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Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by tegator80, Jun 7, 2025.

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  1. Jun 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM #41
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    Pro athletes have employment contracts. Is this really what you’re looking forward to though? Being able to complain more?
     
  2. Jun 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM #42
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    Thats the millennial way.
     
  3. Jun 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM #43
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    Lighten up Francis, I was making joke!!!
     
  4. Jun 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM #44
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    Not to mention the price of admission to the "game."
     
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  5. Jun 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM #45
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    Holdouts have already surfaced with the QB at TN. Didn't go well for him this time, but, it did happen. The first strike will end it for me, too, though.
     
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  6. Jun 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM #46
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    Not that I disagree, but what happens if the first step is righteous - and I use this word sincerely and soberly - booing with passion a bunch of kids on the playing field or court? I mean, if "youth" says "I made it, time to rest and relax" whereas they likely were born on third base and the coach called a squeeze bunt with no outs and a 2-0 count, with a top bunter at the plate against a straight-line-throwing fastball pitcher, isn't booing a righteous form of voting? I would prefer leaving the stadium or arena en mass, but that takes discipline and planning/organization. I seriously doubt the masses would actually do this after spending so much time and money to get to the event only to voice that level of discontent.

    Again, are we having any fun yet?
     
  7. Jun 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM #47
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    The scabs would be the return of the amateurs
     
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  8. Jun 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM #48
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    Are you sure?

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  9. Jun 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM #49
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    I think you're more likely to see a lockout than a strike unless a lot of things change. The players are getting what they want right now. FTR, I don't think you'll see either in the near future.
     
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  10. Jun 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM #50
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    We are in the "honeymoon" stage of financial windfalls. It would take a heck of an effort to collude against the players to make it anything more than a "don't pay attention to the details and have some fun" line to us rubes.

    The more I think about it, the hardcore booing is probably going to be the first action.
     
  11. Jun 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM #51
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    I'll never understand people who boo their own team, players, and coaches. The whole point in being a fan is to root for your team. If you hate them enough to boo them, find someone else to root for, or find a new hobby.
     
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  12. Jun 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM #52
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    If I may opine, to me it is a sign of someone who can not fathom voting with their wallets, although that IS what we should do. None of the big businesses give a damn if you complain. What gets their attention is a reduction in income.

    So, if your base is a bunch of rubes who won't do their due diligence, what other choice do they have? And remember, we aren't talking about Johnnie who was 6 months from graduating with his HS class and he is no longer in Kansas, we are talking about Andrew Wiggins without the accolades who decides that college success has nothing to do with him. He will be crying all the way to the bank. And so...
     
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  13. Jun 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM #53
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    To me, that's six-of-one or half-a-dozen of another. If football stops due to player money issues, my season ticket purchases will end commensurately.
     
  14. Jun 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM #54
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  15. Jun 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM #55
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    Your absence will send tremors through the foundation of college football. I'm sure of it.
     
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  16. Jun 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM #56
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    If they lose 20k tix itll get their attention but strikes in football and baseball while it lost them some fans, they replaced them without issue.
     
  17. Jun 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM #57
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    Yes, I'm sure it will, too.
     
  18. Jun 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM #58
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    That's not really true. Baseball attendance and viewership was down for a good while after the strike. Only came back during the McGwire/Sosa homerun show.
     
  19. Jun 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM #59
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    Why would the players strike? They already hold all the cards.
     
  20. Jun 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM #60
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    a bump in the road. Football was down 25% while they were kneeling too, but that's in the rearview mirror
     
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