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    No one will sympathize with either side. If money keeps them off the field, the fans will punish both sides and stay away when they return.

    Jad is wrong that the fans returned after the ‘94 strike. It wasn’t until the overhyped drug fueled Home Run record chase by MGwire and Sosa in 1998 that popularity returned for baseball.
    I'm not sure the facts back this theory up, although of course in a sense we are both right: after the strike, the fans did not IMMEDIATELY come back, as you claim, but they did come back: here are the rough stats for total attendance: 1992: 55million; 1993: 70 million (!); 1994 50 Mil. 1995 50 mil; 1996 60 mil, 1997 63million; 1998 70 million; 1999 70mil; 2000 71mil; 2001 72; 2002 67; 2003 67; 2004 72.; 2005 74; (from there fairly stable, to 68million in 2019). The fans were back to pre-strike levels by 1996. And from there, attendance looks to me to be pretty flat, no? (I'm not sure what the big spike in attendance in '93 means, since 92-95 is otherwise pretty stable--50-55million. --Any ideas on that? I suppose you might argue reasonably enough, that without the strike this spike would have continued?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by jad View Post
    I'm not sure the facts back this theory up, although of course in a sense we are both right: after the strike, the fans did not IMMEDIATELY come back, as you claim, but they did come back: here are the rough stats for total attendance: 1992: 55million; 1993: 70 million (!); 1994 50 Mil. 1995 50 mil; 1996 60 mil, 1997 63million; 1998 70 million; 1999 70mil; 2000 71mil; 2001 72; 2002 67; 2003 67; 2004 72.; 2005 74; (from there fairly stable, to 68million in 2019). The fans were back to pre-strike levels by 1996. And from there, attendance looks to me to be pretty flat, no? (I'm not sure what the big spike in attendance in '93 means, since 92-95 is otherwise pretty stable--50-55million. --Any ideas on that? I suppose you might argue reasonably enough, that without the strike this spike would have continued?)
    I would argue that baseball undertook many fan friendly initiatives to win back the fans because they knew they had damaged the sport. I'll take the word of people like Glavine who lived through it rather than an interpretation by you of attendance stats.
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    Chaim, you are in the big leagues now. Drawing 10,000 fans a game is not going to cut it, and people don’t buy tickets to Fenway to talk about the Farm

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    "Relief pitchers are a crapshoot." No, the truth is "Crapshoot pitchers are relievers."

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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    Owners would pay less by using MiLB guys.
    I don't think the owners want to dip down to their prospects and start their service clocks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post
    Chaim, you are in the big leagues now. Drawing 10,000 fans a game is not going to cut it, and people don’t buy tickets to Fenway to talk about the Farm

    Quote Originally Posted by notin View Post
    "Relief pitchers are a crapshoot." No, the truth is "Crapshoot pitchers are relievers."

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    Quote Originally Posted by jad View Post
    I'm not sure the facts back this theory up, although of course in a sense we are both right: after the strike, the fans did not IMMEDIATELY come back, as you claim, but they did come back: here are the rough stats for total attendance: 1992: 55million; 1993: 70 million (!); 1994 50 Mil. 1995 50 mil; 1996 60 mil, 1997 63million; 1998 70 million; 1999 70mil; 2000 71mil; 2001 72; 2002 67; 2003 67; 2004 72.; 2005 74; (from there fairly stable, to 68million in 2019). The fans were back to pre-strike levels by 1996. And from there, attendance looks to me to be pretty flat, no? (I'm not sure what the big spike in attendance in '93 means, since 92-95 is otherwise pretty stable--50-55million. --Any ideas on that? I suppose you might argue reasonably enough, that without the strike this spike would have continued?)
    MLB has a short season in 1994 with no postseason. So maybe reset interest after a strike?

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    Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post
    I don't think the owners want to dip down to their prospects and start their service clocks.
    AAAA players most likely.
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    ( I won't say the "C word.")

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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    AAAA players most likely.
    And broken down journeymen with one foot or both feet in their baseball grave.
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    Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post
    Chaim, you are in the big leagues now. Drawing 10,000 fans a game is not going to cut it, and people don’t buy tickets to Fenway to talk about the Farm

    Quote Originally Posted by notin View Post
    "Relief pitchers are a crapshoot." No, the truth is "Crapshoot pitchers are relievers."

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    Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post
    I would argue that baseball undertook many fan friendly initiatives to win back the fans because they knew they had damaged the sport. I'll take the word of people like Glavine who lived through it rather than an interpretation by you of attendance stats.
    Interpreting stats? I'm just giving the numbers. Which do not support the notion that 'the fans didn't/won't come back', as you yourself admit. And if it took 'many fan friendly initiatives' to get them back then, there's no reason to suspect that the owners won't come up with more of them in the future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post
    And broken down journeymen with one foot or both feet in their baseball grave.
    Yup. It’ll be like the year they played with scabs.
    Quote Originally Posted by moonslav59 View Post
    ( I won't say the "C word.")

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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    Yup. It’ll be like the year they played with scabs.
    Or the year they played with Gorkys, Owings, Cashner, Chacin, Shawaryn...

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5GoldGloves:OF,75 View Post
    Or the year they played with Gorkys, Owings, Cashner, Chacin, Shawaryn...
    Not sure who was worse.
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    We need Joe Kelly back.

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    We need Joe Kelly back.
    To drill a fastball right between the 1 and 9 on Covid's back and then stand his mound.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5GoldGloves:OF,75 View Post
    To drill a fastball right between the 1 and 9 on Covid's back and then stand his mound.
    Haha. There you go.

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    I miss Joe Kelly. Although he isn't good for one's nerves.

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    The Oakland A's announced yesterday that they are furloughing employees and will cease weekly stipends to their minor leaguers June1st. So it begins!

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