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Cowperson · 03-03-2013, 07:49 AM

For owners, the lockout will prove to have been worth the short term cost.

This is only the latest example demonstrating lockouts cause no lasting damage to a professional sports league. (Baseball in 1994 was a player strike at the end of a season, not an owner lockout at the start of a season.)

Secondly, that demonstratable long term trend, experienced across all sports, is ample encouragement for owners to continue to use lockouts liberally in the future to achieve their economic and particularly systemic goals.

Still, you have to see what season ticket renewal rates will be league wide to make a final judgement of the fallout of the lockout of 2012-13.

But right now, the aftermath of this latest lockout is following a well established, multi-decade pattern.

Cowperson

03-03-2013, 07:49 AM	#3
Cowperson CP Pontiff Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: A pasture out by Millarville Exp:	For owners, the lockout will prove to have been worth the short term cost. This is only the latest example demonstrating lockouts cause no lasting damage to a professional sports league. (Baseball in 1994 was a player strike at the end of a season, not an owner lockout at the start of a season.) Secondly, that demonstratable long term trend, experienced across all sports, is ample encouragement for owners to continue to use lockouts liberally in the future to achieve their economic and particularly systemic goals. Still, you have to see what season ticket renewal rates will be league wide to make a final judgement of the fallout of the lockout of 2012-13. But right now, the aftermath of this latest lockout is following a well established, multi-decade pattern. Cowperson __________________ Dear Lord, help me to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. - Anonymous