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AZ is entitled to his opinion, but it doesn't take a genius to know he would never advocate against any union while naturally despising owners and/or CEO's. My problem with the MLBPA is that it doesn't behave like a union should. The elites like Lindor will demand that owners give up more to provide for the lower paid players and prospects, just don't dip into his ridiculous earnings.
Yeah, its really shocking that fellow players aren't taking less of a smaller pie to satisfy the owners who refuse to pay more.
Effectively, you're asking the players to keep the total compensation the same (where they earn less % of league revenues than NFL or NBA players), then split that lower percentage more amongst themselves than have MLB ownership (whose revenues have sharply risen) to not pay a dime more.
This logic of yours is so intensely broken, and I think its pretty well obvious to anyone that its not the players to divide a smaller pie amongst themselves.
Anyone buying this tripe doesn't belong in the conversation, much less throwing around condescending pot shots about a negotiation that they clearly don't seem to understand.