Major league baseball owners have decided to continue holding the sport hostage in order to preserve their ability to stuff a relatively small amount of money into their already overflowing pockets.
Glad to see there's at least one writer who resolutely refuses to carry water for the owners and will stand on the side of right. Good on ya, Andrew, and thanks for your clear and insightful writing on the issue.
Great summation. In the past, it's often been "a plague on both your houses". But in this case, the economics of the sport have become so egregiously tilted toward the billionaire owners that their position has become indefensible. It's absurd that a sport that has revenues massively higher than the NHL has a lower minimum salary than hockey players (who get $750,000 as a minimum).
I guess it's microcosm of society as a whole, where inequality expands massively and nothing is done about it. So the owners feel, "Why should we be any different?" And even though the players are well paid, they are (to paraphrase Curt Flood), nothing more than well-paid serfs.
Amazing to see such arrogance when we're just getting through the worst pandemic in generations, and now the worst war in Europe in over 50 years and baseball owners say to the fans, "F*ck you"
I hope this stuff clears up soon enough for you Stoeten. Gotta be stressful for you and we will all be better off when we can read what you write about the actual team and games and such... Thanks for the update
As ever, I love you for telling it like it is. Lately I've little to say about the asshattery of stupid obtuse greedy men in the world other than...ffs. This will be no exception.
Glad to see there's at least one writer who resolutely refuses to carry water for the owners and will stand on the side of right. Good on ya, Andrew, and thanks for your clear and insightful writing on the issue.
Great summation. In the past, it's often been "a plague on both your houses". But in this case, the economics of the sport have become so egregiously tilted toward the billionaire owners that their position has become indefensible. It's absurd that a sport that has revenues massively higher than the NHL has a lower minimum salary than hockey players (who get $750,000 as a minimum).
I guess it's microcosm of society as a whole, where inequality expands massively and nothing is done about it. So the owners feel, "Why should we be any different?" And even though the players are well paid, they are (to paraphrase Curt Flood), nothing more than well-paid serfs.
Amazing to see such arrogance when we're just getting through the worst pandemic in generations, and now the worst war in Europe in over 50 years and baseball owners say to the fans, "F*ck you"
I hope this stuff clears up soon enough for you Stoeten. Gotta be stressful for you and we will all be better off when we can read what you write about the actual team and games and such... Thanks for the update
As ever, I love you for telling it like it is. Lately I've little to say about the asshattery of stupid obtuse greedy men in the world other than...ffs. This will be no exception.