The external glitter of wealth conceals a corrupt political core that reflects the growing gap between the very few rich and the very many poor.
-Mark Twain
I've been thinking about the Reserve Clause lately. For background, the Reserve Clause (sometimes the C is not capitalized, but I like capitalizing random words...for Effect) was a thing for close to 100 years of professional baseball history. It essentially was a baseball rule that bound a player to one specific team basically for the duration of his career. A player could not change teams unless he was unconditionally released, which doesn't exactly send a strong message to other teams.