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Originally Posted by MorseMoose
I may be wrong, but I don't think it's anything like the MPAA. A team couldn't just say "F You" to the MLB and leave to play in another league. A studio could definitely do that.
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Why couldn't they? It's never been in their best business to do so, but there is nothing to keep the Yankees and Red Sox from packing up their things and starting up their own league. They'd have trouble retaining their players, probably, because the MLBPA has a collective bargaining agreement in place with MLB, but if they could convince all their players to leave the union, there wouldn't be a damn thing Bud Selig could do about it.
This has actually happened in Europe a few times already in soccer -- when teams don't feel their current leagues are serving their best interests, they just start new ones. It's a little easier to do over there, though, because the player unions aren't generally as strong.