Mauer AL MVP

[dbreiden83080]

actually, all of those things are changeable - it just involves some short term pain.

If the pain involved salary cuts which it does, than it's not happening without a massive strike.. MLB is still flourishing financially in a bad economy in spite of attendance being down in 2009 compared to 2008. It took MLB a long time to recover from the last big strike..

[K-State Spur]

a strike would be the short term pain. owners can afford to not to pay players longer than players can afford not to be paid. however, at every interval in the past, the big markets and small markets have shown little unity and the players' union in baseball has gotten far more powerful than is healthy for any major sport. it's going to have to get knocked down a few pegs at some point - that is inevitable.

while baseball's overall revenues are fine - it is hurting in a lot of markets. token revenue sharing has not changed that.