Fans Just Love All This Labor Talk

When Major League Baseball betrayed its once-loyal fans by shutting down in 1994, I vowed to boycott the sport for five years. It turned out to be seven years before I finally regained enough interest to become a fan again this year. What irony that my first season back may well provide another example of the rampant greed and disrespect that tars this once-respectable sport.

With all that football and basketball have to offer, perhaps its time to crown a new national pastime. This might be the break that soccer has been waiting for.

Brian Dalton

Solvang

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If my beloved Dodgers strike, or if they get locked out by Satan Selig, even for one day, then I’m done. Finished. I will never come back.

I punish my body working construction every day just to survive and raise a family. I get low pay, crummy health care, no retirement, and I don’t get to play a game. For my efforts I can afford to take my daughter (in our 1974 VW Bug) to one game a year, where I am subjected to price gouging on food, parking, merchandise and every other thing management can think of to get my money. The amount of advertising I am subjected to is nauseating.

If I hear one more player tell me baseball is a business, I’ll bean him. Baseball is a game! Both the millionaire players and the billionaire owners are wrong. Get a deal done.

Fred Dixon

Ventura

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So Marvin Miller thinks baseball’s strike situation is “like nothing we’ve seen” in any other industry. That’s because his union is like no other union we’ve ever seen: chock full of spoiled rotten millionaires.

No one in history has done more damage to baseball fans than Miller, and that includes Arnold Rothstein and network presidents. Because the owners remain shortsighted and cowardly, the situation is unlikely to change. If only Bob Costas were commissioner.

Michael Helwig

Canoga Park