Robert Smith
speaker
1,476 appearances
11 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Jul
Robert Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there's a pretty clear answer.
In the early 70s, when Curt Flood brought his case, less than a quarter of the revenue going to the teams went to the players.
Today, it's around half, half the revenue.
So the share of the pie going to players, to labor, has basically doubled.
That is a reasonable argument, but I think it's clear that it doesn't have to be that way.
I mean, just look at the NFL and the NBA.
In those leagues, about half of all the revenues go to player salaries, similar to, you know, the way the pie is divided in baseball.
But the NFL and NBA players' unions have agreed to a salary cap, basically a total amount that each team can pay all of its players.
There are some wrinkles, but that's basically the way it works.
Which means it's possible for players to get a bigger piece of the pie without letting one team buy its way to victory.
And by the way, the current contract for the Baseball Players Union is coming up for renewal at the end of this year.
And you know what the owners want?
They want a salary cap.
They want a salary cap.
Yeah, sure.
I guess, but it doesn't necessarily mean more of the pie goes to the owners.
But anyways, the players don't want the salary cap.
And so we'll see what happens with that.
Yes.
When we last heard from him, it was 1972, and he was working at a bar in Mallorca and drinking a lot.
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