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“A MEMO TO MLB UNION”
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To: Tony Clark-MLBPA President
Fr: Hacksaw
Re: Do Your Job

Rock solid comments, critiquing, commenting on the failings, shortcomings of Arte Moreno’s ownership of the Angels.

Mistakes, failures, bad injuries, human tragedies.  The Halos have gone to hell, plagued by everything that could happen to this team.

Some of it is Arte Moreno’s impulsive fault.  Others are just the bad luck of baseball, or the sadness of society.

I will let you draw the line of which side you stand on: the Pujols excessive contract; the Josh Hamilton drug addiction; the seige of injuries to Mike Trout; the bad setbacks to Anthony Rendon; the tragic death of Nick Adenhart; the drug overdose death of Tyler Skaggs; the mistakes to deals with Vernon Wells or Justin Upton.

But as long as you are calling people out, let us make sure you call out the ownership of the Miami Marlins, the Pirates, the A’s, the White Sox and a few others.

Your baseball conversations should not just be about the Dodger Dollars and the Evil Empire ways.  Or what the Yankees and Mets have become.

Next up you should study what makes the NFL so amazingly popular.  Competitive balance.

They have a hard salary cap that goes up 24M a year at last check.  It’s all based on gross revenues, that increase yearly, and get shared from the ‘Everyone wins CBA’.

But they have a floor to spending.  Everyone must spend to approximately 85% of the salary cap.

If all these baseball ownership groups, taking in TV and revenue sharing money, had a floor to spending, it would mean alot of quality veteran players would wind up in Tampa-Miami-Pittsburgh-Detroit and other small markets.  And those Tier 2-pitchers and (.280) hitters would make the Marlins-Rays-Pirates and others much better teams.

You would not have 5-big time teams with big names, with the other 25-staggering to survive.  You’d have better pennant races.an lots more hope for lots more cities, rather than the seasons being over before they start.

Quit bitching about a salary cap.  Spend your time finding a right formula for a floor to spending.

I know you are excited at the record contracts the Mets gave Soto and the Dodgers gave Ohtani etc.  But you also represent the 25th man on every roster.  You represent superstars and the mid-level honest hard working veteran too.

Getting them the chance to earn paydays in Minnesota-Milwuakee and other places is part of your job.

You have two years to create a deal that works for everyone.  Don’t be finger pointing at Rob Manfred nor use words like lockout-work stoppage etc.

Go see the NFL-Union lawyers and find out how they got to share the pie with all the owners.  Find a middle ground that has made money for everyone in the NBA, and even saved he NHL.

Help find a solution to the collapsing Regional Sports TV networks.  Find a bond to help create Team 30-Streaming for all teams to share quality TV revenue.

Solve the crisis or corruption in the global game that gets us to a quality International Draft, as complex an assignment as that might be with different languages and federations to work thru.

You’re on the clock.  Two years left to solve this.  And time to call out every other rich owner pocketing money, rather than putting it back onto the field for the fans.

Baseball, a right of passage in America.  Record attendance.  Record Revenue.  Record TV ratings.  Find a way to keep this going.

No more rhetoric.  The words I want to hear ‘Floor to Spending’.

Regards:

Hacksaw
Your Favorite Sports-Talk Show host
San Diego

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