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Saying "I want the owners to get more money so they spend it on cool stuff for us" is the funniest most unrealistic expectation of this thread, thank you for that

Let people watch, let them all enjoy it, don't make it something that only people around major cities can watch and enjoy. It's the most basic way to grow the game. The more people in the park enjoying the game, the more fun the game will be for everyone involved. Instead you have overlapping RSNs killing it for entire states, when we all have high powered computers in our pockets now that can let you watch whatever you want whenever you want to. MLB creates the need for pirate streams

Baseball owner sugar daddys. Buy us pretty things, Jerry! Ewwww

It's something people that graduated in the 90's had to learn to use.

Obviously Biff Tannen only gambled on opening day outcomes in '22 - so Marty McFly just needs to defer opening day by 2 days to save us....

I always knew that in the end… a man named Marty would save the day.

No shock but he has the Sox with worst system in baseball. He does encourage Sox fans to not be mad because it led to them being a contender.

Yeah, I think reality is when you throw up the 2016+ draft classes up they'll likely be middle of the pack when controlling for the lack of comp picks. I just don't think for a team that will be in the bottom third of draft budget every year they can use their international budget for small, higher certainty players. They can't survive with both smaller draft classes AND small international classes, even if it brings in a certain starter every 2 years. Either they need to go for depth in the draft while shooting for their stars in INTL, or they go big in the draft while going for volume and depth, but this current strategy of targeting just a few guys in both is giving a tiny, tiny margin for error. It's a numbers game for the sox, they have to figure out how they can compete organically with their fake big market constraints.

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As we see with the Sox, ticket sales go up with a good team. Therefore, spending on players = better ticket sales. Damn, we cracked the code.

You mean like let everyone in the country watch baseball. Like that. Seems like it would be both cost effective and drive up interest in merch sales and ticket sales yet they don't seem to be interested at all

Dead end job is right considering that we've been through this before, especially if you're a White Sox fan. In 1972, the Sox had signed Dick Allen and the team's future looked great. From advance ticket sales, they expected 50,000 for the home opener. But, because of a lockout, the opener was postponed. It ended up happening on a night in the middle of the week, and it was one of the coldest days of the spring. The team didn't draw half of that 50,000. The Sox had nice year in '72 with Allen winning the MVP, but it would have helped a struggling franchise to have a great home opener. In 1981, things finally began to look good when the Reinsdorf-Einhorn group bought the team. They added Fisk and Luzinski and the team got off to a good start. But we lost two months of the season due to a work stoppage, and 1981 turned out to be a disappointment. We all know what happened in 1994. And now here we are in 2022. The Sox have some young players that need to get some playing time in to further develop. That might be delayed due to yet another work stoppage. Dead end is right.

Along that same vein, more money for the owners is not going to lead to lower ticket prices, nor is more money for the players going to lead to higher ticket prices. Ticket prices are market driven. Kind of the same concept as higher corporate taxes don't cause higher consumer prices, but that's a whole other topic.

Seems to me we don't have any of those things even as the owners take has grown and grown. Lets face it, both parties want as much of our money as possible, and the only "reward" we really get is hearing from time to time how much they both "appreciate" us. Like the old Seinfeld scene with the rental car, they know how to say they appreciate us, they just don't know how to show they appreciate us, which, if you think about it, is the most important part of the appreciation. Being a baseball fan is like having a dead end job.

The next player proposal should just say "fire Manfred".

The general dislike of Rob Manfred's tenure as commissioner is an idea most of us here can get behind.