Spare me the athlete poverty sob story. These guys aren’t homeless.The minimum salary in baseball is $415,000. Say a salary cap takes 25 percent off across the board. That’s still over $300,000 a year for playing baseball.

And what does this accomplish? It will not lower ticket prices at all. The Red Sox can pay their team a 100 dollars for a season and the ticket prices for this year will still be higher then last year and they will still hit over 100 percent capacity.

I get your point, but to positives of a salary cap far outweigh the negatives. Seems to work pretty well for football.

Yeah except it doesn’t. The “parity” of the NFL is a result of its structural differences with the other sports. No other team sport that matters has the specialization of Football. No other sport has as many players active on a single play as football. No other sport has 1 position of such value over the other positions. No other sport has such a small sample size.

That is before getting into the NFL engineering parity by rewarding bad teams and punishing good teams with schedules where the difference between the easisest and hardest is worth about 2 games. It gives bad teams better access to the best incoming players. And even with this the last 9 AFC champs have been the same 3 teams.

I mean, a good chunk of the playoffs is already on TBS. That’s, uh, not what you’d expect from a healthy major American sport.

This is actually a very good thing for baseball. It’s good for everybody involved. Obviously a win for TBS, a win for Fox in that they disrupt less of their regular network programming, and it adds another competing network to the mix as far as bidding for rights goes, so that’s a win for MLB. If playoffs on TBS were a warning sign, are NBA playoff games on TNT a warning sign?

Most of the speculation I’ve read has the next round of TV deals worth about twice what the current round is worth. Think of ratings as a raw metric. The overall deal is based on the total # of viewers, the prevalence and availability of advertising sales, the demographics reached, and some other shit that I can’t think of off the top of my head.

I’m still waiting to hear how standardized rules are gonna bring the flock in.

Get in line, I’m still curious why longer playoffs are good for MLB when we were told that long playoffs are bad in other sports

If someone didn’t watch baseball before, they’re gonna start if the NL has a designated hitter?

Baseball may be making money, but it has all the signs of a bubble. Eroding cultural footprint, declining attendance, declining ratings. Yet the money just keeps pouring in behind new stadiums, higher ticket prices, and regional TV deals. I feel like that wave has to crest at some point, and its a long drop from there.

Because if fans have to go to mlb.com or to a broadcast partner that is paying for the highlights, mlb is the revenue earner rather than just letting google log those eyeballs at no charge.

MLB pulls highlight clips from YouTube the second they appear. Because why would they want fans to see great plays?

I go to MLB.com to see the highlights, not that difficult…why give the milk away for free if you’re them?

Pattern developing here of disliking anyone making money from baseball

New media masters, indeed.

Its going to take the purists dying off for the sport to change.

People said something like this in 1890, too, I’m sure. But they used a contraction.

Football players aren’t “financially starved” either.

financially starve the players just enough to keep them playing hard, then refuse to assist with medical treatment for lingering effects later in life. high moral code that #1 sport has…

Fucking-ay, this…people like to point out how baseball is going to go extinct but just wait until the NFL puts in even more rules changes to keep players safe while the talent pool potentially dries up as fewer parents let their kids play

Could be an interesting next 20 years for the sport

financially starve the players just enough to keep them playing hard, then refuse to assist with medical treatment for lingering effects later in life. high moral code that #1 sport has…

“Man, hundreds of thousands of people would so watch baseball more, go to games, and spend money on merchandise if they had a salary cap and standardized rules.”

/troof injection

Its going to take the purists dying off for the sport to change. But its inevitable.

how are we supposed to win the wild card this year if we contract?

/shit i dream