31 08 2002
Regarding the baseball strike, I heard one quote from some dude on a ball field and at the business-end of a microphone (no idea who he was) say how “sure, the players’ salaries have gone up 100% over the last 7 or 8 years, but baseball revenues have gone up 100% over the last 7 or 8 years too,” and, “they’re just making sure that they get their share of those profits”.
No where in the talks or anywhere in the media over the last month has there been any discussion about the fans.
If “everyone involved” is making twice as much money, then why do I have to pay at least 23 bucks for seats that don’t suck ass, 11 dollars (yes, eleven dollars) for a large beer, $5 for a hot dog and $4 for a pretzel?
And why is there no such thing as a 2h 45min game anymore? Commercial breaks… many, many commercial breaks to wait through - same answer for the question “why don’t fans flinch when a game goes over four hours anymore?”
If they dumped the prices by 33%, they’d still be raking in more greenbacks than they were in the mid-90’s… even if everyone still went to the same number of games they go to now. Following the supply/demand curve… there would be more people in the stadiums - but no one thinks of that.
It’s all bullshit. They obviously have too much money to worry about - and I plan to do my part to help solve that problem. Despite the fact that I love baseball (or perhaps because of that), I will not be watching the Jays for the rest of the season. I will almost certainly not watch Major League Baseball next year either.
To quote Dennis Miller after his rants: “But that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.”
