WillPower
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- Nov 22, 2018
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The owners and players worked out a deal almost two months ago on salaries in a shortened season. They decided to prorate contracts by how many games were played, period. But now the owners are trying to say they have to settle for a 50/50 of total revenues instead of that. Good luck getting a fair accounting of that from the billionaires in the luxury boxes. You don't get to be a billionaire without two sets of books. The average MLB player salary in The Show is $4.4M. The owners can cover that easily with their TV contracts. Can they cover their expenses with the original deal? Hell yes they can....they lose 40% of their gross with no ticket/parking/concessions money....poor babies. Everybody is sacrificing and America needs it's baseball...even if it's only on TV.. I prefer that since my MLB.com costs are about 80 cents a game with Detroit announcers, replay, and various camera angles. Nobody in Detroit is going to Tiger games anyway because THEY SUCK these days but help is on the way from the minors. So let's PLAY BALL and tell the billionaires to lighten up.....a lost season will hurt them more financially than doing what they agreed to in the first place.