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Originally Posted by qcbandits
The idea is not MLB funded but MLB supported. The owners themselves would lose the free ride that has made their teams worth millions. They will be forced to actually carry expenses for the first time. As it currently sits, MLB's teams pay for the players the coaches, the trainers, the travel, the equipment and all the insurance. The teams pays for the stadium rental, front office personnel and advertising. Yet the teams keep all the gate, souvenir sales, a percentage of concessions and all the sponsors money. Mlb has always gotten a raw deal on this
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MLB gets the best baseball players in the world, who earn them billions of dollars while enacting rules, and laws, that allow them a legal monopoly which allows them to vastly underpay players for their careers,
Raw deal, my ass