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or pump money into the industry, reducing the revenue of the owners and their willingness and ability to pay multi-million dollar contracts to the athletes. Until then, baseball players are not paid large sums of money just to play a child's game; instead, they are paid to make money for their bosses and, like any other employee, deserving of their share of the profit.

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