these people make just pisses me off. It would take alot of people to boycott or whatever to see the players realize what they got going.”

“It's arrogance. They think they can stomp on the fans' faces and they'll still come up and ask for more.”

“If memory serves me (and thats a stretch) the players association sued the owners years ago claiming collusion if other teams didn't snap-up free agents. They claimed it de facto evidence of secret agreements amongst the owners not to bid-up players salaries.

It was a stretch, but that is what I was trying to play-on.”

“I've heard a lot of conflicting data about the fans returning. For some reason, the conventional wisdom is that game attendance has never recovered from the '94 strike. But I heard a guy just last night say that attendance increased throughout the 90's. Maybe on some mathematician's calculator, but I've read plenty of stats that say average attendance is still down from '94.
I know that I've only been to one MLB game since then. Of course, I live 4 hours from the nearest MLB park.”

“I got the allusion to the old collusion claim and that it was quite appropriate.”

“Sometimes fans come to the game disguised as empty seats.”

“bitpusher you are right. Even ESPN stopped televising games since 94 or 96 not sure.”

“Kulou, if you're on my wave-length, then you're really screwed-up!!!
j/k

Been hanging around this board long? Welcome! You are in Pa?”

“I'm all for boycotting the pro's and supporting the minor leagues.”

“Geo,
I'm in Philly. Remember, I recommended Primex for your pest problem.
BTW, Geo. Is it true you got "jumped" by a gang of squirrels in the woods?”

“I think that's mostly because Fox offered MLB more for the games. Who knows what will happen the next time the TV rights come up for sale? I've heard that the demographics for baseball watchers are now falling in the "older" category, and no advertiser likes that much. The problem with player salaries will fix itself as baseball becomes less and less popular in this country, and the billions and billions of dollars in TV revenue shared by the teams dries up.

Hey! I just realized something! This is Yet Another Problem which can be blamed on the Baby Boomers! lol......”

“Nope, no squirrels. My own inability to dance on slippery rocks without toe shoes.”

“What’s going to hurt baseball is still to come. Fans overall have yet to realized that only a handful of teams can afford to compete for the World Series.”

“Screwed up? no, flyguy6x, we just happen to be particularly bright, that's all (my typo notwithstanding). Yeah, I'm in Harrisburg now. I lived in S. Jersey in the late '80s and early '90s. I was actually a Pirates fan, but also just a fan of baseball, and would go to see anybody play. Until the spoiled punks went on strike and caused a World Series to be cancelled. I haven't watched even one pitch of a Major League game since then.”

“I do support my local minor league team. They are professional, just barely.

You missed one back up there Geobeet... What would the cost structure be if the owners didn't have the TAXPAYERS to blackmail into building new stadiums every few years?

THAT's what kills me.”

“Right now the crowds are thin, but if the Phillies make a run on first place the ballpark will be full of people who don't know strike one from third base. Drove me crazy in '93, people asking stupid questions while I was trying to watch the damn game!”

“I find that a little bit of beef blood on my face and hands keeps people from asking me questions at the ball park.”

“LOL, just look at them dizzily and ask what happened to that foul ball anyway!”

“Thank God for Pro Football!”

“Thank God for the NHL!”

“yawn.

good weather this weekend?”

“Chorus went:
Thank God for marijuana”

“Frankly, Scarlet...”

“Albuquerque is getting interested in baseball again. We lost our minor league team last year, got a new one to start next year. The best part is the name, to be announced formally tomorrow-The Albuquerque

Isotopes!

Don't you love it!”

“When Augusta got another minor league team, they were the Pirates for the first few years (Pirates farm club, doncha know). Eventually they had to personalize the team to the city, and this meant One Thing: retarded golf-related nomenclature.

Hence, "The GreenJackets" [complete with a GREEN version of a Yellow Jacket for a mascot (puke twice)].

It could be worse, I suppose. They named the hockey team The Lynx.”

“but what will happen to the Springfield Isotopes?




Ken Young, president of the Albuquerque Isotopes, announces the name of the baseball team Wednesday with general manager Mel Kowalchuk in the background. The name comes from an episode of the Fox network's animated television show "The Simpsons" in which character Homer Simpson stages a hunger strike after learning the mayor of Albuquerque was trying to lure away the Springfield Isotopes baseball team. (Kitty Clark Fritz/Journal)

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“the new cheer?

"Nuke 'em, nuke 'em good!"”

“Yikes! LOL

Ya Know... with the Savannah River Site just across the way...

NAH! These people have No sense of humor.”