Kneel Before Me, I Say
If MLB players shot themselves in
their collective foot, owners would one-up them taking aim where their own
collective sun doesn’t shine. Owners
wouldn’t blow their brains out, though, because they don’t have any.
That fact went on display this
week with the owner’s latest proposal, a 72-game season at 70-80 percent of the
earlier agreed-to prorated salaries, depending on whether baseball makes it to
a postseason. The owners just have to
win. Owners just gotta own.
According to Bob Nightengale in
USA Today, baseball is in line to receive $787 million in postseason broadcast
revenue. Sorry. Nope.
It won’t fly. Owners can’t cry
poverty with that kind of payday in store.
If any or all of them run through their cut, that’s just too bad. There’s money enough to keep the system
afloat. The only problem is it has to be
shared.
And owners gotta own.
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