MLB franchise owners and players are figuring out how to divide a very large pot of money. There doesn’t seem to be much discussion about improving the product. Growing baseball revenue has become disconnected from growing the game. The former obviously depends on the latter, but making baseball better requires vision and a long-term strategy.
Those never have been strengths for MLB’s franchise owners and leaders. It’s worse now that their ranks have been infected by the extremist capitalist mindset of squeezing every penny out of an enterprise now with little care for potential repercussions later. Players spend more time talking about the good of the game. No doubt they care, but notice their advocacy mostly happens when the proposed remedies just so happen to align with their financial interests.
For me, the worst part about the ongoing labor dispute isn’t the possibility of missed games. It’s knowing that while an agreement means games will be played, it won’t do much to make baseball better and more popular. You know the list of problems by now.
