05-29-2020, 06:36 AM
except this is NOT like every time there is an ISSUE
Look at the USA. Look at the World. More people unemployed than The Great Depression.
Have Hospitals changed, YES. Have Family Doctors changed, YES. Have schools changed, YES. Have most jobs changed, YES. Have TV Talk Shows changed, YES. Did voting change, YES. No toilet paper, YES. Stores out of meat, YES. Everything has been changed.
and here sits Baseball. Players and their Agents and Unions won't budge. This idea to agree on a short season by June 1st is falling apart. Reds have cut 25 % of their staff. Hundreds of minor league players just got fired, with hundreds more coming. There is no minor league baseball and so many minor league players are joining the ranks of the unemployed. Many minor league coaches and staff have been fired. Minor league baseball as of now no longer exists. Major League Baseball as of now doesn't exist. Stadiums sit empty. Reds have fired 25 % of their staff with probably more firings to come.
As for contracts, that could be one more nail in the coffin. Unions, Agents and Lawyers upon Lawyers taking all this crap to court for years on end as stadiums sit empty. And if the Superstars and their Agents win in court and destroy the owners and the teams, with no minor or major league teams to play for, then what ??? Go into Wrestling ? Bag groceries at a store ? IF they win and kill baseball, then what do the Superstars do ?
It now looks like there will be no 2020 baseball season, minor league or major league and many players and staff are getting fired. No Baseball, No Baseball Jobs. Up next comes the NFL and same thing could happen there. No Football, No Football Jobs.
Now when I was a kid in 1960's, there was 20 baseball teams. So less teams, less players, less minor leagues. Salaries were low and major league players had winter jobs. Reds Clay Carroll was a Cop in the off season. Pete Rose dreamed of being first singles hitter to make 100 thousand a year. Only 5 or 10 players made 100 thousand. The idea of Government and Tax Payers putting up the money for new stadiums was unheard of. Beer and Shaving Cream were the major commercials. There was no ESPN, The local news gave the last few minutes of half hour news to quickly give sports scores and weather. Beer Companies use to give away hundreds of Reds tickets to bars who carried their beer, making bar bus excursions cheap.
Then came the Big Money Era. Strikes. Big Money. Ticket Prices went through the roof. Big Corporation sponsors of rich white collar replaced blue collar commercials. The balloon got bigger and bigger. Many have wondered when that balloon would burst. In 2020 the balloon has burst. Fans, Players, Agents, Unions, Owners may not know it yet, but the balloon has blown up. Empty Stadiums. No Minors or Majors. Maybe no college football. If Baseball could reopen Today, most Americans could not afford the same high ticket prices with more unemployment than The Great Depression.
So if Hospitals, Doctors, Schools, Jobs have been hit hard and had changes in 2020. so to will be basketball, baseball, football. The mega million contracts just blew up. Reds fired 25% of their staff and are firing minor league players because there is no minor leagues now. It looks like there will be no major leagues. The Superstars and their Agents can go to courts with all the lawyers they want, but if they win, they kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Then what, bag groceries ? Nobody is going to pay them mega millions to bag groceries.
So the USA and The World are in Hard Times. The Depression from 2020 may last way into future as Great Depression did, It won't be fixed over night. Yet Sports Superstars and their Agents feel none of this effects them, they have contracts. Right now the only thing those contracts are is a good substitute for no toilet paper. I suggest these Players and Agents watch movies like Cinderella Man or Hard Times of Great Depression to see what their contracts are worth with all empty stadiums.
So as of today, Reds have fired 25% of staff. Minor League players are getting fired. Major League negotiations are falling apart by Players and Agents and a season in 2020 is running out of time and probably won't happen. Empty stadiums, No TV. So no Money at all to pay players, contracts be damned. Next up, The NFL.
The World and USA problem is bigger than sports, agents and contracts. Mega Sports may not know it yet, but the balloon has burst. I promise you all the staff and minor league players now Fired know the sports balloon has burst.
THIS is not like any of the other owner/ player issues. Not in any way, stretch or form is this like any of the other sports issues since Great Depression or World War II.
Very doubtful there will be 2020 baseball as Agents stand in the way. Well, maybe Snell or Bauer can get jobs in Wrestling or at a Grocery Store once they kill Baseball. With so many in the world out of work, they may not get those jobs.
So basketball was stopped. It looks like no baseball. Football is very much in doubt. Right now those contracts make a good substitute for no toilet paper. There was a time the Clay Carroll's would have agreed to half a season and half pay which is better than No Pay. Not Today. Today's high paid players seem determined to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Some fans may cry for them, but 95 % of the world will have problems of their own and see these American Athletes as foolish, spoiled, mostly foolish. In the end, the world has bigger problems and will not cry over these athletes demanding mega millions.
Look at the USA. Look at the World. More people unemployed than The Great Depression.
Have Hospitals changed, YES. Have Family Doctors changed, YES. Have schools changed, YES. Have most jobs changed, YES. Have TV Talk Shows changed, YES. Did voting change, YES. No toilet paper, YES. Stores out of meat, YES. Everything has been changed.
and here sits Baseball. Players and their Agents and Unions won't budge. This idea to agree on a short season by June 1st is falling apart. Reds have cut 25 % of their staff. Hundreds of minor league players just got fired, with hundreds more coming. There is no minor league baseball and so many minor league players are joining the ranks of the unemployed. Many minor league coaches and staff have been fired. Minor league baseball as of now no longer exists. Major League Baseball as of now doesn't exist. Stadiums sit empty. Reds have fired 25 % of their staff with probably more firings to come.
As for contracts, that could be one more nail in the coffin. Unions, Agents and Lawyers upon Lawyers taking all this crap to court for years on end as stadiums sit empty. And if the Superstars and their Agents win in court and destroy the owners and the teams, with no minor or major league teams to play for, then what ??? Go into Wrestling ? Bag groceries at a store ? IF they win and kill baseball, then what do the Superstars do ?
It now looks like there will be no 2020 baseball season, minor league or major league and many players and staff are getting fired. No Baseball, No Baseball Jobs. Up next comes the NFL and same thing could happen there. No Football, No Football Jobs.
Now when I was a kid in 1960's, there was 20 baseball teams. So less teams, less players, less minor leagues. Salaries were low and major league players had winter jobs. Reds Clay Carroll was a Cop in the off season. Pete Rose dreamed of being first singles hitter to make 100 thousand a year. Only 5 or 10 players made 100 thousand. The idea of Government and Tax Payers putting up the money for new stadiums was unheard of. Beer and Shaving Cream were the major commercials. There was no ESPN, The local news gave the last few minutes of half hour news to quickly give sports scores and weather. Beer Companies use to give away hundreds of Reds tickets to bars who carried their beer, making bar bus excursions cheap.
Then came the Big Money Era. Strikes. Big Money. Ticket Prices went through the roof. Big Corporation sponsors of rich white collar replaced blue collar commercials. The balloon got bigger and bigger. Many have wondered when that balloon would burst. In 2020 the balloon has burst. Fans, Players, Agents, Unions, Owners may not know it yet, but the balloon has blown up. Empty Stadiums. No Minors or Majors. Maybe no college football. If Baseball could reopen Today, most Americans could not afford the same high ticket prices with more unemployment than The Great Depression.
So if Hospitals, Doctors, Schools, Jobs have been hit hard and had changes in 2020. so to will be basketball, baseball, football. The mega million contracts just blew up. Reds fired 25% of their staff and are firing minor league players because there is no minor leagues now. It looks like there will be no major leagues. The Superstars and their Agents can go to courts with all the lawyers they want, but if they win, they kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Then what, bag groceries ? Nobody is going to pay them mega millions to bag groceries.
So the USA and The World are in Hard Times. The Depression from 2020 may last way into future as Great Depression did, It won't be fixed over night. Yet Sports Superstars and their Agents feel none of this effects them, they have contracts. Right now the only thing those contracts are is a good substitute for no toilet paper. I suggest these Players and Agents watch movies like Cinderella Man or Hard Times of Great Depression to see what their contracts are worth with all empty stadiums.
So as of today, Reds have fired 25% of staff. Minor League players are getting fired. Major League negotiations are falling apart by Players and Agents and a season in 2020 is running out of time and probably won't happen. Empty stadiums, No TV. So no Money at all to pay players, contracts be damned. Next up, The NFL.
The World and USA problem is bigger than sports, agents and contracts. Mega Sports may not know it yet, but the balloon has burst. I promise you all the staff and minor league players now Fired know the sports balloon has burst.
THIS is not like any of the other owner/ player issues. Not in any way, stretch or form is this like any of the other sports issues since Great Depression or World War II.
Very doubtful there will be 2020 baseball as Agents stand in the way. Well, maybe Snell or Bauer can get jobs in Wrestling or at a Grocery Store once they kill Baseball. With so many in the world out of work, they may not get those jobs.
So basketball was stopped. It looks like no baseball. Football is very much in doubt. Right now those contracts make a good substitute for no toilet paper. There was a time the Clay Carroll's would have agreed to half a season and half pay which is better than No Pay. Not Today. Today's high paid players seem determined to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Some fans may cry for them, but 95 % of the world will have problems of their own and see these American Athletes as foolish, spoiled, mostly foolish. In the end, the world has bigger problems and will not cry over these athletes demanding mega millions.
1968 Bengal Fan
