Re: MLB 2010-11 Offseason Thread
I don't understand complaints about player salaries. Three things going on here:
1. The players wouldn't make millions of dollars if the game didn't pull in millions of dollars. Why shouldn't the players have a chunk of the money the league makes? Should we let the owners keep it all?
2. It's a free market. Emphasis on free. Players can demand whatever salaries they want, but they can't get them unless someone agrees to pay them. The market does dictate salaries to an extent, i.e. "Tejada made X, I want X+1." But if the owners decide not to pay that much, the players can't get it. There's really nobody to blame.
3. The market does get screwed up at times by big-market teams. Yes, I root for one of them, and I do have a little white man's guilt about it. But these hugely profitable teams have no incentive to lower salaries across the board.