03-16-2022, 03:36 PM
(03-15-2022, 06:33 AM)kevin Wrote: It happened FAST after new MLB CBA.
Reds lose the payrolls of Castellano, Sonny Gray, Winker, Suarez. In return they get low money prospects.
Everybody on here is yelling for Bob To Sell The Team. They should be yelling at the owners of the super rich teams like New York Yankees and LA Dodgers, and they should be yelling at the Players Union. Cities like Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Tampa, Oakland just got The Shaft.
What Fans DON'T see is that Bob is restructuring to try to keep The Reds in Cincinnati for many more decades. Baseball wants to kill and wipe out teams like Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Force them to move to bigger cities or just close all together.
THE GAME JUST CHANGED on this new Rich Owners and Rich Players Union Deal, and Cincinnati and Pittsburgh got The Shaft.
Sorry to see these players gone, but I told you all it was coming in my first post. Fans have to understand, this is NOT the NFL. In Baseball, every time there is a Players Strike or Lock Out and a New Collective Bargaining Agreement, it always sets teams like Cincinnati and Pittsburgh backwards. New York and LA don't give a damn about Cincinnati or if Cincinnati has The Reds.
You may not like it, but Bob is trying to do all he can to adjust to the brand new MLB CBA and keep The Reds in Cincinnati. As Reds owners have just said, they are forced to look at how to keep the Reds in Cincinnati for decades to come. They are forced to look to the Future and past 2022 season.
And to any who think Cincinnati should spend money like New York Yankees, you don't have a clue about economics or Pro Baseball as it has became since Reds glory decade of 1970's.
Why keep the team here if it's so hard for poor Bob, anyway? Get the hell out with this sad shit show. Why would any fan base want to repeat that cycle in and endless loop. Let me tell you who. Bob and co, that's who. Why? Because the Reds are a cash machine for him. He'll make money whether the stadium is full or it get less than 5k in the seats per night.
Bon doesn't suck because of the mean old CBA. He sucks because he hires in-house stooges like Krall to run the team that aren't even close to being smart enough to operate in the typical, low-budget moneyball template.
GABP is nothing but a place for people to drink beer and eat s'mores fries until the end of July when Burrow and the boys come back to town for camp and provide a real entertainment product that's worth supporting.
