Show f I say owners get a clue VER VER since I was a y young ung E EVER boy I always heard two pieces of advice One One learn learn from your mistakes Two Two Two- Watch people wh who are successful successful successful success success- ful and see what they are doing do it JOCK TALK If a college student student can figure out that this is such great advice r then why cant can't owners of professional sports teams figure this out As I 1 look at the situation in pro sports I see basketball doing everything right They have a contract with their player association as as- They market th themselves ves yes in a positive way throughout the world They even have salary caps for each franchise so the big markets team dont don't have an advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage over the smaller markets like Utah By doing this it allows each team to have the same opportunity opportunity opportunity to get the players and win the he championship Why doesn't baseball ask the commissioner for some help The baseball owners need to have some humble pie for forTh Th Thanksgiving and tell each other they need help Otherwise there wont won't be a league to need them In baseball they have free agency It allows players to sign for any amount that an owner will pay them thein Not only is a player not worth 6 million a year but to say a player who has a batting average of is worth 2 million a year is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my life Could you imagine if Larry Miller owner of the Utah Jazz had to pay Karl Malone and John Stockton 6 million a year Even more scary could you imagine imagine im im- im- im agine if he had to pay the man on the team 2 million How would you feel about the Jazz if every year their star went somewhere else where they would make more money The NFL Na has a program in sharing all their profit This means when The Cardinals win just two game and the Washington Redskins go to the Super Bowl and sell out every game at the end of the year they make the same money Except that the Redskins pay players more money so they can win makes so their payroll is is' is higher so financially finan winning is losing Im I'm telling baseball and football football football foot foot- ball owners to get with the program program program pro pro- gram and learn from your mistakes mistakes mis mis- tak takes s and take a look at a sport basketball that works They owe it to the fans |