“’If you look at the other sports there is no parity,’ he said. ‘If you look at our sport, in the 21st century every team has made the playoffs.' »
That’s true of literally every major sports league in America. In fact the Mariners were the last team in the big 4 to finally make it in 2022.
Double-One-9913
This thing is gonna be nasty. Hard to imagine real numbers for both a cap and a floor that would have any real impact and that both sides would agree to.
ajteitel
Players don’t want a salary cap as it will hurt their earning potential. A salary floor helps a few « middle class » players, but it’s doesn’t really matter if it’s there or not.
Owners don’t want a salary floor as it will hurt their ability to be cheap (and for teams that actually spend from dealing with more competition). They (minus the 5 teams that do spend) don’t really care about a salary cap because most won’t even come close to it in the first place anyway and competitiveness is a distant second to making money.
The best option is the status quo, or a floor & cap that is so low & high, respectively, that it doesn’t hurt/help anyone. Fighting over it means a lockout which hurts both sides who are both fighting against something that doesn’t really hurt them anyway.
Do you know what will cause the lockout? Revenue sharing, TV deals, and the collapsing RSNs. Because « cheap » owners will want a bigger share of the pie while « spending » owners don’t want to share more. Plus many teams are effectively on one-year deals with their RSN leading to a ton of financial uncertainty, if they haven’t lost it already. They want to push for a more universal solution. Meanwhile the minority that do have long term and stable deals want to keep theirs. That is where the real battle will be.
Crazy_Addendum_4313
Good! There’s no reason for them to agree to this until the owners have their shit together — the owners might be more divided than the players!
Hopeful-Design6115
This is going to be ugly. And the disappointing reality as fans is that neither side gives a rats ass about the quality of the product or competition. Only thing anybody involved cares about is turning their absurd amounts of money into even more absurd amounts of money
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Fly that union flag, brothers 🫡
“’If you look at the other sports there is no parity,’ he said. ‘If you look at our sport, in the 21st century every team has made the playoffs.' »
That’s true of literally every major sports league in America. In fact the Mariners were the last team in the big 4 to finally make it in 2022.
This thing is gonna be nasty. Hard to imagine real numbers for both a cap and a floor that would have any real impact and that both sides would agree to.
Players don’t want a salary cap as it will hurt their earning potential. A salary floor helps a few « middle class » players, but it’s doesn’t really matter if it’s there or not.
Owners don’t want a salary floor as it will hurt their ability to be cheap (and for teams that actually spend from dealing with more competition). They (minus the 5 teams that do spend) don’t really care about a salary cap because most won’t even come close to it in the first place anyway and competitiveness is a distant second to making money.
The best option is the status quo, or a floor & cap that is so low & high, respectively, that it doesn’t hurt/help anyone. Fighting over it means a lockout which hurts both sides who are both fighting against something that doesn’t really hurt them anyway.
Do you know what will cause the lockout? Revenue sharing, TV deals, and the collapsing RSNs. Because « cheap » owners will want a bigger share of the pie while « spending » owners don’t want to share more. Plus many teams are effectively on one-year deals with their RSN leading to a ton of financial uncertainty, if they haven’t lost it already. They want to push for a more universal solution. Meanwhile the minority that do have long term and stable deals want to keep theirs. That is where the real battle will be.
Good! There’s no reason for them to agree to this until the owners have their shit together — the owners might be more divided than the players!
This is going to be ugly. And the disappointing reality as fans is that neither side gives a rats ass about the quality of the product or competition. Only thing anybody involved cares about is turning their absurd amounts of money into even more absurd amounts of money
Phillies legend Nick Pivetta