Re: Charity begins at home

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

That's fine, but to take that position means you are against any form of 
a salary cap, any form of restriction on free agency (eg. rookie 
contracts), trading of players and the amature draft, all of which would 
be considered unacceptable in most industries.  Clearly, professional 
sports is different from other industries (I don't expect to be traded 
to Seattle any time soon), and requires the parties involved to agree a 
unique set of rules, which would not make sense in other industries, 
including entertainment.

Jim

>From: j.hironaka@unesco.org
>Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 19:38:59 +0100
>To: damekmo@teleport.com, celtics <celtics@igtc.com>
>Subject: Re: Charity begins at home
>

>I'm not a labor history expert but it seems to me just intuitively that
>the owner's insistence on elements of command-economy, market-rigging
>would draw howls of protest from ordinary folks if it were imposed in
>almost any other American labor context (whether against super wealthy
>screen-actors or working-class truck-drivers). 


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