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Honestly, I don't remember if I was answering something you said. However, the analogy you use re: after you graduated college is an excellent one and gives me reason to rethink this - thank you. The money is still not a problem to me - the fact that the players do not get to pick who their employers are is a problem.

Then you have no problem with everyone other than Cliff Lee playing for the Yankees.

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You got me again. Look at them as the part time seasonals trying to get a Union full time. or something.
I don't think they are tryong to unionize. I didn't get that from the article. I think they want to improve the base level standard of living. It doesn't seem like all that big a deal, and it probably would improve the quality of play. Just provide them with better housing, nutrition, and a little better pay, so that it would be commensurate with minimum wage jobs.
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There's no reasonable justification for baseball's anti-trust exemption, so yes, minor leaguers should be given the same protections (e.g. unionization, minimum wage, overtime pay) that the rest of the nation's workforce has. I don't see how it even becomes a question of sympathy for the players or how hard their lives currently are or anything. It's a question of fairness and a dinosaur of an anti-trust exemption that should never have been granted in the first place.

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There's no reasonable justification for baseball's anti-trust exemption, so yes, minor leaguers should be given the same protections (e.g. unionization, minimum wage, overtime pay) that the rest of the nation's workforce has. I don't see how it even becomes a question of sympathy for the players or how hard their lives currently are or anything. It's a question of fairness and a dinosaur of an anti-trust exemption that should never have been granted in the first place.

Then MLB can decide to eliminate half the minor league affiliates because they are cutting into the profits.

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Then MLB can decide to eliminate half the minor league affiliates because they are cutting into the profits.

The independent leagues will pick up the slack. Don't they have antitrust lawsuits backed up on this? Seriously, I'm fine with getting rid of the exemption and letting this fall where it may.

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The independent leagues will pick up the slack. Don't they have antitrust lawsuits backed up on this? Seriously, I'm fine with getting rid of the exemption and letting this fall where it may.

They will pick up some of the slack sure, but I bet a lot of teams would disappear. It isn't like running a MiLB team is a gold mine.

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They will pick up some of the slack sure, but I bet a lot of teams would disappear. It isn't like running a MiLB team is a gold mine.

Then, let it go where it will. As much as people whine about baseball's antitrust exemption, you'd think somebody would have actually challenged it in the last 42 years. Maybe it should be the minor leaguers.

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