10-18-2017, 02:39 PM
(10-18-2017, 02:04 PM)RoyleRedlegs Wrote: Because they keep making more money.
He's actually doing a good job as commissioner.
He's not beholden to fans or players, but to the owners and the shield.
And the Shield is as profitable as ever.
When your commissioner is too player-friendly, you get MLB and it's boring. It's run by players and it almost is exclusively about big market teams and it starts to isolate fans of the mid-small teams who only watch when their team is winning.
This is a common response to those bashing Goodell, and I'd respond by saying the owners are fools for taking their customers for granted.
Eventually the chickens will come to roost and the owners will come to regret forgetting about the thing that makes it all go. The fans.
We're already starting to see some issues with ratings down across the board. Keep biting the hand that feeds and eventually people will turn the channel and spend their dollars elsewhere.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
