Ron Cox

Professor of Politics at FIU. Author of six books on corporate power; editor of Class, Race, and Corporate Power. Fan of Marlins, Cards, and Rays; Miami Heat.

[Ron Cox @LeftfieldProf]

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[Ron Cox @LeftfieldProf]

The MLB owners’ proposals for a salary cap are brazen attempts to pad their own profit margins at players’ expense while dramatically increasing valuations of their franchises. Nothing to do with competitive balance.

[Nathan @NathanIsRed]

All sports league/team employees should be unionized. The industry is long overdue for protections for workers who are routinely overworked, underpaid, under resourced, and gaslit into these circumstance because working in sports is a “lifestyle” and “everyone wants to do it.”

[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

Incredibly huge W. I’m so unabashedly happy to see this news

[Ron Cox @LeftfieldProf]

This is great!

[Evan Drellich @EvanDrellich]

News: In what appears to be a first for a major sports league in the U.S., a group of workers inside the commissioner’s office at Major League Baseball has unionized.

https://t.co/35hDQpgLUN

[Ron Cox @LeftfieldProf]

Great news!

[jen ramos-eisen @jenramose]

NEWS: MLB's content staff is unionizing, a first for sports leagues

[Ron Cox @LeftfieldProf]

@RealEly Outstanding!

[Ron Cox @LeftfieldProf]

@sum1saiditinnit Wild Horse Nine is an anti-imperialist film. People are confused because of the use of two CIA characters as plot devices to dissect a history of CIA brutality and violence. The latter is the main point and it’s well executed and even brilliant at times.

[Ron Cox @LeftfieldProf]

@swen_ryan It’s actually a very powerful critique of imperialism, with CIA characters who are not intended to be realistic but instead are deliberately played as cartoonish, using dark humor to good effect.

[Katrina vandenHeuvel @KatrinaNation]

•American voters sided against the AI industry in 40 of 41 local ballot measures this week—but the industry has other towns in mind …fight goes on

[Ron Cox @LeftfieldProf]

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[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

Billy Beane still rocks. I'm 100% convinced some team is going to take the wrong lessons from Milwaukee and lose 100 games trying it.

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[Jeff Bates @jeffbatesx]

The Miami Dolphins
The Los Angeles Chargers
The Minnesota Vikings
The Atlanta Falcons
The New York Jets

These are the five lowest-spending teams in a hard-capped league. Four of them have never won a Super Bowl, and the fifth last did it over 50 years ago.

The salary cap has been in place for decades and has not elevated these bottom-payroll clubs to consistent contention.

If only the @nfl had a salary cap!

[Jeff Bates @jeffbatesx]

Most fans want an MLB salary cap for two reasons: they’re jealous of what players make, and they’re mad their local owners (Pirates, Marlins, A’s) refuse to try.

That’s emotion, not math.

Payroll explains roughly a third of wins. The other two-thirds is development, scouting, and competent management.

The Rays and Brewers just proved it again.

MLB has as many different champions as the “parity” leagues that already have caps.

A hard cap mostly protects owners profits and franchise values while giving cheap owners a permanent excuse.

Your team isn’t losing because Ohtani exists.

It’s losing because the people who own it chose not to compete.

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[Ben Ehrenreich @BenEhrenreich]

Looks like we’ll have socialist mayors in the two biggest cities in the US. Regardless of mainstream spin, this election is a massive rebuke not only to Trump but to the corporate, pro-Israel Democratic Party establishment, a rejection of fascist and neoliberal kleptocrats alike.

[Jeff Bates @jeffbatesx]

Owners say MLB needs a salary cap for parity.

Since 2000

• MLB (no cap): 17 different champions
• NFL (hard cap): 13
• Patriots alone won 6 of those

Over half of MLB has a ring this century.

Parity isn't the problem
A lockout would be

[Maury Brown @BizballMaury]

MLB Sees Record $2.12 Billion Team Sponsorship Revenues For 2026 Season

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[Jeff Bates @jeffbatesx]

The evidence is clear and obvious

MLB just posted a record $2.12 BILLION in team sponsorship revenue for 2026.

That’s up 7.3% year-over-year.

Rohan Nagi of SponsorUnited: “These figures reflect steady growth in a mature sponsorship market… the next wave of growth will likely depend on how the league and its teams continue to innovate around the game and its experiences.”

Translation: The money is already pouring in.
The game doesn’t need a salary cap.
It needs owners who actually try to win.

[Kyle Boddy @drivelinekyle]

The Brewers have high bat speed (about +1 SD over league average as a team) and great squared up percentage per swing.

Milwaukee hitters swing the bat fast and have good barrel precision. CLE is the polar opposite, while BAL has elite-elite bat speed but poor barrel precision.