12-18-2024, 06:12 PM
The ownership is a grift-fest of local investors. Everyone from the Castellini's down want their cut of the cash machine before any real money goes into the roster. It's a good business if you can get into it. Akin to making a couple hundred mil a year, except to get the hundred million you have to stand on Fountain Square and let everyone who bothers to still pay attention tell you that you suck. At the end of the day, your fans and colleagues think you are a joke, but hey, you still get another 200 mil in your pocket. Plus no one is obligated to show their books, so you can cry poor even in the best of years.
Juan Soto will probably have more money than some owners in this league when his contract is fulfilled. That's not a salient business model. Owners like the Castellini's won't be able to swim in waters that deep.
The inevitable work stoppage may seem like relief for poverty clowns like Bob and his deplorable son, but I believe it will exacerbate the situation. The Player's Union is brutal. The league needs a salary cap, but the players won't give up something for nothing. A cap will bring a floor, as it eventually did in the NFL. The average roster in MLB costs about 150 mil. There's no way the players will negotiate that low. You could be looking at 175-200 mil. The Castellini group hasn't even gotten close enough to envision that kind of roster investment. It would be by far the most expensive Reds roster ever. It would also be a minimum, year after year. No fire sales to slash budget would change it.
I think that they will sell to a group more capable of conducting the business of a MLB operation. Hopefully it's actually here in Cincinnati.
Juan Soto will probably have more money than some owners in this league when his contract is fulfilled. That's not a salient business model. Owners like the Castellini's won't be able to swim in waters that deep.
The inevitable work stoppage may seem like relief for poverty clowns like Bob and his deplorable son, but I believe it will exacerbate the situation. The Player's Union is brutal. The league needs a salary cap, but the players won't give up something for nothing. A cap will bring a floor, as it eventually did in the NFL. The average roster in MLB costs about 150 mil. There's no way the players will negotiate that low. You could be looking at 175-200 mil. The Castellini group hasn't even gotten close enough to envision that kind of roster investment. It would be by far the most expensive Reds roster ever. It would also be a minimum, year after year. No fire sales to slash budget would change it.
I think that they will sell to a group more capable of conducting the business of a MLB operation. Hopefully it's actually here in Cincinnati.
