If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, bailouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive? And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?
Yeah it's obvious, the MLBPA simply does not want a cap. They realize what it ultimately is, wage suppression.
Before I turn into Karl Marx, I will just do the sports take on this:
There is no real evidence to salary caps improving league parity.
Sandlot it ain't.
Youth sports now $40 B industry:
"Teenagers on travel teams are rolling into weekend tournaments wearing a few thousand dollars of apparel, equipment & swag. Avg family spending on baseball increased nearly 70% between 2019 and 2024."
https://t.co/YssaxYkMfw
Middle America families stuck in the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time that is travel baseball.
Baseball needs Legion Ball played at high school fields in t-shirts and gray pants more than ever right now.
Here's how the corruption works:
Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump
Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it
Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://t.co/Udu1RhYtKI
🇺🇸 AIPAC spent over $10 million to take out a sitting Republican congressman in Kentucky today.
That tells you everything you need to know about @RepThomasMassie.
MIT graduate. Born and raised in Kentucky. Votes with Republicans 90% of the time.
But that other 10% is what got him a target on his back: against all foreign aid including to Israel, voted against the Iran war, fought to release the Epstein files, and won't rubber stamp spending bills that balloon the deficit.
Total spending in the race topped $25 million, making it the most expensive House primary in history.
His opponent, a Trump-endorsed retired Navy SEAL named Ed Gallrein, refused to debate him once.
They're running AI ads pairing Massie with AOC and Ilhan Omar because he voted against Israel aid.
The man is one of the most fiscally conservative members of Congress. The ads are nonsense and everyone involved knows it.
Massie won his last 3 primaries with over 70% of the vote.
The question today is whether outside money can overwhelm a congressman his own constituents keep sending back by a landslide.
Polls close tonight.
Thomas Massie: "I vote with Republicans 91% of the time. And the 9% I don't, they're taking up for pedophiles, starting another war, or bankrupting our country."
An absolute mic drop. 🎤⬇️
$32 million dollars and an entire administration mobilized to destroy one congressman.
His crime?
Demanding answers about Epstein class abuse networks, and refusing to let child predators hide behind political cover.
If that level of firepower doesn't tell you who's being protected, nothing will.
Go Massie!
Seems like easiest (and best) option. More functional roster with a new starting PF, a better backup C, development from VJ, Jo another year away from knee surgery, PG doing less ket, etc
Again, for the umpteenth time, if you're going to make the argument that we must do stuff to "beat China" like tariffs and infinity data centers, people are going to doubt your sincerity when you turn around and promote selling them farmland, AI chips, and educating their elite.