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Posted by: brooklyneast05 Jan 5 2011, 08:20 PM

will they or won't they? will no nfl and nba season mean people will actually care about baseball next year!?

Posted by: DoubleJ Jan 5 2011, 08:26 PM

LMAO...NBA will happen. It happened before and it will happen again. I agree with the owners about the nfl rookies.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Jan 5 2011, 08:26 PM

i'm gonna be so pissed, you don't even know

Posted by: DoubleJ Jan 5 2011, 08:27 PM

The NBA owners have a point to. With what happened in Miami, I know that they will have a hard cap, which will definitely mean the end of the big three there.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Jan 5 2011, 08:31 PM

i can see their argument for a hard cap, plus it would make things more competitive perhaps. as it is now, the soft cap will always favor larger markets because that's who is going to be able to afford the luxury tax.

Posted by: DoubleJ Jan 5 2011, 08:53 PM

Indeed. What's sad to me is that the NFL is the most popular sport in the US, yet the players are crying broke. Stop giving all of these outlandish contracts to these damn rookies.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Jan 5 2011, 08:56 PM

yeah, it's ridiculous, let them earn their money first.

Posted by: DoubleJ Jan 5 2011, 09:01 PM

It should be setup like baseball.

Posted by: serotonin Feb 2 2011, 04:50 PM

Baseball is stupid, but how is it set up?

The NFL lockout won't happen, too many people want money and there will be an agreement reached. It'll be easier than the NBA to reach as none of them make quite as much as the NBA players. No one makes 22 million a year or whatever the cap is. You see some people making 20-40 million a year but that includes bonuses and endorsements, which some people make a dick load off of.

Regardless, they like their money too much, well a lot of them. A lot of them like the game too much. Players like Peyton Manning aren't going to stop playing because they couldn't get 5 million dollars more in their next contract. In fact, he'll get offered more money and he'll re-sign because he already intended on it even if he wasn't offered more money. I think there are lot more classy players and the amount of them are going to influence other players to stick around. You have people like Pittsburg's James Harrison who has threatened to retire if he keeps getting fined or people like Albert Haynesworth who get paid a dick load and don't do dick, but they stick out more than the numbers of classy players who will influence the majority to stick with the game. You'll lose the f****ts, keep the real players.

Posted by: serotonin Feb 2 2011, 04:50 PM

Baseball is stupid, but how is it set up?

The NFL lockout won't happen, too many people want money and there will be an agreement reached. It'll be easier than the NBA to reach as none of them make quite as much as the NBA players. No one makes 22 million a year or whatever the cap is. You see some people making 20-40 million a year but that includes bonuses and endorsements, which some people make a dick load off of.

Regardless, they like their money too much, well a lot of them. A lot of them like the game too much. Players like Peyton Manning aren't going to stop playing because they couldn't get 5 million dollars more in their next contract. In fact, he'll get offered more money and he'll re-sign because he already intended on it even if he wasn't offered more money. I think there are lot more classy players and the amount of them are going to influence other players to stick around. You have people like Pittsburg's James Harrison who has threatened to retire if he keeps getting fined or people like Albert Haynesworth who get paid a dick load and don't do dick, but they stick out more than the numbers of classy players who will influence the majority to stick with the game. You'll lose the f****ts, keep the real players.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Feb 2 2011, 06:18 PM

i think it wont happen/shouldn't happen due to the cities. imagine how much money those stadiums will lose not having games there.