When did Goodell take over?

I had it on mute but I saw what the differences were on ESPN. They really don’t look far apart. And it wasn’t about dollars. Why does this not get done?

Dumb ****s

I can't say that, but I haven't watched a single game this year due to the broadcast restrictions .

**** them. I remember how pissed I was in the 90s during the shutdown, now my give a shit meter is on empty.

Golf

I'm leaning towards the gun to the head.

Blackout rules make it hard to follow when you live 3 hours away and you are considered in a blackout area. If I could actually watch the games regularly, I may go to Kaufmann for 4-5 games a year instead of zero. The parity in the league is god awful with the large markets still having a huge advantage to start the year.

The players want more money. The owners want more money. They can't agree on how to divide a pie with many billions of dollars. So, they deprive us, the fans, of the game that we all loved. Furthermore, just as surely as I am typing this, the fans will be the ultimate losers in whatever final settlement there is. Prices will go up. Again. Some fans will be priced out of being able to attend games. The players win, the owners win, and the fans lose.

Unfortunately for them, they have forgotten one salient fact. It's neither the owners nor the players that really control the game. It is the fans that control the game. Major League Baseball does not get played without the support of the fans. Without the support of the fans, there is no money to be split. I didn't watch a single game of baseball all of last season until the World Series and I didn't miss it. Well, I did, but I got over it. It's time for all of us to turn our backs on Major League Baseball. Let it die. It will return eventually and it will be something far more reasonable. What we have now is not reasonable.

I used to be a fan, but I'm tired of seeing big market teams in the WS every yar. Sure enough, teams like the 2014-5 Royals strike gold every blue moon, but LA, Atlanta, and the Yankees seem to get more than their fair share due to their payrolls. Until MLB establishes revenue sharing and a salary cap, it's just going to continue. Couple that with the average KC fan not being able to see a single game of the Royals without going to the ballpark or paying an arm and a leg for cable extra chanels --I say screw that.

They should lockout for good

Would you believe if I told you that MLB has the most parity of any of the major sports? Certainly more than the NFL and NBA

No.

It wasn't until the McGuire/Sosa steroids fueled home run race to 62 home runs that it began to recover.

Baseball is failing on a national level. But, people still go to games in person and watch "their" team on TV. The local cable money saved baseball too.

Yes. Very little interest on a National level other than the hardcore fans.

But most sports are that way other than the NFL. Fans mostly care about their local regional team. If your local team is out of the race or bad, then Interest drops substantially.

Spin your numbers all you want, but teams are not on a level playing field, no where close. The next time the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox lose 100 games, let's talk...