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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 05:36 PM Nov 2019

Bernie Sanders condemns MLB proposal to cut 42 minor-league teams

United States Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is urging Major League Baseball and commissioner Rob Manfred against potentially cutting more than 40 minor-league teams.

"I am writing to urge you and the owners of Major League Baseball franchises not to eliminate any of the 42 Minor League Baseball clubs that have been put on the chopping block," Sanders wrote in an open letter Monday.

"Shutting down 25 percent of Minor League Baseball teams, as you have proposed, would be an absolute disaster for baseball fans, workers, and communities throughout the country. Not only would your extreme proposal destroy thousands of jobs and devastate local economies, it would be terrible for baseball."

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Take away their antitrust exemption.

Al

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Bernie Sanders condemns MLB proposal to cut 42 minor-league teams (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Nov 2019 OP
Bernie's still a Senator, right? Isn't there something he could do? TreasonousBastard Nov 2019 #1
to be fair evertonfc Nov 2019 #2
 

evertonfc

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2. to be fair
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 06:28 PM
Nov 2019

some of these clubs are seeing a few hundred people per game. MLB probably does need to ditch some of these clubs.

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