Originally Posted by kane

So you can't blame the union in this instance. They made demands and got what they wanted. If the companies/cities knew they couldn't afford it they should have never made the deal. Sure, there may have been some fallout at the time, but it would be better to deal with it then and make it work than deal with it 20 years later when it has all fallen apart.

I look at it like professional sports. If a guy is a MLB pitcher and he asks for $20 million dollars per year and a team pays it, it isn't his problem if that causes the team to have financial issues down the road.

A good example is the Texas Rangers. They sign Alex Rodriguez to a huge deal that is 10 years for $252 million dollars. He asked for, negotiated for it and got it from them. Of course a few years later the Rangers realized that they couldn't afford this and if they were going to pay him that much they didn't have money left to build a team around him so they lost a lot of games which cost them money. Only when they got rid of him and were able to afford other players did they start to win.

It isn't A-Rod's fault that they lost. He played well for them. He won an MVP while playing for them. He did what they asked of him. Halfway through the contract when they wanted to get rid of him he was also not out of line demanding that he get paid the rest of his contract.