This ain't pre-2000. There are about 100 activities you could be doing these days far better than watching a baseball game. The sport only shines in the post season.

Pretty much how I see it as well. This just more of a formality that will get taken care of.

Soccer!!

While I don’t agree it only shines in the postseason, I do agree there are far too many games.

Very low stakes some random game April to July.

Imagine having that many billion dollars and not being able to figure out a way to divide them.

Someone in politics should steal the speech writer from the Commish. The statement issued is actually pretty persuasive. The amount MLB players can get paid on a guaranteed level is kind of crazy when you think about it. Much better for the players than NFL contracts that have short guarantees...

This will get hammered out soon IMO. Too much $$$ involved for these MLB guys to forgo it. And the ones that aren't making big $$$ need that year of service time to keep going in order to get closer to the big payday.

The fact that the NFL Hall of Fame Game... a preseason game... gets comparable TV ratings to World Series games says everything about how irrelevant baseball has become.

Yea, like getting your 20th booster shot just like BB. LMAO

In all seriousness, with the positions many leagues have taken in pro sports I have watched zero baseball last year and zero basketball since Queen James went to the Lakers. I still watch my Chiefs every week along with pieces of a few other good games when I'm cooking. That's about it though.

As a Pirates fan, baseball is pretty much unwatchable. If they want to play dumb over billions of dollars, so be it. I will find other ways to use my time.

All parties are awful in this spat but the MLBPA is easily the worst union in sports. They don't understand the concept of compromise.

When was the last time anyone here watched a regular season baseball game from start to finish on TV?

It's completely unwatchable for a variety of reasons.

Tons of people on this board watch the Royals pretty much every day. I'd assume that's true of the Cardinals as well. WTF are you talking about?

That’s a super small minority of people that watch regular season baseball games on TV.

WTF are YOU talking about with “tons of people”?

Matlock reruns get higher TV ratings than regular season baseball games.

Baseball players were exploited for a long time.

The reason there is more disparity in MLB has more to do with the wealthier teams wanting to have an advantage over the less wealthy teams.

David Glass and a couple other owners had a much harder job getting other owners to compromise on competitive balance measures than they did getting MLBPA to agree to things that would aid competitive balance.

MLBPA is not the only entity opposed to a hard cap. Look how much money the Dodgers spend to make the playoffs every year and win 1 World Series.

I watch about 150 a year

The royals average about 40k a night. Without looking it up, I'd almost guarantee you Matlock doesn't average 40k a night in KC
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