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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (8246)10/30/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (4) of 769670
 
Yeah, the problem is the non-baseball people like me are unaware of all these prior nuances and I wonder if baseball management knows that... its just bad PR.

I had never even heard of the prior instances of corruption and gambling in baseball until that movie "field of dreams" and a bunch of associated films that capitalized on the re-emergence of this topic.

All I knew was that gambling was a vice, and drug abuse is a vice, therefore it made no sense to me to ban Rose and not Dwight Gooden, unless you have a different standard for management vs. players but this seemed like a bit much.

BTW I wish my competition was as clueless as baseball management. Here's how to fix professional (men's) sports - women's is fine, no modifications necessary - but for men's sports, the owners should work out salary packages that include a piece of the gross profits/% equity in the team, just like a stock options package or a movie deal or something. Then if the team doesn't deliver they don't get paid (much). There will be incentive to go to the smaller teams since thats where the growth potential is, just like a startup company. The actual salaries will get pared back down to 200K or so, where they should be. No salary caps are necessary then.
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