Unions

[That Guy]

Kasz216 said:

That Guy said:
Even looking at sports, football is the most popular sports business, ATM. Its also no coincidence that they have the weakest union as well.

Why is that not a coincidence?  How are unions hurting baseball and basketball?

 

 

The players run baseball. All the contracts are guaranteed if you sign a guy for 200 milllion dollars over 10 years and he breaks his leg and never sees a pitch, you're still on the hook for that 200 milllion dollars. 

the Players also will never agree to have a salary cap, so that means that there will always be a rich/poor disparity between the large market teams (aka the Yankees) and the small market teams (like the Pirates)

Basketball is starting to be the same way. There is a cap right now for Basketball, but most of the contracts are guaranteed. Ticket sales are down right now, so about 50% of the teams are underwater this year when it comes to expensives vs. revenue. 

Football has the most horrible system, IMO. Most of their contracts are worth pretty much nothing. If a guy got hurt, the team could cut that guy on the spot and take a minimal salary hit.