Baseball Strike
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03/02/22 12:27 PM
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Sounds like the baseball strike will shorten the baseball season. I always wondered, do baseball players still receive their salaries during a strike?
I don't care how nice the hand soap smells, you should never walk out of the restroom sniffing your fingers.
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Re: Baseball Strike
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03/02/22 01:02 PM
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If the players aren't paid during this time and the more time that goes by without a compromise or settlement causing a shortening of the season, both sides suffer financially, right?
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Re: Baseball Strike
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03/02/22 01:05 PM
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For the kids who dream of baseball and spend a decade or more in the minors making a pittance, living in cheap motels and traveling on busses, the majority of whom will never make the majors or if so, never get more than a brief look or two your problems might not seem so big. The ONLY folks fighting for them and those who do make it finally and who will have a career that now lasts less than 5 years at the lowest rate of pay that the owners are forced to pay, are the players unions. A couple years back when the owners threatened congress that if they were forced to pay minimum wages, they would shut down much of the minors, congress gave them an exemption AND THEN, they shut down about half the minors anyway!! Great fine folks you admire.
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Re: Baseball Strike
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03/02/22 01:32 PM
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I like to follow baseball and I hope things get settled soon, thank you very much cohunt, I was not aware of many things you said. I now side with the players.
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Re: Baseball Strike
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03/02/22 01:42 PM
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For the kids who dream of baseball and spend a decade or more in the minors making a pittance, living in cheap motels and traveling on busses, the majority of whom will never make the majors or if so, never get more than a brief look or two your problems might not seem so big. The ONLY folks fighting for them and those who do make it finally and who will have a career that now lasts less than 5 years at the lowest rate of pay that the owners are forced to pay, are the players unions. A couple years back when the owners threatened congress that if they were forced to pay minimum wages, they would shut down much of the minors, congress gave them an exemption AND THEN, they shut down about half the minors anyway!! Great fine folks you admire. If you think I admire the owners, you are badly mistaken. I was only looking for information and didn't think I was giving the impression that I admired the owners. I was just thinking that by letting things drag out was stupid for the owners because of the money they would lose. Plus, if the players didn't get paid, they would be getting financially hurt as well. So, nobody is a winner, IMO.
I don't care how nice the hand soap smells, you should never walk out of the restroom sniffing your fingers.
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Re: Baseball Strike
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03/02/22 02:06 PM
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I assume that everyone here does know how averages are calculated. Max Scherzer will get 43 million this year. If 9 other players all actually got paid nothing the average salary of the 10 would be 4.3 million. Players average salary peaked in 2015 and have declined since. The owners did this not by reducing actual annual salaries, but by not bringing back older players who might have played 5 or 6 years and been making the 4.5 million mentioned above and who in the previous 50-75 years of baseball might have expected to play for another 5 or more years at substantial salaries. Instead, after permitting accountants and analysts to run the operation, the owners were told that they could bring up players from the minors, pay them minimum salaries mandated by agreements and have perhaps just small reductions in production compared to the older players that they replaced. If the owners actually were not really attempting to win, as perhaps more than half are, that reduction might mean just the difference in a couple wins per season BUT about 4 million into the owners pocket. Greed like that is exactly what some on here have endorsed.
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Re: Baseball Strike
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03/02/22 02:06 PM
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Sounds like the baseball strike will shorten the baseball season. I always wondered, do baseball players still receive their salaries during a strike? No
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