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| Friday, August 16 User feedback: 'Good, let them kill the game!' ESPN.com |
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Here are chosen responses from ESPN.com users on the players' decision to set a strike date for Aug. 30:
It doesn't matter anymore. I am sick and tired of the whole thing. I have no sympathy for the owners or the players. It is the fan who is hurting. Let's get back to reality.
Remember, baseball is a game and the players have the privilege of playing it for a living. Stop being gready and look at what the average American worker makes per year.
I am done with baseball! The players only care about themselves and not people like me who pay their big salaries. The only money that I will ever spend on baseball again is to see a Little League game!
The money everone is fighting for:
Fans = money
I say the fans strike on Aug. 28. Will that speed up labor talks?
Finally there is some substantial movement! A line in the sand has been drawn, but are there any "winners" here? Either way, the fans lose because we either lose baseball for a bit and send bad vibes towards the sport and its players or there is a settlement in which they all still make too much money.
Football could not come soon enough.
It's appalling that in the aftermath of 9/11 all the owners and players think about is themselves. I make $26,000 a year. I'd play the game for free!
I don't care whose fault it is, I just know it's not mine. Bye-bye baseball, it was nice knowing you.
I have been a huge baseball fan for my entire life. I have dealt with the work stoppages over the years and come back to the sport I love. However, if the greedy players go on strike against the greedy owners again I will never watch another game. Enough is enough.
This is an absolute disgrace. How anyone making an average of $2.3 million can justify a strike, which is done because of unfair working conditions and salary, is a embarrassment to the very people who ultimately pay those salaries -- the fans. We buy the tickets, pay for the cable, buy the hot dogs and soda and purchase the merchandise. Do us all a favor and get a real job making our 5-figure salaries, which equals your meal money, and then we can talk. Thankfully, football is here.
Good, let them kill the game! One thing I do not think the players understand is the game is bigger than any one of them. I have no problem going to my local minor-league team and paying only $5 to watch a game. If the MLB teams can not afford to pay the bills, there will not be anybody for the Yankees to play. Maybe they can scrimage against themselves. I wonder how many fans will show up for that? Besides, America's new past time sport is approaching, so that gives NFL more time on SportsCenter.
You've got to be kidding me! Half of America is lucky to be working and the other half can't find work. We're already paying $20-$200 a ticket to see these guys play. Most of the players make more money than most of us will ever see in a lifetime and now they want more?
I think each and every one of the players should have to live in the shoes of blue-collar America for a week, maybe then they'd see how ridiculous this whole labor mess is.
The tears in my eyes on September 11 will be for thousands of victims and their families. Not baseball owners or players. If the players strike, I'm done with MLB for good.
Look on the brightside: The Yankees won't be in the World Series and no Red Sox choke. The owners better try something to get control of the game. If they have to "force" the players to strike, so be it. I suspect that if the players (employees) continue to have their way unchecked, MLB will go the way of our nation's steel industry.
I hated baseball after the 1994 season. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa brought me back into it in '98. Unfortunately, this time it's going to take more than a couple of long balls to bring me back.
It makes me sick, the game that I have loved since I could play is filled with a bunch of rich whiners.
I may be in a national minority, but I believe the best thing is to shut down the game for a year. The status quo is ruining the game in small-market cities. The system has to be changed dramatically. The players refuse to accept this. I support players making every penny that they can, but I resent them standing in the way of plans to help the competitive balance. They use the A's and the Twins as examples to argue that the existing system works.
Good riddance! I hope the owners and players hold their ground and that baseball never comes back. I'm done with watching the quality of play go down and the prices go up. Let them stay away forever for all I care!
These guys are clueless. This will be the worst strike yet. Not only are fans tired of strikes, but the slow economy and the events of 9/11 have made us recognize the relative unimportance of baseball.
Go ahead and strike, guys. You won't like what baseball looks like when you get back.
The players are just plain greedy. They make too much money, yet they refuse to accept a reasonable drag on escalating player salaries for the good of the game and the good of the fans. Higher payrolls mean higher ticket prices. With the average baseball player making millions, the idea that baseball players need to protect themselves and their union is ridiculous.
Although, this will never happen, here is what the fans need to do ... set thier own strike date (before the players' date) and strike before the players, meaning no fans go to any games for three or four days at least.
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