Baseball_Blues

Baseball Blues Baseball Blues Baseball has always been America’s past time. As well as other sports, it has been a big factor in keeping this country together through difficult times. In truth though, baseball has undergone many problems and issues, such as the recent strikes which is making fans angry, and the salaries of players and spending limits of curtain teams. Strikes are one of the biggest things slowing baseball down. Every strike lowers the faith of people and their interest in the game. Since 1972 there has been eight stoppages of play, which does not make the fans very happy, not to mention the owners and players do not always want it either. They just get too greedy and provoke these play stoppages. In fact, this ongoing war between the players and the owners is what causes all this to keep going on. The salary cap is a main reason for strikes, and as Michael Knisley states in the 01/31/2000 issue of Sporting News “Let’s remember that the union continues to think a salary cap is the work of Satan. (p54)” The latest strike has really stirred things up and could have ended the way baseball is baseball, players, free, teams, should, one, make, league, years, way, two, percent, dollars, agents, while, owners, million, major, actually, year, time, think, things, strikes, strike, set, salary, salaries, people, money, little, issue, hundred, fans, different