Editor,
As a season ticket holder for the last 20-30 years, I would like to make it real clear to the San Francisco Giants that baseball would not be baseball without us fans. This is the second time baseball has threatened to strike. After the first time they walked out or were locked out I swore I would give up the sport if it happened again. No consideration for us fans. This goes both to the players and the owners. Every year the Giants raise ticket prices without any input from the fans when are they going to learn that major league baseball wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for their fans. Contract talk should be done and completed long before the spring season starts. What would baseball do if the fans threaten to strike over ticket prices the day spring training was to start? Enough is enough.
Robert A. Nice
Redwood City
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With respect, Mr. Nice, this is not a strike or even a threatened one. This is an owner lockout, plain and simple. The owners want to save themselves money at the expense of those actually doing the work, the players. I do recommend that any fan who thinks tickets are too expensive not come; owners will be forced to price accordingly under the laws of supply and demand.
That said, I can almost always get a regular weekday ticket for less than $20 -- which is a bargain for three-plus hours of entertainment. Plus the Giants are one of the few franchises that still allows in outside food, so if I get soaked paying for garlic fries, it's because I really WANT garlic fries. :-)
Robert
Before I checked the bottom of the page I knew this was from you. These are like some of your Barry Bonds-type Letters to the editor.
During the last Owners and Players Union CBA agreement the owners desecrated the players side of the deal and now the players have a long memory. Owners want to take new players years one through 3 and just CUT them when they no longer appear deserving. Owners are triple filthy rich.
Back in the 1970's the SMFD went on a wild cat strike and most of San Mateo was in jeopardy due to fire-fighters not reporting to work. Labor and Management will never change their tactics as long as figures lie and liars figure. You can't possible have this short of a memory.
And are fans really necessary for teams to play well? In 2020 the parks were empty and the Giants finished one game out of going to the expanded playoffs.
You keep threatening to stay home, so stay home.
BTW Bonds will get in the HOF. Pudge Rodriguez and Mike Piazza were both users and are in the Hall of Fame.
Mr. Nice – as long as fans continue to pay higher ticket prices, owners are going to raise those prices. Owners must raise prices because players are demanding more compensation. Will owners pay rising compensation costs out of their pockets? Like any product, if it costs more, prices will increase for the consumer. As for fans threatening to strike over ticket prices, I'd be interested in seeing what happens. I’m sure there are many “fans” who feel the same as you. The bigger question is whether there are more fans okay with prices.
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