Bryce Harper
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I’m speaking selfishly here, but I’ve suffered through 33 years of bad baseball with a 4 year blip in the middle. I’ll gladly watch no baseball to see the economics of the game fixed and brought to par with the other three major sports leagues in America.
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It really does suck that two of the best ball parks in the majors are in Pittsburgh and Denver, which are good sports towns, but have the cheapest owners
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in Bryce Harper:
@olemissnole810_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
I'm personally for both a floor and a salary cap since I think it would help parity.
A salary floor means Braxton Garrett and Anthony Bender are making $8 million a year while the cost of hot dogs and parking triple. And the team is still going nowhere.
Is that "parity" what's best for baseball?
Or would it be better for MLB to force Sherman to sell to an owner willing to invest in the team?
I think you would have to start with the floor to see how the teams react. If you decide to overpay a Bender or Garrett rather than bring in a solid MLB player, then you would probably have to force an ownership change. This year the only FA was the 5mil they gave to Quantrill. That's not an attempt to win. It's just filling the roster.
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Lot's of people tossing around this concept of "force an ownership change." Folks, unless the owner in question violates a written rule of the league, one that explicitly states that violation may result in the league taking over the team to sell, the owner is a courtroom away from having MLB told to pound sand.
Absent the clearly worded rule, there is a word for what is being tossed around. It is called theft of private property! There are laws against that. A salary floor with a specified penalty for failing to meet it is the only way MLB could take a team away from an owner because he chooses to keep his payroll low.
The players are salaried employees working on a service contract. The owners actually own the teams. The league is formed by the owners to enforce agreed upon rules of the game and game structures. Seems there are a great many players who need to better understand that.
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@olemissnole810_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
This year the only FA was the 5mil they gave to Quantrill. That's not an attempt to win. It's just filling the roster.
So you admit that cheapo owners are ALREADY "filling out rosters" and not attempting to win.
Thanks for agreeing!
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
Lot's of people tossing around this concept of "force an ownership change." Folks, unless the owner in question violates a written rule of the league, one that explicitly states that violation may result in the league taking over the team to sell, the owner is a courtroom away from having MLB told to pound sand.
That's why MLB needs to write a rule. Or have a Landis-level Commissioner with the power to enforce it unilaterally. (Obviously less likely but still technically doable.)
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in Bryce Harper:
@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
Lot's of people tossing around this concept of "force an ownership change." Folks, unless the owner in question violates a written rule of the league, one that explicitly states that violation may result in the league taking over the team to sell, the owner is a courtroom away from having MLB told to pound sand.
That's why MLB needs to write a rule. Or have a Landis-level Commissioner with the power to enforce it unilaterally. (Obviously less likely but still technically doable.)
Yeah, you set the tone for that kind of world. Spend about $1 billion for a team, then place your daily ownership in the hands of someone else who didn't pay a nickel for the team, but who had God-like powers to take it away from you on his personal whims!
Seriously! Do you even contemplate the sort of world you advocate for prior to your writing us on how it should work!
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Manfred should be better at his job if he doesn't wanna get yelled out a team clubhouse
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
Yeah, you set the tone for that kind of world. Spend about $1 billion for a team, then place your daily ownership in the hands of someone else who didn't pay a nickel for the team, but who had God-like powers to take it away from you on his personal whims!
That's how every other franchised operation works.
If a random Raising Canes owner in South Carolina decides they're going to stop distributing Cane's sauce because they can save 0.2% on operating costs, Todd Graves absolutely has the power to revoke their business.
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL again, the product is the talent, not the owner. If you believe Manfred is “helping the players”, then I have a bridge to sell you.
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@squishiesgirl_MLBTS said in Bryce Harper:
@samguenther1987_PSN you do know baseball has had strikes as well right?
O I am well aware, one of them cost Montreal not only the world series but it's team in the long run.
I just don't want to see a long strike for the MLB, but we will see what happens this time.
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@squishiesgirl_MLBTS said in Bryce Harper:
@yankblan_PSN yeah just found it odd to use a NHL reference as context
Sorry, it was the best reference I could think of at the time seeing this will be due to a salary cap, but yes I could have referenced the 1994 lockout as well.
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The players will never agree to a cap, not gonna happen. The MLB players union will not go for it unless their is some sort of clause that allows signing bonuses to offset the cost of losing out on higher salaries. It was a sticking point in 1994, and it will be a sticking point in the next negotiation, and Manfred knows it.
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@Wilbs715_XBL it’s all a PR stunt so he can say “see? I tried to have a dialogue but they refused to negotiate in good faith”. So tired of this song and dance.
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Here is a good insight on why the Pirates are a losing model currenlty.
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@yankblan_PSN said in Bryce Harper:
@Wilbs715_XBL it’s all a PR stunt so he can say “see? I tried to have a dialogue but they refused to negotiate in good faith”. So tired of this song and dance.
I thought about that after I posted. Maybe he is trying to read the room and get some feedback from the players, instead he got cussed at.
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in Bryce Harper:
If a random Raising Canes owner in South Carolina decides they're going to stop distributing Cane's sauce because they can save 0.2% on operating costs, Todd Graves absolutely has the power to revoke their business.
Your metaphor might work if this a discussion of how a team owner decided that he was going to use bright yellow softballs with brown stitches for home games instead of the regulation ball. But this isn't that.
If a Raising Canes owner in South Carolina doesn't want to pay his two best employees $20 an hour and instead chooses to replace them and staff his entire business with minimum wage workers, he has every right to do so and Todd Graves can't do a [censored] thing about it.
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@yankblan_PSN said in Bryce Harper:
the product is the talent, not the owner.
The product is not the talent. The product is baseball, and the talent are simply employees who deliver that experience to the fans. We as fans have sentimental attachments to those players, and may think we come just because of them, but if Bryce Harper and his $26M annual salary was replaced by Corbin Carroll and his $5.5M salary, the fans would still come if the club was winning. Harper and Carroll are just employees; fans come to experience Phillies baseball.
I agree with a lot of what you say, even that players should get a high percentage of revenue, and certainly that Manfred is not out to altruistically help the players, but those who put forth the capital and, thus, take the risk, are the ones who reap the biggest rewards. It doesn't matter that fans don't come to watch the owner.
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@The_Joneser_PSN said in Bryce Harper:
If a Raising Canes owner in South Carolina doesn't want to pay his two best employees $20 an hour and instead chooses to replace them and staff his entire business with minimum wage workers, he has every right to do so and Todd Graves can't do a [censored] thing about it.
… until that store misses sales projections for three quarters in a row. At which point the head office steps in.
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@SaveFarris_PSN, maybe those new minimum wage workers are hungry, up-and-coming, chicken finger slingers... who's to say that the owner wouldn't see his store exceed sales projections because he resisted the calls for high priced labor?
