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Lucid
16 Aug 2002, 03:39 PM
Aug 30th.

I say ******** 'em, go ahead and strike, the Royals are crap once again this year. I just can't wait to see the look on the Twins fans faces when they realize they're playoffs are now gone, that this whole season is gone, that after waiting almost a decade to be good again, it's all gone for nothing. Then it's gonna be even funnier when Selig tries to contract them. I don't want to see them contracted, I don't want to see any team contracted, but the comedic value is there because of the sad sad state that baseball is in now.

Don Fehr can goto hell and he can take Bud Selig with him, along with Steinbrenner. They've all done their best to ruin this game the best they can.

Fehr has becuase of his lack vision as to what's fair, you can only take and take and take so much before you take too much and there's nothing left to take when you've made half the teams bankrupt. Then half the jobs are gone and your in a worse position that you were in to begin with, good job Fehr. Nice forsight.

Selig because he wants to contract two teams just for the hell of it. His reasons are stupid and shows absolutely no regard for fans in those cities. Montreal could care less, but Minnesota? C'mon! You know they have fans there that would support the team if they just had a winner. Oh wait.. look, they do, and look... they're supporting it. The Twins problem is a bad stadium, so rather than spending $250 million to get rid of them, how about you spend $250 million to buy them a new stadium you jackass. The NFL does it, they forked over $60 million for the Texans new stadium. And props on getting the WS cancelled yet again. You are a stupid, P.O.S. puppet for the owners who has no regard for history, tradition, or even the owners rules that you have blatently broken many times by hooking up broke owners with other owners money. Not to mention your blatent lying in front of congress. If TB is broke and just about bankrupt, why not contract them you idiot? That makes the most sense. The owners have brought in 4 teams in the past decade, Arizona, Florida, Tampa Bay, and Colorado. Colorado is the only one that actually made sense and is in good shape right now. Arizona is almost bankrupt, TB is almost bankrupt, Florida is in really bad shape and no one cares about them. You idiots added the wildcard, screwed up the divisions, and made any race for the post-season pretty uninteresting compared to before. "THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT, THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT, AND THE DODGERS WIN THE WILDCARD!!!!" Yeah, that's a lot of fun, way to make it impossible for one of the most excting moments in baseball from ever happening again.

And now Steinbrenner, you have done everything within the rules, and that's good. There's nothing that says you can't spend more in payroll than some of the teams are worth, but if you don't see anything wrong and unfair about that you are a greedy jackass who has no regard for teams who don't make $100 million off of their cable contract. People say that the Yankees cable station is going to go under if there is a strike, good. It sucks that people are going to lose their jobs, but look at all the stadium workers who aren't going to have a place to work the rest of the season, so just throw them into the pot of the thousands of people who are now going to be unemployed because millionares and billionares cannot decide how to divide up millions of dollars.

That is the thing that pisses me off most about this, the fact that with the economy the way it is, with companies going under left and right, with all this corporate scandel's going on, with threat of war in the middle east, again, they have the balls to sit here and tell us that they don't want to goto work because they are being screwed. Well you know what, ******** you, you are all greedy peices of shyt, and if you truely aren't a greedy peice of shyt (which there is a few players who aren't) you are sheep, just following the orders of Donald Fehr and you don't have the balls to voice out against something that you feel is an injustice.

Dan Patrick said it best, these are the people who are given the "honor" of playing the game they "love"? Bullshyt, ******** all of you and I hope the rest of the country says the same.

Wade Bills
16 Aug 2002, 04:03 PM
It's a shame the players are so out of touch with the common man. I was listening to a local sports radio station on the way to work a few days ago. They were discussing a TV interview that had taken place the night before. Apparently the TV interviewer said something along the lines that she felt sorry that a potential strike would hurt a lot of small people (vendors, restaurant and bar workers, parking attendants)

One of the players essentially said something like
"Yeah, well I don't feel sorry for them. They can go get another job. What am I going do? I just can't go somewhere else and make what I make as a baseball player"

Heaven forbid they might have to work a 9-5 job for only a 5 figure income the way that rest of the country does and have to work past the age of 35.

Lucid
16 Aug 2002, 04:11 PM
Originally posted by Wade Bills

One of the players essentially said something like
"Yeah, well I don't feel sorry for them. They can go get another job. What am I going do? I just can't go somewhere else and make what I make as a baseball player"

Yeah, that doesn't suprise me, it's almost as good as Patrick Ewing's quote during the lockout. "What am I gonna do? Sure we make a lot of money, but we spend a lot too." :rolleyes:

hangthadj
16 Aug 2002, 04:35 PM
the owners are buffoons too. they whine and whine about comptetive balance and their planned luxury tax and whatever else does nothing to solve competeitive balance. nobody calls out the owners who make mlillions a year on these teams and cry poor also. i don't know why.

Ian McCracken
17 Aug 2002, 11:16 AM
Originally posted by Lucid
Yeah, that doesn't suprise me, it's almost as good as Patrick Ewing's quote during the lockout. "What am I gonna do? Sure we make a lot of money, but we spend a lot too." :rolleyes:

In Ewing's case it was true. He was spending it all at that nudie bar in Atlanta.

Doctor Stamen
17 Aug 2002, 08:16 PM
Dumb greedy tw_ts the lot of 'em ?.

Isn't millions of $ enough per year ?.

Jeff
19 Aug 2002, 11:25 AM
Gammons' take on it all:

http://espn.go.com/gammons/s/2002/0817/1419256.html

joseph pakovits
19 Aug 2002, 11:49 AM
During the Cubs' latest loss at Wrigley, fans were heard chanting "Go on strike! Go on strike!" I guess a few of them actually DO watch the game after all...

mikelley037
19 Aug 2002, 03:24 PM
being a yankees and overall abseball fanatic i dont want to see a strike...and not many do. if (or when) they do strike, i will be waiting. i will still watch and go to the games. but many wont. i am for a luxary cap that will indirectly serve as a salary cap. they should help the low revenue teams with the money from the tax.

p.s. everyone remember in 1994 what was goin on before the strike...

ace of base ruled (hated them)
matt williams had a chance for 60 when 60 only happened twice
yankees had the best record and could have broken the old cubbies record

BrianJames
20 Aug 2002, 01:36 PM
Originally posted by joseph pakovits
During the Cubs' latest loss at Wrigley, fans were heard chanting "Go on strike! Go on strike!" I guess a few of them actually DO watch the game after all...

Hahaha...I actually miss the days that I cared about baseball and the Cardinals. Nothing better than going to Wrigley to watch the Cards beat up on the Cubs.

Good column by Gammons, he is an great baseball reporter, any chance we can get him into soccer if baseball takes a nose dive?