MLB Owners Are Cheating the System, and No One's Talking About It 

Hear me out, teams owned by the fans. Each fan can vote to invest the teams money into different players/coaches, and then when their team sucks, they can't get mad because they chose the players

@@MellowNukesthis would be terrible😂

Right like seriously how much money do you really need? Another thing I can't stand is using government(our) money to build a stadium when the owners can easily pay for it on their own

As a rangers fan I’m so unbelievably lucky to have ray davis and chris young

Teams can’t really “get” owners, right? Isn’t that the whole problem? One owner sells it to the next, who, then tries their hardest to squeeze as much money out of it before selling it for a higher number.

It’s a business at the end of the day bud

It’s still about business. And business is all about money. I would totally gain capital by the way of the Nutting rule.

Players need to realize a salary cap with a floor will help them make more money.

The Rockies spend money, they just suck

@@Chris-xt8iono they don’t, if they spent money they wouldn’t of given Nolan away for a hotdog and bud light. They would’ve resigned the best player they’ve had for decades

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Lmao! I believe that is the correct usage of that phrase

you mean like the Cubs from 1908 to 2015? LOL

Literally no one cares about the blue hair state

​@@Tylerrrrrbyou can't even talk about baseball without bringing your politics into it, that's sad.

@@unkledoda420 is it or is it not the blue haired state?

His "What?" right as it started made me cry laugh 😂😂😂

@@tanakid777 I didn’t even notice that the first time, perfect comedic timing😂😂😂

Stop with the big brother syndrome, Yankees suck really bad and they do this too lmao

Lmao stfu dude. You guys TRIED and sucked, there is no excuse there. Smh wow

Or if you are under a yearly minimum you had to set aside the difference for future years that have to spent by a certain year. Let’s say the minimum is 85 mil and a teams salary is 55. The owner has to put 30 mil in a trust that year that has to be spent by a certain time. Making sucking profitable is hurting the game.

Rebuilds dont take 10-15 years lmao. Recently teams are rebuilding in sub 5 years

Would that not lead to bums being overpaid?

@@sparkyfister Doesn't matter, keeps the owner from pocketing it. I also think teams ought to take part of their share and spend it on minor league players. How many good players had to leave in the Minors because they get less than minimum wage? MLB losing its exemption would make it subject to federal wage requirements. 80 hours a week training, traveling and playing.

MLB did not want Flood's reserve clause=slavery case going to the Supreme Court.

Yeah, Cohen is nothing but good for the game though his FO has the intelligence of a toddler. But if there is a real desire to win at all costs and Cohen actually gets a baseball mind smart enough to make the dream a reality, it is only a matter of time before the Mets win it all.

A month later. Robbie gone, Kelenic gone...still feel the same?

@@pray4us955 Yes I do. That's a stupid question. I'll bring out the crayons for you. The Ray and Kelenic deals affect the 2024 team, not the 2023 team. It doesn't change the past. Also Ray was shipped out in exchange for a bat. I can keep going but I've wasted enough of my time.

The Rays have sorta broken baseball, strategically and financially - but nobody else can replicate it. Seems like every year they turn 3 unknown or 'washed up' players into all stars. Easily the best run franchise in sports from a development and analytics perspective imo.

Irrelevant. They’re among the best teams in baseball every year. I’ll take that 162 sample over a more fluky playoff sample.

Backed by Manfred while Oakland has nearly a billion dollars for a new waterfront stadium the A's choose to pay rent in Vegas with $380 million in public money that Schools Over Stadium might remove $120 million of.

So communism?

Ya, that trade at the time was a damn war crime. But it doesn’t look nearly as bad now as it did then. Still a bad trade though

You can't have a smaller market than St. Petersburg, but the Rays consistently put out a good team while fans don't show up. Moving to Tampa won't fix it, if there are not enough fans in Mid-Florida to fill the Trop, stop blaming it on the location. They are not on an island 50 miles away. They're within 30 miles of Tampa suburbs plus the whole peninsula where Clearwater sits and just North of the Sunshine Bridge and half a million people down there. My son and I went to games from Englewood and Venice Beach. Ooh, took us an hour one way in congested traffic. I also lived up near Redington Shores and went down the uncrowded freeway several time for a 7:00 o'clock game. Stop complaining if you're a fair weather fan who can't stand a little traffic, but I bet most whiners don't even live there.

You do know that an MLB team has a lot of other expenses besides just player salaries, don't you?

Braves legend

Why would ohtani go to the blue haired state

I didn't

Players who reach free agency are contractors not employees.

@@MountainFisher They still work for the company.

@@CaptainHarris-ip2kg Still contract employees, if MLB did not have its antitrust exemptions they could have never taken the millions from Trevor Bauer that they did unless he was found guilty of abuse and he wasn't even charged. If they had kept Bauer suspended and never paid him part of his money automatic lawsuit, they didn't cancel his suspension out of the goodness of their hearts, they would have had to pay him his full contract or be in federal court. People ask me why I'm against a salary cap, it is because as long as MLB is a protected monopoly and can pay minor league players less than minimum wage for everything they are required to do they shouldn't have a salary cap. Curt Flood sued MLB for violating the constitution and MLB gave in before it went to the Supreme Court, why? They would have lost their exemption, but the Reserve Clause is still there until a player accrues enough time to reach free agency (which many never do) he is essentially property of the team. Look at how the Braves treated Kenshin Kawakami. I am a Braves fan and the way they treated him was pretty poor. He had some poor outings and was put in the BP and not allowed to pitch for 80 something innings then sent down to AA to get him to quit so they wouldn't have to pay him the $10 million or so on his contract when he signed on from Japan. For just goodwill purposes the Braves should have just released him and I don't know what Bobby Cox had against the guy, but he was set up to fail. Braves haven't been able to sign a player out of Japan since, they have long memories of the dishonor the Braves showed. Kawakami was just property and sent down to ride buses in Mississippi and they didn't get their $10 million either.

@@MountainFisher Well, it's like my neighbor said, it's all big business, which is why that pitcher got sent back down to the minors. I choose not to watch MLB games anymore, much less go to one. Where I live Bonds was the hot and controversial item. Any other regular human being in the US would have been brought before a judge, possibly sent to jail for steroid abuse, but I know no player whose ever been prosecuted for it. Nor even for assault and battery when charging the mound. Again, I don't go to games anymore for a variety of reasons. If people are willing to pay exorbitant ticket prices for a game, then that's the free market at work. It doesn't bother me, but I think people who get angry or upset because their team let a player go, or like in Oakland because the owner decided to move the team, ought to step back and think about what they're upset about. I used to watch football, baseball, some hockey, some NBA, but as much fun as I had I wish I had spent my money elsewhere. And FYI all the leagues use marketing data to decide what regions need to generate more interest in their team. It's part of the reason the SF 49ers play in San Jose and not at Candlestick anymore. It's the whole reason the A's ownership moved to Las Vegas. It's the whole reason San Diego lost the Chargers, and why the Raiders moved to LA for a time. So, ... whatever.

@@CaptainHarris-ip2kg The A's are not going to get the regional TV money in Vegas they received in the Bay Area, tens of millions of dollars a year. Market size is a big deal with TV money and when Fisher goes back to his penny pinching ways those seats will be empty except maybe on weekends.

So the owners who now make great profits without spending money will make even greater profits spending even less money.

No salary cap until MLB loses its Antitrust exemption. Paying players too much is not the problem.

Exactly. I enjoy the content but that cadence gets irritating. It's why I haven't subscribed.

I don't think he's leaving the large Japanese community in LA. I'd be surprised if he went to anyone, but the Doyers.

Think about what you are saying. You're not thinking about the smaller market teams. If you're gonna make the smaller market teams spend their revenue money every year in fear of penalties, you're fucked. How are they supposed to be able to contend financial wise?