Mr. Snell is a very talented player...He is from State of Washington. He played baseball at University of Washington...
He is entitled to his opinion...
However, there may be some baseball fans who do not sympathize with his refusal to take a pay cut...
At this time, many Americans are unemployed...Many of them are suffering financially...
Mr. Snell has a five year deal for $50 million...$10 million per year...
Bryce Harper agrees with Snell...
I guess he won’t be playing with his team mates.. Unless they hold out also..
It’d be a shame if the deal worked out to 15 million per player.
LOL! 36 million Americans out of a job and this guy is complaining that he’ll only make $5 million this year.
“Like I am not rich enough already.”
GG greedy bastards, GG.
not a fan but surprised if his contract did not cover this contingency one way or the other.
He’s hurting the game, not that I’m especially a fan. The more players stay out of the game, the less people will watch.
Nobody is forced to work. If he is comfortable enough to quit and live off of what he already has more power to him. If I were in charge of the club I would wish him well and move on.
Go find a cure for something, Mr. Snell.
Society has put way too much bravado on athletes. And with this bravado includes a self centeredness that has reached Biblical proportions from too many of those that their only purpose is to entertain like a monkey on a leash taking coins from kids.
The large amount of thugs in all the sports has destroyed their main function that keeps them fed: their role model status that society has handed them on a silver platter they don’t, as a whole, deserve. And as long as they can sit in the clouds and rake in their creature comforts, life for them is a big game of whatever they want to do, take what they want, and treat people as a lesser entity, is just enough to satisfy their ego. And again, all sports has them, too many.
And when a good guy comes along, he doesn’t get much ink as a whole and he spends his years making the lesser money because he doesn’t speed and hit people or things, he doesn’t do drugs, he doesn’t beat wives, he doesn’t cheat on his family, he doesn’t cheat or lie to the game/fans, and other things to make him the type of person that is worth meeting or rooting for. Or would even be willing to meet you or your family.
And the people that could be good, not only condone this behavioral flaw, but by saying nothing, encourage it. So who’s the fool, the fool or the fool who follows?
Someone from all these millionaires is going to have to lose money this year. And the only good point to it is that it will not cost the poor people the price of an overpriced ticket to see these overblown con people. Let them eat cake.
rwood
Snell is a pathetic little girl.
Pssst. Hey Blake. You don’t EVER have to play again as far as I am concerned. Your right it is too dangerous. Next time you go to a supermarket that is still full of food go ahead and convince yourself that the folks working there, the folks delivering the food, the folks preparing the food, are not at any risk.
Buffoons like you make it easy NOT missing watching pampered and preening knuckleheads play games.
Nobody should be forced to work. What we oppose is forcing people to stay at home.
On the other hand, the fellow talks as though the issue is money. For full pay, baseball is worth the risk. For less than full pay, it’s not worth the risk.
At this point, it will take some time before Major League Baseball rebuilds its fan base.
Myself and some friends play senior softball for free but right now we don't have a league.......This jerk is an overpaid whiner.
“Rays ace Blake Snell says he refuses to play for reduced MLB salary...
Give a $%^t give a $%^t!
His choice, but bad decision. Another kid will get his big chance. If he does well, he will be on his way to a successful career and Blake will join the crowd of wannabes who almost became big stars. Hang on to his rookie card, though. It will be popular on the novelty table.
His choice, but bad decision. Another kid will get his big chance. If he does well, he will be on his way to a successful career and Blake will join the crowd of wannabes who almost became big stars. Hang on to his rookie card, though. It will be popular on the novelty table.
50% of something, is something.
0% of nothing, is nothing.
So is the risk any different at the higher pay rate?
Did MLB close down for the 1918 flu?
Due to the Blue State governors, I doubt MLB is going to happen this year, anyway. It’s a major American sport that isn’t yet thoroughly dominated by race hustlers, so they have little incentive to let it resume.