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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.
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