The Cubs on Friday reacquired outfielder Sam Fuld from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for a player to be named later.
2016 MLB Regular Season - It's an Even Year...
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Fun stat of the day: Cubs pitchers now have an OPS better than more than half of the AL's designated hitters. Cubs pitchers have a .660 OPS, better than the DH for CWS (.622), DET (.637), HOU (.621), LAA (.561), NYY (.547), OAK (.545), TB (.473), and TEX (.534).
I won't even try to understand NYC taxes, licenses, politics blah - blah...
I personally don't think stadiums should be subsidized. But I might think differently if I was to build a billion dollar stadium.
But I will agree with him and say ticket prices are WAY too high. I went to "The palace" to see Jeter play before he retired and I paid $90 bucks a seat for 3rd level seats. (great view BTW).
One could make a case that players salaries should be reduced to allow for lower ticket prices too.
Possibly better than most of their own batters. As far as regulars, Fowler: .375 .508 .708 1.217 . Montero: .286 .395 .457 .852
If it weren't for the monumental amount of walks taken by most of the lineup, they wouldn't be 11-3 right now.
Soler continues to swing at everything. Heyward is hitting everything right at defenders. Most of the regulars outside of Fowler & Miggy are hitting around .200.
Balls. If anything, they should be going up, considering the players' share of overall revenues has declined every year since 2002.
Sorry, 31 mil a year for Price (most recent) is a liiiiiiiiiitle over the top.
I would agree that those on "the bottom" could rise some, but these long term bloated contracts are nuts.
It's all monopoly money anyways... until you're the one buying the tickets...
For sure. All those poor billionaires are getting KILLED by player salaries.
I find it amusing when the Yankees - or any other team complains about revenue sharing. For some reason they think that their team would be just fine without all the others, that their brand would continue to pull in such astonishing sums if they played the Washington Generals every game.
Give me a break. If you belong to a wealthy club, your dues help pay for the renovation of the arboretum, even if you don't use it.
Give me a break. If you belong to a wealthy club, your dues help pay for the renovation of the arboretum, even if you don't use it.
Well, there are billionaire owners that don't spend $$$$ on their team. Hell, they had to recently rewrite the rules making those "poor billionaire" owned of those poooooooooor bottom dwelling teams to spend the money on players.
Considering the chances of making it to the majors are pretty small in the first place, I will never fault a player for trying to get all the money he can. Saying that those contracts are nuts is the same kind of rhetoric the owners used in previous work stoppages, in which they were effectively demanding that the players save them (the owners) from themselves. Fuck that. Every baseball team is making money hand over fist, and there is no reason that in the past fourteen years, the players' share of overall revenue has fallen from 56 percent to somewhere around 38 percent today.
One of the reasons for the AFL-NFL merger was "soaring" player salaries. Maybe all sports need a salary cap of some kind.
Oh, absolutely; the NFL broke the shit out of the union in the last lockout. I think the NFLPA gets something like 47 percent of revenues (and the NFL allegedly hid something like $120 million in revenue off the books last season), the rookie pool was gutted, rookies are locked into their contracts for three years and because of that, veterans get shafted left and right.
Absolutely ridiculous how little power the NFLPA has. The league would be a joke without the players.
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The NFLPA is a long, long way away from the halcyon days of Gene Upshaw's leadership, my friend.
And, yes, people seem all too willing to forget that the players are quite literally the product. Those billions upon billions of dollars the owners make every year don't happen without, you know, stuff happening on the field.
And, yes, people seem all too willing to forget that the players are quite literally the product. Those billions upon billions of dollars the owners make every year don't happen without, you know, stuff happening on the field.
If anything, they should start by pouring more money into Minor League salaries. Yeah, the ML'ers could get a bigger share of revenues, but the mL'ers aren't even scraping by at this point. Not that they should be making millions or anything, and the mL revenue may not support a ton more, but pour some of the ML money into the minors. Constant stories about guys that are working a couple jobs, only get good food at the stadium, living 4 guys to an apartment, etc. Just such a drastic difference between making ~$400k ML minimum and the average salary in the minors, which is $1500-2500 a month, and only during the season.
Part of why you see fewer Black baseball players; can't afford to grind your way to the Majors. White players have a leg up there, and Hispanic/Japanese players are getting signing bonuses that allow them to do it without the standard salary.
Part of why you see fewer Black baseball players; can't afford to grind your way to the Majors. White players have a leg up there, and Hispanic/Japanese players are getting signing bonuses that allow them to do it without the standard salary.
ESPN finally fired Curt Schilling after his latest rant about transgendered people. I'm sure he'll be at FS1 within the week.
Agree wholeheartedly. These kids work for peanuts.... pay for their own travel in most cases and still play 80+ games a year. Tough road to hoe.
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