A sportswriter in
yesterday’s Sun-Times pretty much spent most of his column carrying water for
agent Scott Boras, who thinks baseball owners are pocketing too much new revenue
courtesy of technology while stiffing the players.
But Gordon Wittenmyer does
bring up one interesting point, that TV and digital revenue is now the primary
source of income for teams rather than attendance. Now, there’s your column. If teams can make money without having to pay
attention to their support base, how can fans express their dissatisfaction
with the state of a franchise? By
calling in to sports-talk radio? I doubt
it. As it is, owners are laughing all
the way to the bank. Only a fool would
bother to turn on the radio driving there.
And a sportswriter agreeing
with Boras isn’t all that smart, either.
If in fact every team is making money, then I as a fan want a rollback
on prices. You don’t have to go out of
your way to get robbed anymore; just attend a game and have a beer or a brawt. Furthermore, as a fan and a taxpayer, I want
teams to start paying for their own venues.
(When was the last time you heard Boras complain about publicly-funded
stadiums?) Lastly, as a taxpaying fan, I
want owners—yes, we’re talking about you, Jeffrey Loria—to pay a nice hefty capital
gains’ tax when they sell a team.
Too bad we won’t be
getting a sports’ column on those and related subjects anytime soon.
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