Feb. 17, 2022
Lockout, Minor Leaguers paid in Life Skills, White Sox Ticket Scalping, Red Sox sales fall
- Pitchers & Catchers report to Spring Training – not happening today – mlbLockout
- Brandon left in the Drive way waiting for his ride to Spring Training
- Watching old Baseball Games videos
- MLB Umpires shine when compared with The Big Game of Football Officiating comp
- Face masks, Bengals, Rams and WTF. Doesn’t the NFL have instant replay
- Getting ready to watch the Minor Leagues MiLB
- Rob Manfred loves the Minor Leagues with a strong diet and contraction addressing
- inadequate facilities
- travel
- poor pay
- drafting players who don’t have a realistic shot to make it to the majors
- Loss of 42 minor league teams and impact on the games and fandom
- Lawsuits from minor league players and some of the 42 teams who were cut
- MLB spokesman states that Minor League players receive over $2,200 worth of value per week during Spring Training. Therefore, they should not be paid during spring training.
- Should minor league players have to pay for Spring Training?
- They are learning life skills.
- Even Burger King trainess get paid for learning to flip burgers and learn life skills
- One Baseball plan slapped together like a student’s science project
- Garret Broshius lawyer for the Minor Leaguers speaks out
- Do minor league players need a union
- Players must have other jobs to have a livable income
- Housing for the Minor Leaguers – What is MLB doing to help and what do we believe
- Baseball boot camp living conditions
- MLB program to increase minor league players play during regular season
- Shorter bus travel between games for the players with realignment of teams
- Club House Dues no longer need to be paid by players
- Players no longer need to share a bed
- Host Families still around to give players a place to sleep
- PED’s penalties in the Minor Leagues – 14 players have been suspended for performance enhancement drugs. Let’s remember to forgive them later
- Boston Red Sox ticket sales down 20 to 30% from last year at this time
- White Sox lack of ticket sales is felt by the owners
- Ticket Scalping, Martial Arts, Fraud & Alcohol – Bruce Lee is sentenced for ticket scalping. Not the original Bruce Lee
- Could Ozark, Marty Bird have done better
- Special Thanks to our Health Care workers and military service people
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