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Podcast: BBCollective
Episode: MLBPA: The Union takes another L
Description: Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts examine the recently settled Major League Baseball lockout. The ninth work stoppage in league history and first since 1994-95 that cancelled the ’94 World Series, players and owners came to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement following a three month-plus impasse. Union leaders sought most notably to increase the competitive balance tax threshold disrupt ownership manipulation of player service time in the interest of the game’s younger and middle classes, as well as competitive balance within the league. Whether or not they succeeded is the question. The...