The owners were never forced to pay high salaries, and they bargain with the union every few years.
Post here when you take a pay cut to help out the janitor.
What about the billionaire owners? If they are earning the money to pay those exorbitant salaries to players, shouldn't they be the ones to step up first?
The players have been as well since their salaries this year are prorated per the agreement signed prior to the season restarting.
But they didn’t take a hit because of no fans. Their only hit was games played.
I would think that billionaire owners would be smart enough to take those things into consideration when they were negotiating with the MLBPA. If not, that's entirely on them.
There is a beer vendor named Les, short with black hair and a mustache, who was working the upper deck the last few years that wears a Rolex and drives an Escalade thanks to me. He has been lugging beer around for 40 years at Wrigley.
That number is probably right, just looked up avg attendance and ticket price. MLB was short roughly 100 games this year. Avg attendance in 2019 was 28,317 and avg ticket price was $33. That along is just shy of 3 billion. Then you add in vender sales, subtract expenses. Seems legit.
It wouldn’t shock me if there is no baseball next year if they can’t have fans.
I've used my past 5 years of raises to give it all to my techs. I haven't taken a nickel extra since 2014.
There will be fans in the stands next year. Even if it starts with 15-20 percent. The owners will find a way to work with cities, and the mayors know they need the revenue just as much as the owners do.
If the collective bargaining agreement hasn't expired, there's no reason to negotiate.
No doubt, but he said "That along is just shy of 3 billion". Just pointing out that $93M is only 3.1% of $3B.
MLB has a strong union. That strength is going to be challenged.
