Baseball salaries have the highest highs and the lowest lows. Most minor-leaguers get less than college athletes, even before NIL.

They're also no longer MiLB, which makes them an odd banner photo choice

Nooo really lol!? You mean something that brings in 1/4 of the audiance of another will be paid less..

I think the illegal thing was him having a gun in a state where he wasn’t licensed lol. The nba also hates the thug player image they’ve been trying to shake for years now

In general more men watch women's sport than women. There was a study on this in the WNBA. We really need women to pick up the slack here and start supporting teams especially if they think the pay is unfair.

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They are not positive about this.

Sweet summer child iS tHe NEw fORm oF wHaTEvEr tHis is

Less people watch women's soccer. Less eyeballs = less ad revenue.

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Its the Savanah Bananas! They're the baseball equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters if you've never heard of them before

I would debate that. If you’re buying a gun for self-defense, it’s with the intention to shoot another human being. You may never end up using it for that, but that’s not the same thing. You’re not buying a Glock to shoot deer

That picture is so weird! Lol

Good. I’ve worked in Minor League Baseball for 25 years.

Some of the players got multi-million dollar signing bonuses. Most did not, and were paid $1,000 per month during the season at A level.

They worked their asses off for very little money, and most of them never made the Major Leagues.

They were expected to work out in the off-season for NO money.

It was EXTREMELY exploitative. And with MLB making billions of dollars, they can certainly afford to pay their employees a living wage.

PS - the team in the thumbnail pic is the Savannah Bananas. They are an independent team, not MiLB. Their players will not see any of the money from the settlement or in their paychecks.

Hobby guns are very common.

>I think because a gun is used with the intention to shoot people

No. The large majority of guns will never be intended to shoot a person in their existence.

Question's why tho

There’s nothing you can use a gun for except death, whether it be human, animal, or target their only use is to cause death and destruction.

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This was a long-overdue step, and I'm glad it finally happened. However, here are a few clarifying details:

1. This happened back in September

2. The unionization only covers players in the affiliated minor leagues (that is, players for minor league teams that are farm teams for a major league team)

3. The team in the picture, the Savannah Bananas, are not and have never been part of the affiliated minors. They were originally part of a collegiate summer league (a type of amateur league in which college players who seem to have at least an outside shot of being drafted by major league organization can get experience using wood bats outside of the college season), but as of this year they are strictly a barnstorming exhibition team, the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball. Their players are not part of the union.

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People in general have very little understanding on how these types of drugs work. There’s a certain mythos of sorts that over time has been built up around them, as if anyone who takes these drugs will suddenly begin looking like they’re ready to compete in regional bodybuilding shows, or that they will make you Superman in any sport.

The truth is that PEDs and steroids are going to make a notable difference in those athletes who are also putting in the effort and who have the discipline required to stay at the top of their game, but your average Joe isn’t going to suddenly become an all star. When you’ve got all of these competitors who are already among the 99.9th percentile at their game, the difference between who gets a shot to be something big and who doesn’t can often times be the difference of whether they’re taking those drugs or not. It’s honestly a sad state of affairs, knowing what these drugs can do to your body long-term, but it’s also a very understandable choice.

The guardrails you refer to are more like those fabric bands used in movie theaters to direct lines. Make no mistake that the organizations that oversee this stuff are much more aware of the prevalence of these things than the public. That’s not to say that they’re all corrupt; they obviously aren’t and sometimes people do get caught. However, speaking from personal experience, athletes would know when to expect “random” testing. I always like to use a scene from the old SpikeTV show “Blue Mountain State” for reference to this. In the scene, the team is in the locker room when the head coach calls everyone’s attention in order to tell them, “I had a dream last night that a representative will be coming here in one week to give a random drug screening. In that dream, everyone passed that test with flying colors. wink”. You’d be surprised how accurate that scene is.