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moneyball is about proper distribution not paying less for good talent... valuation change, but money spent remains the same. jsut shifts it around once it's adapted by all teams.
collusion is difficult to prove in court, so no reason to file a greivance for an assured loss in court.. but you're naive to think 30 billionaire don't rub elbows and speak to each other about things that they shouldn't. it happens every year... too much money is invovled not to do so.
a lack of a filed grievance isn't a logical argument for anything... other than they haven't filed a greivance... that they have no way of winning. i.e. a waste of resources.
they were severely underpaid.. so revenues didn't have to grow as fast initially. and they have been strides over time in their CBA deals to get larger chunkgs..with an occasional step back or stagnation here or there i'm sure.
don't you know history? labor has been %@%$ on ... forever. you get paid peanuts and expected to be happy about it. we had ~sweatshops and child labor issues in america in the last century, lol.
yes, revenues cause higher contracts... and mlb set a record for revenue in 2017 and has had 15 straight years of increased revenue... so, i agreee totally and it sitll bakcsup what i said. revenues keep increasing, yet salaris ahve stagnated for ~5 years now with virutally no growth compared to the previous decade. *again, 15 straight years of revenue growth.
they deifnitely horde the money, if you know GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) and forget other acronym - you know accounting is the science of hiding money .. whether it was accouting in hs, act3100 or act6100 in grad school it was all the same nonsense of hiding money.
"The MLBPA has access to the audited financial statements" -- refer back to the fact that "accounting "is one big lie to hide money.
also, it is not a hotly debated topic that a local pro team in any sport provides economic growth.. any reputable economist has shown it's statisticaly insignificant to revenue growth in an urban area.. it's merely regurgitated a lot that it is true... but just like climate change or tickle down economics, only the nutballs disagree with facts. it is just a ploy used by the team to get more money or politicians to get people behind it, when not one shred of reputable evidence supports that statement, whatsoever.
so, it's an american phenomenom? we are talking about mlb and not the canadian baseball league. and, it's wrong for nhl, nba and nfl to do the same thing... if everyone jumps off a bridget, you should not follow them. i never intimated that it was only MLB doing it... these last two things are just made up arguments from thin air..
everyhting i stated is reasonable and backed up with facts. i didn't make anythign up. i even checked out the #'s. 2 made up arguments and multple instances of fallacious reasoning in your retorts.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ -- i used to keep that as my desktop wallpaper.
i have an mba in finance and accounting is easy stuff froma broad perspective - you only need a GED to be a bookkeeper, for example - any monkey can do the rudiments, let along taking a grad-level class on it. i really know what i'm talking about here. not jsut some angry rant and not liking billionaires.. Well, it is, but backed up with knowledge and expertise in the area.
in reality, baeball players are till underpaid.. not saying anyone should feel bad for a 20m/year player when they should be making more... how much does 1 person need?
these owners all mingle with each other.. the most dangerous collusion they engage in has nothign to do with the MLB... mlb is just entertainment.. if it was gone somethign else would fil the vacuum.. it's not even that popular.. only about ~20% of people are engaged in professional spectator sports in general.
just look up how boards work.. lol holy $^@$ it's mind boggling how many different ways they can cirvumvent well-intended laws. insider trading is so common it's screwy.... dr. korth argued that with me about that, but there's so many ways to circumvent prosection.. oyu ahve to be mildly ******ed liek martha stewart to not have some propped up research so that she wouldn't go to jail for it.. she was a former trader too! she knew better and was just lazy AF.