From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder 432-4219)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: So long, Stanley Cup playoffs
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:40:29 GMT
Organization: HMS

In article <cdt7gui00Uh7I48Fo0@andrew.cmu.edu> am2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anna Matyas) writes:
>
>Some other things I'm royally PO'd about:
>
>*First, let me say that I had no ill feelings whatsover toward the
> players for doing this -- initially.  I've changed in that respect.

Initially,you had no sympathy for anyone making $200,000 and going
on strike. Maybe there weren't any ill feelings,but they certainly
weren't the ones of compassion.
>*Granted, from what we know, the owners refused to talk all season.
> The players decided to strike at the time when the owners could
> make the most money (and the players the least amount of money.
> Playoffs do not make the players rich).  I can understand that the
> players felt they had to hit the owners where it hurts the most.
> But I'm also PO'd that the players have made their money for the
> season.  I think I'd respect them a little more if they had waited
> until the beginning of next season, when they would have gone without
> their paychecks.

Have you heard of the words 'TRUST' and 'FAITH'? Well,they should
be applauded for exhibiting those fine qualities when they dealt with
the likes of Bill Wirtz and Jeremy Jacobs during this past season.


>*As a paying customer, I will feel very cheated if there are no
> playoffs.  The playoffs are the culmination of the entire season --
> not merely another set of games.  Even though we'll get refunds,
> I still feel cheated.  We're paying for a product and not getting
> our due.  It's like cutting a 26-mile marathon off at mile 23.

Well, which is it, the money or the game? What about the people in
Quebec City who sell out LeColisee for all 40 home games? Should they
be refunded at the end of each season? When they buy their tickets
at the beginning of the season,aren't they paying for the product
and not getting their due every April? It seems like there had
never been playoffs in that city!

>My bone of contention, I guess, is not with the players' original
>issues but with the way they have gone about it.  Maybe they thought
>the owners would panic at the prospect of losing playoff money and
>would cave in immediately.  Well, there's still time for resolution
>and I've been optimistic through these first 9 or so days and I
>continue to be.  If I'm going to be PO'd about something I'd rather it
>be about a Larry Murphy boneheaded play than this crap!

Why should the owners panic? They're living off the interest that accumalates
daily from the money made for already bought (non)playoff tickets.
I'm not sure about the other 15 teams, but the Bruins ARE NOT refunding
any money and telling fans to hold on to their tickets because the games
have been postponed and not cancelled. Are they for real? Only in America!
As Yakov Smirnoff would say,"Whatta Country!" Whatta scam! The season
 is over and they're trying to make a sucky dollar out of this deal. 
Look at the owners, before you bash the players! I predict John Ziegler
will be nominated for an Oscar next year for his potrayal of "The Man
Who Loved The Game and Cried". How f*cking touching was his press conference
over the weekend,I almost broke down and sent him a check earlier this
week! But then I heard about a Rangers fan who jumped out of a skyscraper
in Manhattan, and I said to myself,"You know I bet you John Ziegler is
probably riding around and looking  for the  tallest building in Toronto
right now. The money won't do him any good at this point. It's all over for
for poor Ziggy."

-Mark
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