NHL CBA Impact On MLB

[Crash Course]

If the NHL gets a salary cap out of their work stoppage, do you think baseball will try next?

[mainsr]

Key phrase there is "out of their work stoppage." It'll take a work stoppage for there to be a salary cap in baseball, and one would hope that the powers that be wouldn't be that stupid. I'm not sure there's an economic crisis in baseball, certainly not as much of a problem as in hockey, and if there were, a much more aggressive luxury tax would be almost as effective, without the perverse impact of limiting Vlad Guerrero's salary because the owners of the Royals and Twins think the Yankees' payroll is too high.

[Crash Course]

FWIW, after 1981, I thought they had learned their lesson, and, yet, we got 1994-1995. I would not be shocked to see another work stoppage in baseball, say, around, the year 2020. It will be all new blood by then - and, the fans with DI circa 1994-95 will all be old men by then and baseball will not care about pissing them off again.

[mainsr]

2020? You mean, 16 years from now? I have absolutely no prediction what anything will look like then (except me - less hair, more gray, unless I die, in which case I'll look like a pile of ashes).

[Crash Course]

16 years goes fast.
I've been out of college for 19 years now and it seems like I was in classes just yesterday.
2020 will be here before you know it.
Cut back on cheese, you should make it.

[Ytown Tribe fan]

I could care less about hockey, but I am watching this strike/lockout with a lot of interest.

If the NHL owners "win" and get concessions from the players union, there could still be a franchise or two that go bankrupt or simply dissolve.

As it stands, maybe five or six NHL franchises are making good money, several are barely hanging on, and the rest are somewhere in between. It's pretty much what we see in MLB, give or take a few franchises.

If the players "win" by not conceding anything and NO franchises go out of business, then it will truly show how much money ALL the owners are making, despite their constant complaining.

Stay tuned...

[mainsr]

2020 will be here before you know it. Cut back on cheese, you should make it.

I thought that if I stayed away from here for a couple years you'd forget that stuff...Ytown Tribe Fan (incidentally, an old college friend of mine lives in Toronto), you seem well-versed in the NHL. Hasn't there been a lot of instability in that league? I recall there were a lot of seasons when there were, what, the Canadiens, Leafs, Rangers, Red Wings, and Black Hawks, and nothing else. Baseball hasn't experienced teams folding since Federal League days. Plus, of course, there is a lot more money for everybody in baseball.