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Originally Posted by wireman
This is pretty sweeping for you. Do you have any data on the historical concern for dollars?How far back are you going with this?
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Owners being concerned about profits is as old as professional sports. It is a business after all. Conflict between owners and players goes back almost to the beginning of baseball.
Why was the Players League formed? What happened to player salaries after its demise? Why did some players jump from the AL and NL to the Federal League? Why did some players jump from MLB to the Mexican League in 1946? Why did clubs fight so hard for so long to retain the reserve clause? Why was it implemented in the first place? Why was there numerous attempts to unionize major league players before Marvin Miller successfully molded the MLBPA into a powerful entity? How did the pay of major league ballplayers compare to wages for other jobs?
Professional sports is a business first and foremost. Given this, why should its concern for revenue and profits be any less important or less influential over its operation than that of any other business entity?
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Originally Posted by spit ball
But it seems like the game has changed over the years where, in general, both are now more interested in money and less in the sport.
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And therein lies my issue. Plenty of folks say this (several have in this very thread), but the problem is most can't really quantify it in any meaningful way. It seems it's just something they 'feel' but can't really put any details to. I suspect it's more about baseball simply doing things in a way they simply don't like.