Dolphins GM asked Dez Bryant unbelievable question at combine

Matt Millen's response to this situation serves as a reminder as to why he was an absolute failure in Detroit.

 

In the NFL, definltey. As 93Devil pointed out, we are already there. Goodell took advantage of the public opinion being so dramatically against Roethlisberger to establish more power for himself.

In MLB? I just don't see it. The player's association is too strong for that.

 

Not after the owners bust them to dust in the next contract negotiations.

 

Maybe he should have asked Charles Rogers tougher pre-draft questions.

 

yeah because it was such a well-guarded secret Rogers (and Mike Williams) had something-less-than-sterling work habits and that Rogers was a doper.

But how? How could Millen possibly have known?

 

You do realize that it creates a bit of a stench when you speak out of the wrong end of your anatomy, right? What makes you think that is suddenly going to happen?

 

1. The NFL, NBA and MLB owners have looked with shining eyes at their NHL brethren, who shut their sport down for a whole season in order to crush the players' union and get a 50% reduction in payrolls (among many other items). They would dearly love to do the same thing. Chainsawing the payroll is the No. 1 item, but bringing the players to heel by neutering the unions and massively increasing their disciplinary/suspension powers is a close No. 2.

2. With the economic meltdown the owners have extra incentive to do this. Team owners are billionaires; they can survive a season-long shutdown and still be very very rich. Players mostly live paycheck-to-paycheck and have a very limited earnings career; they can't.

We are headed for Jockageddon in the next 3-4 years in all 3 "major" sports.

 

You really think the NHL is a comparable model for MLB? That is part of your problem right there.

The NFL doesn't have to break the union. They can just keep pushing it around like they have for many years. That is why they are taking such an aggressive approach. They have every reason to belive that the players will cave like they always do.

MLB is a completely different animal.

 

The NFL, NBA and MLB owners don't have to break the unions -- but they want to.

They are billionaires. How do billionaires get to be billionaires? They cut costs. They put the screws to the workforce.

Professional sports franchises like many industries are looking at a period of flat revenue growth, or revenue declines.

The billionaires want to keep a bigger piece of a shrinking pie.

They will happily point guns at the players' heads to get it.

And the MLB (and NBA) players will cave, too. Careers are very very short. Every season or major portion thereof a player sits out is earning power gone forever.

A silver-spoon fatass 60-year-old billionaire owner can sit out a year, or two or more, and then he's a silver-spoon fatass 62-year-old billionaire owner. A 28-year-old superstar athlete in the prime of his career sits out two years, and he's a 30-year-old athlete on the downside of his career who hasn't played in two years.

 

Under these standards The Mets should have asked Robbie Alomar and Mike Piazza if they were gay.

 

Nice theory. Too bad the reality has proven the exact opposite in MLB. It may work in some sports, but history shows that it is extremely unlikely in baseball.

 

Another question: Has this made it easier or more difficult for future NFL GMs to ask future potential first-rounders if their mothers are prostitutes? Discuss.