Keith Law says MiLB teams should pay players

My suffering? I wouldn't say that at all, its just life my friend. I don't wish suffering on anyone, but as I've gotten older I've learned that changes have massive effects. Something you just don't want to look at or try to understand. For certain people to get more, others get less. Its not fair, but its they way our economy works. The whole economy is built off of profits, without large profits it all falls a part. Those profits allow companies to grow. Economics 101 grow or die. A bunch of lower paying jobs are better than a ton fewer better paying jobs. I'm not a jerk at all, I just realize facts about our economy that you can't. Look at auto workers, decades of strong unions got them unreal pay and benefits. The end result was an automated assembly line where robots took over jobs because they were cheaper.

You just don't get Baseball econmics, because you refuse to look at facts. The simple fact that teams control things like TV revenue and its not pooled makes Baseball different than Football and Basketball. Not all teams are making money like the Red Sox and Yankees. Teams like the Marlins lost 10's of millions last year. Nevermind not all owners are Billionaires. Frank McCourt wasn't close to a billionaire when he owned the Dodgers, he actually had very little money and it was amazing how he even was able to purchase the team. Not all teams can afford extra. Go watch the money ball movie. The A's couldn't afford to give their players free soda and sports drinks. A few million dollars to them was the difference between making money and losing money.

So you follow up claims that they are worse off than slaves, living in roach invested housing with an article acting like they all have mortgages and sometimes someone steals extra food leaving none for someone else? That is your proof they are worse off than slaves? What kind of jerk are you? Talk about just making crap up on a totally extreme level to make things seem worse than it is. As I've said over the years many times I fully support teams paying for all food and housing. $120 a week for food isn't eating peanut butter and Jelly. You can eat a very good for that amount of money. It won't be crazy easy being on the road a ton, but it can be done. I've seem families spend that much for a week. What can't be done, is what the players really want. To live it up and go out to eat after every game.

You ever ask yourself why they are demanding more money and using food as a reason why they deserve it, rather than demanding food? Just think about that for a second, if food was the real issue. It isn't. It's everything else. They want money to buy other things. They don't spend money on food so they can go out and have fun at places like bars. These are young adults just out of College. I can't afford food, but I have the newest Iphone type crap. Do I believe the sandwich story? Yes I do, but I don't believe that is the norm either. Do I believe some have mortgages? Yes I do, but I don't believe most if any are the low bonus guys we are talking about. That article is taking things that are true, but not common and acting like that applies to all minor league players. I work at a Bank post 2008 it's crazy hard to get a mortgage. I'm on the council that reshaped the rules to make sure another 2008 didn't happen. Government backed loans like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA just aren't the same. If minor league baseball players have mortgages they make enough to support the payments. 31% of there gross income must cover mortgage payment, taxes, and mortgage insurance. No more allowing that number to be around 40%, or even higher like was the case before 2008.

Does Baseball need the minor leagues? Yes that is 100% true. Yet that isn't the question we are asking is it? Does the minor leagues need all of these lower bonus players is the real question isn't it? That answer is 100% no they don't. The minor leagues would be just fine if you greatly reduced the amount of teams, say only three per team. That's what you seem to be overlooking or just ignoring because it doesn't fit your narrative. Teams have have all these teams because the labor costs are low. The benefit of bringing in a ton of crappy players hoping you find that 1% guy that will make the majors is worth it. Increase costs and teams will bring in less players. You simply keep overlooking that increasing wages has negative effects. Is it fair? Not at all, but it is reality. You keep acting like owners wanting to make profits and pay employees as little as possible is this evil thing. It's the backbone of our economic system. This I'm siding with Billionaires talk, is really you just don't have a clue how our economy works. Per Adam Smith, a guy some people call the father of our economic system minor league Baseball players aren't acting in there own best interests. It's not that the system is broken, it's just a bunch of players chasing a dream. In our system if you don't act in your own best interests you have no one to blame but yourself! Yet you want to blame the owners, like its their responsibility to make everything right. Guys that will admit that they wouldn't change a thing after not making it. They did it because they loved hearing there names playing in front of large crowds. It was an experience for most of these guys, not a career.

What you really want is a new economic system where everything is fair. Good luck on that!