Commodification of players adds to mistrust in baseball CBA talks - Sportsnet.ca

The most thought-provoking comment in the wake of MLB talks breaking down is the union's Tony Clark’s decrying the “commoditization” of ballplayers. But has the game changed, or just the way we talk about athletes?

It was a week of false hope in this most false spring, the week in which Derek Jeter  The Captain! - took a look at the baseball hellscape and said, Yeah, folks Im out of here. All we needed was New… [+6064 chars]

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