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A lot of kind unease, trepidation among certainly the more traditional people in the game. City Connect has been one of the great marketing successes in the game in recent years, i think that it’s important to experiment with things like that in order to give the game a little different look. I never thought that a baseball team wearing different jerseys in a game was a particularly appealing look for us. I understand that people can have different views on that topic, but it is part of a larger program designed to market the game in a nontraditional way.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The concerns of our fans are at the very top of our consideration list.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My deepest hope is we get an agreement quickly, i’m really disappointed we didn’t make an agreement.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Players consider it unnecessary and provocative. This lockout won't pressure or intimate players into a deal that they don't believe is fair.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you play without an agreement, you’re vulnerable to a strike at any point in time, what happened in 1994 is the MLBPA picked August, when we were most vulnerable because of the proximity of the large revenue dollars associated with the postseason. We wanted to take that option away and try to force the parties to deal with the issues and get an agreement now, which is what we continue to believe is best for the fans.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We’ve been down this path. We locked out in ‘89-’90, i don’t think '94 worked out too great for anybody. I think when you look at other sports, the pattern has become to control the timing of the labor dispute and try to minimize the prospect of actual disruption of the season. That’s what it’s about. It’s avoiding doing damage to the season.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Certainly encouraging, game times in the 2:40s, which is a really sort of nice number when you think about it in comparison to where we’ve been. I think maybe more important than that is that people that go and watch the games feel like the pace of the game, the action in the game has really been improved, that it actually alters the requirement of moving along pitching, kind of changes the game the way it’s played a little bit. And that would be a useful change for us.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I want to be really clear about this, we have rights under the agreement to do certain things with a certain process that’s been followed. There’s going to come a point in time where the pressure to make change is going to be sufficient. I prefer to do it by reaching an agreement with the players.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
In 2020, MLB became the first professional sports league to join the nonpartisan Civic Alliance to help build a future in which everyone participates in shaping the United States. We proudly used our platform to encourage baseball fans and communities throughout our country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. Fair access to voting continues to have our game’s unwavering support.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Why is he making baseball political anyway? Because of his terrible record. Viewership way down. Ticket prices way up. major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
After an extensive process of repeated warnings without effect, gathering information from current and former players and others across the sport, two months of comprehensive data collection, listening to our fans and thoughtful deliberation, I have determined that new enforcement of foreign substances is needed to level the playing field.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and the Players Alliance, among others, to listen to their views, major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We left that meeting with a jointly developed framework that we agreed could form the basis of an agreement and subject to conversations with our respective constituents, i summarized that framework numerous times in the meeting and sent Tony a written summary today. Consistent with our conversations yesterday, I am encouraging the clubs to move forward and I trust Tony is doing the same.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's hopeful that we will have some Major League Baseball this summer, we are making plans about playing in empty stadiums. But as I've said before, all of those plans are dependent on what the public health situation is.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think two things are happening that are really important, i think people know a lot more about the players that are being selected than they used to, and as a result theres a lot more interest. We do believe clearing the game schedule is important so that the focus is on what goes on here tonight. This is, after all, our future the lifeblood of the game. And we will continue to look for ways to make this as big an event as we possibly can.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
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