This is why I'm baffled by the fans who disparage players for not being "loyal" to the franchise. And I laugh when fans complain about player salaries or player unions. It's amazing how often middle-class fans agree with billionaire owners that millionaire players make too much money. Whenever I read about the business of baseball, I hear Tennesse Ernie Ford.
And how many miners, drivers, assembly liners etc would give their ovaries for the athleticism and or talent to make a Roster in the show. To make $500,000 or $5,000,000 per annum annum or $50,000,000.
.Or have inherited enough to make enough to own a team . They are just humans after all and they mirror society away from the game. If we did not watch on tv or listen or pay for a ticket . The game would not exsist except in city parks streets and rural fields.
Some type of regulation should change this monopoly on Minor leagues, league competition and city changing control. Oh yeah and taxation on teams and players salaries.
"A" baseball two to three players share a small apartment w minimal food allowance. The players and owners profits should be more benevolent. It's just a GAME after all.... Let's Go Mariners
Baseball Buddha -- lots of anger and frustration in your writings - I'm feeling weighted down. Sprinkle in some just for excitement and love of game stories. Furthermore, a person or entity could bring suit to show how now baseball is interstate commerce. That Supreme Court case is decades old, shit has changed!
Yeah, that isn’t the point of this column this year, I made it clear at the beginning of the season what was going to be discussed. Politics of baseball and the dark side of baseball, there is a lot of great substacks that cover what you are looking for.
This is why I'm baffled by the fans who disparage players for not being "loyal" to the franchise. And I laugh when fans complain about player salaries or player unions. It's amazing how often middle-class fans agree with billionaire owners that millionaire players make too much money. Whenever I read about the business of baseball, I hear Tennesse Ernie Ford.
https://youtu.be/6JekylR-Zds?si=Kj_zQYkNVS-xvWUf
Exactly! I don’t get it either.
And how many miners, drivers, assembly liners etc would give their ovaries for the athleticism and or talent to make a Roster in the show. To make $500,000 or $5,000,000 per annum annum or $50,000,000.
.Or have inherited enough to make enough to own a team . They are just humans after all and they mirror society away from the game. If we did not watch on tv or listen or pay for a ticket . The game would not exsist except in city parks streets and rural fields.
Some type of regulation should change this monopoly on Minor leagues, league competition and city changing control. Oh yeah and taxation on teams and players salaries.
"A" baseball two to three players share a small apartment w minimal food allowance. The players and owners profits should be more benevolent. It's just a GAME after all.... Let's Go Mariners
Great piece, particularly the line "The rot hasn’t gone away, it’s metastasized.".
Baseball Buddha -- lots of anger and frustration in your writings - I'm feeling weighted down. Sprinkle in some just for excitement and love of game stories. Furthermore, a person or entity could bring suit to show how now baseball is interstate commerce. That Supreme Court case is decades old, shit has changed!
Yeah, that isn’t the point of this column this year, I made it clear at the beginning of the season what was going to be discussed. Politics of baseball and the dark side of baseball, there is a lot of great substacks that cover what you are looking for.