[Post Toasties]

I don't think baseball players today are 100 times better than they were 40 years ago, but they're getting paid that much more than they were then. Plus, they now think they have to ruin the professional baseball season every few years by striking for yet more goodies.

As entertainment, they're bad actors, so I'm saving my money for something other than these prima donnas.

[BluesDuke]

Plus, they now think they have to ruin the professional baseball season every few years by striking for yet more goodies.

That is precisely what I meant when I alluded to the malinformed. The players were not angling for "yet more goodies" this go-round. (I refer you to Doug Pappas of the Society for American Baseball Research's Business of Baseball Committee - he has made a thorough series of analyses of the actualities, as opposed to the mythologies and prejudices, of baseball's economy, and he explains it way better than I.)

As entertainment, they're bad actors, so I'm saving my money for something other than these prima donnas.

As entertainment, baseball players are not actors, they are baseball players. But spend your money as you wish. No one would (or should) deny you that right.

[Misterioso]

The value of a baseball player (or any entertainer) is based on how many people will pay to see him perform, not on his performance alone. His contribution to the success of his team is compensated for by the money taken at the stadium turnstiles and the TV coverage (paid for by advertisers who want to reach all his team's fans).