I Wish

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Leon

I wish there wouldn't have been a MLB strike in 1994 which ended the season, around 50 games shy.
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And that's my dividing line with baseball. I basically like everything before then. I could even stomach the AL DH and what I thought was over-expansion. Everything since has been a spiral down to the smoking dog pile it is now.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by jingram058

And that's my dividing line with baseball. I basically like everything before then. I could even stomach the AL DH and what I thought was over-expansion. Everything since has been a spiral down to the smoking dog pile it is now.

Whats funny is people of a certain age thinking, sports leagues and corporations that cater to younger people really care about what you think....they are doing what they think is good business towards the customers they feel will help the most....

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

Whats funny is people of a certain age thinking, sports leagues and corporations that cater to younger people really care about what you think....they are doing what they think is good business towards the customers they feel will help the most....

And their decisions have proven to be more successful than they ever had any reason to anticipate! The Nationals franchise, with a depleted minor league system and devoid of high draft picks, is on the market for $4 BILLION 15 years after the Lerners paid MLB a TENTH of that. The AVERAGE ML salary is now $4.2 MILLION, what a franchise might have sold for at some point in my lifetime. Where's all that cash coming from? Look in the mirror, my friends!

[vansaad]

If you like old ballparks, check out Rickwood Field in Birmingham. Opened in 1910 and still operating today. Connie Mack helped with the design. Cobb, Mathewson, Wagner, Ruth, Satchell, Mays, Aaron, Reggie Jackson....they all played at Rickwood.

https://rickwood.com/history-of-rickwood-field/

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by vansaad

If you like old ballparks, check out Rickwood Field in Birmingham. Opened in 1910 and still operating today. Connie Mack helped with the design. Cobb, Mathewson, Wagner, Ruth, Satchell, Mays, Aaron, Reggie Jackson....they all played at Rickwood.

https://rickwood.com/history-of-rickwood-field/

+1 on that 👍 !

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

And their decisions have proven to be more successful than they ever had any reason to anticipate! The Nationals franchise, with a depleted minor league system and devoid of high draft picks, is on the market for $4 BILLION 15 years after the Lerners paid MLB a TENTH of that. The AVERAGE ML salary is now $4.2 MILLION, what a franchise might have sold for at some point in my lifetime. Where's all that cash coming from? Look in the mirror, my friends!

right and even after baseball strikes, we all paid up as well....do you want win one championship in 15 years or go to playoffs every year and lose...theres an argument to be made both sides.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

do you want win one championship in 15 years or go to playoffs every year and lose...theres an argument to be made both sides.

If you're speaking of the Nationals, they did both of those. The Lerners have been terrific owners and Mike Rizzo a great GM, giving us wonderful, winning teams from 2012 thru 2019, stocked with many of the very best players in the game, and culminating in the amazing season and world series of 2019. That's about as good as you can do before it all falls apart over free agency--most teams can't give everybody $400 million contracts--and you have to start over. It was true of the great Nationals teams of 1924-1933 and of this one a hundred years later. As a collector of the former and a fan of the latter, I have no complaints!