DK: Union leaders love to demonize lower-revenue teams
Major League Baseball today received its initial labor proposal from the MLB Players Association, and it's every bit as stomach turning as one might've expected:
• A "competitive-integrity tax" for any team that doesn't spend $150 million
• Mimimum salary from $780,000 to $1.5 million
• Increase in top luxury-tax threshold from $244 million to $300 million
• Increase revenue sharing by distributing more local TV money but less from in-stadium money to incentivize teams to win and draw larger crowds
• Free agency for players a year sooner
The whole schtick is demonizing the teams with the smaller markets and/or revenue bases. Because they know this sells in New York, Los Angeles and so forth.
It's so DOA it's not even worth discussing. Other than to lock 'em all out until this sport has the same system literally every other North American sport utilizes.
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DK: Union leaders love to demonize lower-revenue teams
Major League Baseball today received its initial labor proposal from the MLB Players Association, and it's every bit as stomach turning as one might've expected:
• A "competitive-integrity tax" for any team that doesn't spend $150 million
• Mimimum salary from $780,000 to $1.5 million
• Increase in top luxury-tax threshold from $244 million to $300 million
• Increase revenue sharing by distributing more local TV money but less from in-stadium money to incentivize teams to win and draw larger crowds
• Free agency for players a year sooner
The whole schtick is demonizing the teams with the smaller markets and/or revenue bases. Because they know this sells in New York, Los Angeles and so forth.
It's so DOA it's not even worth discussing. Other than to lock 'em all out until this sport has the same system literally every other North American sport utilizes.
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