>The problem is not the players or their salaries. The problem is that the
>owners have ripped off the public and gamed the system to the point where
>their monopolistic power has driven an utterly desirable struggle for free
>agency (given that it is capitalist sports) into the realm of extraordinary
>irrationality.
I think this is mostly right except it leaves out that the players' union doesn't do much for anyone except players that reach free agency. That takes nine years, three in the minors (where you get paid squat) and six in the majors.