Because God forbid there not be baseball.

Priorities people. These farkers get paid a minimum... MINIMUM... of 200 thousand dollars to play a game. And they're whining because they don't want to have to pay a luxury tax if they're making millions of dollars a year.

Cry me a farking river.

Let them strike. Let them get jobs at McDonald's and The Gap and see how awful it is that they're ONLY making a few million a year.

farking greedy bastards. Nobody needs them.

Yeah, but he wanted to be commissioner for a long time, Elayne Riggs , and Selig said he wouldn't stand in his way - and then promptly made himself commissioner. Those two have a long history of not liking each other, so I don't think he's going to automatically side with Selig.

I thought league minimum for a major league contract was up to $300,000.

Don't forget, if you are a member of the union, you get another $30,000 per year from license merchandise revenue. Unless Don Fehr still hates your guts for crossing the picket line in 1994, like the D-Backs Damian Miller (look closely at official W.S. Champs merchandise - his name ain't on it) and you get bubkus.

Dmd8605

I meant 200 large to "play the game of baseball", not "play a single game". They're paid 200 thousand dollars to fark around and play a game that people would play for free anyway. Meanwhile, people are slaving away for minimum wage so they can make enough money to buy a ticket to see their favorite player swing a piece of wood nine or ten times in a span of 3 hours.

Greedy farkers.

What dittohead submitted this with a tag? Doesn't take much to be hero these days, does it? All you have to do is make some uninmporant, non-controversial observation that anyone with an IQ above a houseplant would agree with--"I'm opposed to a baseball strike." Well, I'm opposed, too, so where's my tag.

Jesus, I swear that anything Presidently Chimpy does anything more impressive than wiping his own ass without Cheney helping him someone is willing to call him a "hero." Look up the farking word in the dictionary, folks.

Actually, I thought you did a good job with that, Rtreynor.

Rtreynor, "fannage" is funny, but I think it might have been better if you had gona a little more overboard to make him sound dumb. Maybe something like "workage stoppage."