Big Contracts and Compassion Too?
How many times have we seen management of teams bow to player desires rather than lose their services to another willing to pay (sucker) team. It seems as though this scenerio plays out quite often in the pro sports as we know them. The problem is that, especially in baseball, GUARANTEED contracts pay for potential and not performance. This means that there’s a good chance that just because a players services are tied up with a team, there’s no guarantee for performance.A great irony. After the Chicago Cubs signed yet-to-be-phenom Carlos Zambrano to an extension instead of possibly losing him to another higher end of season bidder, he loses the first four games he pitched and then complains of the lack of compassion from the fans (boos).
Or how about New York and it’s contract with ex-phenom Roger Clemens. He negotiated 18M and the right to NOT have to go on the road.
Two things: there are no performance guarantees and now there’s a new precedent from players to decide when and where they’ll play. That’s where we are in the power of negotiating nowadays and we’re headed down a slippery path. The ideals of competition are not only being compromised, they’re losing more and more ground much to the dismay of the fans.Are these guys players or actors? Is negotiating before play begins like an actor would negotiate his services meant to be the right M.O. for competitive sports?No more contracts and no more negotiating.
The only negotiating in TruStar Sports occurs on draft day. Teams take turns selecting players from a pool of players to play for their team. Teams draft players in hopes that they want to play for the team that selected them or try to be traded to another team that they more prefer. Talent is now divided as equitably as possible amongst every team of each league so that no market, big or small has an advantage. The only advantage any team might now have is through the ability of management as they select talent.The days of talent and their agents negotiating with owners for contracts before play begins are now over. Because players are now paid from the league and not the team that they play for, players who prove themselves both on and off the field get the biggest performance compensation.Read “Power to the Fans” for complete details.
