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Sixty Bucks and a cloud of dust

TheOldMole Mar 24 2018 02:01 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 24 2018 09:54 PM

https://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting ... ll-players The New Yorker on the little-known baseball provision in the new spending bill, which gives a $60-a-month raise to minor league baseball players making the minimum. “It’s disturbing, to say the least,” Garrett Broshuis, a St. Louis-based attorney representing the players in their case against M.L.B., said on Thursday, of the spending-bill provision. From 2004 to 2009, Broshuis was a pitcher in the San Francisco Giants’ farm system. “You have players living below the poverty line and now the league is going to be exempt from paying them?”

Edgy MD Mar 24 2018 05:53 PM Re: Sixty Bucks and a cloud of dust

Typical. It should be appalling, but few are appalled. Beyond it's deleterious effect of on baseball of the exemption, we're just shrugging our shoulders and letting the American anti-trust tradition die slowly, accepting one outrage at a time.

TheOldMole Mar 24 2018 09:55 PM Re: Sixty Bucks and a cloud of dust

How did I get the wrong link there? Fixed now.

cooby Mar 24 2018 10:10 PM Re: Sixty Bucks and a cloud of dust

I guess you could argue that they are getting an education in playing baseball but those are sad salaries

Benjamin Grimm Mar 24 2018 11:50 PM Re: Sixty Bucks and a cloud of dust

The thing is, most of them are chum, needed to play ball with the subset of players who are actual prospects. Their time in the minors isn't likely to lead to a professional career. They're just delaying the start of their eventual "civilian" lives. But they're definitely providing a service to their employers, and they should be treated fairly.

Edgy MD Mar 25 2018 01:55 AM Re: Sixty Bucks and a cloud of dust

I think it is a professional career, and should be respected as such.

Ashie62 Mar 25 2018 02:23 AM Re: Sixty Bucks and a cloud of dust

They same to be treated with about the same courtesy as migrant workers.

Edgy MD Mar 25 2018 03:09 AM Re: Sixty Bucks and a cloud of dust

Many of them indeed qualify as migrant workers, considering most factors that make up the definition of the term.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 25 2018 03:16 AM Re: Sixty Bucks and a cloud of dust

Perhaps this could be over in a relative heartbeat if major leaguers remembered whence they came and stood up for their erstwhile brethren. It would mean at least as much to as many as most of their vanity foundations' charitable works.