Baseball pay under Socialism ( John Lester strikes out )

I am an incorrigible Red Sox fan and I miss their ace pitcher John Lester.  We can love the spectacle and excitement of major league baseball without loving the money side of it. Your editorial today, "Show him the money" (Dec. 19) is just too blasé about his $155 million offer from the lowly Chicago Cubs. After all, "Baseball is a business." And Lester just "got his big payday in the free market."

So "That's America"? Can any thinking person just accept this free market madness? Is not the "Invisible Hand" as silly as any anthropomorphic divinity the right-wing Christian fundamentalists imagine?

A socialist America will not outlaw major league baseball. But the better players will just have to play their hearts out for a living wage. The surplus value will flow into the Jimmy Fund perhaps. But  socialized medicine will soon make all bourgeois charities superfluous.

And admission to that classic stadium, Fenway Park, will again be fifty cents .

              
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