The baseball world has gone nuts. Free agents are flying everywhere. Scorecards, formally a collectors item, are worthless and confusing because each team makes multitudes of changes every week. Most teams are losing money because the Players Association, allegedly a union, has the upper hand, and thanks to their leader, Donald Fehr, can strike at will. There are no salary caps.
Expenses are wild.
In spite of all this, the owners have also capitulated in the form of needless incentives. It's the end of the season. Please let me play today, even one at-bat, just to get my extra incentive. I can't put you in. But you must .