10/03/2025
The latest article from contributor Michael Diton-Edwards . Great stuff.
TGI Sports Talk October 3, 2025 Michael Diton-Edwards Pitch Count: 012
Hey y’all! So, I was all prepared to begin work on my next planned article covering the Bridal Shower process of one future T Kelce’s gal (I still am shocked the Chief TE didn’t change his number to 13, but, oh well…) and how it would intertwine with the fate of the KC My Homies. But alas, I took a moment to get my little tiny puppy (8 lbs. 7 oz.) a treat and when I got back I just HAD to look at my feed, and I saw a post from that made me both happy and sad… kind of like when you are giddy you saved enough money to buy your first car, but devastated when you realize you actually purchased a lemon sourer than your fantasy team losing Malik Nabers for the season (don’t worry NY Gents fans, your team would have still been horrible with him - but love Dart!). It was a baseball related post (two references in a row during football season? What am I doing, TRYING to lose readership???) and it was fascinating in the numbers it shared. If you want to see it for yourself please search for it by the author (I can’t do everything for you, people…c’mon), but in a pecan from Chattanooga State nutshell (go TGI Sports Talk chat room!!!), here is the gist; Major League Baseball ratings for the 2025 season were WAY up across every platform, attendance grew for third consecutive year, and Social Media had 17.9 BILLION views for the good ol’ American Pastime (apologies to NFL, College, and NASCAR, and Taco Tuesdays). So Mr. Ben V, thank you for that amazing news! That combined with 3 out of 4 Wild Card series being stretched to the limit (Dodgers couldn’t even stub a toe for the ultimate drama? Wow, thanks, D Fuller…), one would think Baseball is at the heights of supremacy unseen since the days of Mantle, Mays, and the advent of Preparation H. Right? Well…
Chicken Little once said the sky was falling… The little boy once cried wolf one too many times… Bill Parcels once (thrice? more?) ordered too many deserts post-comp meals at Shula’s Steakhouse during NFL draft combine days… point is, I don’t want to be the one cranking the handle on the air raid alarm, but folks, there is trouble afoot for the wonderful game of Abner Doubleday-credited glory… and it doesn’t have anything to do with attendance or viewership or clicks or likes or shares or whatever memes get the most eyeballs on a given day --- no, it is something that cannot be quantitatively measured in our modern world… in one word, my friends, it is GREED. Yes… simply, it is greed.
When the entire entity of a possession is ‘owned’ by two parties, and that property is thriving, why would both invested partners not do their level best to ensure the health and viability of the beast? Does that not make sense? Welp… apparently, for the MLB owners and the players, there is no common ground that may allow the parties to hug it out, sing Kumbaya, and enjoy the peace pipe bigger than anything Pedro Cerrano could have ever offered up to Joboo. As healthy as the world of MLB is most definitely, the desires of each of the sides -- Owners vs. Players -- are as equally as vibrant.
So what is the problem? I could do the journalistic gymnastics and list a roster of possible contentious disagreements, but again, and simply, it comes down to greed. Don’t let the cannon fodder from each side sway you - each of the camps could peacefully, generously, and equitably coexist for the next 50+ years if they would just recognize that they need one another! The players are not struggling through the pre-Curt Flood days (you will have to google that if you don’t know…sorry, again, I have limited space after that ‘Sports’ letter landed me on word count probation…my bad), and the owners are not having to mortgage their palatial estates in the Maldives to meet payroll and pay the light bill. Seriously. The numbers all prove it out - it isn’t an opinion, it isn’t Union vs. non-Union, and it isn’t as simple as employee vs. Boss… frankly, my dear readers, it just comes down to greed and the egos behind the puppet masters pulling the strings on both sides.
Who will ultimately win this battle of greed? Who will eventually gain the upper hand? Who will stave off the inevitable strike or lockout if both sides foolishly stick to their golden-gilded guns? I don’t know who will come out in the end winning, but I do know this… for all of the positives brought to us by , there is a definite loser. It is you. It is me. It is the fan. It is, sadly, Baseball, if this humble article is correct. I hope it is as accurate of my bet on Tay Tay to wear black and silver during the actual nuptials. But…at least we will have the KBO and WNBA during the lockout/strike, right?
Peace, and thank you for reading :) Hit me up with any comments or ideas for stories/topics you want to see covered in future articles. [email protected]
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