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Old 04-05-2019, 02:19 PM   #177
JonInMiddleGA
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Originally Posted by BishopMVP View Post
Reducing years of control on ELC's to be more in line with other sports would be a start.

Why in the flying fuck would owners OR fans want that? The benefit would be solely to the players (who are free to bargain for that but I took your suggestion to be more unilateral than bargained. My apology if I misread)

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I don't think it would kill the minor league system to pay minimum wage to players

By all means, let's cut jobs for players and wipe out entire leagues/levels. Because there won't be some magical massive increase in spending, it'll just be redistributed among fewer teams.

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I also don't understand why minor league teams (at least those controlled by the parent club) don't offer decent postgame spreads.

I suspect this actually might be logistics as much as money. Though you'd certainly see some cases where the money becomes absurd as well (the options for late night catering in some of the markets will be limited at best & you'd see insane pricing from almost the outset)
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