Did Major League Baseball Create Its Own Financial Disaster?
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This week on The Shawn Mackey Show , Robert "Soup" Campbell and I tackled one of the biggest stories facing baseball today—and honestly, it has me more concerned than ever about the future of the game. The more I researched Major League Baseball's labor situation, the more convinced I became that the owners have nobody to blame but themselves. For decades they handed out massive contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and now they're acting surprised that the system isn't sustainable. We looked back at how Kevin Brown became baseball's first $100 million player before the floodgates opened. Since then, more than 150 players have crossed that milestone, and today we're seeing contracts that would have seemed impossible just twenty years ago. The biggest problem isn't necessarily paying superstars. Elite talent deserves elite money. The real issue is that average players are now receiving superstar contracts, leaving teams locked into deals th...