Part 8/11:
The Broader Agenda: Profit Maximization Over Tradition
The league’s recent moves—from restricting player salaries and navigating minor league reforms, to centralizing merchandise sales and even contemplating NFTs or meme coins as revenue sources—point to a guiding principle: maximize profits at all costs. This relentless focus threatens to erode the very fabric of baseball’s history and Americana, replacing it with sterile corporate interests and short-term monetary gains.
Historical moments, legendary players, and fan traditions are being systematically de-emphasized or rewritten to suit league agendas. The purported goal of fairness and parity is increasingly revealed as a veneer for wealth consolidation and systemic exploitation.