The pro sports oligarchies known as the NFL, NBA and MLB need to be broken up or else regulated like any other monopolistic industry, e.g. the utilities, to better serve the public.
I love how players and their agents talk about the free market when justifying their huge salaries. There`s nothing free or fair about those industries in the capitalisic sense. Individual team owners, who are, for all intents and purposes, simply share holders in the company (i.e. the league), are forced to bid against each other to sign players. New teams that would like to participate in the annual tournaments that are held by the NFL, NBA, MLB, are shut out by the existing `share holders` from doing so.
Perhaps major league sports are a natural monopoly like, say the utilities. If so, fine, but let`s be honest about it and regulate them so they better serve the public, just as we do with power companies and water companies. This farce of justifying the economicaly driven excesses of major league sports by claiming, `Oh well, that`s the free market at work`
needs to be challenged.
Very low at 2
The Golf Tournament in Sad Diego beat a NBA Game
ESPN is losing a Ton of money on their last NBA Contract and I am sure they won't pay Billions for a 7 Game series Final that is the only time they get about 20 Million Viewers compared to Baseball over 40 Million