Sports Labor Agreements

[elijah23]

I’ve been reading how the baseball, football, and basketball labor agreements with the owners are expiring shortly. What would we do if they closed down professional baseball, football, and basketball for a year or two?

 

[reba]

The sales of beer, chips and pizza would drop off. It might be nice to find out we can survive quit nicely with em

 

[Mike]

I guess I'd have to pay for ESPN Classic, which (thank you DirectTV) is now a premium channel. Please Lord, don't let them take away my NFL!

 

[bigllama]

The only sport I care about is hockey (and to a lesser extent, Canadian Football), we already had a lockout in '05 and it was brutal. What made it worse was at the end of 2004 season, we traded a lot of good young talent for a big name power forward. He claimed to have a clause in his contract that said he would get paid even if there was a lockout, so he went to court with the Leafs and all that stuff, and of course, refused to play for us, so we wasted a pretty large amount of assets, as well as a year in which we would have competed for the championship in my opionion.

 

[craigmn3]

Basketball would be bad
Baseball would be awful
Football would be.....armageddon

Don't mess with my mansport

 

[Mike]

The only sport I care about is hockey (and to a lesser extent, Canadian Football), we already had a lockout in '05 and it was brutal. What made it worse was at the end of 2004 season, we traded a lot of good young talent for a big name power forward. He claimed to have a clause in his contract that said he would get paid even if there was a lockout, so he went to court with the Leafs and all that stuff, and of course, refused to play for us, so we wasted a pretty large amount of assets, as well as a year in which we would have competed for the championship in my opionion.

As long as your "national sport" of Lacrosse doesn't strike... If so, there's always your beloved curling. ;)

 

[bigllama]

Well, if I'm not mistaken, both lacrosse and hockey are our national sports. Lacrosse is actually pretty entertaining to watch IMO, lots of goals and there is plenty of body contact.

I barely consider baseball a sport.. I play softball recreationally in the summer and I only sweat because of the heat, not because of the physical activity involved. There's a reason you guys call it your national pastime and not your national sport lol

 

[reba]

Well, if I'm not mistaken, both lacrosse and hockey are our national sports. Lacrosse is actually pretty entertaining to watch IMO, lots of goals and there is plenty of body contact.

I barely consider baseball a sport.. I play softball recreationally in the summer and I only sweat because of the heat, not because of the physical activity involved. There's a reason you guys call it your national pastime and not your national sport lol

BASEBALL TAKES BRAINS TO PLAY!

 

[bigllama]

BASEBALL TAKES BRAINS TO PLAY!

As does every sport...

 

[Mike]

And from the Department of Irrelevant, the NFL announced its pre-season schedule today. Could there possibly be a more meaningless press release? "Here are the games that could be played IF there is a season which will be meaningless and pointless even if they are played because they are PRE-SEASON and we charge full price for games that don't count and players who matter only play 1 quarter, but we're going to make a big production about them because the networks will pay us, but we don't even know if anything will happen because billionaires are arguing with millionaires, but we just thought you might like to know which meaningless games could take place if, and that's a big IF there is an NFL season."

Something that actually did catch my attention: the Buc's and Bears reportedly will be playing in London - if there's a season. :bigfrown

 

[reba]

A bunch of over paid cry babies