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From: sdi@loral.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Future of the game?
Message-ID: <809@loral.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 11:16:15 EST
Article-I.D.: loral.809
Posted: Fri Mar 15 11:16:15 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Mar-85 02:25:05 EST
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Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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Summary: 

In article <4500026@hpmtla.UUCP> roy@hpmtla.UUCP (roy) writes:
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>
>While gazing at my cover of sports illustrated I noticed that 36
>ball players make more than 1 million per. Now Dave Stieb has
>become number 37 (and in grand fashion I might add).
>
>The numbers reflected in the issue, along with the current
>arbitration trend (which I see as - if any given player in the
>league has worse stats than me, then I should make more than he),
>what is the future of major league baseball. 
>
>It could be said that as long as there are enough ego-maniac
>millionaires out there, there will be a league, but is this really
>baseball?
>
>I would like to hear from all you hard cores out there. Should we
>all start watching indoor soccer?
>
>                                        hpfcla!hplvla!hpmtla!roy


Just by the basic laws of economics (supply and demand), as long as there
is some fool with money out there who will pay more than the next guy,
the player's agents know they can get big bucks.

If the ceiling was lowered and stayed consistent then all players would be
happy because there would be no "hey Joe got a million-five and I just
got 800,000 and we have the same stats".  

My ideas are all conjecture based on sanity and reasonable salary ranges.
The millionaires out there don't look at things like that.  They have
BUCKS and will "pay anything" to get that right-handed power hitting
outfielder to make their team a contender.  I don't know if there is
much we can do about it.  I won't change to indoor soccer until the 
price of a general admission ticket gets into double figures!