Do you like to watch baseball
games? Right now the Yankees are doing badly and the Red Sox guys are winning
all the time. Maybe you should instead get a good seat in your borough and watch
a Minor League game instead? Soon you will get disguised watching the younger
guys play too if you knew how little Trump’s budget is paying them. Yes, Trump
is ruining the lives of Minor League Baseball players too. It is called Title
II-Save America’s Pastime Act. Sounds like a good idea but the only thing the
approved act is saving is lots of money for the league owners. The players are
poverty stricken. The law said that the League only has to pay the guys $60
more per month and only for the few months they play. Minimum wage pays much
more.
Blame it on the Lobbyists that
the League gave millions of dollars to give the politicians in campaign
re-election funds for their vote. They built larger Minor League Stadiums and
are making a fortune but don’t want to pay the eager young guys a penny more
for their contracts. If the guy doesn’t sign, they know that there is a long
list of guys who will sign just to have the opportunity to play. If you knew
you would be outrages.
Trump’s Congress quickly signed
the thousands of pages budget and no one even read it. This bogus Act was
hidden on page 1,967 and was passed late in the evening. We need to get rid of
lobbyists who spend millions of big business funds on charming Congress for
their favorable votes. In the past year lobbyists paid off rich Congressmen
three times the amount they usually get in re-election funds. If you go to a
Minor League game, pass around a collection plate and give it directly to the
players who get paid next to nothing and in Trump’s world, it is all legal.
Congress should be protecting
Americans but this Congress just made the Minor League player’s lives worse. Baseball
is doing well. Last year they made almost $10 billion dollars in revenues. The
business of Baseball is booming. Major League Players have seen their salaries
multiply by five times. Owners have seen their investments grow by 20 times.
They are very wealthy but they rather bribe Congress to keep wages down for
Minor League Players down to practically nothing than share the wealth with the
guys. The majority of Minor League baseball players are making less than $7,500
per year. No Joke!!
They are living well below the
poverty line. Minor league games are making millions because they like to be
affordable family games with thousands of sold out games. They have the money
and lots of it. The players get to the game early in the day and leave late at
night and earn $3-4 dollars per hour. Minor Leaguers don’t get paid at all
during spring training. They don’t get paid at all during off season. The guy
selling hot dogs at the stadium gets paid more than the players. This is how
America treats their professional athletes?
There was even a law suit filed
on behalf of the Minor League players that only wanted minimum wages and
overtime pay but the Congressional Law threw the case out. The law suit filed
was on behalf of over 2,000 players that now have nothing and no hope with
Trump’s budget. The Save America’s Pastime Act only saves money for the wealthy
owners of baseball.
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