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The game just keeps drifting further and further away from me. Since the last time I paid $12 for a thimble full of beer I don't think I have watched a whole game. Certainly not in person. The game I went to, somebody else paid for my ticket. It's all about the homerun now. Boring as fuck. Just like the NBA and the 3 pointers.
Maybe baseball should go back to the dead ball era like the USGA is trying to do.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39076745/shohei-ohtani-join-dodgers-10-year-700m-deal
I don’t have the patience to watch a game on TV but I do love going to the ballpark. I’m close to Petco park and it is the nicest baseball stadium I’ve been to. Me and my 88 year old mom went to at least a dozen games last year. I also take my teenage granddaughter who loves going in person. I enjoy a game that is 1-0 or 12-10.
The contracts are getting to be insane, that’s for sure. I guess if it fills the stands it’s a good investment for the owners. The Padres have a huge payroll but they also had the most sellouts in the league last year even though they were a .500 team. Stars fill the seats and Ohtani is the biggest one in the game. We are the ones paying for it in the long run
Television/broadcast revenue drives contract value. Baseball is very popular in Japan, and with the sport’s biggest star being Japanese, understanding the financials becomes a little less tiresome.
Baseball would have increased appeal if, during the halftime break between the first- and ninth innings, a Supercross race could be run.
Joking aside, I’ve been to about a half-dozen MLB games over the years with my family and have enjoyed watching them. At home, we really don’t watch much of it, though.
I’m amazed at the salaries the sport has.
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I don't find the game as boring as some of y'all; but, I DO NOT get the idea of paying these guys some of these insane salaries.
Is a star athlete worth a lot of money? Hell yes. But...$700M...? Uh, no.
Good for Shoei Otani and his agent and family. Its hard to imagine paying someone that much money to do much of anything. But oh well.
I suppose there is some supply and demand going on here. If there is only one LA Dodgers baseball team playing in the same stadium for the past 50-60 years that holds the same 45,000 paying fans as it did in 1965...but the population of So Cal has doubled, then that means you have twice as many people competing for those 45,000 seats.
Since the early 90's I've been drifting away from pro sports, be it dancing after a routine tackle, the NBA turning into a grappling match in the paint and finally the last major pro sport i followed a bit, MLB joining in in not standing for the anthem. The self importance, arrogance and highlighting the individual in a TEAM sport from the stars of the sport had me shaking my head. The vax mandates to enter stadiums and for the players to vax put the last nail in the coffin.
I at least , no matter how little i followed a sport, used to know who won the superbowl, World series, NBA championship. Today I cant even tell you who competed in any of those.
Is it really any worse than the money that movie stars and music people make ? There's lots of crappy boring movies, tv shows and music out there and they make a killing too. Do they really deserve that kind of dough ? Not in my books.
I agree, but again good for them for finding folks who will pay them stupid amounts of money to make crappy cgi movies and terrible hip hop music.
But let me throw this out there. Who are we really angry (choose your own term in place of anger) at, the industries, athletes and entertainers or are we disgusted with others who will pay money to watch this stuff and emulate the self indulgent behavior of these pop culture icons?
*Off topic ,...I really wish Vitalmx had a preview button we could hit instead of just the submit button. The only other message board i post at has a preview option and i like it. It keeps me from going back to hit edit when i re-read my post*
Damn , right when I was thinking how lucrative winning the 450 Supercross title , and the 450 outdoor title was for Eli. Turns out he would have to do that 70 times in 10 years to come close to Otani’s numbers. And way safer too !
Ha I found this rather ironic, humorous and frankly sums up EXACTLY how I feel about MLB! (Well ALL stick & ball sports!) and thats coming from a guy that played 3 of my 4 seasons of collegiate eligibility in Baseball! (After you guessed it, an off-season dirt bike injury ruined my last year!)
My Dad was a huge baseball fan growing up in the 50’s and passed that on to all his boys too! I played baseball from 5 until college and after my ball playing came to an end, dear ol’ Dad & I set out to see as many MLB stadiums as we could…Texas, Houston, KC, St Louie, A day at Wrigley with Harry Carrey, over to the White Sox… while at the new Colorado Rockies game (it was 1993!), with the folks, wife & son, and then the RIDICULOUS amount we paid to get in and sit on an old outfield bleacher, get raped at the concession stand for a few pops (not even beer!) a couple ballpark hotdogs & nachos…we decided FU to this stupidity and we NEVER went back!
Their compensation in return for their “contribution” to society is SO out of balance that I just refuse to let a single $ of my money go toward that kind of stupidity! Hell I find MLB so damn boring these days that flipping channels and seeing an MLB game on, (or NBA!) is the direct equivalent to a scrolling banner “NOTHING TO SEE HERE” across the screen and keep moving along! Ha 🤪
Contribution to society is fairly subjective, I’d say. They are paid for entertainment value, and right now there are enough people willing to pay for that entertainment to support those huge salaries. Personally I’m okay with the athletes getting the money more than the team owners, but either way the sports are generating the money for a reason.
Just out of curiosity, what sort of contribution to society do you think that MX racers make?
everything at Jerry World costs an arm and a leg, so by this logic, FU to supercross also?
There is a lot of fancy accounting and deferred compensation going on with those numbers. Bobby Bonilla retired from the Mets in 2001 and still gets $1.19 million every July 1st until 2035 as part of his compensation.
The thing that blows my mind about sports salaries is how mad some people get about what a private individual or company pay another individual and don't bat an eye at the amount of money the government steals from all of us with Congresspeople who make $280K having a net worth of $70 million. Nobody seems to care about that. Nobody seems to care that we are taxed on the money we earn and then we have to pay taxes to spend the money we were already taxed on.
Athletes, go ahead and make that money, I just want to know when the tea is going in the harbor.
Sounds like you are just jealous that you were not good enough to get paid and keep playing ball so now you would rather shit on it.
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