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Originally Posted by cephasjames
Being a Minor Leaguer rn:
•season likely to be cancelled - yep. kind of like the donut shop down the road that had to shutter its doors because it wasn't able to pay its bills because everything was shut down.
•getting paid [insufficiently] as usual - yep. kind of like that waitress who works pretty long hours and relies very heavily on tips
•even this [insufficient] salary may end soon - yep. kind of like that waitress who works pretty long hours for a restaurant that probably can't afford her for much longer because it hasn't made much money through the shutdown.
•one phone call away from leaving home to either AZ or FL - yep. that is part of the career you signed up for
•so obviously can’t get another job - yep. that is a choice you must face in the profession that you signed up for.
•MLB getting rid of bunch of MiLB teams next yr - yep. that's the business you signed up to be a part of.
It's all about perception.
I agree 100% that minor leaguers are getting shafted for what they do and that it needs to be fixed (which is part of the reason MLB wants to cut so many minor league teams). But 1) this guy's profession is a choice, and 2) there are all kinds of people who have crappy jobs and are way underpaid for those crappy jobs who do it out necessity, not choice. There is nothing preventing this player from getting a different job that pays better.
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Also nothing preventing employers from making working conditions better for people.
But, people who work for companies rarely ever want to talk about that
For...reasons,
Also, the number of people who, it would seem, like baseball who have an attitude of "too bad" towards the players is weird.
Venn diagram: people who bemoan how baseball is played now, that it's not as good as it was in the old days and people who take the above attitude of if players trying to succeed in the sport don't like the conditions, they can go elsewhere