Well stated- except for my one game a year to hang out with friends, it has lost me for the most part. The biggest turn off is tax payer funded stadiums for billionaire owners. We have too many societal needs to pay for without giving out tax money to rich people. We can’t even afford healthcare or schools for crying out loud .
Also, saying "it's a business" takes away from the absolute pleasure of owning a piece of history. These owners have more money than they will EVER spend in a lifetime. Take some fucking pride in something tangible instead of thinking about abstract numbers in a bank. It really is a sickness.
Greed has always been a sickness that has plagued baseball. Comiskey was a Dickens villain. Frazee sold Ruth to finance a fucking play. But those men were reviled not revered like the ‘smart businessmen’ that run so many teams nowadays. When did the average person begin to side with billionaire owners to whom fans are only a line in a ledger? And I don’t want to hear how millionaire players should just shut up and play. Be grateful that they get paid millions to play a kids game. I can tell you right now: when the owners secure a larger slice of the revenue pie in the next CBA, ticket prices won’t get any cheaper.
Well stated- except for my one game a year to hang out with friends, it has lost me for the most part. The biggest turn off is tax payer funded stadiums for billionaire owners. We have too many societal needs to pay for without giving out tax money to rich people. We can’t even afford healthcare or schools for crying out loud .
Also, saying "it's a business" takes away from the absolute pleasure of owning a piece of history. These owners have more money than they will EVER spend in a lifetime. Take some fucking pride in something tangible instead of thinking about abstract numbers in a bank. It really is a sickness.
Greed has always been a sickness that has plagued baseball. Comiskey was a Dickens villain. Frazee sold Ruth to finance a fucking play. But those men were reviled not revered like the ‘smart businessmen’ that run so many teams nowadays. When did the average person begin to side with billionaire owners to whom fans are only a line in a ledger? And I don’t want to hear how millionaire players should just shut up and play. Be grateful that they get paid millions to play a kids game. I can tell you right now: when the owners secure a larger slice of the revenue pie in the next CBA, ticket prices won’t get any cheaper.
Love it, you are on point.