Today’s View From the Bull Pen
Putin and His Preciousssss
Some days you just have to go with silly. Really silly. Of course, the whole story of Vladimir Putin stealing Robert Kraft's Super Bowl Ring is pretty silly. And, I might add, a bit bizarre. This along with the recent news about Putin's divorce and supposed affair with a 20 something is clear evidence that somebody named Vladimir is having a mid-life crisis.As always, your readership and your comments help to make the world go round, so please continue to add them. I will try to do a better job of responding.
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“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember – amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”- AnonymousTwitter Goodies
Its just amazing how stupid both sides are in this years NHL lockout. First there is a deal next there isnt, then the player and owners get together and put a deal together until Donald Fehr and Gary Bettman gets back involved.. Owners wont deal with Fehr and Players wont deal with Bettman.. What a stalemate.
Labor v. Capital disputes occur in every profession. How the disputes are handled is critical to the long-term survival of both the capitalist and laborer of a given field.
Here, both sides seem bound and determined to go the way of Hostess and the Twinkie. For years, the hockey product has had a strong, vibrant, but shrinking fan base in the U.S. Allowing this labor dispute to drag on only reduces market share against the NFL, NBA, and MLB. Advertisers flee, TV networks won’t carry the games, and fans stop buying the merch and filling the seats. A loss of the fan base means an end to the product.
Hostess and its labor force chose to kill the company instead of take one last try to improve the produce and grow shelf-space. Other than some nostalgia, no one really seems to miss those processed desserts. Will that be true of the NHL, too?
Just like we said good-bye to the Twinkie, if this lockout continues, without regard to the rights and wrongs alleged, soon the hockey capitalist and hockey laborer, squabbling over the dwindling revenue pie, will see their beloved sport become one with the Twinkie.