Note to player's union: Nobody wants Bonds
And the Major League Baseball Players' Association probably wonders why the average fan can't stand it. Once, long ago, almost all of us were in the MLBPA's corner, as players whose salaries averaged $19,000 annually in 1967 fought to get a bigger piece of baseball's huge financial pie. But in the decades since, through numerous strikes and considerable intransigence, the MLBPA has simply commandeered that pie. Now more than 60 percent of the game's revenues go to the players. Everyone else -- owners, front office staff, grounds crew, minor leaguers, etc., share the rest. This year, the average player's salary topped $3 million for the first time. And yet it's never enough for the MLBPA and its leader, Donald Fehr (and loathing). The organization always seems ready to find something certain to tick off those of...
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