With no end in sight to the MLB lockout, more news seemingly comes out each day about how cheap the owners have been over the past few years.
Each bit of news makes every day the lockout rages on more frustrating and deflating.
It’s clear that the MLB owners’ main goal is not to make the league better, but rather, to keep as much money in their pockets as possible and leave the players with as little as possible, not giving them a fair share of the revenue.
More news came out early this morning, and it turns out the owners are even cheaper than we all thought.
MLB owners – literal billionaires – are so cheap that they’re delaying the start of the season in part due to *meal money* https://t.co/x2NmHdsvjo pic.twitter.com/3bXfjlKHCa
— Travis Waldron (@Travis_Waldron) March 4, 2022
The Consequences
This only further cements the owners as the villains of this work stoppage.
If the owners are so afraid to spend that they have to make a plan to include money for food as salary, that goes to show exactly what kind of people they are behind the scenes.
It’s clear that many of them not only don’t care about winning, but don’t have any interest in giving the players what they deserve.
On top of that, counting food money as salary is unfair to the players.
Bad Intentions
The owners clearly did not have good intentions coming into this whole ordeal, and by the looks of it, they still don’t seem to have good intentions.
They refuse to bargain in good faith and each time they make a proposal, it leaves fans wondering if they’re just trying to upset the players and the fans.
If anybody wondered why negotiations have gone so poorly, this is yet another piece of hard evidence.
To them, it’s all about the money and nothing else.
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Angry Fan says
Sure…because breakfast, lunch and dinner just for home games for 40 man roster is free right.
Give me a break. I’ll start crying foul when the players make the median home income of Americans. And for the owners…Its a buisness.
So I guess the players just want to play ball because they want millions.
I’m with the owners. You don’t like making 500 grand a year. Go play in that other league.
Charlie says
You mean that all the money the players make they can afford there own meals I agree with the owners and I also think they should pay for their own rooms if they dont like it then let them take their so called talented to some other country I’m sure Mexico will take them