lid wrote:

...... Right up until the second player strike. The first
one, well, okay, they were doing stuff like pensions for the old
timers who never had a chance to have a million dollar contract as
well as taking care of themselves. It made decent PR. But since
then, phtoooie on the players, the owners, the whole greedy bunch of
them.

I quit watching baseball on TV when all the teams put billboards behind
home plate, and without the regular contact with the game that TV
provided, my interest has slowly dissipated.

JR