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Originally Posted by MorseMoose
Right...cause being paid MILLIONS of dollars is servitude.
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The amount of money someone is being paid has nothing to do with it. If it's indentured servitude at $20,000 a year, it's indentured servitude at $2,000,000 a year.
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If I'm working in any business, I'm subject to be forced to move stores/schools/locations. If I don't want to, I can find a different job.
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You can't be traded to a school system in another state in return for a janitor and 500 textbooks, can you?
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I think the biggest problem that I have with the MLB is that I see the MLB as the business and the (capital T) Team as stores. The team as the product.
I think the MLB sees it as (capital T) Team as an individual business that competes against other business.
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That is absolutely not the case, though. That's why things like revenue sharing are so hard to push through, for example -- the Yankees and Red Sox do not have to submit to the authority of MLB because they are independent organizations, so MLB can not arbitrarily impose regulations on them without their permission. This is actually the fundamental basis of baseball's famed antitrust exemption -- MLB can't be a monopoly because it's thirty different businesses in competition with each other.
To use your business analogy, MLB isn't like GE, a large corporation with a bunch of different divisions that can have resources and personnel allocated as the central main offices see fit. It's more like the MPAA, which sets guidelines and performs public advocacy for the film industry, but doesn't have control over the different studios (which are competing against each other directly, but still benefit by having an umbrella organization trying to improve the health of the industry as a whole).