When I was a boy back in the sixties, my buddies and I would take our shiny new 6 transistor radios to school to listen to games at recess. Baseball was exciting all the way to the World Series. But baseball, like most of pro sports, has become perverted by the money. The ownwers have no control over their spending.....and the players think they are the owners and deserve the bulk of the money. Players are shifted from team to team every year. And in MLB, the team with the richest owner buys up the latest batch of stars and wins a series. With 9 strikes in the last 30 years, the players prove to the fan that it's all about the money. Maybe I'm older now, and I can see what MLB is really about. But it just seemed more real....more interesting back in the sixties...when I was a boy.By the way...this is true now of all pro sports. That is why I like college football. It's big time sports....and it is much more fun than MLB!
Also, if I had control of any pro sport, I would cap a players salary at $1mil. Period. That would be the tops. That is all any player is worth. If a player complains about all the money the owners make, I would tell them to save up a couple hundred million $ and buy a team. The owners risk their capital....they should make most of the money! The owners have blown it. They need to fix it.They need to get together and tell the players...in all pro sports....that the gravy train years are over. And if they want to quit...so be it. They can go get a job in their college major.....communications.