A Letter To Baseball Fans. Thanks so much, Commissioner Manfred, for your kind letter explaining why a bunch of millionaire players, and some billionaire team owners, can't seem to agree how to split up the millions of dollars spent by the rest of us to watch baseball games in the Spring and Summer. You say that both sides have worked so hard to come to an agreement, Commissioner. In your letter, you say:
"I want to assure our fans that our failure to reach an agreement was not due to a lack of effort on the part of either party. The Players came here for nine days, worked hard and tried to make a deal. I appreciate their effort.
Our committee of Club representatives committed to the process, offered compromise after compromise, and hung in past the deadline to exhaust all efforts to reach an agreement."
How kind of you to let us know that, through your diligent effort, at least the first several weeks of baseball season will be lost to history. 27 years ago, I, and many of my fellow fans, made a promise. We would rekindle our love of the game, even though it wasn't the same. We did, and we have been loyal ever since. But, I made a promise to myself that if you rich, entitled, arrogant keepers of the flame ever did it again, I would take my wallet, and my eyeballs, and point them elsewhere. Well, I see that the fans have no voice. We have no influence. But, guess what. We pay your salaries. We pay the taxes that fund your ballparks. We buy the jerseys with your logo on them. We buy tickets to watch the games. No more. I am done. I suspect that I am not the only fan who has had enough. I suppose we shall see.
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