Baseball owners colusion ?

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BigE916WRM

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If you look at the recent lack of free agent interest, it makes you think that the owners got together and are trying to correct the problems they started. When a guy like Ivan Rodriguez is getting little attention in the free agent market it makes you wonder. A couple of years ago he would have got a 100 million dollar deal now he will be lucky to crack 20 over 3 years. I know its still a lot of money, but it seems to me that the owners already lost once in a monopoly type suit and if this keeps up it will probably happen again. I am all for a reduction in payroll or incentive laced contracts, but this just seems to orchistrated for me.
 
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Mcleanhatch

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BigE916WRM said:
When a guy like Ivan Rodriguez is getting little attention in the free agent market it makes you wonder.
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i think teams are afraid to give him a big dea; considering he has been broken down the past 3 years. the top teams dont want to go over the threshhold, the other teams dont/wont spend money anyway. so that limts the amount of teams that can try and get him and i think that those teams are satisfied with their catchers enough to not go out and spend a small fortune.

on a side note i hope after a couple of years once they get the salaries under control they (owners) spread some of that money out to the fans by way of lowering ticket prices.
 
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BigE916WRM

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Hell yeah, baseball used to be cheap. I remember going out to Candelstick with a bucket of chicken from KFC, bleacher seat tickets, and a flask of Bacardi, plus we would park were it was free. The most expensive thing was the gas to get from Sac to Frisco. I catch a dozen games a year, now maybe once or twice.
 
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Mcleanhatch

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yup when i go to LA, bullpen area i got to pay $21 per ticket when my cousin can't get me season tickets. and i hear LA is one of the cheapest places in MLB.

to bad it isnt like Single A Modesto A's $5.00 gets you almost on the field right on top of the dugout
 
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