Blog 32: Initial Thoughts on the Audience

              There is no such thing as a general audience. Events will always affect one group more than others. The event or issue may affect multiple groups of people, but there is always one group that is affected more than others.
               The main group that is impacted by this issue is minor league baseball players, college players, and high school players. Minor league players are affected because it is their pay. It is the amount of money they are getting payed for working. College and high school players are affected cause they may be considering going pro and forfeiting college scholarships to go pursue their chances of making it to major league baseball. Most of the groups don't know much about the pay until they get to the minor leagues. On sports networks such as ESPN, the only salaries ever reported are those of the highest paid players, the record deals worth hundreds of millions. Young players see these numbers and think everyone gets paid, so their knowledge is very limited on the topic. Some other people who are in the audience are owners of the teams and the fans. The fans support everything that is going on probably because they have no idea what is going on. Their knowledge is also limited to what they see on television. The owners are involved because they have control over everything that is going on. They own the teams and the money that is used to pay the players. The owners fully know what is going on but it is not important to them unless there is a wide spread call for change. The owners could be against any change because it will cost them more money.
                 In order to understand the situation, the audience will need to know about minimum wage, how baseball contracts work, and then the costs that players have after they do get their contracts.

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