The longer this off-season goes, the hungrier I get for Spring Training. The inane asking prices that some of today’s free agents are asking for is getting out of control. I believe in the free market as much as anyone, but sometimes a little self-restraint needs to be implemented…on both sides.
The pendulum always swings both ways, and for way too many years the owners had all of the control over the lives of the players…the people the fans were paying to come watch play the greatest game on this planet. Because Curt Flood dared to go up against the establishment and make a stand against Baseball’s Reserve Clause, the pendulum stopped and ever so slightly started to swing in the other direction.