baseball strike!
 

Looks like the trip to Baltimore to see the Red Sox and the Orioles play may not happen. Anyone else have vacation plans for baseball that may not happen?

Fly into San Francisco tomorrow for the Oakland/Minnesota series. If there is a strike, the feeling in MN is that today's game could be the last for the Twins franchise.

That would be awful. Selig figures Twins fans will become Brewers fans and save his franchise,which is in last place.

Yeah, Bud is not real popular around here. If the Twins fold, I'm not sure what team I would root for, but it wouldn't be the Brewers.<BR><BR>By the way, my previous statment should have said "if there is an extended strike".

The Twins won't fold.<BR>But regardless, the powers that be have RUINED baseball IMO.<BR>I was an intense fan through '94.<BR>The strike then cooled me off.<BR>Now I HOPE they strike because I'd like baseball to suffer so dramatically that it forces radical change.<BR>Like an alcoholic--until baseball hits bottom it's not going to get better.<BR><BR>HERE'S HOPING FOR A LONG PAINFUL STRIKE!!!!

Maybe not a long painful strike, but dont come back without resolving the issues. It shouldnt take long, but if they do remove franchises,Tampa bay and montreal are candidates. Expansion never should have happend in the first place.

Strangely, the real battle isn't between the players and owners, but between the big market and small market teams. The small market teams can't touch NYC's media revenues.

Are you a Pats fan too?

PTB..I am a huge pats fan..even during the 1-15, 2-14 seasons, I stuck by them. Boston fans love the sox also, and they go way back with a championship.

You like wine, too?

The strike sucks: Last time my team was going to make to playoffs there is strike. Now this year that we are up on the Giants there is strike again, if they Bolt I will never attend a Dodger Game again.

Mets and Yankees are both supposed to be in NYC over the weekend. Guess we'll see a play or visit a museum.

I live in Arizona and am a huge D-Backs fan. They are having a huge year and I'd hoped to see them defend their World Series title. I'd really hate to see the city and state turn on them if they go on strike. And it will happen.

Good for the players! Do you know how hard it is to live on $2.34 million a year? After taxes, lawyers, agents, fees, and cars, the take home is only about a million or so. I'm surprised they don't wait tables part time or work at the GAP to send their kids to private school or afford to have their trophy wives sit on their fat asses at home eating krispy kremes. These guys have it bad and we should support their cause.

Millionaires on strike! Give me a break. And I will give the ball players one, too......for the rest of my life I will not support MLB!!

Still can't figure out why the fans haven't banded together to strike. One day is all it would take.

The thing that burns me up is not necessarily the marquee players' salaries, but the minimum salaries! The league minimum is, what, $300K??! I see no reason why a loser who bats under a buck, rides the bench, and still gets five months' vacation should be making a corporate vp's salary.

Who cares----it's a business and the employees are entitled to go on strike.

A viscious inflationary cycle is at play here. I think they should remove a zero from every financial transaction in baseball, from the salaries, from the ticket prices, from what they charge tv to broadcast the games, etc... then let them start the cycle fresh.

Hey Math, I'll go one further, they should cut everything in HALF! Salaries & ticket prices! $120 for a family of 4 to go to a game, puhleeeeeeez, not this family!