Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 29, 2002
This article by Pat Daugherty

This article by Pat Daugherty is pretty negative, but there was something that caught my eye:


If baseball owners had any guts, they'd cancel the season and do what they could to break the union. They'd sacrifice six months to remake a flawed system.

Barring that, the little teams should refuse to play the big teams. Until the Yankees agree to share equally their obscene local media revenues, the Royals should decline to play them. Because here's something about the rich teams: They're nothing without poor teams to play.


I like the take no prisoners attitude, however I don't think either would work. As shown by Selig starting to enforce the 40% debt rule, teams have a lot of debt, and lenders tend to get upset when you miss interest payments. I like the second idea, however, although teams don't have to go as far as refusing to play. I believe teams have the right to refuse to be broadcast by a competitor. So KC could say to the Yankees, "You can't broadcast this game on YES." No broadcast, no advertisers, no revenue. The big teams could do the same to the little teams, but the little teams get so little in local revenue, they probably wouldn't be hurt that much. I'd love to see some little team try this.

Also, I don't think Cincy will be as bad as Daugherty says. Griffey, Dunn, Casey and Larkin can provide a lot of offense. I'm looking for a surprise here.


Posted by David Pinto at 12:07 PM | Baseball