Isn't what he said about the players true?

Isn't what he said about the players true?

He's wrong about the beer vendors though. Just try to grab a cold one at Sox Park when the Cubs are home at the same time.

Isn't what he said about the players true?

He's wrong about the beer vendors though. Just try to grab a cold one at Sox Park when the Cubs are home at the same time.

He's right in his overall point.

Baseball would survive.

He's right in his overall point.

Baseball would survive.

A strike nearly killed the sport but if all the players died the sport would be fine. Sounds reasonable

If the White Sox started with a completely fresh roster would they be better in three years?

If the White Sox started with a completely fresh roster would they be better in three years?

Yup. They don't need to get better, everyone else just needs to get worse. Meteor solves that.

Screwing over players on service time worked out for both sides. The Sox keep a top prospect for an extra year and the top prospect is not killed by a meteor.

Yeah it’s a shame those poor defenseless players agreed to collectively bargain being screwed over on their service time

Probably not. If a meteor killed every MLB player right now and the league had to start over from scratch, it would likely not be in a great spot three years from now.

People pretty much root for laundry. The NBA perhaps an exception to a certin degree.

Of course, but I think you and others are underestimating the degree to which the quality of the sport would suffer if you just took the best 750 or so players in the world out of the game. I'm fairly confident it would not be the same league with the same rating and popularity three years later. 20-30 years maybe.

People will come, Ray.
They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom.
They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it.
They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past.
"Of course, we won't mind if you look around", you'll say, "It's only $20 per person".
They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.
And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon.
They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes.
And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters.
The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces.
People will come Ray.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers.
It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.
But baseball has marked the time.
This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray.
It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again.
Oh...people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

Yeah the 3 year thing was goofy. I don't think it'd take 20 years. Maybe 7-10.

Add some capitals and it's a bigfan post.