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Originally Posted by nolemmings
I have no respect and never will for anyone who would compare Marvin Miller to Hitler or Stalin.
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It's easy to look at today's players and call them greedy or selfish. But stop for a minute and think about their side of it. They have to work exceptionally hard to get to that point, making tons of personal sacrifices along the way. They are on the road roughly 3/4 of the year, away from their families and friends and have only a finite time in the game to make their money. Wouldn't you, at your job, want to be rewarded according to your performance at that job? And if you excelled at said job, wouldn't you want...no, EXPECT...to be in the top tier of the pay range? It just so happens that sports have a much higher revenue than our 9-to-5 lives thanks to billion dollar TV contracts, memorabilia sales, etc.
Also, do you have any idea what things were like PRE-Marvin Miller? All the derogatory statements you made about players would just as easily apply to the owners, who kept the lion's share of the revenue to themselves and basically held players under their thumb. Comiskey immediately comes to mind as the Scrooge to the White Sox players' Tiny Tim(s).
All that said, it's one thing to disagree with what Miller did (the executives who fought against him sure do, which is why he's not
already a HOFer) but to compare him to an orchestrator of mass genocide is ridiculous and without merit.