MLBTR Chat Transcript

I agree. That’s really my point. Everyone I see is complaining about the owners not offering enough or the players are asking for too much. I generally go by precedent when a conversation gets that nuanced but it’s a useless conversation. The fact of the matter is that I don’t care who gets what money. They will all be rich. I think if an owner can make money owning a baseball team and a player can make money playing baseball they are lucky. It’s us lowly fans that get screwed. I do think the owners should consider some of the changes MLBPA is offering. At the same time, the players should accept some of the benefits MLB is offering and stop saying “it’s not enough.” Just re-sign the last CBA with very slightly more consideration going to the players. They are supposed to be doing this for the fans. None of them are happy with their “slice of the pie.” Get over it. As far as I’m concerned, all the cheap owners like the Pirates owner and all the Max Scherzer’s of the world making over $43 million a year, both of whom are still whining can all burn in hell. I don’t want to hear a word from either of them and every time they open their mouths it makes me root for them less. Even Alex Wood. The guy has been injured his whole career and still just got a $30 million contract but says, “If you raise the penalty it doesn’t matter if the luxury tax doesn’t kick in until $1,000,000,000.00 a year. It’s a nonstarter.” Is he so stupid that he thinks every team in baseball having the ability to pay a roster up to $1 billion every year with zero tax penalty isn’t a huge win for the players? It’s stupid crap like that which makes me realize why most athletes shouldn’t even try and think about finance. It’s too hard for them. Go throw a baseball and shut up. No one ever paid you for being good at anything else. There’s a clue. You probably aren’t. And as for owners like Angelos, who build terrible teams every year and want to get paid by other teams to do it, the should burn in hell too. If you don’t spend over $100 million a year to your players and you are whining, you can burn in hell. If you make millions of dollars a year playing a game instead of making much less money by saving lives as a doctor and you are whining, you can burn in hell. There are some reasonable people involved in this scenario. The Robert Nutting’s, Peter Angelos, Alex Woods and Max Scherzer’s can all burn in hell for having it much better than anyone else but still whining about it.