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Be it the players are to greedy, the owners are too stupid or both, the system is screwed. You have a sport with 30 teams and only 4 to 5 teams have a shot to win it all.
As a fan this gets frustrating, and strike or no strike, I can see most fans getting disinterested in baseball. The average baseball fan roots for a team that has no realistic chance of making the playoffs. Couple that with a hatred or jelousy of those teams that do win all the time, can turn the average fan away from baseball. Which in turn can cripple the sport.
And soon there is going to be a strike and the players will want even more money. How can you justify wanting even more money when the league is thinking of contracting two teams that can't pay a decent payroll enough to compete, thus losing their fan base. Can't the players see the crippling effect this is having. By having these monster salaries they are hurting the sport and hurting the future of their jobs. If I was an average baseball player I would definatley think twice about the direction the players seem to be headed. If contraction is the only thing tha Bud can do to save the sport, players will continue to lose jobs. Teams will continue to lose money, and baseball will be nomore. Even the Yanks and Mets got to see that.
The need of a salary cap and revenue sharing would definately help baseball out of this predicament. I don't care whether its communism, socialist or any type government, this form of baseball will solve the problem.
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