Reply #24: It's a love-hate thing with me.

[JackDragna]

I still love it because I love baseball as a sport, but it definitely has been harder for me to care. Even now, with so many great games in the playoffs, I just don't care. I don't even think I'd care if any of the teams I normally cared about made it.

For me, it's not so much the strike in particular as it is the continued separation of the haves and have-nots. The Yankees and Boston are full of players pilfered from other teams and kept in their cities due to huge contracts. Even the underdog Cubs have the 10th highest payroll in baseball.

Even more than that, though, is the ridiculous demands put on fans. The extortion for new stadiums, higher ticket and concession prices..baseball is broken and it pains me to admit it.