Unique way to fix baseball - Pay for Performance

[weams]

4 hours ago, webbrick2010 said:

One reason I enjoy watching professional golf more than baseball. Miss the cut go home without a paycheck

Miss enough cuts and you lose your tour card.

Truly only the best of the best instead of some of the best and Chris Davis

I knew you were a golf nut!

[Babypowder]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

What if we regulated ticket prices and cable fees as well as player salaries?     Top salary of $1 mm, $150 k to start.     Game tickets ranging from $3-20.     Cable fees of 50 cents a month.    

Now you're restricting how much money MLB is allowed to make as an organization. Good luck getting anyone on either side on board with that. I'd be fine with something along those lines, as long as the players still get their fair share of the total revenue and the sport takes in enough money to thrive. However, discussion of this premise quickly turns political.

[weams]

1 hour ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Just do a salary cap, there is no chance of this getting implemented in a team sport.

There is not a chance of this ever happening. And the league is farther from that today than they have ever been.

[weams]

Just now, Babypowder said:

Now you're restricting how much money MLB is allowed to make as an organization. Good luck getting anyone on either side on board with that. I'd be fine with something along those lines, as long as the players still get their fair share of the total revenue and the sport takes in enough money to thrive. However, discussion of this premise quickly turns political.

Frobby was just seeing how far towards a communist society that we all want this thing to go.

[Frobby]

5 minutes ago, weams said:

Frobby was just seeing how far towards a communist society that we all want this thing to go.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need, comrade.   Hail the revolution!

For all its patriotic jingoism, football is already pretty communistic, what with revenue sharing to a much higher degree, salary cap, etc.    Would he players kneel if the NFL played the Russian Federation National Anthem (yes, that’s what it’s really named) before the games?

 

[Beef Supreme]

7 minutes ago, Frobby said:

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need, comrade.   Hail the revolution!

For all its patriotic jingoism, football is already pretty communistic, what with revenue sharing to a much higher degree, salary cap, etc.    Would he players kneel if the NFL played the Russian Federation National Anthem (yes, that’s what it’s really named) before the games?

 

The lesson is that capitalists and so-called communists both love war. War makes the elites of both ideologies insanely rich.

[weams]

13 minutes ago, Beef Supreme said:

The lesson is that capitalists and so-called communists both love war. War makes the elites of both ideologies insanely rich.

My use of the word in a baseball context does not open this up to geopolitical discussion.  Frobby was funning us/me. And I back.  He enjoyed that I saw his tack. 

[SteveA]

Delete.   Someone beat me to it.

[ORIOLE33]

4 hours ago, Mitch Connor said:

While we're at it, the fans only pays for their ticket if the team wins?

The Orioles would go bankrupt this year.

[atomic]

2 hours ago, Tx Oriole said:

As an accountant I would be pissed a clerk made as much. 

At one company I worked at I had access to payroll database. Checked everyone's salary on my last day.    You would be surprised how much salary can vary per position and people at low titles making much more than people with higher titles and 5 times as much experience.  That clerk might be making more than you. 

[theocean]

3 hours ago, Beef Supreme said:

Schemes like the OP and salary caps only help further enrich owners. Don't be fooled into thinking they'd translate to $2 tickets and 50 cent beers. Ticket prices would remain the same no matter how much money you take out of the players pockets. It's just squeezing the balloon: players get less, owners get more.

I think beer should cost as much as how many runs the home team has on the board at the moment.

 

[Natty]

No way.

Baseball is a sport where a player has a great year... Then that player gets a muti-million dollar contract.  And never  plays that good again. Happens all the time. 

Or is it just the Orioles this happens to? 

 

 

[atomic]

39 minutes ago, theocean said:

I think beer should cost as much as how many runs the home team has on the board at the moment.

 

So you would be guaranteed free beer during top of first.  Or this year until the 8th.

[theocean]

26 minutes ago, atomic said:

So you would be guaranteed free beer during top of first.  Or this year until the 8th.

Gotta get through those 8 innings somehow. 

[Frobby]

29 minutes ago, atomic said:

So you would be guaranteed free beer during top of first.  Or this year until the 8th.

You might find the fans rooting for the home team to be shut out.