Originally posted by Braz
But it's cracking me up to hear supposed conservatives sound off like commies. 
It's based in the free market guys. Hurts sometimes, but it's the way you want business to work, right?
Absolutely, it is the way it SHOULD work. But, only speaking for the conservative in "me", I would suggest that you are looking at that from the wrong perspective. The problem is that the players (the pinko commies in this particular senario;) ) don't know a good thing when it is thrust into their bank accounts. The owners (the mighty businessman, living under the free market principles and profiting from it, in this particular senario;) ) put up the bucks..they had the financial backing and political connections required to be able to own and run a major league baseball team.
The players are the employees. These employees have unions. These unions have convinced their members that $2.0M a year is inadequate compensation..based on huge profits being earned by their empoyers. These huge profits are derived within the free market you so eloquently espouse. The employees want a bigger piece of the pie and once again they are striking to try and get it.
But, alas, just as the bubble burst over the Soviet Union in 1991, so too will those huge profits! Attendance is down and interest in the game is at an all time low. Who is bearing the brunt of the "downturn"? The owners! (particularly in the small market cities.) Are the players taking pay cuts, in general, to save the game? Nope. They want more.
Greed of the owners? Nope...greed of the red menace...the unions...and their underlings, the employees.
