And owners and players will continue to be overpaid snotnoses. Owners will continue to try to make as much money as they can on the backs of the fans, and players will continue to make stupid statements to the effect of “gee, my working life is only 10 years while everyone else’s is 30 years or more, so I deserve to make millions of dollars a year so I won’t be poor when I have to retire at 35.” My heart bleeds.
No baseball player today is worth a million dollars a year. Flat out. Not a single pitcher, slugger, or any other player. If your playing life is 10 years, that’s 10 million dollars. If you can’t live the rest of your life on a cool 10 mil, you’re either a moron or you can’t get good financial advice. Either way you deserve to be relegated to selling used cars or insurance when you retire if you can’t make 10 million dollars last a lifetime.
But the game will survive. I suppose. If the owners don’t jack ticket prices any farther into the stratosphere.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)