I question those estimates. Does that also take into account the TV money revenue that is also required to be shared? With those teams drawing very view fans, having relatively low TV money revenue, and having no penalties for low spending, there has to be some viable source of consistent revenue (other than franchise values going up every year) to make it make sense. I also generally don't trust anything coming out of the small market owners complaint box. For years the mantra was "we just need a new stadium to compete"... then all these teams did get tax-funded stadiums, and it was still business as usual (or worse).
"No matter what it takes" is very concerning since players are saying the same exact thing about stopping a salary cap from happening. Fortunately. I think the owners are more divided and the ones who need the salary cap the most are also the ones who get hurt the most financially by losing games. But this is not any breaking news. I see the lockout stretching somewhere from late May until early July and then have a 75-80 game season.
If they have a salary cap, are the Dodgers forced to trade away players to get under the cap? Or are they exempt because they made this payroll before the potential cap? Maybe will be forced to trim a certain amount each year and have a certain year where they need to be under?
I don't see a scenario where any team is forced to trade or void deals already on the books. It's all based on negotiated agreement but the most likely scenario is certain designated contracts are grandfathered in. Furthermore there will likely be some concession where teams over the cap due to long-term deals are still able to continue to spend some to fill roster holes due to loss of players due to retirement, injury, or Freee agency. It will probably be 5-10 years before some contracts that are grandfathered are off of the books.
Baseball viewership is finally trending in the right direction after the game speed rule changes a couple of years ago, and now it seems that momentum is going to get decimated by a lockout and/or lack of parity
8 is the magic number If 8 owners agree on something and they are resolute, they can block any issue on the owner half of the CBA negotiation. When owners vote on an issue it takes 23 "yes" votes to pass an agreement and send it to the players.
Would never happen. In the NFL, the Players Association has the least power. MLBPA has most power for any of the major sports leagues.
This issue with making it a hard line in the sand is the Players are not looking at the whole picture. Not having a salary cap doesn't help most players just a few of the biggest FA's every year. Just because a player will be a FA doesn't mean they will net the benefits of that system. Just should basically ask for everything else they could possible want in return for a salary cap, and they would probably get all of it.
