Ask me how gleeful I am that the baseball players may go out on strike August 30th. Just ask me.
As far as I can see, players and management both have managed to alienate even hardcore baseball fans with their constant demands and bickering back and forth for more money, fancier facilities (on the taxpayer dime), and, oh, yeah, more money.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s just an opportunity for more TV I’m likely to watch.
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Watched “Field of Dreams” yesterday. Sighed heavily over the loss of that feel for baseball. When Joe says that he’d have played for free, I moaned and closed my eyes for the loss.
As a Montrealer and erstwhile baseball fan, I’m looking forward to another baseball work stoppage. I’m tired of team owners trying to hold municipalities and governments hostage in order to extort the bigger stadiums needed to finance player salaries (though I don’t blame the players for those–the owners are dumb enough to pay them those sums).
Sports economics, from baseball in the US to football in Europe, seems to me a shell game of debts and future payments that will collapse as surely as Enron, Worldcom, and the South Seas Bubble.
One can but hope.
On the other hand, while I can certainly blame the players for their greed (I know I couldn’t look my boss in the face and seriously demand a multi-million dollar salary), and the management for their greed (as noted above), ultimately the blame has to fall on people still willing to (a) buy inflated tickets and (b) pass bond issues to build new stadiums. As long as the public is willing to go along with that, they’re funding the greed up the food chain.