'We must prevent the greed of baseball's oligarchs from destroying the game,' says SenSanders. 'The best way to do that is to end Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption and I will be introducing legislation to do just that.'
Thursday that they'd come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders welcomed news that the 99-day lockout was over and the full 162-game season would be saved and promised to introduce a bill aimed at ending the"baseball oligarchs'" antitrust exemption.
"We are dealing with an organization controlled by a number of billionaires who collectively are worth over $100 billion," the democratic socialist and two-time U.S. presidential candidate noted."It should be clear to all that these baseball oligarchs have shown that they are far more concerned about increasing their wealth and profits than in strengthening our national pastime.
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