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Originally Posted by JoeRedskin
What gets me is not that MLB would blatantly tarnish its "America's Game" image for cash but that MLB would do it so cheaply. 3.6 million? Hell, can't even get a lefty with a losing record for that. Talk about your desparate 'ho.
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I am surprised at that amount as well...but nothing surprises me anymore with MLB. The players union is almost single handedly destroying the game, and of course the owners are letting them. Baseball used to be a game of pride and dignity (well the "game" still is, but MLB is not). How can any sports oriented league not see the need for testing for performance enhancing drugs? Of course the union won't allow it, but if they didn't like it, go get scabs. The game is bigger than those damn primadonnas that are on the field now. When everyone said the ball was juiced, I said the players were juiced, now no one is saying anything about juiced baseballs, it's all about Balco! Maybe we should boycott every game until our (the fans)demands are met. Such as, reasonable salaries, not a player getting 25 million a year to play a freakin game 6 months out of the year. No one should make mroe than say 5 or 6 mil. No less than 500k. A salary cap so the same damn teams don't win every year (ie Yankees). A reasonable fee to go to a game. If I took a family of 4, it would cost $200 just for tickets unless I sat in the crap seats. Then it's $4 for a hot dog, another $4 for a coke...multiply that by 4 and that's $32 and you're still have a hungry clan on your hands. Then there is of course the $20 for parking. After souveniers etc, it's well over $300 for a family. That's retarded. Of course most of that is due to extremely high wages of players who say without the fan they are nothing, but really don't care at all about us, just their paycheck.
(wow that was a longer rant than anticipated...hehe)