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MLB Awards “Championship Belt” During Arbitration Symposium

By TC Zencka | March 30, 2019 at 1:16pm CDT

Major League Baseball hosts an annual symposium on arbitration wherein delegates from each team come together with the league to make recommendations for upcoming arbitration hearings. There is a ceremony near the end of the symposium when a “championship belt” is awarded to the team that best accomplished the “goals set by the industry,” per The Athletic’s Marc Carig. Passed annually from one year’s winner to the next, The Belt is a chintzy, plastic “prize,” intended as a moment of levity and morale for what can be a difficult process on all sides. In this thoughtful article, Carig digs into the arbitration process, its history, the toll it takes on those involved, and of course, The Belt.

Clearly, given the tumultuous relationship between Major League Baseball, the owners, and the Players’ Association, the optics here aren’t great. However harmless the intent (or however private), an award for essentially best limiting the earning potential for players is not likely to sit well with the MLBPA – or the public for that matter. MLB confirmed existence of The Belt, explaining it as “an informal recognition of those club’s salary arbitration departments that did the best.” This season, the finalists were the Astros, Braves, Cubs, Indians, Rays, and Twins.

Executive Director of the MLBPA Tony Clark reacted with a statement (via Twitter), saying, “That clubs make sport of trying to suppress salaries in a process designed to produce fair settlements shows a blatant lack of respect for our Players, the game, and the arbitration process itself.”

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  1. DarkSide830

    2 years ago

    as much as some ask why this should concern the average fan, i think everyone agrees this is wrong and disgusting. Shame on the league, them and their $10 plastic belt.

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    • bigjonliljon

      2 years ago

      I do not agree to that. Isn’t the arb process a head to head, team versus players to determine a players salary? Both sides will do what they have to in order to win. Doesn’t Boras do the same??? c’mon!!!

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      • dimitrios in la

        2 years ago

        Boras does the same—only with the ethics of a used car salesman.

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        • Bert17

          2 years ago

          What evidence do you have of Boras’s ethics? He does the job his clients hired him to do. You not liking it has nothing to do with whether he’s ethical. You think a player shouldn’t have a shark working for him when he’s negotiating with a billion dollar corporation that has shown it will manipulate every rule on the book — and lobby Congress for new ones — to press their advantage?

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        • JD396

          2 years ago

          I’d go buy my own team if I had a dollar for every time people on the internet took their silly intro to soc dialectics and used them to characterize the players vs teams dynamic like it’s Pollyanna vs Sauron

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        • Strike Four

          2 years ago

          Hey dimitrios in la – buy into more owner-propaganda why don’t you.

          Boras is actually good for players, bad for owners. Owners control the media, they tell you Boras is bad, and then now you think Boras is bad, because the media told you. Moneyball is the same thing – they made a book and movie about a guy saving billionaires money on the players who made them the money in the first place.

          We should never ever feel bad for billionaires, for any reason, ever, because they ruined the world. “Each billionaire is a policy failure”.

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        • JD396

          2 years ago

          Your worldview is showing

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        • TrimReaper

          2 years ago

          The book seemed to outline how to sabotage your predecessor’s excellent drafting and scouting by underachieving while pretending to be creative. There must be two different versions we read….

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    • Painful itch

      2 years ago

      Idk, business owners rewarding business owners for saving money. I don’t get why this is news. Big deal.

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    • mistry gm

      2 years ago

      “Intended as a moment of levity”…. get it?

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    • macstruts

      2 years ago

      Disgusting is a bit hard, but the optics are horrible. The fact is the guys in that room make a fraction of what those players make and they earn their money.

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  2. JDGoat

    2 years ago

    Defend this you billionaire apologists

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    • Thanks

      2 years ago

      You’re right. The belt is made of plastic?

      It should be made of Platinum.

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      • Painful itch

        2 years ago

        Yeah they could get some really cool ones made. I’ve seen them online.

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    • dimitrios in la

      2 years ago

      It’s not so simple.

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      • JDGoat

        2 years ago

        Thanks for the input, genius

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    • TrimReaper

      2 years ago

      I’ll be your huckleberry JD. Since you like to dictate how others should spend money….

      Why hasn’t major league baseball expanded since 1998?

      The longest drought since expansion began in 1961..

      Why haven’t there been rich billionaires starting a new franchise in your precious city of Montreal? Or Portland? Charlotte? Nashville? San Antonio?

      Spare us your self-righteous bullcrap. You cheer for a baseball team with the deepest pockets in baseball yet for years couldn’t pay up a first round draft pick or spend anywhere near needed to dominate the AL East. Two playoff appearances since buying the team in 2000. Yet you pat the ballclub on the back needlessly.

      Defend that.

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  3. lowtalker1

    2 years ago

    Since aj preller took the helm in San Diego. No player has reached a hearing. Sounds like a good practice to keep players happy

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  4. JJB

    2 years ago

    If I’m offended by this, what can be done for me? I don’t like how the MLBPA was treated, and it triggers me to read this article. Can comments be turned off for this post? Thanks TC.

    5 Like
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    • DarkSide830

      2 years ago

      i dont think theres any reason to turn comments off. if theres one person who’s willing to argue that thr common sentiment here is unjustified id be surpised.

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      • paddyo875

        2 years ago

        It appears JJB’s comment is facetious.

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        • MWeller77

          2 years ago

          JJB’s comment was also stupid. Making a comparison that trivializes domestic violence is stupid, and making light of people’s legitimate mental health needs (i.e., by trivializing triggers) is stupid.

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    • lowtalker1

      2 years ago

      Smh

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    • Connorsoxfan

      2 years ago

      Is this really what people think we sound like?

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    • mparkinson2

      2 years ago

      Get a life, the MLBPA is just as bad.
      They should have had a celebration from winning 6 of 10 cases.

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  5. sufferfortribe

    2 years ago

    Players and their agents try to get more, owners try to pay less. That’s why it’s called arbitration. What’s the big deal. It’s just for fun, awarding the belt.
    Clark just sounds like a whiner.

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    • DarkSide830

      2 years ago

      okay, guess i recsind my above reply. you do realize how bad this looks, trivial in and of itself or not, in the context of the issue at hand?

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    • Vizionaire

      2 years ago

      have you seen what the league did with free agency? they are trying to do the same with arbitration!

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    • kenleyfornia2

      2 years ago

      Ok but awarding a belt for it? Really

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    • Astros44

      2 years ago

      Outrage culture at its finest

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      • Strike Four

        2 years ago

        Ah yes, keep this status quo going then. SMH

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    • Strike Four

      2 years ago

      You sound like a 1%er apologist.

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      • redbeard87

        2 years ago

        And you sound like a dumb teenager who needs a safe space

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  6. realgone2

    2 years ago

    Clark is a bozo.

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  7. Vizionaire

    2 years ago

    devil commish! reinstall message boards first!

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    • DougieJones

      2 years ago

      yeah, anyone know what happened to the comment sections on MLB.com articles?

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      • Thanks

        2 years ago

        I’m a self proclaimed expert of this. Comments are becoming a thing of the past. They’re going extinct.

        MLB.com removed it. (while ago actually last year)

        Writing was on wall when they erased all the posts, one day, randomly. (think to change from livefrye, to mlb.com proprietary comment system) Because it’s MLB.com, and not ESPN, I have hope, one day, mlb.com comment section will make a comeback.

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        • DougieJones

          2 years ago

          It’s actually pretty lame they deleted it without some kind of heads up. I used to talk with the same people on a regular basis and now have no way of communicating with them.

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        • SoCalBrave

          2 years ago

          That is the saddest thing I’ve read in a while. But probably not in the way you’re thinking.

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        • DougieJones

          2 years ago

          Says the guy commenting on a baseball site. The irony of your comment probably went right over your head. There’s nothing sad about enjoying talking to people about baseball. Don’t feel bad for me.

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        • Thanks

          2 years ago

          Great Article, DougieJones, on the matter. don’t read the Atlantic for news, but the public outcry, over their removal, echo exact my own: I feel very strongly about this. It’s why I don’t get mad, when they remove (mod) comments, here to prevent cesspool, from posts like SoCal

          theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2018/02/letters-co…

          As for SoCalBrave, reported.

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        • JD396

          2 years ago

          They went from a proprietary system to Disqus to Livefyre to nothing.

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        • Thanks

          2 years ago

          Ok. Some time in the latter portion of it, they cleaned out the comments… u could still post. That was annoying.

          In convo with DC, I wrote it foreshadowed the removal of posting, and I was right

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        • redbeard87

          2 years ago

          Pathetic sock puppet attempt. 0/10

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      • 24TheKid

        2 years ago

        I miss the days of commenting on the prospect lists.

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  8. tad2b13

    2 years ago

    The “Belt”, if they’re going to have one, should go to the team with the fewest arbitration hearings. Actually negotiating a mutually agreeable deal, and avoiding the need for third party resolution, ought to be worth much more than winning the largest number of public disputes.

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  9. vacommish

    2 years ago

    The article is far better than this synopsis. TC adds his opinion in this excerpt which clouds the depth or the piece. The Athletic is well worth the subscription as the articles aren’t standard fare.

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    • Vizionaire

      2 years ago

      saleswoman for the athletic?

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    • TC ZenckaTC Zencka

      2 years ago

      The full article is definitely well worth a read.

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      • Thanks

        2 years ago

        How are we supposed to believe you, if you didn’t say: “Subscription required and recommended?”

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  10. kenleyfornia2

    2 years ago

    Manfred has always come off as arrogant and out of touch. This really confirms it. The MLBPA and owners have terrible leadership

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    • JD396

      2 years ago

      Manfred and Clark deserve each other. They’re engaged in one of the most pathetic suck-fests in the history of organized sports.

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  11. forwhomjoshbelltolls

    2 years ago

    Until today, MLB players and their union never realized that teams attempted to suppress their pay scale during arbitration hearings.

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    • Painful itch

      2 years ago

      Haha

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    • JD396

      2 years ago

      My god I just don’t believe it. A system in which the teams want to see a bigger figure and the player wants to see a smaller figure… Jesus this is an outrage

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  12. batty

    2 years ago

    This seems far too silly to be raising ire and getting bunched over.

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  13. dkcsmc1991

    2 years ago

    Society is far too sensitive over this minor stuff. Bigger issues to get energetic about than rich people arguing and getting their feelings hurt.

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    • Cubbie75

      2 years ago

      Thank you! I can’t believe people care so much about this.

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  14. mlb1225

    2 years ago

    Wonder what team has won the belt the most?

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  15. nuschler22

    2 years ago

    WWE WTF

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  16. mlb1225

    2 years ago

    I mean, I very much, highly doubt an owner has ever entered to discuss arbitration with the main thought being “I really need to win that belt this year”.

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    • JD396

      2 years ago

      Oh come on, don’t be saying things that aren’t paper thin union platitudes…

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  17. GB85

    2 years ago

    Only way to solve this is a cage match between Manfred and Clark.

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    • Vizionaire

      2 years ago

      clark wins with cobra twist.

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    • IronBallsMcGinty

      2 years ago

      I had a visual of Manfred talking to the late Mean Gene while holding the belt, “WHATCHA GONNA DO BROTHER, WHEN ARBITRATION RUNS WILD ON YOU?”

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  18. 24TheKid

    2 years ago

    All the final teams have good, or great chances of making the playoffs this year.

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  19. Gocubsgo1986

    2 years ago

    But who actually won?

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    • jleve618

      2 years ago

      I need to know.

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  20. slowcurve

    2 years ago

    Tony Clark from the top rope!

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  21. jjdunckley

    2 years ago

    I can’t believe in this day and age that people still think it is okay to use their money to open a business and then do whatever it takes to maximize their returns and profits. Can you believe the nerve of these people. Next thing you know, the guy who spends more and moves first and fastest will feel like he has increased odds of more success. It’s outlandish to think such a world exists. Everyone knows that business should be non profit and the workers/employees should make all the money while the investor makes none. I don’t understand why it is so hard to understand.

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    • martras

      2 years ago

      Capitalism is about a free market economy. The most important part of a free market economy is competition. Period. MLB exists in a closed market economy due to a special anti-trust exemption which allows them to operate in a closed market environment. Monopolies are bad for capitalism. Like terminal, lethal bad.

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      • mparkinson2

        2 years ago

        Not true,
        Some are needed, electric companies, water companies are all monopolies.
        Someone tries to have a little fun, and all the babies go nuts.
        The MLBPA should have had a championship dinner for win 6 of 10 cases.

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        • martras

          2 years ago

          You’re talking about monopolies with GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED, fixed pricing. Those industries became monopolies due to being a component of national infrastructure where multiple distribution companies in the same area would create servicing disasters. Furthermore, those services are considered essential and required for modern living and the cost of getting into that industry is cost prohibitive.

          This isn’t about “fun.” This is about working together across multiple organizations to pay employees less money by collusion.

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  22. martras

    2 years ago

    While the intent behind the process may have been a joke, it shows a collaborative cross-team effort to keep wages down. Considering it would likely meet the definition of collusion, it’s stunning the league would be so tone deaf as to continue to endorse this activity.

    Owners and front offices are clearly drunk on their power at the moment and this event will likely lead to far more serious ramifications depending on Tony Clark’s level of incompetence.

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    • Vizionaire

      2 years ago

      i hope parents of young kids and future parents realize there is less and less opportunity for their kids in the future. other sports will attract more talents especially domestic talents. then and only then baseball executives find out what they have been doing with salaries would come back to bite their collective behind!

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      • jleve618

        2 years ago

        With NBA roster sizes as they are, and the fear that letting a kid play football makes them a bad parent, really all there is is MLB and MLS.

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  23. Desertbull

    2 years ago

    Boo freaking hoo

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    • Painful itch

      2 years ago

      I know right. People getting excited because guys are getting less money to play baseball and we aren’t outraged by it. I don’t remember the last time Dallas Keuchel stood up and said, “ You know our fans don’t make as much money as we do, but the owners charge our fans $10 for a beer that cost $.50, and I think as players we should be outraged for our fans. They already have to pay parking and high ticket prices!” Yeah I missed those articles.

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      • Desertbull

        2 years ago

        Players are not getting less money. The old guys are getting fewer years on their contracts and teams have decided to extend younger players and pay them in their prime.

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        • Vizionaire

          2 years ago

          read!

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        • Painful itch

          2 years ago

          Which calculates to less money. It’s all about money.

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      • martras

        2 years ago

        People are “getting excited” because an obvious instance of the way ultra-wealthy are further consolidating power and wealth through illegally ripping other people off.

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  24. Col. Taylor

    2 years ago

    The players should have a bird shaped trophy that goes “CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP” and award it to the worst owner every year… although it WOULD be difficult deciding who sucks hardest.

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  25. Reflect

    2 years ago

    AUSTIN!!! IT WAS ME AUSTIN!!!

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  26. George Ruth

    2 years ago

    Hey Tony Clark where should your fresh supply of crying towels be delivered, To your house or in your luxurious office oh wait you don’t have to choose where to take delivery we’ll just send a fresh supply to your home & to your office.

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  27. anthonym

    2 years ago

    Who is Clark kidding – “suppress salaries”? Arbitration inflates salaries because even when a player “loses” he still wins because he gets a raise. Now if teams could arbitrate a player’s salary down, then Clark would have a point.

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    • restingmitchface

      2 years ago

      It’s clearly salary suppression.

      If these pre-arb players went to the open market, they’d obliterate pre-arb and arb salaries. It’s a joke.

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  28. tharrie0820

    2 years ago

    This isn’t a problem in and of itself. The problem is how it looks when the league rakes in more profits every year, but player salaries have actually decreased the past 2 years

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    • Strike Four

      2 years ago

      100% correct.

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    • davidcoonce74davidcoonce74

      2 years ago

      Yep. Average wages for everyone have been stagnant since 1975 but billionaires and millionaires have flourished. Baseball is turning into that system – the haves and have-nots. The Harpers and Trouts will be fine, but the mid-tier guys are going to struggle. And if you think with reduced payrolls somehow ticket prices will go down…well, how’s that working out so far this season?

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  29. jleve618

    2 years ago

    That’s hilarious. Let them have their fun.

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    • Strike Four

      2 years ago

      Their “fun” is pocketing the profits they should be paying Kimbrel and Keuchel, and everyone else who took a pay cut this offseason after owners made record-setting profits last year.

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  30. restingmitchface

    2 years ago

    If this kind of behavior doesn’t sway fans back to the players’ side, then I don’t know what will.

    What a complete embarrassment.

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    • redbeard87

      2 years ago

      Go hide in your safe space with your coloring books

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  31. Wolf Chan

    2 years ago

    what i don’t understand is why there is a symposium in the first place. for organizations to gather and share ideas about reducing the salaries of players is a little collusion-y in the first place

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  32. enricopallazzo

    2 years ago

    Dear Internet,

    I’m offended

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  33. JD396

    2 years ago

    Everything wrong with the financial system in this league, and *this* is what gets Tony Clark worked up. I just want to give him a big hug and buy him ice cream.

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  34. Strike Four

    2 years ago

    This is just insulting to the players and fans, at this point I actually WANT a strike. ALL MLB owners are ruining the game because of their own greed and they refuse to stop.

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  35. TrimReaper

    2 years ago

    Will every non-postseason team receive a participation trophy after the season? Perhaps a buffet-style banquet at the winter meetings.

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  36. TeeBallChampion

    2 years ago

    Disgusting story. Absolutely terrible. I do not want a strike, but it seems inevitable when you see stuff like this.

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  37. Vanilla Good

    2 years ago

    How dare those owners “make sport” of a sport!

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