Thursday, August 01, 2013
Sheehan v Selig
Sheehan suggests that 1994 is the worst thing to happen to MLB (easy to agree with that).
In his opinion, he lays the blame on Selig, which of course, you can make a case to include others involved at the time. And you can argue that the best thing to happen to baseball, if you can freeze time to Sept 1998, was Sosa and McGwire. You can make a case for anyone for anything, if you can highlight some aspects and depress others.
Anyway, I saw this comment from Mike in the comments:
Would the industry have grown to the extent that it has if we still had labor stoppages every 4-6 years? Unanswerable question, I know.
If it's the NHL, the answer is yes. We don't even need to guess, since we have empirical evidence, with three lockouts that led to two half-seasons and one season lost completely, in the span of less than 20 years.
If it's MLB, the answer is probably no. 1994 showed us how long it took for attendance to recover, and if not for "chicks dig the long ball", who know how long it would have taken. I don't follow the other sports too much, but I'd guess for NFL: a big yes, and NBA: maybe yes.
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